ZyXEL Communications NWA-3160 User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

NWA-3160 Series User’s Guide

The NWA has two pre-configured SSID profiles. 

• VoIP_SSID. This profile is intended for use by wireless clients requiring the 

highest QoS level for VoIP telephony and other applications requiring low 

latency. The QoS level of this profile is not user-configurable.

• Guest_SSID. This profile is intended for use by visitors and others who require 

access to certain resources on the network (an Internet gateway or a network 

printer, for example) but must not have access to the rest of the network. Layer 

2 isolation is enabled (see 

), and QoS is set to NONE. 

Intra-BSS traffic blocking is also enabled (see 

These fields are all user-configurable.

The NWA supports Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP). 
This is ZyXEL’s implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) 
CAPWAP protocol. 

ZyXEL’s CAPWAP allows a single access point to manage up to eight other access 
points. The managed APs receive all their configuration information from the 
controller AP. The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by Datagram Transport Layer 
Security (DTLS).

The following ZyXEL AP models can be CAPWAP managed APs:

• NWA-3160
• NWA-3163
• NWA-3500
• NWA-3550
• NWA-3166

Note: If you are using several NWA models in your network including an NWA-3166, 

you should use the NWA-3166 as the Controller AP.