User guide

About Quality of Service
2-6 Configuring Your Network
•Wi‐FiProtectedAccessversion1(WPAv.1)–AsecurityprotocolwithTemporalKeyIntegrity
Protocol(TKIP)thatprovidespre‐sharedMasterKeymanagement,andaWEP128‐bitcipher.
•Wi‐FiProtectedAccessversion2(WPAv. 2)–AsecurityprotocolwithAdvancedEncryption
Standard(AES)thatprovidespre‐sharedMasterKeymanagement,andanAES128‐bitcipher.
About Quality of Service
TheAPprovidesadvancedQualityofService(QoS)managementinordertoprovidebetter
networktrafficflow.Suchfeaturesinclude:
•WMM(Wi‐FiMultimedia)—EnabledgloballyontheAP.FordeviceswithWMM enabled,
thestandardprovidesmultimediaenhancementsforaudio,video,andvoiceapplications.
WMMshortensthetimebetweentransmittingpacketsforhigherprioritytraffic.
•IPToS(TypeofService)orDSCP(DiffserveCodepoint)—TheToS/DSCPfieldintheIP
headerofaframeindicatesthepriorityandQoSforeachframe.
•Pre‐WMM—TheAPalsosupportslegacyQoSmanagementsuchas802.11e, flexibleclient
access,andvoiceandvideoadmissioncontrol.