The wave 2 4x4 mu mimo dual band internals all boost the portal to more than 3x faster than any competitive ac3200 router.
Ac wave 2 speed.
Channels for wave 2 products would mostly move from 80 mhz at the high end for wave 1 to 160 mhz 80 80 bonded channels.
This page compares 11n vs 11ac vs 11ad to provide difference between 11ac wave1 and 11ac wave2 802 11 standards.
Compares the ieee 802 11ac wave 1 and wave 2 standards to 802 11n.
Includes details about technical capabilities as well as upgrade migration considerations.
Describes how 802 11ac wave 2 is a business enabler.
Industry standard security wpa2 personal four gige lan ports.
8 9 from mid 2013 the alliance started certifying wave 1 802 11ac products shipped by manufacturers based on the ieee 802 11ac draft 3 0 the ieee standard was not finalized until later that year.
Even if the throughput was 50 lower than the theoretical phy rate for wave 2 in theory it would still be above 1 gbps.
Additionally the portal is mesh ready which allows an additional portal unit inside a single home to create a signal strength that s faster and offers more than three times the coverage of the single unit.
The 802 11ac 2013 update or 802 11ac wave 2 is an addendum to the original 802 11ac wireless specification that utilizes mu mimo technology and other advancements to help increase theoretical maximum wireless speeds from 3 47 gbps in the original spec to 6 93 gbps in 802 11ac wave 2.
The wi fi alliance separated the introduction of ac wireless products into two phases wave named wave 1 and wave 2.
Wave 1 phy rate maxes out at 1 3 gbps while wave 2 can be 2 34 gbps.
Also mentions how cisco and the wi fi alliance are involved with the 802 11ac specification.
Whether you re implementing wave 1 or wave 2 the bottom line is that 802 11ac of any generation offers considerable improvements over older legacy products.
It is a 802 11 family of standard which is developed to deliver high data rate and it extends capability of 11a b g n standards.
Higher speed with up to 2 3 gbps 1 7 gbps in the 5 ghz range multi user multiple input multiple output mu mimo support for better use of frequency.
Moving up to 160 mhz is good for bandwidth since it is similar to adding more lanes on a highway.
Concurrent 2 4 ghz and 5 ghz frequency band 3 to 4 tx rx antenna for each frequency band with up to 4 logical data streams 802 11ac wave 2 wifi chipsets with higher processing power.
Wave 2 of the 802 11ac standard builds upon wave 1 with the following key additional functionalities.