Wi-Fi Multimedia

SonicWall access points support Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) to provide a better Quality of Service (QoS) experience on bandwidth-intensive applications such as VoIP, VoIP on Wi-Fi phones, and multimedia traffic on wireless IEEE 802.11 networks.

WMM is a Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification based on the IEEE 802.11e standard that prioritizes traffic according to four Access Categories:

• Voice—highest priority
• Video—second priority
• Best effort—third priority (intended for applications like email and Internet surfing)
• Background—fourth priority (intended for applications that are not latency sensitive, such as printing)

WMM does not provide guaranteed throughput.

 

• WMM Access Categories
• Assigning Traffic to Access Categories
• Configuring Wi-Fi Multimedia Parameters
• Creating a WMM Profile for an Access Point