Cisco Aironet 2802E User Manual

Data Sheet

Feature

Benefit

802.11ac Wave 2 support

Provides a theoretical connection rate of up to 2.6 Gbps per radio—roughly double the rates offered by today’s high- end 802.11ac access points.

High Density Experience (HDX)

Best-in-class RF architecture, which provides high-performance coverage for a high density of client devices, giving the end user a seamless wireless experience. HDX includes features such as custom hardware in 802.11ac Wave 2 radios, Cisco CleanAir®, ClientLink 4.0, cross-access point noise reduction, and an optimized client roaming experience.

Multiuser Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) technology

Supporting three spatial streams, MU-MIMO enables access points to split spatial streams between client devices, to maximize throughput.

Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points

The Cisco® Aironet® 2800 Series Wi-Fi access points are highly versatile and deliver the most functionality in the industry.

Product Overview

For organizations paving the way for the new 802.11ac Wave 2 standard, the Cisco Aironet 2800 Series is the perfect solution. The access points go beyond getting ready for the new standard, providing the ultimate in flexibility and versatility.

For large enterprise organizations that rely on Wi-Fi to engage with customers, the 2800 Series is a hands-off product that’s intelligent enough to make decisions based on end-device activities and usage. This automation allows you to devote time to other pressing matters, secure in the knowledge that your Wi-Fi network is performing to its utmost potential.

The Aironet 2800 Series is packed with the features and capabilities that have made Cisco the industry leader, at a price point that is ideal for managing wireless growth, capacity, and coverage gaps in dense indoor environments.

Features and Benefits

Feature

Benefit

Flexible Radio Assignment

Allows the access points to intelligently determine the operating mode of serving radios based on the RF environment. The access points can operate in the following modes:

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2.4-GHz and 5-GHz mode: One radio will serve clients in 2.4-GHz mode, while the other serves clients in 5GHz mode.

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Dual 5-GHz mode: Both radios inside the access point operate on the 5-GHz band, maximizing the benefits of

802.11ac Wave 2 and increasing client device capacity.

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Security Monitoring and 5-GHz mode, One radio will serve 5-GHz clients, while the other is scanning the full spectrum for wIPS attackers, CleanAir interferers, and rogue devices.

Dual 5-GHz radio support

Enables both radios to operate in 5-GHz client serving mode, allowing an industry-leading 5.2 Gbps (2 x 2.6 Gbps) over-the-air speeds while increasing client capacity.

Smart antenna connector

An intelligent second physical antenna connector is included on 2800 Series models with an external antenna. This connector provides advanced network design flexibility for high-density and large open-area environments such as auditoriums, convention centers, libraries, cafeterias, and arenas/stadiums, allowing two sets of antennas to be connected and active on a single access point.

160-MHz channel support

Supporting channels up to 160 MHz wide, Dynamic Bandwidth Selection allows the access point to dynamically switch between 20-, 40-, 80-, and 160-MHz channels, depending on the RF channel conditions, providing the industry’s best-performing wireless network.

Optimized access point roaming

Helps ensure that client devices associate with the access point in their coverage range that offers the fastest data rate available.

Zero Impact Application Visibility and Control*

Uses dedicated hardware acceleration to improve the performance of line-speed applications such as Application Visibility and Control.

Auto Link Aggregation (LAG) support

802.3ad (LACP) compliant, allowing both Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to automatically LAG, increasing overall throughput to the access point.

ClientLink 4.0

Cisco ClientLink 4.0 technology to improve downlink performance to all mobile devices, including one-, two-, and three-spatial-stream devices on 802.11a/b/g/n/ac while improving battery life on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

CleanAir 160 MHz*

Cisco CleanAir technology, enhanced with 160-MHz channel support, provides proactive, high-speed spectrum intelligence across 20-, 40-, 80-, or 160-MHz-wide channels to combat performance problems due to wireless interference.

Available in a future release.

802.11ac Wave 2 and Beyond

The Aironet 2800 Series extends 802.11ac speed and features to a new generation of smartphones, tablets, and high-performance laptops, providing a greater end-user experience. Whether your project involves wholesale changes to your current wireless network or upgrading your legacy Wi-Fi deployments (802.11a/b/g/n/ac wave 1 deployments), the 2800 Series can handle the job.

The 2800 Series supports 802.11ac Wave 2, providing a theoretical connection rate of up to 5.2 Gbps—that’s roughly 4x the rates offered by today’s high-end 802.11ac access points. The boost helps you stay ahead of the performance and bandwidth expectations of today’s mobile worker, who usually uses multiple Wi-Fi devices instead of just one. As such, users are adding proportionally larger traffic loads to the wireless LAN, which has outpaced Ethernet as the default enterprise access network.

High Density Experience

Building on the Cisco Aironet heritage of RF excellence, the 2800 Series access points run on a purpose-built, innovative chipset with a best-in-class RF architecture. This chipset provides a high-density experience for enterprise networks designed for mission-critical, high-performance applications. The 2800 Series is a component of Cisco’s portfolio of flagship, 802.11ac-enabled access points, and delivers a robust mobility experience based on the following product features:

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802.11ac Wave 2 with 4x4 multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) technology supporting three spatial streams. MU-MIMO enables access points to split spatial streams between client devices to maximize throughput.

Item

Specification

Part numbers

Cisco Aironet 2800i Access Point: Indoor environments, with internal antennas

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AIR-AP2802I-x-K9: Dual-band, controller-based 802.11a/g/n/ac

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AIR-AP2802I-xK910: Eco-pack (dual-band 802.11a/g/n/ac) 10 quantity access points

Cisco Aironet 2800i Access Point Configurable: Indoor environments, with internal antennas

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AIR-AP2802I-x-K9C: Dual-band, controller-based 802.11a/g/n/ac, configurable

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AIR-AP2802I-xK910C: Eco-pack (dual-band 802.11a/g/n/ac) 10 quantity access points, configurable

Cisco Aironet 2800e Access Point: Indoor, challenging environments, with external antennas

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AIR-AP2802E-x-K9: Dual-band controller-based 802.11a/g/n/ac

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AIR-AP2802E-xK910: Eco-pack (dual-band 802.11a/g/n/ac), 10 quantity access points

Cisco Aironet 2800e Access Point Configurable: Indoor, challenging environments, with external antennas

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AIR-AP2802E-x-K9C: Dual-band controller-based 802.11a/g/n/ac, configurable

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AIR-AP2802E-xK910C: Eco-pack (dual-band 802.11a/g/n/ac), 10 quantity access points, configurable

Regulatory domains: (x = regulatory domain)

Customers are responsible for verifying approval for use in their individual countries. To verify approval and to identify the regulatory domain that corresponds to a particular country, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/aironet/compliance.

Not all regulatory domains have been approved. As they are approved, the part numbers will be available on the Global Price List.

Cisco Wireless LAN Services

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AS-WLAN-CNSLT: Cisco Wireless LAN Network Planning and Design Service

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AS-WLAN-CNSLT: Cisco Wireless LAN 802.11n Migration Service

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AS-WLAN-CNSLT: Cisco Wireless LAN Performance and Security Assessment Service

Software

Cisco Unified Wireless Network Software Release TBD or later

With two radios built into each access point, the 2800 Series is more versatile than any access point currently on the market. These radios are outfitted with Flexible Radio Assignment, which means that the access points automatically self-optimize to better serve the environment. For example, one of the radios broadcasts its signal on the 5-GHz channel and the other sends out a 2.4-GHz signal. The access point understands the wireless environment and will automatically switch the 2.4-GHz signal to a 5-GHz signal, increasing the reliability of your WiFi use. This setting automatically works in reverse too, the access point recognizes that the RF environment has changed as reverts changes back to its original configuration.

The access point also dynamically changes the radio settings based on the wireless environment. The 2800 Series Wave 2 access point will allow one of the radios to operate in Wireless Security Monitoring mode. Allowing you to detect wireless security threats, interference, and combat rogue access. This valuable information can be culled in an easy-to-understand matrix to inform you about your customers.

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Optimized AP Roaming to ensure that client devices associate with the access point in their coverage range that offers the fastest data rate available.

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Cisco ClientLink 4.0 technology to improve downlink performance to all mobile devices, including one-, two-, and three-spatial-stream devices on 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. At the same time, the technology improves battery life on mobile devices.

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Cisco CleanAir technology enhanced with 160-MHz channel support. CleanAir delivers proactive, highspeed spectrum intelligence across 20-, 40-, and 80-, and 160-MHz* wide channels to combat performance problems due to wireless interference.

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MIMO equalization capabilities, which optimize uplink performance and reliability by reducing the impact of signal fade.

Product Specifications

Item

Specification

Supported wireless LAN controllers

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Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco Wireless Controller Module for ISR G2, Cisco Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) for Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches, Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco Flex® 7500 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco 8500 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco Virtual Wireless Controller

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Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches, Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Switches

802.11n version 2.0 (and related) capabilities

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4x4 MIMO with three spatial streams

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Maximal ratio combining (MRC)

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802.11n and 802.11a/g beamforming

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20- and 40-MHz channels

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PHY data rates up to 450 Mbps (40 MHz with 5 GHz)

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Packet aggregation: A-MPDU (Tx/Rx), A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)

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802.11 dynamic frequency selection (DFS)

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Cyclic shift diversity (CSD) support

802.11ac Wave 1 capabilities

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4x4 MIMO with three spatial streams

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MRC

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802.11ac beamforming

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20-, 40-, and 80-MHz channels

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PHY data rates up to 1.3 Gbps (80 MHz in 5 GHz)

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Packet aggregation: A-MPDU (Tx/Rx), A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)

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802.11 DFS

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CSD support

802.11ac Wave 2 capabilities

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4x4 MU-MIMO with three spatial streams

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MRC

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802.11ac beamforming

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20-, 40-, 80, 160-MHz channels

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PHY data rates up to 5.2 Gbps

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Packet aggregation: A-MPDU (Tx/Rx), A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)

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802.11 DFS

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CSD support

Integrated antenna

Flexible radio (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz)

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2.4 GHz, gain 4 dBi, internal antenna, omnidirectional in azimuth

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5 GHz, gain 6 dBi, internal directional antenna, elevation plane beamwidth 90°

Dedicated 5-GHz radio

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5 GHz, gain 5 dBi, internal antenna, omnidirectional in azimuth

External antenna (sold separately)

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2802e Series access points are certified for use with antenna gains up to 6 dBi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)

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Cisco offers the industry's broadest selection of antennas, delivering optimal coverage for a variety of deployment scenarios

Smart antenna connector

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Available on the 2802e Series access points only

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Requires the AIR-CAB002-DART-R= 2 ft smart antenna connector to RP-TNC connectors to connect a second antenna to the access point

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Required when running the flexible radio as either a second 5-GHz serving radio or Wireless Security Monitoring radio

Interfaces

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2802I/E

◦ 2x100/1000BASE-T autosensing (RJ-45)

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Management console port (RJ-45)

Indicators

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Status LED indicates boot loader status, association status, operating status, boot loader warnings, boot loader errors

Dimensions (W x L x H)

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Access point (without mounting brackets): 2802I: 8.66” x 8.68” x 2.17”, 2802E: 8.66” x 8.77” x 2.50”

Weight

Cisco Aironet 2802i

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3.53 lb (1.6 kg)

Cisco Aironet 2802e

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4.6 lb (2.09 kg)

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