My customer has a serious question and doubt in Aruba AP's receiver sensitivity comparing to our competitor. They already understand the benefit of Client-Match. But Receiver sensitivity will be another criteria to deploy AP to coverage large of user.
My customer is Mobile Service Operator which looking AP to do WIFI-Offloading. They install AP around 40,000+ AP per year in public area. So the receiver sensitivity is their big issue.
Comparing between AP215 and Cisco 2700, example.
on 802.11ac-40MHZ, MCS9, our sensitivity is -61 dB, Competitor is - 69 dB. We have 8 dB gap
on 802.11n-5Ghz-40MHz MCS7, our sensitivity is -69 dB, Competitor is -75 dB. we have 6 dB gap
So how should i response to my customer about this parameter which is write on our Datasheet?
Does our datasheet is wrong ? or it provides too few information due to they grouping MCS7,15,23?
on 802.11n-5Ghz-40MHz MCS23, our sensitivity is -69 dB, Competitor is -71 dB. we are a litte bit improve ?
What is the result in the real environment ? How much it affect on coverage? 6 dB mean 4 times of power drop?
Please kindly help me to figure out this. Thank you in advance