Brocade Mobility 7131 Access Point Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.4.0.0 and later) - Manual (Page 23)

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Support for 4 BSSIDs per Radio
The access point supports four BSSIDs per radio. Each BSSID has a corresponding MAC address.
The first MAC address corresponds to BSSID #1. The MAC addresses for the other three BSSIDs
(BSSIDs #2, #3, #4) are derived by adding 1, 2, 3, respectively, to the radio MAC address.
If the radio MAC address displayed on the Radio Settings screen is 00:23:68:72:20:DC, then the
BSSIDs for that radio will have the following MAC addresses:
For detailed information on strategically mapping BSSIDs to WLANs, see Configuring the
802.11a/n or 802.11b/g/n Radio on page 5-167. For information on access point MAC address
assignments, see
MAC Address Assignment on page 1-29.
Quality of Service (QoS) Support
The Mobility 7131 Access Point QoS implementation provides applications running on different
wireless devices a variety of priority levels to transmit data to and from the access point Mobility
7131 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 Mobility 7131 Access Point QoS implementation.The WiFi Multimedia
QOS Extensions (WMM) implementation used by the Mobility 7131 Access Point 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 Mobility 7131 Access Point, see Setting the
WLAN Quality of Service (QoS) Policy on page 5-147.
Industry Leading Data Security
The Mobility 7131 Access Point access point supports numerous encryption and authentication
techniques to protect the data transmitting on the WLAN.
The following authentication techniques are supported:
• Kerberos Authentication
• EAP Authentication
The following encryption techniques are supported Mobility 7131 Access Point:
• WEP Encryption
BSSID MAC Address Hexadecimal Addition
BSSID #1 00:23:68:72:20:DC Same as Radio MAC address
BSSID #2 00:23:68:72:20:DD Radio MAC address +1
BSSID #3 00:23:68:72:20:DE Radio MAC address +2
BSSID #4 00:23:68:72:20:DF Radio MAC address +3