Wifi 6 Features

[Learnercisco]

Hi Tech people,

In my Setup i want to know if  WIFI 6 Connectivity is available ton Cisco WLC 5500 ?  if we use 3800 AP with WLC 5500, how can we achieve the WIFI 6 Feature.  what will be the case if Wireless Controller Supports wifi 6 and AP doesnt not.

Cisco is recommending to use 9100 AP for Wifi 6, so is there any Specification hardware requirement for WIFI 6 or simlpy enable this by upgrading Firmware on Controller and AP (in my case WLC5520, AP-3800)

thanks in advance. 

[Leo Laohoo]

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@Learnercisco wrote:

In my Setup i want to know if  WIFI 6 Connectivity is available ton Cisco WLC 5500 ? 

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APs that support 802.11ax (aka WiFi 6) are the Catalyst 9k AP (not to be confused with Catalyst 9k switches).  The Catalyst 9k AP are supported on 8.10.X.X.  

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@Learnercisco wrote:

Cisco is recommending to use 9100 AP for Wifi 6, so is there any Specification hardware requirement for WIFI 6 or simlpy enable this by upgrading Firmware on Controller and AP (in my case WLC5520, AP-3800)

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In order to enable WiFi 6, the number of usable channels go down.  Remember the difficulty of widespread use of 2.4 Ghz in a dense environment because of lack the lack of usable non-overlapping channels?  Same thing with 802.11ax.  

[Scott Fella]

WiFi 6 is only supported on access point hardware starting with the 9100’s. Not other access point Cisco gas is WiFi 6 capable.

[Learnercisco]

Hi Scote Fetta,

Thanks for your reply,

Simply Cisco WLC 5500 Supports WIFI 6 and for Access point we need to replace AP from 3800 to 9100 for fully WIFI 6 deployment

[Scott Fella]

Only the 3504, 5520 and 8540 support v8.9 and v8.10 that is required for the newer access points. Take a look at this guide:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/access_point/feature-matrix/ap-feature-matrix.html#_Toc42781653