Cisco Infrastructure Recommendations for Voice Quality

Cisco Infrastructure Recommendations for Voice Quality

This section lists more specific Cisco infrastructure recommendations to handle voice traffic and maintain expected voice Quality.
Cisco Infrastructure Recommendations for Voice Quality
Recommendation
Required
Recommended But Not Required
Configure voice WLAN to use the 802.11a band.
Set EAP Retry Timeout to default.
Disable DHCP address assignment required option.
Disable Session Timeout or set to shift duration + one hour.
Disable Client Exclusions.
Set the User Idle Timeout to Session Timeout definition (above).
Enable Fast SSID change.
Disable Cisco client extensions (CCX) Radio Measurements.
Allow WMM for the voice WLAN.
Mark Voice WLAN with Platinum QoS.
For Platinum QoS profile set 802.1p bits to 6.
Trust DSCP markings end to end.
Validate that the mobility status shows as UP between all controllers in the same mobility group.
Set EAP-Identity-Request Timeout (seconds) to 3 (see note below table.)
Set EAP-Identity-Request Max Retries to 2.
Set EAP-Request Timeout (seconds) to 3.
Set EAP-Request Max Retries to 2.
Disable MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) aggregation for voice.
Disable Optimized Roaming.
Ensure FT (11r) is set to Enable, not Adaptive.
Verify that the EDCA profile on the controller is set to Voice Optimized.
Verify that Aggressive Load Balancing is disabled.
Verify that DTPC is disabled. See Recommendations for DTPC (Dynamic Transmit Power Control) in Notes.
Verify the Beacon Interval is set to 100 msec.
Verify that Client MFP is disabled.
Verify that peer-to-peer blocking is disabled.
Validate the virtual interface address is the same across all controllers in the same mobility group.