Aruba AP-series Wi-Fi access points

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2021: AP-635 AP View

On May 28, 2021, the company Aruba announced the creation of a portfolio of 6E standard corporate solutions Wi-Fi and announced its representative - AP-635, a campus access point of the 630 series. The development in Wi-Fi technology - Wi-Fi 6E - determines the operation of Wi-Fi devices in the 6 GHz band, which Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in April 2020 opened for use in without USA the need for licensing as part of the expansion of Wi-Fi technology.

Opening the 6 GHz band more than doubles the amount of radio frequency spectrum available for Wi-Fi. This allows you to reduce the load of radio broadcasting, increase the width of channels and increase the speed of data transmission, which will ensure the introduction of many innovations in various sectors of the economy.

Aruba Wi-Fi 6E solutions are part of Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), a cloud platform based on artificial intelligence created to automate, combine and secure Edge systems.

Using Aruba's Wi-Fi 6E products, consumers get increased 6 GHz band capacity with wider channels and significantly reduced interference along with maximum aggregated throughput 3,9 Gb/s to support bandwidth and latency sensitive services and applications such as like HD video, next-generation unified communications, augmented and virtual reality, Internet of Things, and cloud computing. Moreover, thanks to ultra-three-band filtering capabilities that minimize interference between the 5 and 6 GHz bands, companies will be able to efficiently use the entire frequency spectrum of the dedicated band.

Moving along the path of digital transformation, we constantly add more and more IoT devices to our network and switch to wireless Wi-Fi connection as the main network connection. We are often asked to ensure that students, professors and other employees can use a wide range of important bandwidth-intensive applications that support research, HyFlex training, and entertainment - for example, streaming video, video conferencing, augmented, and virtual reality, "says Mike Ferguson, network administrator and corporate architect at Chapman University. - We are confident that Aruba's Wi-Fi 6E hotspots will not only support our immediate needs, but also provide opportunities for development. This will help meet the needs of our users, increase our competitiveness and extend the life cycle of the deployed network by 50%.

The main characteristics of the Aruba 630 series access point for May 2021 are:

• Coverage in three 2.4/5/6 GHz bands with 3.9 Gb/s aggregated data rate and ultra-three-band filtering to minimize interference.
• Up to seven 160MHz channels in the 6GHz band to improve support for latency and bandwidth-sensitive applications such as HD video, augmented and virtual reality.
• Supports the IEEE 802.3at standard to provide power over an Ethernet cable (PoE) and, as a result, does not need to replace existing power supplies.
• Improved security with WPA3 and Enhanced Open for strong password and data protection.
• Flexible fault tolerance with two 1-2.5 Gb/s HPE Smart Rate Ethernet ports switched from one port to another for data and power transmission without interrupting services.
• Ensure performance and improve reliability of latency and bandwidth sensitive applications by dynamically allocating and configuring frequency resources.
• Cloud, controller, or uncontrolled modes of operation for campus, branch, and remote desktop deployments.

Aruba 630 series access points will be available in the 3rd calendar quarter of 2021.