Today the FCC (ID: PY313400246) posted Netgear’s upcoming 802.11ac dual-band access point model WAC120 designed for “high performance for the small office and home office” as described on the datasheet (which has been posted as the current user manual on the FCC's site).
The unit uses the same size case design as the R6100, R6250, R6300v2 routers, except there is no color accent near the bottom of the front of the casing. From the FCC photos it is hard to make out the exact model chips, but I can tell that the 2.4GHz chip is an older Atheros-branded chip (ie- AR9344) and the 5GHz chip is a newer branded Qualcomm-Atheros chip (ie- QCA9882, QCA9892). The WAC120 supports 300Mbps in the 2.4GHz band and 867Mbps in the 5GHz band. Other features include:
The unit uses the same size case design as the R6100, R6250, R6300v2 routers, except there is no color accent near the bottom of the front of the casing. From the FCC photos it is hard to make out the exact model chips, but I can tell that the 2.4GHz chip is an older Atheros-branded chip (ie- AR9344) and the 5GHz chip is a newer branded Qualcomm-Atheros chip (ie- QCA9882, QCA9892). The WAC120 supports 300Mbps in the 2.4GHz band and 867Mbps in the 5GHz band. Other features include:
- 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port
- Internal printed 2dBi gain antennas for both bands
- WDS Point-to-point wireless bridge mode
- WDS point-to-multipoint bridge mode
- Bridge mode
- Mac address filtering
- 1 BSSID
- VPN Pass-through
- Simultaneous bridge/client association
- >125,000 hours MTBF at 122 degrees Fahrenheit
- >375,000 hours MBF at 77 degrees Fahrenheit
- Maximum power consumption of 8.1W
- 3-year hardware warranty
