Technical data

Add an ESS with the Web UI

5GHz band. Band steering is also useful for directing multicast traffic. For this

command to work as clients are added, also set the field New APs Join ESS to on.

For more explanation, see Band Steering Feature in this chapter.Band Steering

Mode options are:

— Band Steering Disabled

— Band Steering to A band: Infrastructure attempts to steer all A-Capable

wireless clients to the 5GHz band when they connect to this ESS.

— Band Steering to N band: Infrastructure attempts to steer all N-Capable

wireless client that are also A-Capable to the 5GHz band when they connect to

this ESS. Infrastructure also attempts to steer non N-Capable wireless clients

to the 2.4GHz band.

29. Band Steering Timeout sets the number of seconds that assignment for a steered

client is blocked on the forbidden band while it is unassociated. For this command

to work, also set the field Band Steering to A-band or N-band (see above). Band

Steering Timeout can be any integer from 1-65535.

30. Expedited Forward Override option is implemented to override the system’s default

DSCP-to-WMM priority mapping. IP datagrams marked with DSCP Expedited Forwarding

(46) will be sent from the WMM Voice queue (AC_VO) of the AP rather than the Video

queue (AC_VI) in downstream (to stations). This feature is specific to AP300 and is

disabled by Default. It is configured on a per-ESS Profile basis and works in both

bridged and tunneled ESS profiles. For configuration, see Expedited Forward

Override in this chapter.

31. SSID Broadcast for Vport is specific to address the CISCO phone connectivity

issues. It consists of three options as follows:

— Disable: This is the default configuration on the ESSID profile page.

Configuring the parameter to “Disable” makes the AP not to advertise the SSID

string in the beacon.

— Always: Configuring the parameter to “Always” enables the AP to advertise

the SSID on the beacons always. This must not be configured unless

recommended.

— Till-Association: Configuring the parameter to “Till-Association” enables the

AP to advertise the SSID in the beacons till association stage of the client and

disable the SSID broadcast in the later part of connectivity. This parameter is

preferable to configure for the certain version of phones which will resolves

the connectivity issues with the Vport ON. Once station associated, AP320 will

stop broadcasting SSID string. Here the users are allowed to configure SSID

broadcast for VPort parameter from controller GUI per ESS basis in addition to

AP CLI. For configuration, see SSID Broadcast for Vport in this chapter.

32. For the remaining Supported and Base Transmit Rates for B, A, G, and BG modes,

enable or disable rates as needed.

33. Click OK.

Note:

If Ascom i75 phones are used to connect to WPA2PSK profile with VCell

enabled, then create an ESSID with all BGN Supported HT Transmit rates

unchecked (set to none).