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Cisco 1140 Series Access Point Deployment Guide
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  So, What Exactly Is 11n?
(and resultant latency) as more voice handsets are introduced to a legacy cell. Such limitations erode 
with 11n. The media access layer of 802.11n offers more reliability-even to legacy 11a/b/g 
devices-thanks to the benefits from the physical layer enhancements, multiple antennas, and support for 
additional spatial streams that come from 11n's new radio technology. All this results in transmissions 
getting where they need to go the first time they're sent. Cisco tests show that, with both 11n and legacy 
11a/b/g clients, 802.11 re-transmissions are reduced by half on Cisco’s 802.11n Access Points compared 
to legacy transmissions on legacy access points.
Note
In this document, the term "legacy" refers to all devices that do not support the high throughput rates of 
802.11n. This includes all clients and access points that support 802.11, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a 
PHY types.
The ability to provide reliable connectivity consistently across the entire network is an integral part of 
the radio enhancements of 802.11n. This consistent reliability across time and motion, even in places not 
before reachable (due to nulls, signal muddling, and other negative effects of multipath), means that 11n 
finally brings predictability to the Wi-Fi world. In-house testing shows that the Aironet 1140 Series 
access point reduces variation in client latencies and retries by half.
So, What Exactly Is 11n?
802.11n comprises a number of features that come together to give the spec its increased performance, 
reliability, and predictability. Put basically, these gains are achieved via radio enhancements, MIMO 
antenna technology, and enhancements to the 802.11 MAC.
Radio Enhancements
There are two important parts to the PHY (physical layer) augmentations of 802.11n that give the new 
standard the ability to deliver better raw data rates and, thus, higher application speeds. Both parts are 
conceptually straightforward. The most obvious enhancement is that the new 802.11n PHY supports 
much faster data rates, along with support for legacy 802.11a/b/g speeds. The 11n PHY actually supports 
a very wide array of different speeds, called modulation coding scheme (MCS) rates.