About Wireless LAN Properties

This section provides information related to WLANs created using the Vocera Badge Properties Editor.

Badge properties tell a badge how to communicate on the wireless network deployed at your specific site. Use the Badge Properties Editor to create a badge.properties file specifying the property values your site requires, and then use either the Badge Configuration Utility or the Vocera Voice Server to download these properties to all your badges.

Many of the properties that you specify determine how your badges connect to your network and behave in your specific environment. You can optimize many network settings to improve badge performance, and configure your badge accordingly.

A set of WLAN parameters can be scanned through for connectivity in different locations. Wireless clients learn about available APs by scanning other 802.11 channels for available APs on the same WLAN or SSID.

802.11r is the IEEE standard for fast roaming, where the initial authentication handshake with the target AP (that is, the next AP that the client intends to connect to) is done even before the client associates to the target AP. This is called Fast Transition (FT), and by default, fast transition is disabled.

See Vocera Infrastructure Planning Guide for information about how to configure your network infrastructure optimally to support the Vocera Communications System.