Cisco AIRONET CARDBUS ADAPTER FCC CONFIGURED FOR 802.11A/B/G NO DRIVERS INCLUDED Specification Guide

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ENTERPRISE-CLASS SECURITY SOLUTION

Designed with enterprise-class security requirements in mind, the Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless Cardbus Adapter is a key client-side

component of the award-winning Cisco Wireless Security Suite. Based on the 802.1X standard for port-based network access, the Cisco Wireless

Security Suite takes advantage of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) framework for user-based authentication (Figure 2). This solution

also supports WPA, the Wi-Fi Alliance certification for interoperable, standards-based wireless LAN security.

The Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless Cardbus Adapter supports the most common 802.1X authentication types, including Cisco LEAP,

Extensible Authentication Protocol Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS), Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Generic Token Card (PEAP-

GTC), and Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol Version 2 (PEAP-MSCHAP V2).

A wide selection of RADIUS servers, such as the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) and Cisco Access Registrar (AR) server, can be used

for enterprise-class centralized user management that includes:

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Strong, mutual authentication to ensure that only legitimate clients associate with legitimate and authorized network RADIUS servers via

authorized access points

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Dynamic per-user, per-session encryption keys that automatically change on a configurable basis to protect the privacy of transmitted data

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Stronger encryption keys provided by Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) enhancements such as message integrity check (MIC), per-packet

keys via initialization vector hashing, and broadcast key rotation

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RADIUS accounting records for all authentication attempts

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Ready for IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support

For more information on wireless security, visit:

http://www.cisco.com/go/aironet/security

Figure 2. The Cisco Wireless Security Suite is an Enterprise-Class Security System Based on the 802.1X Architecture