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Smart Antenna Key to Overcoming the Ultimate Wi-Fi Challenge
ZyXEL
Communications, a leading provider of secure broadband networking,
Internet access and connected home products, today announced the results
of an independent Wi-Fi performance analysis conducted by the University
of Brescia that reveals that smart antenna technology is the key to
overcoming the biggest hindrance to wireless performance - co-channel
interference. The report found that the ZyXEL 802.11ac Dual Radio Smart
Antenna 3x3 Access point (WAC6503D-S)
outperformed the throughput speeds of competing 802.11ac APs by as much
as 75 percent.
As leading experts in the field of wireless network performance, the
University of Brescia's Wireless Networking Group compared 802.11ac
Wi-Fi APs equipped with and without smart antenna technology from four
leading networking brands: Aruba, Cisco (News - Alert), Ruckus, and ZyXEL. The results
revealed that ZyXEL's Wi-Fi access point delivered the highest total
aggregate throughput of all access points in the test. The complete
report is available at http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/ntw/sa/report.pdf.
Co-channel interference is an unavoidable dilemma of today's fast
evolving 802.11ac technology, simply because the channel width is higher
and the available channels become fewer. This means more Wi-Fi APs are
operating on the same channel and interfering with each other. Reducing
transmission power is an obvious thought, but it results in worse
coverage and dead zones. The research team compared the APs in
co-channel interference environments and found that ZyXEL's WAC6503D-S
outperformed competing APs with as much as 75 percent higher throughput.
"The analysis not only showed the extent to which antenna performance
and co-channel interference impact Wi-Fi performance, but it also
revealed that not all smart antenna technologies are the same,"
explained Shawn Rogers, Marketing Development Manager at ZyXEL. "The
report found that ZyXEL's smart antenna technology actually handled
co-channel interference much better than a competing smart antenna
product. The combined technology and wireless expertise that ZyXEL has
incorporated into the design of the WAC6503D-S enables it to overcome
Wi-Fi challenges more effectively than competing products and makes it
the top achiever in nearly every performance test it is subjected to."
The ZyXEL WAC6503D-S is part of ZyXEL's premium portfolio of 11ac Dual
Radio Unified Pro Access Points and has won a number of industry awards
in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
About ZyXEL:
ZyXEL, a pioneer in IP technology for over two decades and trusted brand
for over 25 years, provides a complete portfolio of multi-service LTE (News - Alert),
fiber and DSL broadband gateways, home connectivity solutions, smart
home devices and enterprise-class Ethernet switches, security and Wi-Fi
equipment for small to mid-size businesses. ZyXEL offers integrated,
interoperable network solutions based on open standards. Headquartered
in Anaheim, California, ZyXEL offers its partners service-rich solutions
backed by a domestic team of logistic, sales, and technical support
professionals.
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