METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS VIA WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A method and an apparatus for accessing heterogeneous networks via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an access request from a WLAN terminal or a portal/policy server: determining a target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access request: converting the access request according to the format of a target network transmission protocol; sending the converted access request to the target network; and receiving an authentication result from the target network, and sending the authentication result to the terminal. The technical solution of the present invention has the following benefits: The target network that the terminal needs to access is determined according to the access request sent from the WLAN terminal: and an access request that complies with the format of the target network transmission protocol is sent to the target network, so that the WLAN terminal accesses multiple data networks.