CAPWAP: Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points

The CAPWAP protocol (simply called 'CAPWAP' below) is currently under design in the IETF CAPWAP working group. In a nutshell, the protocol is being created to centralize management of wireless access points. There are two basic entities in CAPWAP: the Access Controller (AC), and the Wireless Termination Point (WTP, aka AP). CAPWAP defines the interactions between these two.

More information on the OpenCAPWAP project is available at www.opencapwap.org