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Deploying Vocera on Aruba WLAN Kevin Huey

March 15, 2013

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Mission Critical Applications Elements of a Vocera Deployment Common Vocera Challenges Optimizing Your Vocera Deployment Application Guides

Agenda

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•  Electronic Patient Records

•  Telemetry (Welch Allyn)

•  Voice communication (voice and text)

Mission Critical Applications

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•  Badges: B1000, B2000 and B3000 •  Encryption: Static WEP >>> WPA2-PSK >>>

WPA2-AES •  Roaming: Dot1x, DHCP and RADIUS •  ArubaOS Levels: 2.5, 3.3.2.x, 5.0.4.x and 6.1.3.x •  AP Type: Legacy APs and 11n APs •  RF Environment and number of clients on WLAN •  Voice and WMM

Elements of a Vocera Deployment

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•  Half-duplex conversations •  Voice quality •  Push-to-talk •  Searching for Server •  Searching for AP

Common Vocera Challenges

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•  Manager the RF environment for voice •  Optimize client roaming •  Managing management traffic •  Suppressing BC/MC traffic •  Managing airtime •  QOS

Optimizing Your Vocera Deployment

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•  Match the Aruba profiles with Vocera badge property elements

•  Vocera Deployment Guide http://www.vocera.com/products/documents/InfrastructureGuide.pdf

•  Optimizing Roaming on Aruba WLAN http://www.arubanetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/DG_Roaming.pdf

Applications Guides

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Q&A

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