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wlan traffic-management-profile
wlan traffic-management-profile <profile>
bw-alloc virtual-ap <virtual-ap> share <percent>
clone <profile>
no ...
report-interval <minutes>
shaping-policy default-access|fair-access|preferred-access
Description
This command configures a traffic management profile.
Syntax
Usage Guidelines
The traffic management profile allows you to allocate bandwidth to SSIDs. When you enable the band-steering
feature, an AP keeps track of all BSSIDs active on a radio, all clients connected to the BSSID, and 802.11a/g,
802.11b, or 802.11n capabilities of each client. Every sampling period, airtime is allocated to each client, giving it
Parameter Description Range Default
<profile> Name of this instance of the profile. The name must be 1-63
characters.
— “default”
bw-alloc Minimum bandwidth, as a percentage of available
bandwidth, allocated to an SSID when there is congestion
on the wireless network. An SSID can use all available
bandwidth if no other SSIDs are active.
virtual-ap Name of the virtual AP profile which pertains to the SSID. — —
share Percentage of available bandwidth allocated to this SSID. 0-100 —
clone Name of an existing traffic management profile from which
parameter values are copied.
——
no Negates any configured parameter. — —
report-interval Number of minutes between bandwidth usage reports. 5 minutes
shaping-policy Define Station Shaping Policy This feature has the following
three options:
z default-access: Traffic shaping is disabled, and client
performance is dependent on MAC contention
resolution. This is the default traffic shaping setting.
z fair-access: Each client gets the same airtime,
regardless of client capability and capacity. This option
is useful in environments like a training facility or exam
hall, where a mix of 802.11a/g, 802.11g and 802.11n
clients need equal to network resources, regardless of
their capabilities. The bw-alloc parameter of a traffic
management profile allows you to set a minimum
bandwidth to be allocated to a virtual AP profile when
there is congestion on the wireless network.You must
set traffic shaping to fair-access to use this bandwidth
allocation value for an individual virtual AP.
z preferred-access: High-throughput (802.11n) clients do
not get penalized because of slower 802.11a/g or
802.11b transmissions that take more air time due to
lower rates. Similarly, faster 802.11a/g clients get more
access than 802.11b clients.
default-access
fair-access
preferred-access
default-
access