Discussion of Connect Between 802.11 WLAN and Internet
Wti Lab · 2003
IEEE802.11WLAN has drawn more and more attentions because of its broad future.Meanwhile,operators began to deploy WLAN in hotspots as one of the supplements of their access method.But there exists some defects on AAA(authenticate,authority,account),roaming and encryption in current802.11standard because of history reasons.At the same time,the deployment of WLAN will affect oper-ators' existing networks.Operators want to bring them into a uniform management,planning and service control platform.This paper de-scribes progresses of international standard.It also proposes a solution which is suitable for wireless operators in their deployment of802.11WLAN.Lastly,we introduce future direction of802.11WLAN in brief.