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Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3

Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 3

What Is High Density Experience? ........................................................................................................................ 4

HDX Features Provided in the Cisco Aironet 2700 and 3700 Series .................................................................... 4

Features of the Cisco High Density Experience with CleanAir Technology ....................................................... 5

Air Quality and Performance Alerts ....................................................................................................................... 5

Map-Based Visualizations ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Security Alerts ....................................................................................................................................................... 5

Mitigation Features ............................................................................................................................................... 5

Extensibility to New Technologies ......................................................................................................................... 6

Features of the Cisco High Density Experience with ClientLink 3.0 Technology .............................................. 7

Why ClientLink 3.0 Technology? ............................................................................................................................ 7

A Few Details on ClientLink 3.0 .............................................................................................................................. 8

ClientLink 3.0 Benefits ............................................................................................................................................ 9

Features of the Cisco High Density Experience with Optimized Roaming Technology .................................. 10

Why Optimized Roaming? .................................................................................................................................... 11

Features of the Cisco High Density Experience with Turbo Performance ....................................................... 12

Why Turbo Performance? ..................................................................................................................................... 12

Dynamic Bandwidth Selection (DBS) - Automatically Choose the Best Channel Width ................................. 14

Flexible Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS): Not All DFS Solutions Are Created Equally ........................... 16

Improved Mitigation of Wi-Fi Interference through Wi-Fi-Triggered Event-Driven Radio Resource
Management (ED-RRM) ......................................................................................................................................... 17

Air Time Fairness (ATF) - Basic Concepts and Goals ........................................................................................ 18

ATF - Behavior ....................................................................................................................................................... 18

Air Time Fairness per SSID ................................................................................................................................... 19

What’s Next with High Density Experience? ....................................................................................................... 21

Legacy Features with High Density Experience ................................................................................................. 22

RRM .................................................................................................................................................................... 22

CCA/RX-SOP ...................................................................................................................................................... 22

DFS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 22

Antennas ............................................................................................................................................................. 22

Band Select ......................................................................................................................................................... 22

VideoStream ....................................................................................................................................................... 22

Conclusions and Summary ................................................................................................................................... 22