Mikaela wants to provide port-based authentication on her network to ensure that clients must authenticate before using the network. What technology is an appropriate solution for this requirement?

802.1x provides port-based authentication and can be used with technologies like the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). 802.11a is a wireless standard, 802.3 is the standard for Ethernet, and 802.15.1 was the original Bluetooth IEEE standard.