• Kokkanti Tejaswini
• K Rama Naidu

We see that the deployment of Wireless Access Points is increasing rapidly from home-level to private enterprise Hotspots and to public hotspots. Wireless Access Point, WAP and Wireless LAN Controller, WLC are the key components of Wi-Fi Access Networks and CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Point) is a protocol used for communication among WAP and WLC. Prominently at enterprise level, generic components in Wi-Fi networks has become recent topic of interest. Generic components makes the existing network unbound and easily maintainable at reasonable costs and easily available and replaceable hardware components. This paper presents a detail on CAPWAP and related protocols, the way they are used. The current vendor interoperability issue is discussed along with different solutions under development. This paper also presents a generic access point built from scratch and working results of it as a stand-alone AP. Comparison with Controller based AP and possible future enhancements are also discussed.

CAPWAP, WI-Fi Protocol, Generic AP, Raspberry Pi, Channel, Frequency, Router, Switch, SSID; WAP/Wireless Access Point; WLC/Wireless LAN Controller.

"Design of Low cost Generic Wi-Fi Access Point", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no.236-241, December-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712044.pdf

"Design of Low cost Generic Wi-Fi Access Point", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no. pp236-241, December-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712044.pdf