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| ASAP Air Secure Access
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Air Secure Access Point (ASAP) is a comprehensive, secure,
managed embedded access point (AP) software package. It
integrates the latest wireless security technologies
with a flexible driver framework that works with a
variety of 802.11 WLAN devices. Besides providing
full-featured managed AP functionality, ASAP
concurrently supports the many different generations of
802.11 security technology found in today's wireless
networks, from WEP through WPA, up to WPA2/ 802.11i, in
either Personal (Pre-shared Key) or Enterprise (802.1X)
mode.
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| Rich 802.11
Functionality |
| ASAP includes
comprehensive support for 802.11 - a set of IEEE
physical and data link layer standards for radio
frequency communication. ASAP implements the
“infrastructure” mode of 802.11 operation which enables
a device connected to a wired LAN to act as an access
point, allowing wireless stations (STAs) to communicate
with it. ASAP includes a template driver for the air
interface and an 802.11 framework to ease the
development of device drivers for new Wi-Fi® chips.
Besides its integration with various Wi-Fi chipsets,
ASAP is seamlessly integrated with leading operating
systems. To enable out-of-the-box AP functionality, an
optimized 802.11 a/b/g reference driver for Atheros
chipsets is also included. In addition, ASAP features an
802.11 MIB, QoS control using 802.11e / WMM™, and
support for multiple radios and SSIDs. Besides
facilities for remote configuration and provisioning,
such as through a web-interface or a CLI, fine-grain
control for ASAP’s functionality is also available
through developer APIs for use in diagnostics
development and custom embedded applications that
require programmatic control of the AP. |
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| Flexible & Secure |
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ASAP, the embedded designer can now leverage the
significant benefits offered by wireless communication
to networked devices without the security problems that
would otherwise result from the use of
difficult-to-protect airwaves with no well-defined
physical boundary. Compromised security on a WLAN could
take the shape of unauthorized clients or even
unauthorized access-points (inadvertent or deliberate
“evil-twin” APs) that join the network. ASAP’s ability
to turn off SSID broadcast and features for rogue AP
detection and MAC address based filtering thwart many of
these spoofing attacks. Further, data interception and
monitoring attacks such as session-hijacking are also
some problems in an inherently insecure medium. 802.11’s
legacy Wired Equivalence Privacy (WEP) has several
deficiencies but is still commonly used. Industry
standards such as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA™) and the
newer WPA2™ & IEEE 802.11i standards provide much
stronger security. ASAP supports WPA’s Temporal Key
Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data confidentiality and
the “MIChael” message integrity code for data integrity.
ASAP also supports the Counter with CBC-MAC Protocol (CCMP)
based on the AES algorithm which is part of the 802.11i
specification. Further, ASAP includes an enhanced
implementation of the legacy WEP protocol, with dynamic
keys using 802.1x as the delivery mechanism to improve
its security characteristics. ASAP includes support for
concurrently connecting to a mix of 802.11i, WPA and WEP
clients which is useful in networks that are
transitioning from one generation of security technology
to the next. ASAP also includes WPA/802.11i key
management and multiple “dot11” profiles to store
interface independent WPA and other settings that can be
individually enabled. |
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Features |
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Complete secure managed access point
functionality |
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Support for WEP, WPA, WPA2 /802.11i |
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CCMP, TKIP + MIChael, WEP-40 and WEP-104 bit
cipher support |
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Dynamic WEP re-keying for non-WPA STAs with
802.1X |
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WPA
and WPA2/802.11i Key management |
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WPA-Personal
(PSK) and WPA Enterprise (802.1X) modes |
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Simultaneous support for non-WPA and WPA/802.11i
supplicants |
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Built-in RADIUS client |
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802.11 framework with QoS (802.11e) and
reference drivers |
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Support for multiple CPU types of either endian-ness
including PowerPC, MIPS, X86, ARM/Xscale |
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Royalty-free full source distribution |
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