Bridge Mode Deployment

ArubaOS 10 allows you to establish WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection. in bridge mode. In bridge mode, standalone APs are connected to a switch backbone that is in-turn connected to the Aruba Cloud platform for management and configuration services. When ArubaOS 10 is deployed in bridge mode, the network created acts as a physical network. All wireless traffic is terminated locally at the AP and bridged onto the local Ethernet Ethernet is a network protocol for data transmission over LAN. segment. Saturation issues in the network can be largely avoided if much of the traffic remains local. In other words, in bridge mode, the data traffic is not tunneled back to the gateways. For a slow packet transfer in bridge mode, the heartbeat timer is set to a greater value to avoid frequent network disconnection.

The following figure illustrates the bridge mode deployment.

Figure 1  Bridge Mode Deployment