802.11r Fast Transition and iPhones

[Marco Noviello]

Hi everyone

just a clarification about Fast Transition for me:

Following environment: WiSMv2 with 7.4.121, al lot of 1240 APs, over 200x 7921/7925 WLAN Phones and few iPhone 5s / 5c with 7.1 iOS.

The environment work very well for Cisco 792x Phones.

Now the Customer would like to use Jabber on iPhone therefore I create a new SSID for the iPhone and configured it with Fast Transition option.

According to the Enterprise Best Practice for Apple Mobile guide I have to enable the “Over-the-Distribution System” because I user AP 1240

also the old generation.

Further I must enable following over the CLI (options are not available over the GUI):

config wlan assisted-roaming neighbor-list enable

config wlan assisted-roaming dual-list disable

config wlan assisted-roaming prediction enable

Is this the correct approach ?

Regards

Marco

[Rasika Nayanajith · Accepted solution]

Hi Marco,

you described enabling FT (802.11r) & AP assisted Roaming (802.11k) in the above. Here about some details about  how those work.

1. 802.11r FT Association
2. 802.11r Over-the-Air FT
3. 802.11r Over-the-DS FT
4. 802.11k AP Assisted Roaming

I would enable one at a time (802.11r or 802.11k) & see the behavior of these jabber clients when roaming.

HTH

Rasika

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[Marco Noviello]

Hi Rasika,

I have already configured 802.11r Over-the-Air but customer report roaming issue.

I will try 802.11r Over-the-DS and later enable also 802.11k

Regards

Marco