Greetings, I wanted to share the following YouTube videos that one of our customers sent us. In four part series, cisco representative compare the four vendor's performance in 802.11n. The cisco solution always comes out ahead in every case, no surprise.
If anyone has an updated competitive comparisons using AP7131N that you can share, it would be greatly helpful.
802.11n Performance - Testing Setup (Part 1 of 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfITpf6VEQ&feature=related
802.11n Performance - Throughput vs. Distance (Part 2 of 4).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5rowgtTSj8&feature=related
802.11n Performance - Coverage (Part 3 of 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGm6KtUErI&feature=related
802.11n Performance - Capacity Test (Part 4 of 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5iHbASH9s
Thanks,
Afshin
2 Replies
Hi, Recently we did throughput testing on AP7131N with RFS7K switch, here are the results,
RFS7K: 4.1.0.0-042R
AP7131N Tri- Radio: 4.0.1.0-019R
Single Intel 5300 abgn client card
11an radio is used
Chariot High Performance script with TCP protocol
WLAN Type: Down Stream UP Stream
Extended 45 Mbps 165 Mbps
Independent 165 Mbps 195 Mbps
With Regards, Channareddy
If you watch the vedio real close you will see what Cisco is doing, they have enternal Omni antennas on their AP while they are using the Facade antenna on the AP7131 instead of external Omni antennas on ours as well. THe Facade antenna has a rating of 3dBi on 2.4 and 5dBi on 5GHz, while the Dual Band Dipole antenna has a rating of 6dBi on 2.4 and 7dBi on 5GHz. Here are some important points: 1. Different antennas were used on the Cisco AP and the Motorola AP7131 which invalidates their results. 2. While testing in a so called "clean environment" they did not porvide real word results in a noisy enviroment. 3. THey did no show any of the setting of the access points which could result in the tests favoring their access point. In summary the tests they performed is totally invalid as it does not provide enough information on configuration, they used different antennas and they did no provide a real word test environment.