3com 3CRWX440095A User Manual

A service is a concept (not a selectable item in the 3wxm interface) that 
represents a set of options you configure and deploy on your wireless 
network. 

Services are configured to provide various levels of wireless network 
access to users, such as secure employee access, guest access, 
multi-hosted access, or Voice over Wireless IP (VoWIP) access. 

You can configure a service to be independent of other services on your 
wireless network, or you may be able to share configuration components 
among services. For example, multi-hosted access is typically fully isolated 
from other services (no shared configuration), while services that provide 
for guest and employee access in a single corporation may share a 
common radio profile. In this way, you can reuse part of the service 
configuration for other services you want to provide. You could configure 
a service for employee access; then reuse part of the configuration to 
provide services for guest access. Each service has potential 
authentications (802.1X, web page, MAC address, or “last resort”) and 
potential encryptions (802.11i, WPA, WEP, or unencrypted). 

This chapter contains examples to help you configure the following types 
of service sets:

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Employee access (802.1X)

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Guest access (WebAAA)

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Voice over IP (MAC AAA)