Huawei Access Point

Description

Huawei AP4030DN and AP4130DN are cost-effective wireless access points that support 802.11ac Wave 1, 2 x 2 MIMO, and two spatial streams. They provide comprehensive service support capabilities and feature high reliability, high security, simple network deployment, automatic Access Controller (AC) discovery and configuration, and real-time management and maintenance, which meet network requirements. The APs comply with 802.11n and 802.11ac protocols and can provide gigabit access for wireless users. This high capacity greatly improves user experience on wireless networks. They are recommended for small- to medium-sized enterprises, airports and stations, sports stadiums, coffee shops, and recreation places.

802.11ac Wave 1 standards compliance, delivering services simultaneously on 2.4G and 5G radios; 300 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz; 867 Mbit/ s at 5 GHz; and 1.167 Gbit/s for the device.
ˉ PoE power supply in compliance with IEEE 802.3af/at for easy installation.
ˉ Support for High Density Boost, delivering industry-leading multi-user performance.
ˉ User access control based on user group policies, supporting up to 256 access users.
ˉ Fat AP and Fit AP working modes.
ˉ AP4030DN: uses built-in omnidirectional antennas with 4 dBi gain at 2.4 GHz radio and 6 dBi gain at 5 GHz radio.

802.11ac GE access
Huawei APs use the latest-generation 802.11ac chip with the highest performance and strongest coverage capability. They support the 80MHz bandwidth mode. Frequency bandwidth increase brings extended channels and more sub-carriers for data transmission, and a 2.16 times higher rate. With 2 x 2 MIMO support, the APs make a major leap in Wi-Fi access from 100M to GE.
High Density Boost technology
Huawei uses the following technologies to address challenges in high-density scenarios, including access problems, data congestion, and poor roaming experience:

• Interference suppression
ˉ Huawei’s Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) optimization technology reduces the possibility of air port resources shared by multiple devices, allows higher user access, and improves the throughput.
• Air port performance optimization
ˉ In high-density scenarios where many users access the network, the increased number of low-rate STAs consumes more resources on the air port, reduces the AP capacity, and lowers user experience. Therefore, Huawei APs will check the signal strength of STAs during access and reject access from weak-signal STAs. At the same time, the APs monitor the rate of online STAs in real time and forcibly disconnect low-rate STAs so that the STAs can reassociate with APs that have stronger signals. Terminal access control technology can increase air port use efficiency and allow access from more users.
• 5G-prior access
ˉ The APs support both 2.4G and 5G frequency bands. The 5G-prior access function enables an AP to steer STAs to the 5 GHz frequency band first, which reduces load and interference on the 2.4 GHz frequency band, improving user experience.
• Load balancing between APs
ˉ After the load balancing function is enabled, the AC distributes users evenly to APs based on user quantity and traffic volume. Traffic load is therefore balanced among APs to ensure stable AP performance.
• Smart roaming
ˉ Smart roaming technology is based on the 802.11k and 802.11v technologies and allows STAs to connect to APs with stronger signals, improving user experience and the overall performance of the wireless network.
Wired and wireless dual security guarantee
To ensure data security, Huawei APs integrate wired and wireless security measures and provide comprehensive security protection.
• Authentication and encryption for wireless access
ˉ The APs support WEP, WPA/WPA2–PSK, WPA/WPA2–802.1x, and WAPI authentication/encryption modes to ensure security of the wireless network. The authentication mechanism is used to authenticate user identities so that only authorized users can access network resources. The encryption mechanism is used to encrypt data transmitted over wireless links to ensure that the data can only be received and parsed by expected users.
• Analysis on non-Wi-Fi interference sources
ˉ Huawei APs can analyze the spectrum of non-Wi-Fi interference sources and identify them, including baby monitors, Bluetooth devices, digital cordless phones (at 2.4 GHz frequency band only), wireless audio transmitters (at both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands), wireless game controllers, and microwave ovens. Coupled with Huawei eSight, the precise locations of the interference sources can be detected, and the spectrum of them displayed, enabling the administrator to remove the interference in a timely manner.
• Rogue device monitoring
ˉ Huawei APs support WIDS/WIPS, and can monitor, identify, defend, counter, and perform refined management on the rogue devices, to provide security guarantees for air interface environment and wireless data transmission.
• AP access authentication and encryption
ˉ The AP access control ensures validity of APs. The CAPWAP link protection and DTLS encryption provide security assurance, improving data transmission security between the AP and the AC.

• Automatic radio calibration
ˉ Automatic radio calibration allows an AP to collect signal strength and channel parameters of surrounding APs and generate AP topology according to the collected data. Based on interference from authorized APs, rogue APs, and non-Wi-Fi interference sources, each AP automatically adjusts its transmit power and working channel to make the network operate at the optimal performance. In this way, network reliability and user experience are improved.
Automatic application identification
Huawei APs support smart application control technology and can implement visualized control on Layer 4 to Layer 7 applications.
• Traffic identification
ˉ Coupled with Huawei ACs, the APs can identify over 800 common applications in various office scenarios. Based on the identification results, policy control can be implemented on user services, including priority adjustment, scheduling, blocking, and rate limiting to ensure efficient bandwidth resource use and improve quality of key services.
• Traffic statistics collection
ˉ Traffic statistics of each application can be collected globally, by SSID, or by user, enabling the network administrator to know application use status on the network. The network administrator or operator can implement visualized control on service applications on smart terminals to enhance security and ensure effective bandwidth control.

Technical specifications

Interface type
1 x 10/100/1000M self-adaptive Ethernet interface (RJ45, PoE) 1 x Management console port (RJ45)

LED indicator
Indicates the power-on, startup, running, alarm, and fault status of the system.

Power specifications

Power input
• 12 V DC ± 10%
• PoE power supply: –48 V DC (in compliance with IEEE 802.3af/at)

Maximum power consumption
10.2 W NOTE The actual maximum power consumption depends on local laws and regulations.

Environmental specifications

Operating temperature
–10oC to +50oC
Storage temperature
–40oC to +70oC
Operating humidity
5% to 95% (non-condensing)
Dustproof and waterproof grade
IP41
Altitude
–60 m to +5000 m
Atmospheric pressure
70 kPa to 106 kPa

Radio specifications

Antenna type
AP4030DN: built-in antennas (horizontal beamwidth 360°) AP4130DN: external dual-band antennas

Antenna gain
• AP4030DN: 4 dBi (2.4 GHz); 6 dBi (5 GHz)
• AP4130DN: 2.5 dBi (2.4 GHz); 4 dBi (5 GHz)

Maximum number of VAPs for each radio
16

Maximum number of users
≤ 256

Maximum transmit power
20 dBm NOTE The actual transmit power depends on local laws and regulations.

Power increment
1 dBm

Receiver sensitivity
2.4 GHz 802.11b (CCK): –101 dBm @ 1 Mb/s; –89 dBm @ 11 Mb/s
2.4 GHz 802.11g (non-HT20): –95 dBm @ 6 Mb/s; –79 dBm @ 54 Mb/s
2.4 GHz 802.11n (HT20): –93 dBm @ MCS0; –75 dBm @ MCS7
2.4 GHz 802.11n (HT40): –90 dBm @ MCS0; –73 dBm @ MCS7
5 GHz 802.11a (non-HT20): –95 dBm @ 6 Mb/s; –78 dBm @ 54 Mb/s
5 GHz 802.11n (HT20): –95 dBm @ MCS0; –75 dBm @ MCS7
5 GHz 802.11n (HT40): –92 dBm @ MCS0; –73 dBm @ MCS7
5 GHz 802.11ac (VTH20): –95 dBm @ MCS0NSS1; –72 dBm @ MCS8NSS1
5 GHz 802.11ac (VTH40): –92 dBm @ MCS0NSS1; –67 dBm @ MCS9NSS1
5 GHz 802.11ac (VTH80): –87 dBm @ MCS0NSS1; –62 dBm @ MCS9NSS1

WLAN features
• Compliance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• Maximum rate: 1.167 Gbit/s
• Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC)
• Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD)/Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD)
• Maximum Likelihood Detection (MLD)
• Data unit aggregation, including A-MPDU (Tx/Rx) and A-MSDU (Rx only)
• 802.11 Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)
• Short Guard Interval (GI) in 20 MHz, 40 MHz, and 80 MHz modes
• Priority mapping and packet scheduling based on a Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) profile to implement prioritybased data processing and forwarding
• Automatic and manual rate adjustment (the rate is adjusted automatically by default)
• WLAN channel management and channel rate adjustment
• Automatic channel scanning and interference avoidance
• Service Set Identifier (SSID) hiding, support for SSIDs in Chinese
• Signal Sustain Technology (SST)
• Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery (U-APSD)
• Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) in Fit AP mode
• Automatic access in Fit AP mode
• WDS in Fit AP mode
• Mesh networking in Fit AP mode
• Dual-MPP Mesh networking in Fit AP mode
• Hotspot2.0 in Fit AP mode
• 802.11k and 802.11v smart roaming in Fit AP mode
• Fast roaming (≤ 50 ms)

Network features
• Compliance with IEEE 802.3u
• Auto-negotiation of the rate and duplex mode; automatic switchover between the Media Dependent Interface (MDI) and Media Dependent Interface Crossover (MDI-X)
• SSID-based VLAN assignment
• VLAN trunk on uplink Ethernet ports
• 4094 VLAN IDs (1 to 4094) and a maximum of 16 virtual APs (VAPs) for each radio
• AP control channel in tagged and untagged mixed mode
• DHCP client, obtaining IP addresses through DHCP • Tunnel forwarding and direct forwarding
• STA isolation in the same VLAN
• Multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS) gateway protocol: supports AirPlay and AirPrint service sharing between users of different VLANs
• Access control lists (ACLs)
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• Service holding upon CAPWAP link disconnection in Fit AP mode
• Unified authentication on the AC in Fit AP mode
• AC dual-link backup in Fit AP mode
• Soft Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
• IPv6 Portal • IPv6 Source Address Validation Improvements (SAVI)
• IPv4/IPv6 ACL • Network Address Translation (NAT)
QoS features
• Priority mapping and packet scheduling based on a WMM profile to implement priority-based data processing and forwarding
• WMM parameter management for each radio
• WMM power saving
• Priority mapping for upstream packets and flow-based mapping for downstream packets
• Queue mapping and scheduling
• User-based bandwidth limiting
• Adaptive bandwidth management (the system dynamically adjusts bandwidth based on the number of users and radio environment to improve user experience)
• Airtime scheduling
• Support for Microsoft Lync APIs and high voice call quality through Lync API identification and scheduling

Security features
• Open system authentication
• WEP authentication/encryption
• WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication and encryption
• WPA/WPA2-802.1x authentication and encryption
• WPA-WPA2 authentication
• WAPI authentication and encryption
• WIDS including rogue AP and STA detection, attack detection, STA/AP blacklist and whitelist
• 802.1x authentication, MAC address authentication, and Portal authentication
• 802.11w Protected Management Frames (PMFs)

Maintenance features
• Unified management and maintenance on the AC in Fit AP mode
• Plug-and-Play (PnP) in Fit AP mode: automatic ally going online and loading configurations
• WDS zero-configuration deployment in Fit AP mode
• WMN zero-configuration deployment in Fit AP mode
• Batch upgrade
• Local AP management through the serial port or using Telnet
• Real-time configuration monitoring and fast fault location using the NMS
• System status alarm
• STelnet using Secure Shell (SSH) v2
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) using SSH v2
• Web local AP management through HTTP or HTTPS in Fat AP mode
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3 in Fat AP mode
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Fat AP mode
BYOD
• Identifies the device type according to the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) in the MAC address.
• Identifies the device type according to the User Agent (UA) information in an HTTP packet
• Identifies the device type according to DHCP options.
• The RADIUS server delivers packet forwarding, security, and QoS policies according to the device type carried in the RADIUS authentication and accounting packets.
Location service
• Locates tags manufactured by AeroScout or Ekahau.
• Locates Wi-Fi terminals.

Spectrum analysis
• Identifies interference sources such as baby monitors, Bluetooth devices, digital cordless phones (at 2.4 GHz frequency band only), wireless audio transmitters (at both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands), wireless game controllers, and microwave ovens.
• Works with Huawei eSight to locate and perform spectrum analysis on interference sources.