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Purposed Model of 802.

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The latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac, was designed to meet the demands of high-density wireless
environments. The first wave of 802.11ac products built upon the foundation of the 802.11n standard
to dramatically improve speed and capacity and support more users while reducing latency and
interference.
802.11ac Wave 2 products go further thanks to a technology called multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO)
technology that maximizes the number of megabits transmitted per megahertz of spectrum. MUMIMO improves upon the capabilities of the 802.11n technology by supporting up to four
simultaneous user transmissions on each spatial stream. 802.11ac also doubles the number of
spatial streams from four to eight. This allows for much higher user density.
The challenge is that many wired networks use 1 Gigabit switches to connect APs to the network.
The wired network will be slower than 802.11ac Wave 2 devices, which promise speeds greater than
a Gigabit. In addition, 802.11ac devices require 30W Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), but many
organizations have only 15W PoE capabilities.

In our new model we are considering weak points of 802.11ac and make suggestion
to improve it.
10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) uplinks are typically required and backhaul infrastructure may need to
be upgraded in order to avoid performance degradation. Youll also need to evaluate your PoE
capabilities. The WLAN controller must be 802.11 aware and capable of supporting the additional
capacity provided by 802.11 new version. Determine the number of wireless devices that must be
supported, the number of devices that will be used at the same time, and what types of applications
will be used. This will help you plan for both capacity and access point density.
Organizations should plan to use up to both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, but new version delivers
maximum bandwidth and performance in the 5GHz band. Because 5GHz is a shorter wavelength, a
denser deployment of access points is required. Also, a dense deployment strategy will shorten the
distance between endpoints and help to sustain performance. Keep in mind that 802.11 new version
is compatible with 802.11ac, so upgrading to this shouldnt require you to rip out existing equipment.
A phased migration may be the ideal approach to take. Because effective management is critical
with Wi-Fi optimization, organizations should consider combining wired and wireless management
and upgrading to an enterprise-grade management console.
Because Wi-Fi has become a mission-critical requirement in many organizations, its important to
properly engineer the wireless network for coverage, capacity and scalability.

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