This guide is intended for Network Engineers, Network Managers and IT Professionals.

In most large organisations only IT departments have the access level and knowledge required to configure the badge printer to connect to an enterprise network.

If you don't have the ability to get your printer connected to your enterprise network due to a lack of IT resources or a security restriction we suggest using either Bluetooth (QL-820NWB only) or 4G Hotspot network to connect your printer to your iPad

An enterprise wireless network is a large network with IEEE 802.1x support. If you configure your printer in an IEEE 802.1x authenticated wireless network, you can use the following authentication and encryption methods:

LEAP (For Wireless network)
Cisco LEAP (Light Extensible Authentication Protocol) has been developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. and uses a user ID and password for authentication.

EAP-FAST
​EAP-FAST (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secured Tunnel) has been developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. and uses a user ID and password for authentication, and symmetric key algorithms to achieve a tunnelled authentication process.
The printer supports the following inner authentication methods:

PEAP
​PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) has been developed by Microsoft Corporation, Cisco Systems and RSA Security. PEAP creates an encrypted SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)/TLS (Transport Layer Security) tunnel between a client and an authentication server, for sending a user ID and password. PEAP provides mutual authentication between the server and the client.
The printer supports the following inner authentication methods:

EAP-TTLS
​EAP-TTLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol Tunnelled Transport Layer Security) has been developed by Funk Software and Certicom. EAP-TTLS creates a similar encrypt SSL tunnel to PEAP, between a client and an authentication server, for sending a user ID and password. EAP-TTLS provides mutual authentication between the server and the client.
The printer supports the following inner authentication methods:

EAP-TLS
​EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol Transport Layer Security) requires digital certificate authentication both at a client and an authentication server.

TKIP
​TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) provides a per-packet key mixing message integrity check and rekeying mechanism.

AES
​AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) provides stronger data protection using a symmetric-key encryption.

CKIP
​The original Key Integrity Protocol for LEAP by Cisco Systems, Inc.

The following security methods support a user ID less than 64 characters and a password less than 32 characters in length:

More information is available in Brother User Guide for QL-810W and QL-820NWB.