Quality of service (qos) support, Industry leading data security – Brocade Mobility 7131N-FGR Access Point Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.0.0.0-35GRN and later) User Manual

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Feature overview

For detailed information on strategically mapping BSSIDs to WLANs, see

“Configuring the

802.11a/n or 802.11b/g/n radio”

on page 142. For information on access point MAC address

assignments, see

“MAC address assignment”

on page 22.

Quality of Service (QoS) support

The QoS implementation provides applications running on different wireless devices a variety of
priority levels to transmit data to and from the access point. Equal data transmission priority is fine
for data traffic from applications such as Web browsers, file transfers or email, but is inadequate
for multimedia applications.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video streaming and interactive gaming are highly sensitive to
latency increases and throughput reductions. These forms of higher priority data traffic can
significantly benefit from the QoS implementation.The WiFi Multimedia QOS Extensions (WMM)
implementation used by the shortens the time between transmitting higher priority data traffic and
is thus desirable for multimedia applications. In addition, U-APSD (WMM Power Save) is also
supported.

WMM defines four access categories—voice, video, best effort and background—to prioritize traffic
for enhanced multimedia support.

For detailed information on configuring QoS support, see

“Setting the WLAN Quality of Service

(QoS) policy”

on page 129.

Industry leading data security

The Brocade Mobility 7131N-FGR Access Point a unique set of encryption and authentication
techniques to protect the data transmitting on the WLAN.

The following authentication techniques are supported:

•

EAP Authentication

The following encryption techniques are supported:

•