DATA SHEET
ARUBA 303H HOSPITALITY ACCESS POINT
High-performance 802.11ac Wave 2 access point for hospitality and branch oces
The multi-functional Wave 2 303H access
point delivers best-in class Wi-Fi connectivity
for hospitality and branch oces, enabling an
always-on user experience with low Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO).
With a maximum concurrent data rate of 867Mbps in the
5GHz band and 400Mbps in the 2.4GHz band, the 303H AP
delivers high-performance Gigabit Wi-Fi for hospitality
and branch environments at an attractive price point. It
supports multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) and 2 spatial
streams (2SS) to provide simultaneous data transmission for
up to 2 devices, maximizing data throughput and improving
network eciency.
The 303H AP can be easily mounted to a standard data
wall-box using the existing structured cabling system or
converted to a desk mounted AP using an optional mounting
kit. It is ideal for schools (dormitories, classrooms), hotels,
medical clinics, branch oces and remote workstations
which often require exible and easy deployment options.
Single-gang wall-box (primary hospitality deployment)
The 802.11ac Wave 2 303H AP combines wireless and
wired access in a single compact device. Three local Gigabit
Ethernet ports are available to securely attach wired devices
to your network. One of these ports is also capable of
supplying PoE power to the attached device.
Like all other Aruba Wave 2 APs, the 303H AP includes the
enhanced ClientMatch™ technology that extends the client
steering technology with MU-MIMO client awareness. It
automatically identies MU-MIMO capable mobile devices
and steers those devices to the closest MU-MIMO capable
Aruba access point to achieve the best WL AN performance
in a mixed device environment during the technology
transition period.
The integrated Bluetooth Aruba Beacon in the 303H AP
simplies the remote management of a large scale network
of battery-powered BLE Aruba Beacons while also providing
advanced location and indoor waynding, and proximity-
based push notication capabilities.
Desk mount (primary remote/branch deployment, using optional desk
mount accessory)
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UNIQUE BENEFITS
Two devices in one
• The 303H ships with everything you need to deploy as
a wall-mounted (hospitality) AP, attaching directly to a
standard single-gang data wall-box. The 303H can also be
easily converted to a desk mounted (remote) AP, using an
optional accessory stand.
Unied AP – deploy with or without controller
• The 303H can be deployed in either controller-based
(ArubaOS) or controllerless (InstantOS) deployment mode.
Dual Radio 802.11ac access point with Multi-User
MIMO (Wave 2)
• Supports up to 867Mbps in the 5GHz band (with
2SS/VHT80 clients) and up to 400Mbps in the 2.4GHz
band (with 2SS/VHT40 clients).
Built-in Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) radio
• Enables location-based services with BLE-enabled mobile
devices receiving signals from multiple Aruba Beacons at
the same time.
• Enables management of your deployment of battery-
powered Aruba Beacons.
Advanced Cellular Coexistence (ACC)
• Minimizes the impact from out-of-band interference from
sources such as 3G/4G cellular networks.
• The 303H can be congured to provide part-time or
dedicated air monitoring for spectrum analysis and
wireless intrusion protection, VPN tunnels to extend
remote locations to corporate resources, and
wireless mesh connections where Ethernet drops are
not available.
Security
• Integrated wireless intrusion protection offers threat
protection and mitigation, and eliminates the need for
separate RF sensors and security appliances.
• IP reputation and security services identif y, classify,
and block malicious les, URLs and IPs, providing
comprehensive protection against advanced
online threats.
• Integrated Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for secure
storage of credentials, certicates and keys.
Intelligent app visibility and control
• AppRF technology leverages deep packet inspection to
classify and block, prioritize or limit bandwidth for over
2,500 enterprise apps or groups of apps.
Quality of service for unied communication apps
• Supports priority handling and policy enforcement for
unied communication apps, including Microsoft Skype
for Business with encrypted videoconferencing, voice,
chat and desktop sharing.
Intelligent Power Monitoring (IPM)
• Enables the AP to continuously monitor and report
its actual power consumption and optionally make
autonomous decisions to prioritize capabilities when
power budget is limited.
• For the 303H, the IPM power-save feature applies when
the unit is powered by an 802.3af or 802.3at POE source.
By default, the USB interface will be the rst feature to
be turned off by IPM if the AP power consumption would
otherwise exceed the available power budget. Specic
power-saving options are programmable with IPM.
RF Management
• Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) technolog y
automatically assigns channel and power settings,
provides airtime fairness and ensures that APs stay clear
of all sources of RF interference to deliver reliable, high-
performance WLANs
CHOOSE YOUR DEPLOYMENT AND
OPERATING MODES
Aruba Unied APs offer a choice of deployment and
operating modes to meet your unique management and
deployment requirements:
• The 303H AP is a unied AP that supports both
controller-based and controllerless deployment modes,
providing maximum exibility
• Controller-based mode: When deployed in conjunction
with an Aruba Mobility Controller, Aruba APs offer
centralized conguration, data encr yption, policy
enforcement and network services, as well as distributed
and centralized trac forwarding.
• Controllerless (Instant) mode: The controller function
is virtualized in a cluster of APs in Instant mode. As
the network grows and/or requirements change,
Instant deployments can easily migrate to controller-
based mode.
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• Remote AP (RAP) mode for branch deployments
• Air monitor (AM) for wireless IDS, rogue detection
and containment
• Spectrum analyzer, dedicated or hybrid, for identifying
sources of RF interference
• Secure enterprise mesh
For large installations across multiple sites, the Aruba
Activate service signicantly reduces deployment time by
automating device provisioning, rmware upgrades, and
inventory management. With Aruba Activate, APs in Instant
mode can congure themselves when powered up.
303H ACCESS POINT SPECIFICATIONS
• Unied dual-radio 802.11ac Wave 2 2x2:2 hospitality and
branch AP with internal antennas, three local Gigabit
Ethernet ports, PoE out and USB host interface
• Supports wall-box and desk mount deployments
WI-FI RADIO SPECIFICATIONS
• AP type: Indoor, dual radio, 5GHz 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO and
1
2.4GHz 802.11n 2x2 MIMO
• Software-congurable dual radio supports 5GHz (Radio 0)
and 2.4GHz (Radio 1)
• 5GHz: Two spatial stream Multi User (MU) MIMO for up
to 867Mbps wireless data rate to up to two (1x1 VHT80)
MU-MIMO capable client devices simultaneously
• 5GHz: Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up
to 867Mbps wireless data rate to individual 2x2 VHT80
client devices
• 2.4GHz: Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up
to 400Mbps wireless data rate to individual 2x2 VHT40
client devices (300Mbps for HT40 802.11n client devices)
• Support for up to 256 associated client devices per radio,
Supported frequency bands (country-specic
restrictions apply):
- 2.400 to 2.4835GHz
- 5.150 to 5.250GHz
- 5.250 to 5.350GHz
- 5.470 to 5.725GHz
- 5.725 to 5.850GHz
• Available channels: Dependent on congured
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: Orthogonal frequency-division
multiplexing (OFDM)
• Supported modulation types:
- 802.11b: BPSK, QPSK, CCK
- 802.11a/g/n/ac: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM,
256-QAM
• Transmit power: Congurable in increments of 0.5 dBm
• Maximum (conducted) transmit power (limited by local
regulatory requirements):
- 2.4GHz band: +18 dBm per chain, +21 dBm
aggregate (2x2)
- 5GHz band: +18 dBm per chain, +21 dBm
aggregate (2x2)
- Note: conducted transmit power levels exclude antenna
gain. For total (EIRP) transmit power, add antenna gain
• Advanced Cellular Coexistence (ACC) minimizes
interference from cellular networks
• Maximum ratio combining (MRC) for improved
receiver performance
• Cyclic delay/shift diversity (CDD/CSD) for improved
downlink RF performance
• Short guard interval for 20MHz, 40MHz and
80MHz channels
• Space-time block coding (STBC) for increased range and
improved reception
• Low-density parity check (LDPC) for high-eciency error
correction and increased throughput
• Transmit beam-forming (TxBF) for increased signal
reliability and range
• Supported data rates (Mbps):
- 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11
- 802.11a/g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
- 802.11n (2.4GHz): 6.5 to 300 (MCS0 to MCS15)
- 802.11n (5GHz): 6.5 to 450 (MCS0 to MCS23)
- 02.11ac: 6.5 to 867 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS = 1 to 2
for VHT20/40/80)
• 802.11n high-throughput (HT) support: HT 20/40
• 802.11ac very high throughput (VHT) support:
VHT 20/40/80
• 802.11n/ac packet aggregation: A-MPDU, A-MSDU
1
256-QAM modulation (802.11ac) supported by the 2.4GHz radio as well
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WI-FI ANTENNAS
• Two integrated dual-band moderately directional
antennas for 2x2 MIMO with maximum individual antenna
gain of 4.2dBi in 2.4GHz and 5.6dBi in 5GHz. Built-in
antennas are optimized for vertical orientation of the AP.
- The horizontal beamwidth is roughly 120 degrees.
Combining the patterns of each of the antennas of the
MIMO radios, the peak gain of the effective per-antenna
pattern is 3.4dBi in 2.4GHz and 4.5dBi in 5GHz.
OTHER INTERFACES
• Uplink: 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45, back)
- Auto-sensing link speed and MDI/MDX
- 802.3az Energy Ecient Ethernet (EEE)
- PoE-PD (input): 48 Vdc (nominal) 802.3af/at PoE
• Local: Three 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45, bottom)
- Auto-sensing link speed and MDI/MDX
- 802.3az Energy Ecient Ethernet (EEE)
- One port: PoE-PSE (output): 48 Vdc (nominal)
802.3af PoE
• Passive pass-through interface (two RJ-45, back
and bottom)
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio
> Up to 4dBm transmit power (class 2) and -93dBm
receive sensitivity
> Integrated antenna with moderately directional
pattern and peak gain of 0.9dBi
• USB 2.0 host interface (Type A connector)
- 3G/4G cellular modems
- Device battery charging port
- Capable of supplying up to 1A/5 watts of power to an
attached device
• DC power interface, accepts 1.35/3.5-mm center-positive
circular plug with 9.5-mm length
• Visual indicators (LEDs):
- Power/system status
- Radio status
- PoE-PSE status
- Local network port status (3x)
• Reset/LED control button (“paperclip access”)
- Factory reset (when activated during device power up)
- LED control: toggle off/normal
• Serial console interface (custom, uUSB physical jack)
POWER SOURCES AND CONSUMPTION
• The AP supports direct DC power and Power over
Ethernet (PoE)
• When both power sources are available, DC power takes
priority over PoE
• Power sources are sold separately
• Direct DC power source: 48Vdc nominal, +/- 5%
• Power over Ethernet (PoE): 48 Vdc (nominal)
802.3af/802.3at compliant source
- Unrestricted functionality with direct DC power.
When using an 802.3af PoE source, the PoE out (PSE)
capability of the 303H is always disabled.
- Without IPM, both the USB port and PoE out (PSE)
capability are disabled when the AP is powered by an
802.3af PoE source, and either the USB port or the
PoE out (PSE) capability is disabled when powered
by an 802.3at PoE source (PSE capability is disabled
by default).
- When using IPM, the AP may enter power-save mode
with reduced functionality when powered by a PoE
source (see details on Intelligent Power Monitoring
elsewhere in this datasheet)
• Maximum (worst-case) power consumption: 9.7W
- Excludes power consumed by external USB and/or
PoE-PD device (and internal losses); this could add up to
6.1W (PoE) for a 5W/1A USB device and up to 15.6W for
a max load (15.4W) 802.3af PoE-PD device
• Maximum (worst-case) power consumption in idle mode:
4.9W (PoE) or 4.8W (DC)
MOUNTING
• The AP ships with a mounting plate to attach the AP to
a single-gang wall-box (most international variations
covered). A security screw (T8H) is provided to ensure that
the AP cannot (easily) be removed from its mount without
a specialized tool.
• Several optional mount kits are available to attach the AP
to a dual-gang wall-box, directly to the wall, or to support
desk mounting.
ENCRYPTED THROUGHPUT
• Maximum IPsec encrypted wired throughput: 100Mbps
MECHANICAL
• Dimensions/weight (unit, including single-gang wall box
mount plate):
- 86mm (W) x 40mm (D) x 150mm (H)
- 310g
• Dimensions/weight (shipping):
- 128mm (W) x 63mm (D) x 168mm (H)
- 470g
ENVIRONMENTAL
• Operating:
- Temperature: 0° C to +40° C (+32° F to +104° F)
- Humidity: 5% to 93% non-condensing
• Storage and transportation:
- Temperature: -40° C to +70° C (-40° F to +158° F)
REGULATORY
• FCC/Industry of Canada
• CE Marked
• R&TTE Directive 1995/5/EC
• Low Voltage Directive 72/23/EEC
• EN 300 328
• EN 301 489
• EN 301 893
• UL/IEC/EN 60950
• EN 60601-1-1 and EN 60601-1-2
For more country-specic regulatory information and
approvals, please see your Aruba representative.
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RELIABILITY
• MTBF: 1,090,000 hours (124 years) at +25C
operating temperature
REGULATORY MODEL NUMBER
• AP-303H-xx (all variants): APINH303
CERTIFICATIONS
• CB Scheme Safety, cTUVus
• UL2043 plenum rating
• Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) certied 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
WARRANTY
• Aruba limited lifetime warranty
MINIMUM SOFTWARE VERSIONS
• ArubaOS™: 6.5.2.0/8.2.0.0
• InstantOS™: 6.5.2.0/8.2.0.0
RF PERFORMANCE TABLE
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Maximum transmit power (dBm)
per transmit chain
Receiver sensitivity (dBm)
per receive chain
2.4 GHz
802.11b
1 Mbps 18.0 -96.0
11 Mbps 18.0 -88.0
802.11g
6 Mbps 18.0
54 Mbps 16.0 -74.0
802.11n HT20
MCS0/8
MCS7/15
802.11n HT40
MCS0/8 18.0 -87.0
MCS7/15 14.0
18.0 -90.0
14.0 -71.0
-91.0
-69.0
5 GHz
802.11a
6 Mbps 18.0
54 Mbps 16.0 -73.0
802.11n HT20
MCS0/8
MCS7/15
802.11n HT40
MCS0/8 18.0 -87.0
MCS7/15 14.0
802.11ac VHT20
MCS0 18.0 -90.0
MCS8 13.0 -67.0
802.11ac VHT40
MCS0 18.0 -87.0
MCS9 12.0 -62.0
802.11ac VHT80
MCS0 18.0 -84.0
MCS9 12.0 -59.0
18.0 -90.0
14.0 -71.0
-90.0
-68.0
Table shows the maximum capability of the hardware provided (excluding antenna gain). Maximum transmit power is limited by local regulatory settings.
ANTENNA PATTERN PLOTS
Horizontal or azimuth plane (looking at the top of the AP, front facing up)
2.45 GHz 5.5 GHz
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Elevation plane 0 (looking at the side of the AP, front facing to the right)
2.45 GHz 5.5 GHz
Elevation plane 90 (looking at the front of the AP)
2.45 GHz 5.5 GHz
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ORDERING INFORMATION
Part Number Description
303H Series Access Points
JY678A Aruba AP-303H (RW) Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY679A Aruba AP-303H (RW) FIPS/TAA Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY680A Aruba AP-303H (US) Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY681A Aruba AP-303H (US) FIPS/TAA Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY682A Aruba AP-303H (JP) Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY683A Aruba AP-303H (JP) FIPS/TAA Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY684A Aruba AP-303H (IL) Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY685A Aruba AP-303H (IL) FIPS/TAA Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY862A Aruba AP-303H (EG) Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
JY863A Aruba AP-303H (EG) FIPS/TAA Dual-radio 802.11ac 2x2 Unied Hospitality AP with Internal Antennas
Mount Kits
JY686A AP-303H-MNT1 Kit with Spare Single-gang Wall-box Mount Adapter for 303H Series AP
JY687A AP-303H-MNT2 Kit with Optional Dual-gang Wall-box Mount Adapter for 303H Series AP
JY689A AP-303H-MNTD Kit with Optional Desk Mount Adapter for 303H Series AP
JY688A AP-303H-MNTW Kit with Optional Wall Mount Adapter for 303H Series AP
Cosmetic Covers
JY973A AP-303H-CVR-20 20-pk for AP-303H with Holes for LED Indicators White Non-glossy Snap-on Covers
Power Accessories
JW627A PD-3501G-AC PoE midspan injector, 10/100/1000 802.3af (15.4W)
JW629A PD-9001GR-AC PoE midspan injector, 10/100/1000 802.3at (30W)
JX991A AP-AC-48V36C AC-to-DC Power Adapter (48V/36W)
Other Accessories
JY728A AP-CBL-SERU Micro-USB TTL3.3V to USB2.0 AP Console Adapter Cable
JW072A AP-CBL-ETH10 10-pk Short Ethernet Cable
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