Introduction
AP-8000 User Guide
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Products Covered in this User Guide
This User Guide details functionality of the following products:
About AP-8000 Dual Radio Wireless Access Point
Proxim’s AP-8000 is 802.11n dual radio wireless Access Point that provides connectivity between wired network and
wireless systems and other devices. The AP-8000 wireless Access Point is a Wi-Fi a/b/g/n certified that supports dual
radio modes in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency band.
With AP-8000, you can achieve higher throughput by increasing the channel width from 20 MHz to 40 MHz thereby
doubling the data rate and by using the MIMO feature. The 802.11n products have incorporated multiple antennas. This
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna technology provides various features, such as spatial multiplexing, short
Guard Interval (GI) for increased range and throughput.
In AP-8000, using the Channel Bonding technique, you can achieve higher throughput by increasing the channel width
from 20 MHz to 40 MHz thereby doubling the data rate.
NOTE:
Wherever “11n” is mentioned, it refers to the Draft 802.11n Version 2.0.
Core Features of AP-8000
Multi-Band MIMO Radios
AP-8000 has multi-band MIMO radios (802.11a/b/g/n) that offers a significant increase in capacity and performance
within a given bandwidth and power.
AP-8000 operates on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. It provides you the flexibility to select a band on which you
would like to operate.
This multi-band MIMO radios can be planned independently as per your network requirements. Using the single MAC
protocol, it operates with multiple frequency layers and this improves the range, coverage, and throughput in both
frequency bands.
802.11n MIMO
AP-8000 supports 3x3 MIMO antennas per radio, thereby improving the communication performance. This offers
significant increase in data throughput and link range without additional band width or transmit power. This is achieved by
high spectral efficiency and link reliability or diversity.
Security
AP-8000 utilizes robust industry-leading security protocols such as WPA and WPA2 to protect sensitive data that is
transmitted over the wireless LAN. You can configure unique security settings for each BSSID according to your network
requirements making it more secure.
Product Description
AP-8000
An Access Point with:
• Dual radios that supports 2.4GHz/5.0GHz
• Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support