• SonicWave 600 series
• Deployment Scenarios Overview
  • SonicWave 600 Series Deployment Considerations
  • SonicWave 600 Series Deployment Scenarios
• Wireless Access Point Placement Considerations
  • Radio Frequency Barriers
  • RF Interference
• Software Configuration
  • Configuring SonicOS for Wireless Access
    • Firewall-based Configuration
    • Cloud-based Configuration
  • Wireless Cloud Management Overview
    • WiFi Cloud Manager
    • WiFi Planner
    • WiFi Cloud Manager Mobile application
  • Integration with other SonicWall Software
• Managing the SonicWave with a Firewall
  • Configuring the SonicWave Provisioning Profile
  • Configuring the Network Interface
  • Configuring the WLAN Zone
• Deploying a SonicWave with Wireless Network Manager
  • Licensing Requirements
  • Registering and Deploying the SonicWave
    • Registering the SonicWave
    • Accessing the Wireless Network Manager
    • Deploying with the Wireless Network Manager
    • Creating a Zone Policy
    • Linking the Policy to the Zone
• Using SonicPoint FairNet Bandwidth Limit Policies
  • SonicPoint FairNet Features
  • Configuring SonicPoint FairNet
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

SonicPoint FairNet Features

The following features are included with SonicPoint FairNet:

• Distributed Coordination Function

  The Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) provides timing fairness for each client to access a medium with equal opportunity. However, it cannot guarantee the per-station data traffic fairness among all wireless clients. The SonicPoint FairNet feature is implemented on top of the existing 802.11 DCF to guarantee fair bandwidth among wireless clients regardless of the number and direction of flows.

• Traffic Control

  The traffic control feature decides when packets are queued or dropped (for example, when the queue has reached a length limit, or when the traffic exceeds a rate limit). It can also decide in which order packets are sent (for example, to give priority to certain owners) and it can also delay the sending of packets (such as limiting the rate of outbound traffic). After traffic control has released a packet to send, the device driver picks it up and submits it to the network.

Fairnet is unsupported on the SonicPoint Ni or Ne access points.