Cisco Aironet Access Point Deployment Guide
Figure 4: AP 1600 Models and Eco‐Packs
3600 Series
The Cisco 3600 Series Access Point (AP 3600) targets customers who require support for mission‐critical applications. The AP 3600 embodies ClientLink 2.0, an innovative antenna technology comprising four transmit radios and four receive radios called 4X4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and three spatial stream (3SS) beamforming, together referenced as 4x4:3. ClientLink 2.0 permits speeds up to 450 Mbps via additional Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data rates 16‐23, while still maintaining IEEE 802.3af (15.4 Watt) Power over Ethernet (PoE) compliance. See the section on "802.11n, Spatial Streams, and Beamforming" for more on spatial streams.
Feature Modules for the 3600 Series
The WSSI (Wireless Security and Spread Spectrum Intelligence) module adds new functionalty to the AP 3600 to protect customer investment. This optional, add‐on module provides a dedicated monitor radio to scan the full spectrum, not just the channel on which the AP operates. It offloads complete monitoring and security services to the monitor module, including CleanAir, WIDS/WIPS, Context‐Aware Location, Rogue Detection, and Radio Resource Management (RRM). The WSSI module allows for full spectrum analysis on all channels on both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. It avoids the need to deploy a separate, dedicated overlay network for full spectrum monitoring and eliminates the need for an extra cable pull and additional infrastructure costs.
The second available module provides 802.11ac (wave‐1) functionality to the AP 3600. This radio module operates at 5GHz and allows the AP 3600 to fully support 802.11a/n along with 802.11ac clients. (Wave‐1) functionality supports a 1.3 Gbps PHY / ~1 Gbps MAC (throughput) using three spatial streams, 80 MHz, 256 QAM. It also supports Explicit Beamforming per the 802.11ac standard. Use of the radio
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