Chapter 36 AP Profile
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36.3 SSID Screen
The SSID screens allow you to configure three different types of profiles for your networked APs: an
SSID list, which can assign specific SSID configurations to your APs; a security list, which can
assign specific encryption methods to the APs when allowing wireless clients to connect to them;
and a MAC filter list, which can limit connections to an AP based on wireless clients MAC addresses.
36.3.1 SSID List
This screen allows you to create and manage SSID configurations that can be used by the APs. An
SSID, or Service Set IDentifier, is basically the name of the wireless network to which a wireless
client can connect. The SSID appears as readable text to any device capable of scanning for
wireless frequencies (such as the WiFi adapter in a laptop), and is displayed as the wireless network
name when a person makes a connection to it.
Rate Configuration
This section controls the data rates permitted for clients.
For each
Rate
, select a rate option from its list. The rates are:
•
Basic Rate (Mbps)
- Set the basic rate configuration in Mbps.
•
Support Rate (Mbps)
- Set the support rate configuration in Mbps.
•
MCS Rate
- Set the MCS rate configuration. IEEE 802.11n supports many different
data rates which are called MCS rates. MCS stands for Modulation and Coding
Scheme. This is an 802.11n feature that increases the wireless network
performance in terms of throughput.
Multicast Settings
Use this section to set a transmission mode and maximum rate for multicast traffic.
Transmission
Mode
Set how the AP handles multicast traffic.
Select
Multicast to Unicast
to broadcast wireless multicast traffic to all of the wireless
clients as unicast traffic. Unicast traffic dynamically changes the data rate based on the
application’s bandwidth requirements. The retransmit mechanism of unicast traffic
provides more reliable transmission of the multicast traffic, although it also produces
duplicate packets.
Select
Fixed Multicast Rate
to send wireless multicast traffic at a single data rate.
You must know the multicast application’s bandwidth requirements and set it in the
following field.
Multicast Rate
(Mbps)
If you set the multicast transmission mode to fixed multicast rate, set the data rate for
multicast traffic here. For example, to deploy 4 Mbps video, select a fixed multicast
rate higher than 4 Mbps.
MBSSID Settings
This section allows you to associate an SSID profile with the radio profile.
Edit
Select and SSID and click this button to reassign it. The selected SSID becomes
editable immediately upon clicking.
#
This field is a sequential value, and it is not associated with a specific profile.
SSID Profile
Indicates which SSID profile is associated with this radio profile.
OK
Click
OK
to
save your changes back to the UAG.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to exit this screen without saving your changes.
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Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit Radio Profile (continued)
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