Site Preparation and Planning
Parameter
Antenna gain without
ClientLink
(Beamforming)
Antenna gain with
ClientLink
(Beamforming)
15 40-MHz channel bonding in 2.4 GHz is not applicable. Therefore, the maximum data rate is 144 Mbps.
16 Composite power is the power when we have two Tx streams enabled in AP1552.
17 1552 has 3 dB better receiver sensitivity when compared to 1520 series APs.
Note
AP1552 has almost the same antenna gain with ClientLink (Beamforming) as compared to AP1522s.
There is no 20-MHz channel bonding available in the 2.4-GHz band to get the 40-MHz channel as we
only have 3 nonoverlapping channels. The maximum data rate that we can achieve in 2.4 GHz is 144
Mbps.
For the 5-GHz band, 1520s and 1552s have almost the same Tx power, but 1552s have approximately 4 dB
better Rx sensitivity because of the availability of MRC in 5 GHz (see
for the 5-GHz band in -A Domain, on page
Table 20: Link Budget Comparison for the 5-GHz band in -A Domain
Parameter
Frequency Band
Air Interface
Channel Bandwidth
No. of Tx Spatial Streams
PHY Data Rates
Tx Power Conducted
Rx Sensitivity
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Cisco 1552 (-A domain)
Cisco 1522 (-A Domain)
3 dual-band
5.5 dBi or 8 dBi
omnidirectional antenna
omnidirectional
1552 E/H: 4 dBi each
1552 C/I: 2 dBi each
(3-element low profile
Radom)
8 dBi or 6 dBi
5.5 dBi or 8 dBi (No BF)
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Cisco 1552 (-A Domain)
Cisco 1522 (-A Domain)
5745-5825 MHz
5745-5825 MHz
802.11a/n
802.11a
20 MHz, 40 MHz
20 MHz
2
1
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 54 Mbps
28 dBm, Composite
28 dBm
–92 dBm at 6 Mbps
–88 dBm at 6 Mbps
–76 dBm at 54 Mbps
–73 dBm at 54 Mbps
18
–72 dBm at 300 Mbps
Cisco Mesh Access Points, Design and Deployment Guide, Release 7.3
Cell Planning and Distance
Comments
Table 20: Link Budget Comparison
Comments
Center Frequencies
Maximum power, data
rate dependent
Includes 4.7 dB MRC
gain for AP1552
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