Ieee 802 11ac is a wireless networking standard in the 802 11 set of protocols which is part of the wi fi networking family providing high throughput wireless local area networks wlans on the 5 ghz band the standard was developed in the ieee standards association from 2008 par approved 2008 09 26 through 2013 and published in december 2013 ansi approved 2013 12 11.
802 11 ac wave 2 ratification.
Wave 1 and wave 2.
The 802 11ac wlan standard allows for higher theoretical speeds in the 5 ghz band.
802 11 wave 1 supports three mimo spatial streams while 802 11ac wave 2 supports up to four mimo spatial streams.
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A new wi fi standard known as 802 11ac wave 2 was recently certified by the wi fi alliance.
802 11ac is coming to market in two releases.
With the addition of support for 160 mhz wide channels and the modulation and coding scheme mcs rates of 802 11ac wave 2 provides new maximum phy rates based on the number of spatial streams and modulation shown in figure 1.
The increase of mimo spatial streams improves users peak throughput or expands the coverage scope of a wi fi network.
Wave 2 of the 802 11ac standard builds upon wave 1 with the following key additional functionalities.
Netgear began shipping the following 802 11ac wave 1 access points in 2015.
The asus rt ac87u wi fi router wave 2 aps have been on the market for about a year dating back to last january s release of the asus rt ac87u.
Here are the six details you need to know.
As such it supports all the data rates of 802 11ac wave 1.
Wave 2 802 11ac routers will deliver maximum physical link rates in the range of 7 to 10gbps.
These devices support a number of optional features in that standard that will deliver even higher.
Wave 2 is a superset of 802 11ac wave 1.
The increases of channel bandwidth and mimo spatial streams improve the throughput of 802 11ac wave 2 products.
Early 802 11ac wave 2 product.