Apple Devices

All best practices, except those that need manual configuration, are enabled by default in a Cisco Mobility Express network. These exceptions include NTP, WLAN with WPA2 or 802.1x, and high SSID counts.

WLAN Configuration

  • Description—Allows you to identify if the WLAN is configured with recommended L2 security, QoS, and Advanced settings for Apple devices. Application Visibility should be enabled.

  • Status—Click Detailed to manually configure the L2 security, QoS, and advanced settings for Apple devices for individual, active WLANs.

    • Selected—At least one WLAN is compliant with all the recommended WLAN configurations for Apple devices.

    • Unselected—None of the active WLANs are compliant with all the recommended WLAN configurations for Apple devices.

5GHz Enabled

  • Description—Enable the 5GHz radio to provide a faster and less interfering network for Apple devices.

  • Status:

    • Selected—5GHz radio is enabled on the network.

    • Unselected—5GHz radio is disabled on the network.

5GHz EDCA Fastlane

  • Description—Configuring the EDCA Profile as Fastlane improves Apple device performance on 5GHz networks.

  • Status:

    • Selected—The 5GHz EDCA Profile is configured as Fastlane.

    • Unselected—The 5GHz EDCA Profile is not configured as Fastlane.

5GHz MCS Rates

  • Description—All the MCS Rates (0-31) should be enabled on the 5GHz networks to help improve the performance of Apple client devices.

  • Status:

    • Selected—All the MCS rates are enabled on the 5GHz network.

    • Unselected—Some of the MCS rates are disabled on the 5GHz network.

Optimized Roaming Disabled

  • Description—Optimized roaming should be disabled because Apple devices use the newer 802.11r, 802.11k, or 802.11v roaming improvement.

  • Status:

    • Selected—Optimized roaming is disabled.

    • Unselected—Optimized roaming is enabled.