User's Manual

Wireless Array
284 Configuring the Wireless Array
16. Max Phones per IAP: This option allows you to control the maximum
number of phones that are allowed per IAP. The default is set to a
maximum of 16 but you can reduce this number, as desired. Enter a value
in this field between 0 (no phones allowed) and 16.
17. Block Inter-Station Traffic: This option allows you to block or allow
traffic between wireless clients that are associated to the Array. Choose
either Yes (to block traffic) or No (to allow traffic).
18. Allow Over Air Management: Choose Yes to enable management of the
Array via the IAPs, or choose No (recommended) to disable this feature.
Advanced Traffic Optimization
19. Multicast Processing: This sets
how multicast traffic is handled.
Multicast traffic can be received by a number of subscribing stations at
the same time, thus saving a great deal of bandwidth. In some of the
options below, the Array uses IGMP snooping to determine the stations
that are subscribed to the multicast traffic. IGMP (Internet Group
Management Protocol) is used to establish and manage the membership
of multicast groups.
Multicast handling options are only applicable to traffic transmitted from
the Array to wireless stations. Select one of the following options:
• Send multicasts unmodified. This is useful when multicast is not
needed because no video or audio streaming is required or when it is
used only for discovering services in the network. Some situations
where you might use this option are:
• for compatibility with ordinary operation, i.e., there is no
optimization or modification of multicast traffic.
• if you have an application where many subscribers need to see
the multicast—a large enough number that it would be less
efficient to convert to unicast and better just to send out multicast
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This admission control feature applies only to Spectralink phones. It does not
apply to all VoIP phones in general.