No of client supported per radio on Cisco Access Points?

Hi Experts,
Is their any documentation that lists out the number of clients that can be handled efficiently per radio against a particular model of access points?
The question might appear quite ambiguos considering the fact that the wireless communication works on the principal of air time and shared medium. However still curious to know if latest model of access points make the enhancement any better.
Learnt quite some time back that 1262 WAP supports 15 clients per radio while 3700 would easily do with over 128 client per radio. Not sure on what basis we distinguish this?
Appreciate if someone could share their knowledge on same. Would be grateful if we a pointer to any doc is shown as well giving the comparision.
Thanks and Regards,
Adnan

Hello Scott,
Glad to see your response.
Does this rule of thumb(of 25 APs per radio) applies to all the access points models?
Little confused from document( http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/buyers-guide.html#~indoor ) which lists different client count values against different models. Suppose we are having 600 series of WAP, the doc says it has client count value of 15. So I made my own conclusion that only 15 clients active association is possible at any given instant in time and if the 16th client tries association, it will fail and would be able to succeed only when the already associated client count goes a little under 15.
Can you please throw some light on the document claims?
Thanks,
Muhammed Adnan

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