User guide

OmniPCX Enterprise / OmniPCX Office
TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTE OF VoWLAN
R4.2.1
Ed. 01 / 03 March 2010 3 TC1308
1. INTRODUCTION
This document describes the Alcatel-Lucent VoWLAN R4.2.1 solution (Voice over WLAN) for
OmniPCX and the new features contained in this 4.2 step. The VoWLAN R4.2.1 is related to all the
professional installations for the mobility on OmniPCX.
The Voice over WLAN R4.2.1 solution contains new features for the 310/610 WLAN Handsets
included in the MIPT software version 120.023 used in conjunction with the OmniAccess WLAN
software version 3.4.1.1 (or later). Among these is the ability to use WMM Standards-Based QoS or
Cisco CCXv4 rather than the proprietary SVP based QoS.
The OAW version provides all QoS Standards from the Wi-Fi Alliance based on IEEE 802.11e,
needed to operate the mobile IP Touch 310/610 WLAN handsets new QoS WMM, WMM Power
Save and WMM Admission Control.
The combination of these three standards provides enterprise-class QoS in terms of voice quality,
battery life and call capacity.
These features also include support for WPA2-Enterprise 802.1X authentication mechanisms PEAPv0
and EAP-FAST.
2. COMPATIBILITIES
2.1 MIPT SW Version 120.023 compatibility
AOS 3.4.1.1 (min) with PEF license is mandatory for deploying this new MIPT release
(≥ 120.023), otherwise WMM-AC feature cannot be used and there is an upgrading
limitation.
Before upgrade MIPT to this 120.023 version, OAW administrator must firstly configure the ACM
(Admission Control Mandatory used for call control traffic) for the Voice and Video to be 1 in EDCA
parameters of OAW.
This table shows the AOS and MIPT software versions compatibilities:
AOS
MIPT
2.5.x 3.1.x 3.3.x ≥ 3.4.1.x Cisco
infrastructure
PCS
infrastructure
< 120.023 OK OK OK OK PCS PCS
KO KO KO OK (1) OK PCS ≥ 120.023
OK (2) OK (2) OK (2) Not Relevant Not Relevant Not Relevant
1) Require activating the WMM-AC QoS management on the controller: available only from 3.4
AOS version only.
2) Disable the WMM-AC feature on each handset by setting the WMM-AC to Optional
("Mandatory" is the default value set during the upgrade process): configuration not
recommended/supported.