Don’t I just need a Wi-Fi product that supports the 802.11e draft standard, or WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia, a Wi-Fi Alliance interpretability certification) to make IPTV / video work?
802.11e is intended for adding basic QoS features to IEEE 802.11 networks. WMM, which is based on the 802.11e draft standard, prioritizes traffic according to four access categories: voice, video, best-effort and background. However WMM does not provide guaranteed throughput, nor does it define any mechanism for automatically classifying traffic into the four access categories. Products that support WMM typically shift the burden to the user, requiring complex configurations that are generally too challenging for a typical consumer. SmartCast QoS automatically detects video and IPTV traffic and prioritizes them according to bandwidth and delay requirements. In addition, per-station queuing on Ruckus products provides much finer granularity and higher precision for bandwidth prioritization compared to other consumer Wi-Fi products in the market.
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