What you need to know about 802.11AC

The appetite for wireless bandwidth is seemingly insatiable. Fifteen years ago, the first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed.   As a result, greater wireless throughput and denser networks of wireless access points (APs) are needed to satisfy burgeoning bandwidth demand, driving the development of a 1Gbps WLAN standard, called "802.11ac: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands Below 6 GHz."   Also known as "Gigabit Wi-Fi," 802.11ac, this new standard is expected to deliver a data rate connection of at least three times that of 802.11n and offer dramatic improvements in Wi-Fi reliability, throughput and range.   This presentation will provide an overview of this new standard, providing an overview of the business and technical implications and what it means for the education sector.