By Jim Burns, Senior Product Engineer
First things first, Multigigabit is Cisco’s marketing terminology for NBASE-T (IEEE...
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By Jim Burns, Senior Product Engineer
First things first, Multigigabit is Cisco’s marketing terminology for NBASE-T (IEEE...
By Jim Burns, Senior Product Engineer
First things first, Multigigabit is Cisco’s marketing terminology for NBASE-T (IEEE 802.3bz). Feel free to do your research on it in the following links; however, there will not be a pop quiz once this blog post is over. So don't worry.
Yeah… blah blah – so what?
OK, the main benefit to Multigigabit is that it’s for switches that have the latest/greatest 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless APs connected to them. The term refers to a port’s ability to connect to devices (like APs) that require more than 1 gig of throughput.
If you really want to get technical, the speeds supported by Cisco’s Multigigabit ports are 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, and 5 Gbps on Cat5e cable, and up to 10 Gbps over Cat6a cabling.
Alright, that’s about enough geek stuff… at this point, you’re probably in one of two camps:
Camp One:
You’ve been thinking about or planning to upgrade your wireless in the near term to the latest 802.11ac Wave 2 APs. If so, COOL!
You’re going to have a state-of-the-art wireless setup that just cries out for Multigig – now you have a clue of what it is and which Cisco products support it. I hope you have the budget to make your dreams come true.
Camp Two:
You’re reading this thinking, "I’m nowhere near upgrading to a wireless setup like that, but I do need to upgrade my switch infrastructure." OK, may I humbly suggest that you don’t chase after Multigig yet. Here’s why:
Remember again that there are literally only a couple of Cisco APs that have the feature. Are you really considering going after those high-end APs?
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