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WLA Series Wireless
LAN Access Points
WLA321, WLA322, WLA522,
WLA532, WLA632

Product Overview
The Juniper Networks WLA Series
Wireless LAN Access Points provide
client access, spectrum analysis,
bridging, and wireless mesh services
for indoor and outdoor deployments
of enterprise wireless LANs (WLANs).
Configured and controlled by Juniper
Networks WLC Series Wireless LAN
Controllers, the WLA Series performs
deep packet inspection, encryption,
traffic forwarding, and security
enforcement locally, which results
in optimized traffic flows, radically
reduced latency, and massive
scalability.

Product Description
The Juniper Networks® WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points provide complete client
access, spectrum analysis, mesh, and bridging services. Featuring support for 802.11n
as well as 802.11a/b/g, the WLA Series provides seamless mobility both indoors and
outdoors, and it enables scalable deployment of wireless voice over IP (VoIP), video, and
real-time location services.
The WLA Series comes with complete security and networking services, along with
advanced performance and scalability features which enable the access points to offload
controllers by inspecting and forwarding traffic locally and performing encryption and
security enforcement at the access point. The WLA Series also provides band steering,
client load balancing, dynamic authorization, quality of service (QoS), bandwidth controls
and dynamic call admission control (CAC)—all of which combine to ensure a more
consistent user experience as traffic is more evenly distributed across controllers, access
points, and radios. This also improves scalability, providing the same consistent user
experience for thousands of mobile users and devices.
The WLA Series is simple to deploy and can easily be configured and managed remotely.
Once installed, the WLA Series access points automatically monitor the data integrity and
radio frequency (RF) signal strength of wireless channels, and continually tune for optimal
RF channel and transmit power. Continuous scanning of the RF spectrum also allows
early detection, classification, avoidance and remediation of performance degrading
interference sources.
WLA Series access points enforce stringent prioritization of delay sensitive traffic for voice
and other critical applications and provide granular quality of service (QoS), and bandwidth
management capabilities on a per application, per user or per SSID basis. Wi-Fi Multimedia
(WMM) or SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) can be configured to ensure optimal QoS for voice
traffic. Access point policies allow per user, protocol or class-of-service (CoS) mapping.
WLA Series access points may also be deployed in branch locations away from a main
campus in a controller-less plug and play deployment model. This reduces the cost
and complexity of installing wireless access in remote sites. They can be managed via
the WAN or through the Internet by controllers at headquarters, and will maintain local
session persistence indefinitely, if the WAN link goes down. If the connection to the
controller is lost, wireless services continue uninterrupted; connected clients maintain
wireless connection to the AP, new clients can connect and authenticate locally, and the
Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) continues. Furthermore, the new country
code override feature in the remote AP profile allows the AP’s channel and transmit
power to be set to meet the specific country’s regulatory requirement where it is located,
independent of the location of the WLAN controller which is managing it.

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