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Cisco introduced Phase 2 of its partnership with Apple starting with release 8.5 of wireless controller code. Phase 2 iOS devices to communicate useful information to the controller during as*ociation and disas*ociation. According to Cisco and Apple Wi-Fi an*lytics require iOS 11, and this functionality is limited to certain devices. According to this So how does an iOS device know it is connected to a Cisco wireless network running 8.5 code? Similar to what was seen with Fastlane and Adaptive 11r, beacons and probe responses from Cisco APs include a vendor-specific Apple information element. The difference is that this IE will appear even if Fastlane and Adaptive 11r are not enabled. One feature of Phase 2 is beacon reports. Beacon reports are defined in 802.11k, and they allow a client to report to the infrastructure how it sees the wireless environment. This is an important metric; it's easy to learn how an AP hears a client, but that is just half the picture. Knowing how clients hear the AP's signal can be a valuable troubleshooting tool, and it allows the the controller to optimize The neighbor reports appear in the Cisco controller dashboard under client details. Below is a report from an iPad for the one AP that it This information is sent via an unsolicited 802.11k beacon report, Wireshark capture shown below. The Received Channel Power Indicator (RCPI) is defined as a number between 0 and 255, and is used to indicate a receive power in dBm this case, as 0xbe would equal -25 dBm. There may be some proprietary characteristics in play. Another indication of this is the Operating Running a 'debug 11k all' on the controller while the neighbor report is sent generates the following output. Received a 11k Action frame with code 1 from mobile station E4:E0:A6:xx:xx:xx payloadLen = 31, subIe ID 39 len 29 Token ID: 96, Mode late: 0, Mode incapable: 0, Mode refused: 0, Type: 5 Found 802.11k beacon report element ID