IEEE 802.11ac is part of the 802.11 wireless standard. It covers high throughput wireless local area networks (WLAN) in the 5 GHz band. The R&S®SMBV-K54
- Support for all mandatory physical layer modes
- Very high throughput (VHT) frames with 20 MHz, 40 MHz and 80 MHz transmission bandwidth
- VHT preambles and signal fields
- Frame block sequencer for alternating legacy (11a/b/g), 11n or 11ac frames in one ARB waveform
- Binary convolutional coding (BCC)
- Space time block coding
- Cyclic shift diversity (CSD)
- MIMO modes with 4 transmit antennas
- BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM and 256QAM modulation