Cisco Systems AIRRM3000ACAK9 Network Router User Manual


 
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Cisco Aironet Series 1600/2600/3600 Access Point Deployment Guide, Release 7.5
802.11ac Primer – How is it different from 802.11n?
Figure 63 Faster speeds with newer MCS rates and bonding – up to 433 Mbps on 1 stream.
Even faster speeds occur when you can use multiple spatial streams, many newer smart phones may
likely support only 1 spatial stream, but higher end tablets and notebooks will typically support 2 or more
spatial streams. Let’s look at speeds when using 2 and 3 spatial streams.
Figure 64 Typical Wave-1 data rates @ 2 and 3 spatial streams