refer to the current market on the common AP Centralized management methods, the most common is the CAPWAP and HTTP management of two major categories. CAPWAP is trying to solve the WTP management standards problem, but the actual market situation is not ideal. Because of the interests of the relationship, the manufacturers have claimed that they are supporting CAPWAP , but it is impossible to achieve compatibility. Another aspect,CAPWAP has some complexity, and open source Opencapwap is just a demo of the protocol, inside the BUG Many, who use who know. This virtually creates a de facto technical barrier.
However, the market AP Centralized management needs are exuberant, so there are a variety of http/ftp and other ways to Manage AP management solutions. Most of this solution comes from advertising router vendors. It is characterized by simple technology, little performance / reliability, and great limitations in function.
Isn't there a better solution? After looking, there was a thing called nswmp appeared.
NswmpBlue Sea is a remarkable development of a set ofAc-apManagement Protocol. With theCAPWAPThe biggest difference is that it has no data surface. That is, the blue sea is superiorAponly local forwarding is supported and centralized forwarding is not supported. The advantage of this is that you canApEnd BombsPORTAL, you can supportApdeployed inNHeavyNatlater, you can support Internet deployment. And these features areCAPWAPimpossible to achieve! The other oneCAPWAPdifferent places are,Nswmpnot only open.Apend of the source, but also open theApend up BouncingPORTALthe Function! More importantly, these open source code has been integrated into theOPENWRT. That means you just have to do simpleWebedit, you can compile a personalizedApSystem. And it's all for free!
further investigation NSWMP 's technical details found thatnswmp 's technical white paper was also public, though not an RFC document, but all the technical details were made public! Developer-capable users can make more in-depth, personalized changes to the technology of Open source code. and the protocol supports the architecture of the Cloud AC, the cluster-based deployment of AC, which provides a basisfor future large-scale operation of the WiFi network.
capwap authorized, unlimited number of users AC ap on the basis of 20 Span style= "font-family: ' The song Body '; > user calculation, this free version can take at least 200 user! For many small-scale applications, it is entirely possible to solve the problem without spending money.
What's the advantage of performance when you look good? With this problem, we studied the nswmp The white paper and the source code of the Agreement. nswmp adopted the Udp protocol for communication, which is associated with the Capwap is the same, from the technical performance will be far more than the http/ftp http/ftp way. That is to say, nswmp ac can support more than 5000 Ap online at the same time. Because it is local forwarding, ap ap belt 20 user, then you can support 10 million people at the same time online!
through to Nswmp the message format and capwap There is a relatively high similarity, said the nswmp capwap completely different. nswmp more like a ap Capwap portal is entirely from Ap to execute, This greatly saves the amount of traffic between the ap-ac nswmp The definition of attributes is quite flexible, allowing users to add their own properties conveniently.
Natshell 's AP products are still running a lot of functions, in addition to the PORTAL , is to support the flow of traffic charges. Although, in most scenarios,WI -Fi is not counting traffic. However, in a satellite -to-WIFI scenario, traffic billing is a must. This scene is very useful in the field of ship WIFI!
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