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®smate-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