3600 Series; Feature Modules For The 3600 Series - Cisco Aironet 1600 Deployment Manual

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Cisco Aironet Access Point Deployment Guide

Figure 4: AP 1600 Models and Eco‐Packs

3600 Series

The Cisco 3600 Series Access Point (AP 3600) targets customers who require support for mission‐critical

applications. The AP 3600 embodies ClientLink 2.0, an innovative antenna technology comprising four

transmit radios and four receive radios called 4X4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and three

spatial stream (3SS) beamforming, together referenced as 4x4:3. ClientLink 2.0 permits speeds up to 450

Mbps via additional Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) data rates 16‐23, while still maintaining IEEE

802.3af (15.4 Watt) Power over Ethernet (PoE) compliance. See the section on "802.11n, Spatial

Streams, and Beamforming" for more on spatial streams.

Feature Modules for the 3600 Series

The WSSI (Wireless Security and Spread Spectrum Intelligence) module adds new functionalty to the AP

3600 to protect customer investment. This optional, add‐on module provides a dedicated monitor radio

to scan the full spectrum, not just the channel on which the AP operates. It offloads complete

monitoring and security services to the monitor module, including CleanAir, WIDS/WIPS, Context‐Aware

Location, Rogue Detection, and Radio Resource Management (RRM). The WSSI module allows for full

spectrum analysis on all channels on both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. It avoids the need to deploy a

separate, dedicated overlay network for full spectrum monitoring and eliminates the need for an extra

cable pull and additional infrastructure costs.

The second available module provides 802.11ac (wave‐1) functionality to the AP 3600. This radio

module operates at 5GHz and allows the AP 3600 to fully support 802.11a/n along with 802.11ac clients.

(Wave‐1) functionality supports a 1.3 Gbps PHY / ~1 Gbps MAC (throughput) using three spatial streams,

80 MHz, 256 QAM. It also supports Explicit Beamforming per the 802.11ac standard. Use of the radio

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