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Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, introduces the latest developments with Cisco’s partnership with Apple. He reviews what solutions have been developed in the first year. The areas of focus were improving roaming coverage and adding QoS information from device to the network.
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Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews the developments with wi-fi roaming as part of Cisco’s partnership with Apple. He discusses how they have improved 802.11k/v/r are implemented to improve roaming performance, to allow for faster shifting between access points.
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Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews how Cisco and Apple partnered to improve QoS between devices and access points. The challenge was to create a system that could prioritize business critical apps and data, be easy to implement, and give IT control over app priority. This resulted in Fast Lane QoS markings. This allows for supported apps to mark traffic from white listed apps with QoS profiles that Cisco APs will recognize.
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Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reiterates to the delegates that the Apple and Cisco partnership is an ongoing project, not simply a one-time partnership. They want to make Wi-Fi coverage on Apple devices as seamless on Wi-Fi as it currently is on cellular. If you can forget that you’re connected to the network, they’ve done their job.
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Jerome Henry, Principal Engineer at Cisco, gives a demonstration of setting up Fastlane on a Cisco router. This is disabled by default, but once enabled, it allows for white listed apps to apply QoS profiles to traffic.
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