178Appendix B Troubleshooting WLAN IP Telephony installations

Nortel switches

This section contains configuration information for Nortel switches.

Nortel WLAN Security Switch

The 2350, 2360, and 2380 model switches have the following requirements:

load 4.1.14

configure radio-profile voice dtim-interval 3

configure radio-profile voice active-scan disable (prevents the AP from going off-channel to scan)

radio-profile voice WMM enabled

Cisco access points and switches

This section contains configuration information for selected Cisco access points and switches.

Cisco Aironet 1200 Series

Ensure that the software is 12.3.7(JA3). This requirement is current as of November 2006 and is subject to change.

Configure the following settings:

dtim-interval 3

protocol 119 enabled

less than 10 ms voice latency

voice WMM enabled

For more information, see the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series User Guide.

Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2270 and the Cisco 4400 Series WLAN Controller

Alpha The 2270 and 4400 infrastructure has the following requirements:

Turn off aggressive load balancing.

Disable MAC filtering authentication for voice SSID and use only static WEP (40 or 104 bit) encryption.

Configure 802.11b radio data rates as follows:

1Mb/s—Mandatory

2Mb/s—Mandatory

5.5Mb/s—Supported

11Mb/s—Supported

Uncheck enable short preamble.

Nortel Communication Server 1000

WLAN IP Telephony Installation and Commissioning

NN43001-504 01.02 Standard

Release 5.0 15 June 2007

Copyright © 2004-2007, Nortel Networks

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