I’m trying to clarify myself the exact advantages of Advantage APs.
SCHEDULING:
It seems clear that P9 APs with 7.3.6 can do HW scheduling with normal SMs.
THROUGHPUT:
We do NOT use the 2X feature of Advantage APs.
Is the 14Mb throughput achieved only using 2X?
LATENCY:
The only remaining advantage is the lower delay: 6ms instead of 20ms.
Does it really depend on the Advantage software or is it obtained simply with the HW scheduling?
Thanks.
does the advantage do any more pps?
SCHEDULING:
It seems clear that P9 APs with 7.3.6 can do HW scheduling with normal SMs.
But without the lower latency.
THROUGHPUT:
I have cluster wich had sw scheduling, all sm were p8, so no 2x mode. When I got 50 SMs per AP I was begining to feel packet loss at all sites, the latency went up to 100 ms. Hw scehduling solved all problems.
You should use 2x.
LATENCY:
You will have to pay for advantage to get the lower latency.
Advantage AP will handle mor PPS that the regular ones.
this is very nice specially if you have a lot of voip traffic on your network.