Fast Lane Validation Overview

Native apps on iOS devices have become a primary vehicle for reinventing entire workflows that transform businesses. Keeping those apps running and performing well has never been more important. See how new features in iOS 10, combined with the latest Cisco Aironet and Cisco Meraki software and hardware, make it easy.

• Optimize Wi-Fi connectivity with intelligent client roaming, reduced network load, and lower battery use.
• Prioritize business-critical apps easily over enterprise wireless networks
• Let the network, not IT, do the work via simple and automated network configuration.

Here's how Cisco's Quality of Service (QoS) tags work:

New capabilities in iOS 10 and the Cisco Wi-Fi network allow the most critical apps to get priority over non-critical applications with Quality of Service (QoS);

• QoS profiles help determine which apps should receive QoS upstream;
• Developers include QoS tags when native app is developed;
• Using Meraki Systems Manager Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Apple Configurator, or any other Mobile Device Management (MDM), IT managers can whitelist or select which apps to prioritize for each SSID, to ensure they get the network bandwidth they require. This is accomplished by the network trusting iOS 10 embedded Quality of Service(QoS) tags. The QoS profile is then pushed to the iOS client;
• In a Cisco Wi-FI network running the latest software, QoS profile is activated. Whitelisted apps for that SSID can mark QoS, other apps are sent as best effort;
• Voice QoS Trust allows to trust upstream voice traffic coming from iOS, with ACM and without TSPEC;
• A single click automatically configures QoS best practices replacing 70 lines of CLI;
• Auto QoS benefits IT Administrators configure application visibility in WLC in one click.

Optimized Wi-Fi Connectivity

On the back end, these results are possible due to Apple’s and Cisco’s cooperation in helping define the 802.11 IEEE standards, and the rapid adoption of today’s leading wireless standards. These include:

• 802.11ac Wave 1 and Wave 2 standards to dramatically increase wireless bandwidth
• 802.11r to help iOS devices quickly and securely associate with each wireless access point
• 802.11k to deliver the list of neighboring access points, and
• 802.11v to narrow that list down to the optimal (and specific) wireless access point
• In addition, Cisco wireless infrastructure supports bonjour gateway to discover and locate bonjour-enabled devices