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Which feature ensures seamless roaming between APs with no noticeable delay for voice clients?
The correct answer is C. 802.11r Fast Transition. 802.11r Fast Transition (FT) reduces the re-authentication handshake to a single round-trip during roaming, eliminating the delay that disrupts real-time voice calls.
Question
Which feature ensures seamless roaming between APs with no noticeable delay for voice clients?
Options
- AClient load balancing
- B802.11k
- C802.11r Fast Transition
- D802.11d
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A6% (2)
- B3% (1)
- C91% (29)
Why each option
802.11r Fast Transition (FT) reduces the re-authentication handshake to a single round-trip during roaming, eliminating the delay that disrupts real-time voice calls.
Client load balancing distributes new associations across APs for capacity management and has no effect on roaming latency.
802.11k provides Radio Resource Management neighbor reports that help a client identify candidate APs, but it does not accelerate the authentication process when transitioning.
802.11r pre-caches the Pairwise Master Key Security Association (PMKSA) at neighboring APs before the client roams, reducing the full 802.1X re-authentication to a Fast BSS Transition exchange. This cuts roaming latency to under 50 ms, which is within the threshold required for uninterrupted VoIP - typically less than 150 ms end-to-end delay.
802.11d is the regulatory domain amendment that advertises country-specific channel and power constraints; it has no roaming or authentication function.
Concept tested: 802.11r Fast BSS Transition for low-latency voice roaming
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