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Dell Networking W-Series Wireless LAN Mobility Controller Optimizations for Microsoft Lync Dell Networking W-Series Wireless LAN Mobility Controller Optimizations for Microsoft Lync Tracy Alonzo, Network Solutions Engineering...
Media collaborative applications like Microsoft Lync providing voice, video, and instant messaging (IM) are expected to reliably run across wireless LAN networks (WLANs) and provide the high quality of service required by these applications. This guide outlines the steps needed to set up the Dell W-Series controllers.
“Prefer 5ghz”. Verify that it is selected. Click Apply to carry out the changes. It is good practice to save the configuration. With the Band Steering feature enabled, Dell access points will ignore 802.11 management Probe Requests from 2.5GHz RADIO client stations, responding only to Probe Requests from client stations in...
Dell Networking W-Series Wireless LAN Mobility Controller Optimizations for Microsoft Lync SSID Profile Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM) See Figure 4. Navigate to Configuration ->All Profiles -> Wireless LAN -> SSID Profile -> <profile name>. In SSID Profile Details, click the Advanced tab, and enter 3 into the DTIM Interval field.
Dell Networking W-Series Wireless LAN Mobility Controller Optimizations for Microsoft Lync Differential Services Code Point (DSCP) See Figure 4. Set DSCP mapping for WMM voice AC field to value of 46. (See RFC 3246 section 2.7 Recommended Code Point for Expedited Forwarding: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3246/)
See Figure 6. Select the Power Save Aware Scan checkbox to enable the feature. With this feature enabled, if Dell access points detect one or more clients in power save mode, the access point will not scan across other channels.
Dell Networking W-Series Wireless LAN Mobility Controller Optimizations for Microsoft Lync Quality of Service (QoS) Profile Airtime Fairness Navigate to Configuration -> All Profiles -> QOS -> Traffic Management Profile -> Profile Details. Add Lync, then select it. In the Station Shaping Policy field, select fair-access.