SonicOS 8 Access Points

Wi-Fi Multimedia

SonicWall access points support Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) to provide a better Quality of Service (QoS) experience on bandwidth-intensive applications such as VoIP, VoIP on Wi-Fi phones, and multimedia traffic on wireless IEEE 802.11 networks.

WMM is a Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification based on the IEEE 802.11e standard that prioritizes traffic according to four Access Categories:

  • Voice—highest priority
  • Video—second priority
  • Best effort—third priority (intended for applications like email and Internet surfing)
  • Background—fourth priority (intended for applications that are not latency sensitive, such as printing)

WMM does not provide guaranteed throughput.

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