Configuring And Managing Client Band Steering And Client Load Balancing - Avaya WLAN 8100 Series Reference

Configure capture instance
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Configuring and managing Client Band Steering and Client load
balancing
Client Band Steering is a technique used to increase the overall capacity of a dual-band
wireless network composed of multiple APs that use both the 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz radios.
You typically enable Client Band Steering and Client Load Balancing when you configure
Access radio profiles.
Client stations predominantly support 2.4GHz. Many modern client stations have dual-band
support yet tend to favor connection to 2.4GHz networks (although some popular modern
clients still only support 2.4GHz, e.g. the Apple iPhone 4). As a result, dual-band networks
have the 2.4GHz band heavily utilized, and the 5GHz band under utilized. The objective of
Client Band Steering is to encourage 5GHz capable client stations to use the 5GHz radio
instead of the 2.4GHz radio, leaving the 2.4GHz radio for stations that only support 2.4GHz.
As part of Client load-balancing configuration, you enable/disable the Load balancing. After
you enable load balancing, you configure the following parameters:
• utilization-start (%) — Utilization level at which client association load balancing begins
• utilization-cutoff (%) — Client association load balancing cutoff. If this threshold is
exceeded, all further client associations are refused.
Important:
This cutoff is useful so that controller CPU utilization is maintained at an optimum level.
If CPU utilization goes beyond 100%, it causes the controller to restart which in turn
results in an unprecedented controller outage.
About this task
Use this procedure to configure client band steering and client load balancing in access radio
profiles.
Procedure
1. Create an Access Radio profile.
Avaya WLAN 8100 CLI Reference
Parameters
ap
profile
Configure A-N and BG-N radio profiles to support different radio frequencies. The
following examples shows the creation of A-N and BG-N radio profiles with the
ACLI reference for the Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100
Description
Specifies the AP MAC address to restart the
wireless capture instance.
Specifies the capture profile to restart.
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