Feature Description High-speed wireless performance and range SonicWave access points are based on the 802.11ac Wave 2 standard, which can achieve a PHY rate of up to 2.34 Gbps while maintaining a higher performance level at greater ranges depending on environmental conditions. Enhanced signal quality The 802.11ac standard operates in the 5 GHz frequency band, which has fewer wireless devices competing for airspace and is therefore less prone to signal interference. Increased wireless reliability The increase in bandwidth capacity and greater number of spatial streams combined with 4x4 MU-MIMO and the improved processing offered by 802.11ac, result in more reliable wireless coverage. MU-MIMO MU-MIMO (Multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output) technology enables simultaneously transmission from the access point to numerous wireless clients instead of just one. Band steering Band steering improves the user experience by steering dual-band clients to automatically connect to the less crowded 5 GHz frequency band leaving the more crowded 2.4 GHz frequency for legacy clients. Beamforming Beamforming improves wireless performance and range by focusing the wireless signal on an individual client instead of spreading the data transmission equally in all directions. AirTime Fairness AirTime Fairness distributes air time equally among connected clients, ensuring faster clients get more data in their time while slower clients receive less. FairNet wireless bandwidth allocation FairNet guarantees a minimum amount of bandwidth to each wireless client in order to prevent disproportionate bandwidth consumption by a single user.