Cisco Aironet 4800 User Manual

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Cisco Aironet 4800 Access Point

Contents

Product overview 3

Features and benefits 3

Product specifications 7

Warranty information 17

Cisco Services 17

Cisco Capital 17

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

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

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MUMIMO) technology

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

The Cisco Aironet™ 4800 Wi-Fi access point is highly versatile and delivers the most functionality of any access point in the industry.

Product overview

The Cisco Aironet 4800 Access Point is packed with an abundance of features that offer users a better experience, top-notch security, and high-speed connectivity. The Aironet® 4800 makes troubleshooting easier and enhances the context shown in Cisco DNA Assurance.

The access point’s functionality is spread out over four internal radios, so these features run simultaneously over your network. The Aironet 4800 expands the current rich capabilities of our current Aironet portfolio (with features such as built-in Flexible Radio Assignment, Hyperlocation, and Bluetooth Low Energy [BLE]) and adds a fourth internal radio to provide rich performance and location and security analytics. With more radios embedded in the access point, your wireless network achieves higher security and data analysis without degrading performance—you’ll never again have to trade security for network performance.

What does this mean?

For starters, having a fourth radio allows the BLE and security monitoring functions to run on their own individual radios, while the other two radios tend to the business of providing exceptional Wi-Fi. This level of visibility provides IT more powerful capabilities to help ensure the user experience for productivity and engagement.

Features and benefits

Feature

Benefit

Multigigabit Ethernet support

Provides uplink speeds of 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps in addition to 100-Mbps and 1-Gbps speeds. All speeds are supported on Category 5e cabling for an industry first, as well as 10GBASE-T (IEEE 802.3bz) cabling.

Intelligent Capture

Intelligent Capture probes the network and provides the Cisco DNA Center with deep analysis. The software can track 240+ anomalies and instantaneously review all packets on demand, emulating the on-site network administrator. With this data, administrators can make more informed decisions on their wireless networks. The software basically “senses” all packets instantaneously and sends all that information back to Cisco DNA Center for deep analysis.

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:

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

● Dual 5-GHz mode: Both radios operate on the 5-GHz band, maximizing the benefits of 802.11ac Wave 2 and increasing

client device capacity.

Hyperlocation

An ultraprecise location solution that combines Wi-Fi and BLE technologies to pinpoint beacons, inventory, and personal mobile devices.

24x7 total security monitoring

Dedicated security monitoring: Dedicates your security radio to scan both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz for Cisco

CleanAir non-Wi-Fi interference, security threats, and rogue devices as they join the network.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Proximity technology to enhance location services for mobile devices.

Four radios

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

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.

Zero-impact Application Visibility and Control*

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

Cisco ClientLink 4.0

Cisco ClientLink 4.0 technology improves 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.

Cisco CleanAir 160 MHz*

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

Cross-access point noise reduction

A Cisco innovation that enables access points to intelligently collaborate in real time regarding RF conditions so that users connect with optimized signal quality and performance.

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.

Automatic link aggregation (LAG) support

802.3ad (Link Aggregation Control Protocol [LACP]) compliant, allowing both Ethernet interfaces to automatically enable LAG, increasing overall throughput to the access point.

Cisco Mobility Express

Flexible deployment mode through the Cisco Mobility Express solution is ideal for high-density environments and can support up to 100 access points. Easy setup allows the Aironet 4800 to be deployed on networks without a physical controller.

Feature

Benefit

Access point as a Cisco DNA Assurance Active Sensor

Provides proactive network monitoring, detecting network issues before your user does.

Apple features

Apple and Cisco have partnered to create an optimal mobile experience for iOS devices on corporate networks based on Cisco technologies. Using new features in iOS 10, in combination with the latest software and hardware from Cisco, businesses can now more effectively use their network infrastructure to deliver an enhanced user experience across all business applications.

At the center of the collaboration is a unique handshake between the Cisco WLAN and Apple devices. This handshake enables the Cisco WLAN to provide an optimal Wi-Fi roaming experience to Apple devices. Additionally, the Cisco WLAN trusts Apple devices and gives priority treatment for business-critical applications specified by the Apple device.

After First Customer Shipment (FCS).

The capabilities of the new Aironet 4800 include features that the competition can’t measure up to. From the built-in Intelligent Capture that provides enhanced issue detection and root cause analysis to on-demand, real-time troubleshooting to in-service access point monitoring with packet capture, the Aironet 4800 protects the network like no other. Want proof? Intelligent Capture is two to three times faster than the competition in client location tracking and client onboarding and is three to five times faster when it comes to client RF stats.

An integrated radio for Hyperlocation provides more granular data by enabling device monitoring and tracking to within 3 meters—the best in the industry. With such pinpoint accuracy, you can say goodbye to equipment that mysteriously disappears from the office. How? Hyperlocation allows for historical monitoring of asset location. If a tagged device disappears, you can go back and figure out when it left the area.

Hyperlocation can also help your employees and guests find their way through your building with the app-enabled indoor wayfinding and navigation features. These features enable a mobile client to query its own location for indoor wayfinding. In addition, an app can be created that will provide a Point Of Information (POI) and detect when the user is present.

Another great use for Hyperlocation is location analytics. You can get information on devices, dwell time, and path analytics, among other data, for any device that connects to your network. By combing this data with Operation Insights, you can make better business decisions while maintaining an always-on, always-available user experience. For instance, you can determine that one part of the office is never being used at certain times, and take advantage of this knowledge by making sure the lights are off, thus reducing energy use and saving money.

Before the Hyperlocation feature was embedded in the Aironet 4800, there was no way get this feature on a Cisco 802.11ac Wave 2 access point.

With a radio dedicated solely to security, the Aironet 4800 is a sentry designed to stop any rogue agents attempting to gain access to your network, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This dedicated radio constantly monitors the wireless network, looking

for anything that can cause a threat. And with the radio’s ability to pinpoint causes for concern less than 3 meters away, you know you’re getting security that finds the little things before they can grow into big problems. The Aironet 4800 protects the

network while predicting and responding to issues and threats faster.

The Aironet 4800 also offers real-time troubleshooting. It does this by sniffing and decrypting live traffic using one of the

access point’s four radios. Similarly, due to the device’s live monitoring of critical radio statistics, such as MU-MIMO, data rates, channel utilization, and others, it’s able to quickly detect many types of wireless security threats. These capabilities, together

with monitoring of critical assets such as Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), packet retry, and more, are examples of how the Aironet 4800 access point focuses on the health of your network.

The Aironet 4800 does more than guard the network. It also detects issues and the causes of poor client performance. Solving roaming issues and finding root causes for poorly performing clients such as “sticky clients” are handled by tracking pre- and post-associated radio behavior via client scanning.

When the Aironet 4800 is paired with Cisco DNA Center with Assurance, a whole host of features open up for the network. For example, once an issue is discovered, the network administrator is able to go back in time (up to 7 days) and investigate the root cause of the problem. From there, suggested actions are offered to fix the issue.

802.11ac Wave 2 and beyond

The Aironet 4800 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 Aironet 4800 can handle the job.

The Aironet 4800 supports 802.11ac Wave 2, providing a theoretical connection rate of up to 5.2 Gbps—that’s roughly four times the rate 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.

Cisco DNA support

Pairing the Aironet 4800 access points with the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (Cisco DNA) allows for a total network transformation. Cisco DNA allows you to truly understand your network with real-time analytics, quickly detect and contain security threats, and easily provide networkwide consistency through automation and virtualization. By decoupling network functions from the hardware, you can build and manage your entire wired and wireless network from a single user interface.

Working together, the Aironet 4800 and Cisco DNA offer such features as:

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Flexible Radio Assignment

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Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences

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Cisco High Density Experience

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Fast Lane

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Cisco Identity Services Engine

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And much more

The result? Your network stays relevant, becomes digital ready, and is the lifeblood of your organization.

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