Hi all,
Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere but I haven’t been able to figure out the right search query to find what I’m looking for. I recently purchased gigabit fiber for my home and started evaluating some options for replacing a combo firewall/router/wireless appliance to some dedicated appliances for each.
It got me wondering about the speed of the connectivity inside of these combo devices. I’m probably oversimplifying but I would think the wireless radios must connect by integrated circuit to the routing and switching chipsets in the device for data plane processing/forwarding. Are those connections just as fast or faster than what the radio provides?
For comparison, thinking about the connection path of a separate physical access point: there’s a certain speed clients connect over to the AP, the AP itself has an uplink port(s), and that connects to a port on a switch. Ideally all of those physical connection pieces are greater than or equal to the bandwidth the AP can support for wireless so that you’re not creating bottlenecks across the LAN.
If anyone has thoughts or could point me to some resources, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!
Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere but I haven’t been able to figure out the right search query to find what I’m looking for. I recently purchased gigabit fiber for my home and started evaluating some options for replacing a combo firewall/router/wireless appliance to some dedicated appliances for each.
It got me wondering about the speed of the connectivity inside of these combo devices. I’m probably oversimplifying but I would think the wireless radios must connect by integrated circuit to the routing and switching chipsets in the device for data plane processing/forwarding. Are those connections just as fast or faster than what the radio provides?
For comparison, thinking about the connection path of a separate physical access point: there’s a certain speed clients connect over to the AP, the AP itself has an uplink port(s), and that connects to a port on a switch. Ideally all of those physical connection pieces are greater than or equal to the bandwidth the AP can support for wireless so that you’re not creating bottlenecks across the LAN.
If anyone has thoughts or could point me to some resources, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!