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linkis we're here in the lynis suite where Matthew is going to be telling us
about the product refresh that they are bringing to the market this is pretty
much the the the first real generational move in Wireless since we went from G to
n is that correct that is absolutely correct so show us the the the Beast of
all beasts the ac750 sure so we actually have an ac750
in the market today but what we're doing with this refresh through the spring and
availability you'll be later in the spring is we're going to buffer it up
and take a little bit more uh Power behind this and give you a USB 3.0 port
and the capabilities of our new AC routers through the spring as well are
also going to have of the specification of AC which includes beam forming
technology are you I'm assuming you know what beam forming is lus why don't you
explain it to me and the viewers okay sounds great I would say that beam
forming is going to take uh let's use the light bulb analogy if you turn on a
light bulb it would give you coverage throughout your entire home if you had
to turn on a flashlight it would give you directional coverage towards where
you're aiming it same idea with beam forming technology it's going to take
the antenna configuration and it's going to send the Wi-Fi signal directly to
those devices throughout the home so obviously you're going to get faster transfer rates and you're going to have
a better experience so tell me two things number one is do the antennas
have to physically move and number two is how does it know where your devices
are so no the antennas are not going to move that's part of the specification
built into it and your second question was how does it know where the devices
are it is going out looking for the devices pinging those devices once it's
established the connection beam forming starts to do its work and that's how
you're going to see the benefit so it's going to have to have multiple antennas if it's going to have any idea where
something is located is that correct correct and these all three of our routers that you see in front of you
right now these are all 3x3 antenna configuration routers on the AC side
okay very cool so I mean something that our viewers may or may not have picked
up from that is USB 3 is not only going to you know look blue and sexy on the
back of the router but what it's also going to do is it's going to allow you to take advantage of that AC transfer
speed with a network attached storage device that can be something as simple
as a plain old external usb3 hard drive
so let's go ahead and put this one down because this is probably going to be
pretty expensive so maybe not every viewer can afford the super uber premium
one so why don't you tell us about the ac600 sure so the the biggest difference
between the two and it's pretty straightforward Linus and viewers
obviously is that uh we're taking you from ac750 to
ac600 so what we're doing is we're still going to give you the great speeds on
the 5 gig Spectrum at 1300 megabits per second but but on 2.4 instead of 450
megabits per second we're going to take you down to 300 so again you're still
going to get pretty good 300 megabits per second speeds on 2.4 but still have
1300 megabits per second on the five the other difference that we'll notice here
we've also taken one of the USB ports away so we're going to give you USB 3.0
but not that additional USB 2.0 Port
okay so you still get to take advantage of the fast AC transfer speeds for your
network attached storage but just you don't have that other auxiliary report
that is absolutely correct okay now this guy over here has like a green box and
sort of is smaller than the other ones what is the key difference between the
ea6300 and the other two that we just looked at sure so again we're going to
go back and look at the speed and what this is going to do for you this is the
entry level in our AC lineup 300 megabits per second on the 2.4 867 on
the 5 GHz Spectrum so when you put it together you're upwards to ac200 as a
combined speed so again it's just a little bit less speed on the AC Spectrum
but if you need more you easily take yourself up the line and choose the right product for you again on the back
USB 3.0 Port 4 gig Land one gig Wan very
straightforward okay now here is here is
sort of the trick now AC is still not
that prevalent out there so we're going to move actually sorry diesel we're going to move this way a little bit so I
actually tested on uh on my YouTube channel I took a uh a USB you know
unnamed you know competitor D say for example uh an unnamed USB stick that was
ac200 and I put that up against a wireless
n450 uh not some other USB stick competitor T say for example um what we
discovered was that the 450 was actually dramatically faster than the AC USB
stick so if the USB sticks aren't there yet and they're not ready to take
advantage of the speed um can you show us what you guys have to allow customers
to actually use the AC gigabit Wireless
yeah it it's absolutely a great point lineus and you hit it right on the head so what we did when we launched our
ac750 skew into the marketplace in the
spring of 20 or sorry the fall of 2012 is we launched the universal Media
connector alongside it's a single band four port AC Media connector so for the
customer that is buying any one of the spring routers coming up or the one
that's currently in Market you're now going to be able to transfer up to 1300
megabits per second wirelessly from router to Bridge and any one of those
four devices that are plugged in so we looked at that as an opportunity to say
let's bring not only the router to Market but let's give him a corresponding Media connector to do the
job that we know AC can do so I mean that was a bit of a I I led him on on
that one a little bit because I already knew that the Media connector just
absolutely destroys both the n450 and
the USB AC stick and we we actually tested one of those as well so it was
something along the order of about four or five times faster than either of the
other Solutions so uh I think think that pretty much wraps it up for our CES 2013
coverage of the link is Suite thanks again Matthew for joining us thanks lus
for having us and guys as always don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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