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5
Troubleshooting One-Way Audio
This chapter provides tips for solving problems with one-way audio on Vocera
badge-to-badge calls in a Cisco WLAN environment. The term "one-way audio"
means that only one user can hear unicast audio when a badge-to-badge call is
initiated or when a user roams to a new AP.
Users may report that audio is lost when they walk away from an AP they are
associated with and is restored when:
• they walk back towards the AP they are associated with or
• they roam to a new AP.
These situations can be classified as "user perceived" one-way audio and are
usually indicative of coverage issues that should be diagnosed with alternative
procedures. One-way audio problems are typically caused by Address Resolution
Protocol (ARP) - Layer 2 issues.
The following table provides a sequence of questions to ask to troubleshoot
problems with one-way audio.
Table 5.1. Questions to ask about one-way audio
Question If the answer is Yes, do this:
Is Vocera running in a Cisco LWAPP
WLAN deployment?
Disable unicast ARP on the WLC.
Make sure your Cisco WLAN Controller
software has been updated to version
4.1.185 or later. Check with Vocera
Technical Support for the latest
recommendations about Cisco WLAN
Controller software versions.
After upgrading Cisco WLAN Controllers,
make sure you reboot them.
Is Vocera running in a Cisco Autonomous
WLAN deployment?
Disable arp-cache on the APs. If arp-
cache is a WLAN requirement, enable
arp-cache "optional".
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