Product Review

The Cisco Aironet 2700 series of Wi-Fi access points (APs) delivers industry-leading 802.11ac performance at a price point ideal for plugging capacity and coverage gaps in dense indoor environments. The Aironet 2700 series extends 802.11ac speed and features to a generation of smartphones, tablets, and high-performance laptops now shipping with the faster, 802.11ac Wi-Fi radios. The Aironet 2700 series supports 802.11ac "Wave 1" in its first implementation, providing a theoretical connection rate of up to 1.3 Gbps. That's roughly triple the rates offered by today's high-end 802.11n APs. The boost helps you stay ahead of the performance and bandwidth expectations of today's mobile worker, who usually uses multiple Wi-Fi devices instead of just one. As such, users are adding proportionally larger traffic loads to the wireless LAN, which has outpaced Ethernet as the default enterprise access network. Building on the Cisco Aironet heritage of RF excellence, the 2700 series APs run on a purpose-built, innovative chipset with a best-in-class RF architecture. This chipset provides a high-density experience for enterprise networks designed for mission-critical, high-performance applications.