Channel Utilization

Channel utilization is a statics that represent the airtime utilization of a particular frequency or channel. The higher the channel utilization, more the traffic transmission. For best performance of the device, it is recommended that the channel utilization is less than 30%.

802.11a offers at least 25 non-overlapping channels on 5 GHz with the US -B domain..

Many products such as Bluetooth, wireless phones, and surveillance cameras use the 2.4 GHz frequencies. The 2.4 GHz band is hence overused and has channel allocation constraints. Vocera recommends that you must consider using the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band for new badge deployments.