{"id":48,"date":"2019-07-10T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.keenansystems.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:39:57","slug":"do-you-need-multi-gigabit-switches-to-deploy-wi-fi-6-access-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/10\/do-you-need-multi-gigabit-switches-to-deploy-wi-fi-6-access-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need multi-gigabit switches to deploy Wi-Fi 6 access points?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, most business and enterprise-class switches have one-gigabit access ports and there are not many multi gigabit switches yet on the market. The ruckus ICX7150-C10ZP-2X10GR<\/a> is a compact switch that can support 1\/2.5\/5 and 10Gb and also the new PoH power standard with up to 90W per port. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6)<\/a> AP has the potential of more than one-gigabit throughput. Therefore, a 1 GbE access port could now possibly be the bottleneck to performance for Wi-Fi users. So many of the Wi-Fi 6 AP’s released will support up 2.5 Gbit\/s using the multi gigabit ethernet standard NBASE-T<\/strong> \/ 2.5GBASE-T<\/strong>. Basically you can use the same Cat 5e or Cat6 ethernet cabling at higher speeds up to 100 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Wi-Fi 6 AP’s will fall back to standard 1Gbit\/s and usually feature a second 1Gb only port. There are not many Wi-Fi 6 clients out in the world at this point so saturating a 1Gb port would be very difficult with legacy clients. There is no issue with deploying Wi-Fi 6 AP’s using your current gigabit switches and then plan to upgrade to multi-gigabit at a later time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One other thing to plan for is PoE most Wi-Fi 6 AP’s require full power 802.3at or PoE+ like the engenius EWS377AP<\/a> and ruckus R750<\/a> . There are a few like the engenius EWS357AP<\/a> that only need half power 802.3af PoE. And some like the ruckus R730 ultra high density AP<\/a> need PoH for full 8×8 stream function but will fall back to 4×4 streams with PoE+ power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, most business and enterprise-class switches have one-gigabit access ports and there are not many multi gigabit switches yet on the market. The ruckus ICX7150-C10ZP-2X10GR is a compact switch that can support 1\/2.5\/5 and 10Gb and also the new PoH power standard with up to 90W per port. A 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) AP has the … <\/p>\n

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