Cisco Aironet Access Point Deployment Guide
Figure 52: MCS: Two Spatial Stream Bonded Channel Supports up to 300 Mbps
Unlike the AP 3500, the newer AP 3600 supports 3SS with twice as many transmitters (four per band), which enables faster data rates of up to 450 Mbps. There is an extra radio for redundancy and enhanced performance both upstream and downstream. The AP 3600 can also beamform to 3SS clients. The AP 2600 is similar, but the redundant radio is for upstream (as it is a receive only); the redundant radio is unable to beamform to 3SS clients but can beamform at the other non‐3SS rates.
The dual‐band design of the AP 3600 offers a total of eight transceivers (transmitter/receivers) using only four antennas. (See Figure 53.) Four radios are used in each band, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
Figure 53: AP 3600: Four Transmitters and Four Receivers per Radio Band
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