[Bloat] wifi AP switching time

[Michael Richardson]

A comment was made a month ago or so about how long it takes wifi APs
to switch from transmitting (unicast) to one station to another.  That
there was quite a large latency here, and that this was one reason that
the AP designers wanted large buffers to accmulate, so that the
switching time could be amortized over a larger number of packets.

I'm looking for a definitive reference to this problem.
Will this be in the 802.11 specification, or is this an inherent problem
in the chipsets, not the physics?

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