352-001 · Question #300
You have been asked to design a high-density wireless network for a university campus. Which three principles would you apply in order to maximize the wireless network capacity? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is B. Choose a high minimum data rate to reduce the duty cycle. C. Make use of the 5-GHz band to reduce the spectrum utilization on 2.4 GHz when dual- band E. Use directional antennas to achieve better sector separation channel reuse.. Maximizing wireless capacity in high-density environments requires reducing airtime consumption, offloading the congested 2.4-GHz band, and improving spatial reuse through directional antenna sectorization.
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You have been asked to design a high-density wireless network for a university campus. Which three principles would you apply in order to maximize the wireless network capacity? (Choose three.)
Options
- AIncrease the number of SSIDs to load-balance the client traffic.
- BChoose a high minimum data rate to reduce the duty cycle.
- CMake use of the 5-GHz band to reduce the spectrum utilization on 2.4 GHz when dual- band
- DEnable 802.11ag channel bonding on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz to increase the maximum
- EUse directional antennas to achieve better sector separation channel reuse.
- FImplement a four-channel design on 2.4 GHz to increase the number of available channels.
How the community answered
(20 responses)- A15% (3)
- B70% (14)
- D5% (1)
- F10% (2)
Why each option
Maximizing wireless capacity in high-density environments requires reducing airtime consumption, offloading the congested 2.4-GHz band, and improving spatial reuse through directional antenna sectorization.
Increasing the number of SSIDs adds beacon and management frame overhead on every channel, consuming airtime and reducing capacity rather than improving it.
Setting a high minimum data rate forces low-rate clients (farther from the AP) to associate elsewhere, and ensures connected clients transmit at higher rates, reducing their airtime duty cycle and freeing spectrum for other clients.
Steering dual-band capable clients to the 5-GHz band offloads the severely congested 2.4-GHz spectrum, which has only three non-overlapping channels, and leverages the wider channel availability of 5 GHz.
Channel bonding on 2.4 GHz in a high-density environment is counterproductive because the band only has three non-overlapping 20-MHz channels, and bonding would consume the entire usable spectrum with a single AP.
Directional antennas limit RF propagation to specific sectors, reducing co-channel interference between APs and enabling the same channels to be reused at shorter physical distances, improving overall network capacity.
A four-channel design on 2.4 GHz is not viable because the 2.4-GHz band only supports three non-overlapping channels (1, 6, 11), making a fourth non-overlapping channel impossible.
Concept tested: High-density Wi-Fi capacity design principles
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Mobility/highdwifi.html
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