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Deployment Guide 133
EXAMPLE 9: CREATING WLAN POLICIES
SSID "guests" with a captive web portal (two user profiles)
Some notes about the settings for each user profile:
Guests user profile
• Entire User Profile Rate Limit: 2000 Kbps
This is a limited amount of bandwidth that all users belonging to this profile can use. This setting
provides guests with a basic amount of available traffic.
• Entire User Profile Weight: 5
Because wireless access for guests is mainly a convenience and not a necessity, you assign it the lowest
weight to give it the lowest priority. The weight defines a preference for forwarding traffic. It does not
specify a percentage or an amount. Its value is relative to other weights. However, you can see an
automatically calculated percentage of this weight versus those of other user profiles in the far right
column.
VoIP user profile
• Entire User Profile Rate Limit: 3200 Kbps
This is the maximum amount of bandwidth that all users belonging to this profile can use. The typical
bandwidth consumption for VoIP is about 8 – 64 Kbps ,depending on the speech codec used. This setting
supports up to 50 concurrent VoIP sessions using 64-Kbps compression (3200 Kbps / 64 Kbps = 50
sessions).
• Entire User Profile Weight: 60
Because you want HiveAPs to favor VoIP traffic over all other types, you give this profile the highest
weight.
IT user profile
• Entire User Profile Rate Limit: 54000 Kbps for 802.11a/b/g and 1000000 for 802.11n (default)
This is the maximum amount of bandwidth that all users belonging to this profile can use. This setting
provides IT staff members with the maximum amount of available traffic.
• Entire User Profile Weight: 40
Because you want the HiveAPs to favor IT staff traffic over employee and guest traffic, you give this
profile a higher weight than those, but a lower one than that for VoIP traffic.
Emp user profile
• Entire User Profile Rate Limit: 54000 Kbps for 802.11a/b/g and 1000000 for 802.11n (default)
This is the maximum amount of bandwidth that all users belonging to this profile can use. This setting
provides employees with the maximum amount of available traffic.
• Entire User Profile Weight: 25
Because you want the HiveAPs to prioritize VoIP traffic first, IT staff traffic second, employee traffic
third, and guest traffic last, you give this profile a weight of 25. This weight is less than that for VoIP
traffic (60) and IT staff traffic (40), and more than what you are going to assign to guest traffic (5) next.
User Profile Name Policing Rate
Limit (Kbps)
802.11a/b/g
Policing Rate
Limit (Kbps)
802.11n
Scheduling Weight
Scheduling Weight %
(read-only)
Guests 2000 2000 5
3.7037
Unregistered-Guests 2000 2000 5
3.7037
VoIP 3200 3200 60 44.444
IT 54000 1000000 40
29.629
Emp 54000 1000000 25
18.518