Benefits of
the EAP-WAI
If WAPI supports the
deployment model of reusing
AAA
architecture,
then:
• Independent
software vendor (ISV) could easily make the current AAA
server support the ASE function;
• As the deployment
of the additional ASE server could be not required, it
would reduce the costs of the WAPI infrastructure's deployment and maintenance
• The WAPI offers
the link-level security to the ASUE, e.g., the
authentication and confidentiality.
Besides them, ASUE needs the authorization
and accounting service. The AAA already supports such
functions well, and the WAPI
could easily reuse such services
if it could reuse AAA architecture.