Aruba AP-567 Outdoor 11ax AP, Model: R4W49AOverview:

Weatherproof and temperature hardened, Aruba 560 series access points deliver cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 wireless connectivity in outdoor and environmentally challenging locations.

Purpose-built to survive in the harshest outdoor environments, 560 series can withstand exposure to extreme high and low temperatures, persistent moisture and precipitation, and are fully sealed to keep out airborne contaminants. All electrical interfaces include industrial strength surge protection.

Aruba Wi-Fi 6 access points provide high-performance connectivity for any organization experiencing growing numbers of IoT and mobility requirements. With maximum aggregate on air data rate of 1.49 Gbps (HE80/HE20), they deliver the speed and reliability needed for most environments.

Aruba’s advanced ClientMatch technology and an integrated Bluetooth beacon can help enable Aruba location services.

Features and Benefits:Incredible Efficiency

The 560 Series access points (APs) are designed to optimize user experience by maximizing Wi-Fi efficiency and dramatically reducing airtime contention between clients.

Features include Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA), multi-user MIMO, and cellular optimization. With up to 2 spatial streams, the 560 Series provides reliable connectivity for most any application.

Advantages of OFDMA

OFDMA capability allows Aruba APs to handle multiple Wi-Fi 6 capable clients on each channel simultaneously, regardless of device or traffic type. Channel utilization is optimized by handling each transaction via smaller sub-carriers or resource units (RUs), which means that clients are sharing a channel yet not competing for airtime and bandwidth.

Aruba Air Slice™ for Extended OFDMA Assurance

Initially, APs in controller-less mode (Instant) can provide SLA-grade performance by allocating radio resources, such as time, frequency, and spatial streams, to specific traffic types. By combining Aruba’s Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) and Layer 7 deep packet inspection (DPI) to identify user roles and applications, the APs will dynamically allocate the bandwidth needed. Non-Wi-Fi 6 clients can also benefit. For APs, Air Slice uses Aruba Central for management. Controller-based APs will be supported in a future software release.

Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO)

560 Series APs support downlink MU-MIMO just like Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac Wave 2) APs. The added benefit is the ability to multiply the number of clients that can now send traffic, thus optimizing client-to-AP spatial stream diversity.

Wi-Fi 6 and MU-MIMO Aware Client Optimization

Aruba’s patented AI-powered ClientMatch technology eliminates sticky client issues by placing Wi-Fi 6 capable devices on the best available AP. Session metrics are used to steer mobile devices to the best AP based on available bandwidth, types of applications being used and traffic type – even as users roam.

Aruba Advanced Cellular Coexistence (ACC)

The ACC feature uses built-in filtering to automatically minimize the impact of interference from cellular networks, distributed antenna systems (DAS), and commercial small cell or femtocell equipment.

Intelligent Power Monitoring (IPM)

Aruba APs continuously monitor and report hardware energy consumption. They can also be configured to enable or disable capabilities based on available PoE power – ideal when wired switches have exhausted their power budget.

IoT Platform Capabilities

Like all Aruba Wi-Fi 6 APs, the 560 Series includes an integrated Bluetooth 5 and 802.15.4 radio (for Zigbee support) to simplify deploying and managing IoT-based location services, asset tracking services, security solutions, and IoT sensors. This allows organizations to leverage the 560 Series as an IoT platform, which eliminates the need for an overlay infrastructure and additional IT resources.

Target Wake Time (TWT)

Ideal for IoTs that communicate infrequently, TWT establishes a schedule for when clients need to communicate with an AP. This helps improve client power savings and reduces airtime contention with other clients.

Aruba Secure Infrastructure

The Aruba 560 Series includes components of Aruba’s Zero Trust Security to help protect user authentication and wireless traffic. Select capabilities include:

• WPA3 and Enhanced Open: Support for stronger encryption and authentication is provided via the latest version of WPA for enterprise protected networks.
• Enhanced Open: Offers seamless protection for users connecting to open networks where each session is automatically encrypted to protect user passwords and data on guest networks.
• WPA2-MPSK: MPSK enables simpler passkey management for WPA2 devices – should the Wi-Fi password on one device or device type change, no additional changes are needed for other devices. Requires Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager.
• VPN Tunnels: In Remote AP (RAP) and IAP-VPN deployments, the Aruba 560 Series can be used to establish a secure SSL/IPSec VPN tunnel to a Mobility Controller that is acting as a VPN concentrator.
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM): For enhanced device assurance, all Aruba APs have an installed TPM chip for secure storage of credentials and keys, and boot code.

Simple and Secure Access

To simplify policy enforcement, the Aruba 560 Series uses Aruba’s Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) feature to encapsulate all traffic from the AP to the Mobility Controller (or Gateway) for end-to-end encryption and inspection. Policies are applied based on user role, device type, applications, and location. This reduces the manual configuration of SSIDs, VLANs, and ACLs. PEF also serves as the underlying technology for Aruba Dynamic Segmentation.

High Density Connectivity

Each 560 Series AP provides connectivity for a maximum of 256 associated clients per radio (512 in total). In real-world scenarios, the maximum recommended client density is dependent on environmental conditions.

Flexible Operation and Management

Controller-less (Instant) Mode: In controllerless mode, one AP serves as a virtual controller for the entire network.

Mobility Controller Mode: For optimized network performance, roaming, and security, APs tunnel all traffic to a mobility controller for centrally managed traffic forwarding and segmentation, data encryption, and policy enforcement.

Management Options: Available management solutions include Aruba Central (cloud-managed) or Aruba AirWave – a multi-vendor on-premises management solution. For large installations across multiple sites, APs can be factory-shipped and can be activated with Zero Touch Provisioning through Aruba Central or AirWave. This reduces deployment time, centralizes configuration, and helps manage inventory.

Additional Wi-Fi Features

Each AP also includes the following standards-based technologies:

• Transmit Beamforming (TxBF): Increased signal reliability and range
• Passpoint Release 2: Seamless cellular-to-Wi-Fi carryover for guests
• Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS): Optimized use of available RF spectrum
• Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC): Improved receiver performance for multi-antenna access points.
• Cyclic Delay/Shift Diversity (CDD/CSD): Enable use of multiple transmit antennas
• Space-Time Block Coding (STBC): Increased connection robustness
• Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC): High performance error detection and correction coding for enhanced receiver Variants

  AP-565: Built-in Omni Directional Antennas

  • 5 GHz Antennas: 5.4 dBi
  • 2.4 GHz Antennas: 3.2 dBi
  • BLE/802.15.4 Antennas: 3.3 dBi

  AP-567: Built-in 90°H x 90°V Directional Antennas

  • 5 GHz Antennas: 6.8 dBi
  • 2.4 GHz Antennas: 7.1 dBi
  • BLE/802.15.4 Antennas: 3.0 dBi
  Wi-Fi Radio Specifications

  AP Type: Outdoor Hardened, Wi-Fi 6 dual radio, 5 GHz 2x2 MIMO and 2.4 GHz 2x2 MIMO

  Supported Frequency Bands: 2.4000 GHz to 2.4835 GHz, 5.150 to 5.250 GHz, 5.250 to 5.350 GHz, 5.470 to 5.725 GHz, 5.725 to 5.850 GHz.

  Available Channels: Dependent on configured regulatory domain

  Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) optimizes the use of available RF spectrum.

  Supported Radio Technologies:

  • 802.11b: Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum (DSSS)
  • 802.11a/g/n/ac/ax: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • 802.11ax with OFDMA and 1024-QAM

  Supported Modulation Types: 802.11b - CCK and DSSS; 802.11a/g/n/ac - OFDM; 802.11ax - OFDMA with BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, and 1024-QAM.

  Supported Data Rates (Mbps): 802.11b - 1, 2, 5.5, 11; 802.11a/g - 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54; 802.11n - 6.5 to 600 (MCS0 to MCS31); 802.11ac - 6.5 to 1,733 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS=1 to 4); 802.11ax (2.4 GHz) – 3.6 to 286.8 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS=1, 2); 802.11ax (5 GHz) – 3.6 to 1,200 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS=1, 2).

  Antenna Ports

  AP-565: 4 single band N-Type female connectors

  AP-567: 4 single band N-Type female connectors

  Interfaces

  Eth0: 10/100/1000Base-T auto-sensing Ethernet RJ45 interface

  Eth1: 10/100/1000Base-T auto-sensing Ethernet RJ45 interface (eth1 disabled when Eth0 is using 802.3at PoE)

  USB: USB 2.0 host interface (Type A connector)

  Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Radio: BLE 5.0

  Indicators: Two multi-color LEDs for system and radio status

  Push Button: Reset button

  Mounting: Mounting brackets sold separately

  Enclosure: IP68 rated

  Power

  Power Sources: 802.3at PoE, 802.3af PoE with restricted operation, 12 V DC

  Maximum Power Consumption: 12.9 W

  Environmental

  Operating Temperature: -40°C to +60°C (-40°F to +140°F)

  Storage Temperature: -40°C to +70°C (-40°F to +158°F)

  Operating Humidity: 5% to 93% non-condensing

  Operating Altitude: 3,000 m (10,000 ft)

  Shock and Vibration: ETSI 300-19-2-4 compliant