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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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| Securing Wireless Embedded
Devices … ASAP! |
| Network connectivity has
been widely adopted in embedded devices to provide
enhanced functionality, convenient management, and
sophisticated control. More recently, wireless networks
have ushered in the age of untethered computing and
devices unfettered by wires are showing up in various
embedded application domains. |
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| There is one bump on the road to wireless freedom,
however. Despite the many benefits that devices can reap
from Wi-Fi connectivity, embedded engineers hold back
adding such services to their products’ feature sets
because of lingering doubts about wireless security. In
wireless networks, information travels through the air
and is open to interception by anyone within range, so
security efforts for wireless networks cannot be
concentrated at the boundaries. Rather, it has to be
built right into the device at the protocol layer. Even
as IEEE and industry groups address these issues with
new standards, supporting and managing a network of
devices concurrently using the various generations of
802.11 security can be a significant problem. |
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| ASAP is the industry's first middleware product
specifically designed from the ground-up to add secure
wireless access-point functionality to embedded devices.
Putting TeamF1's highly regarded FIPS-certified
cryptographic and authentication frameworks to use, ASAP
integrates the latest wireless security technologies
with an 802.11 stack and flexible driver framework that
works with a variety of 802.11 WLAN devices. ASAP allows
the embedded designer to leverage the benefits of
wireless communication without the security problems
that would otherwise result from the use of
difficult-to-protect airwaves. |
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ASAP is equipped with device-friendly features such
as its concurrent support for different generations of
802.11 security technology, from WEP through WPA, up to
WPA2 / 802.11i, in either Personal (Pre-shared Key) or
Enterprise (802.1X) mode. ASAP also includes an 802.11
MIB, QoS control using 802.11e / WMM™, and support for
multiple radios and SSIDs. |
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802.1X & RADIUS Support |
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ASAP relies on 802.1X
for enterprise-mode authentication and includes a full
implementation of the Port-based Network Access Control
state machine defined by IEEE 802.1X. In 802.1X mode,
ASAP allows the AP to act as an authenticator to the
network, while using its built-in RADIUS client
functionality to authenticate Wi-Fi clients with the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). When in
non-enterprise mode, ASAP also allows the use of
pre-shared keys in environments where RADIUS servers are
not available. |
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QoS |
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As the use of wireless
local area networks spreads far beyond simple data
transfer to intense voice/multimedia streaming
applications, the need to address Quality of Service
(QoS) issues becomes extremely important. Further, QoS
needs to be integrated at the point where security is
being inserted since intermediate nodes cannot monitor
secure traffic. With this in mind, ASAP also includes
full-featured support for the Wi-Fi Alliances's WMM
standard (based on IEEE 802.11e) for Quality of Service. |
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OS and Hardware Support |
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ASAP is a drop-in access point solution offering a lean yet full
featured set of standards-based communication and security
features packaged as a coherent, easy to use framework. It has
been extensively validated on a variety of CPU architectures
including PowerPC, MIPS, X86 and ARM/XScale, which minimizes
development and integration efforts. ASAP accelerates the
addition of optimized and secure embedded wireless services into
your next design by taking advantage of the unique features
presented by popular operating systems. ASAP is available with
optimized editions for VxWorks® and Linux® with support for the
native network driver model, enhanced memory management.
Designed specifically with embedded constraints in mind, and
with an emphasis on strong security and leading-edge standards
support, ASAP can be the building block to add secure wireless
AP capabilities to any embedded device. |
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