802.1x access is the broadband access mode in which a user is authenticated and accesses a BRAS by sending Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) packets. A user who adopts this access mode exchanges information with the authentication server and accesses the Internet through an 802.1x standard.
Generally, 802.1x authentication is applied to the security authentication of 802.11 wireless users. Being an authentication protocol, EAP also supports 802.1x authentication of wired users through dialers.
This feature brings the following benefit to operators:
802.1x access is a secure wireless access mode.