Page 2 - Requirements
Wireless IPT Design Guide for the Cisco 7920 IPPhone IntroductionPrerequisites Requirements Components Used ConventionsCisco 7920 IP Phone OverviewWLAN OverviewRF Overview Site Surveys and Design RecommendationsVoIP QoSSecurity for the Cisco 7920 and WLAN NetworksNetwork Sizing Number of 802.11b Dev...
Page 3 - Components Used; Cisco 7920 IP Phone Overview
AVVID design guides and administration. • Components Used The information in this document is based on the software and hardware versions below: The Cisco 7920 IP Phone. • The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of thedevices used in this docu...
Page 4 - VoIP QoS
remember that the Cisco 7920 has somewhat different roaming characteristics than Cisco Aironet NetworkInterface Cards (NICs). This includes thresholds on the Cisco 7920 that determine when the phone roams orhow much the RF environment needs to change in order to determine when a roaming event should...
Page 6 - Security for the Cisco 7920 and WLAN Networks
Technical Assistance Center (TAC) (if problems arise) is limited for this situation. Security for the Cisco 7920 and WLAN Networks The Cisco 7920 is supported in the architecture of the Cisco Wireless Security Suite. The architecture is discussed in detail in documents for Wireless LAN Security Solu...
Page 7 - Network Sizing; Number of 802.11b IP Phones per AP
RADIUS functionality in a small office, but could also be used as a ACS server in case of WANfailure. The following is a step−by−step example of configuring the fallback RADIUS server for LEAPauthentication: Configure the Network Access Server (NAS), by issuing the following commands: radius−server ...
Page 9 - Numbers of 802.11b Phones per Layer 2 Subnet or VLAN
All of the above calculations and design recommendations are based on VAD being disabled on the Cisco7920 IP Phones. VAD is a mechanism in VoIP where no RTP packets are sent if no speech is occurringduring the conversation. VAD can be enabled on the Cisco 7920 phones and provides some bandwidth cons...
Page 10 - Understanding Layer 2 and Layer 3 Roaming; Understanding Roaming Terminology
30 AP limit is due to memory and processor constraints on the Wireless Domain Server (WDS), which is APfunctionality to provide this enhanced roaming and security. This functionality is introduced into Cisco IOSSoftware Release 11.2(11)JA on the Cisco APs. Deployments that do not require this functi...
Page 11 - Layer 2 Roaming
Note: Any references to roam or roaming throughout the remainder of this document is in the contextof mid−call roaming. As it relates to roaming, the Cisco 7920 IP Phone currently only supports Layer 2 roaming. This means that aCisco 7920 IP Phone can roam between APs that have coverage for a single...
Page 13 - Layer 3 Roaming
Layer 2 roaming with both static WEP and LEAP has been shown to provide acceptable QoS using eitherG.711 or G.729. If LEAP is being used, it is recommended that users are defined locally on the ACS server.This is because using off−box databases have potentially unknown response times, which could ad...
Page 14 - VLANs
VLANs VLANs are used by WLAN networks to provide two distinct functions: Segment traffic into distinct broadcast domains (IP subnets). • Create separate security domains for different security models (such as open, WEP, LEAP, ProtectedExtensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), EAP Transport Layer Se...
Page 15 - WLAN QoS for VoIP
For more details on deploying VLANs in WLAN networks, refer to the Wireless Virtual LAN DeploymentGuide. WLAN QoS for VoIP As mentioned earlier, WLANs operate as a shared medium. This means that QoS on WLAN networks aremore difficult than wired networks because end points do not have dedicated bandw...
Page 19 - Interconnecting WLANs to Cisco Campus Infrastructure
The following is an example of configuring the QBBS element in beacons on Cisco IOS Software−based APs: Beyond just having queuing and setting packets with the correct DiffServ markings, delay and jitter need to betaken into consideration. This is especially true for upstream traffic since there is ...
Page 20 - Connecting APs to the Catalyst 3550 SMI or EMI
Disable Port Aggregation Protocol (PagP) − PagP is enabled by default, but it is not needed foruser−facing ports. • Enable Port Fast Allows a switch to quickly resume forwarding traffic if a Spanning Tree Protocol(STP) link goes down. • Configure Wireless VLAN Creates a unique wireless VLAN that iso...
Page 22 - Caveats and Limitations
Cisco Emergency Responder can query for IP Phones through either CDP (on the Catalyst switches)or the MAC address. Since CDP is sent as a link−layer multicast and is used by the Cisco AP todetermine the QoS settings for the Cisco 7920, it is not propagated up to the Catalyst switch. Thismeans that C...
Page 23 - Call Admission Control; Designing Around the Lack of Layer 3 Roaming
Call Admission Control Call Admission Control (CAC) provides the mechanism that prevents the presence of the next voice call tointerrupt or provide poor QoS for all existing voice calls. Regarding Time−Division Multiplex (TDM), this isaccomplished by a finite number of DS0 channels. In wired Etherne...
Page 24 - Related Information
Cisco 7920 does not support network−based directories. This will be supported in future softwarereleases. • Cisco 7920 does not support XML−based applications. This will be supported in future softwarereleases. • Related Information Voice Technologies • Voice, Telephony and Messaging Devices • Voice...