Extreme Networks AP505i User Manual

Highlights

High Density Environments

- Delivers exceptional end-user
experience even in dense user
environments such as stadiums, large
public venues, convention centers and
school auditoriums.

Connects More Users and
Devices Simultaneously

- Improve user experience and device
performance with 4x4:4 5 GHz and
4x4:4 2.4 GHz, with OFDMA technology.

Data Sheet

ExtremeMobility? AP505i

Latest in Secure Wi-Fi

- Includes the latest WPA3* Wi-Fi security
standard delivering robust protections
for users and IoT devices.

Optimizes RF for the Optimal
User Experience

- ExtremeAI and SmartRF uses AI/ ML
technology to monitor and
automatically adjust Wi-Fi radios to
achieve the best coverage and greatest
client performance, even in dynamic
RF environments.

Integrated Bluetooth for IoT and
Guest Engagement

- Leverage the integrated Bluetooth to
connection to IoT devices with
Thread?or engage loyalty customers
with Apple iBeacon?. Enterprises can
use Google Eddystone? to send
advertisements directly to shoppers,
guests, and conference attendees, even
without a loyalty app pre-installed. This
makes it ideal for businesses to
advertise their app-download pages,
captive portals, or site-specific
information

Adaptive Smart OmniEdge
Management

- ExtremeCloud? delivers a powerful user
experience with simple and secure
network management.

- ExtremeCloud? Appliance is ideal for
campus or private cloud requirements

New Security Lock

- Kensington lock and new security

lock hook

* Available in future softw are release

802.11ax Indoor AccessPoint

Setting New Standards in High-Performance
Enterprise Wi-Fi 6

Product Overview

The mobile revolution is upon us. Enterprises are implementing digital
transformation to connect with users, employees, guests, customers and
IoT devices to help them better understand and manage their business,
improve efficiencies, as well as the experience of their brand to customers
and stock holders. However, today?s Wi-Fi users have higher expectations,
consume more bandwidth, and have less patience with a poor Wi-Fi
experience. This is a challenge for every enterprise, as they struggle to
keep pace with the seemingly exponential growth of Wi-Fi demand and
data hungry applications? until now.

Designed to expand upon the performance improvements delivered with
80 2.11ac wave 2, 802.11ax borrows key technology from cellular to increase
device capacity and improve spectral efficiency, extracting more out of
available Wi-Fi spectrum. Bottom line, 802.11ax will support more users
and IoT devices, providing each the spectrum they require, future proofing
enterprise wireless networks, while minimizing the upgrade fatigue they
have been experiencing to date.

Purpose Built to Meet the Needs of Many

Extreme?s AP505i is a high performance, enterprise class 80 2.11ax access
point at the price/ performance point that is ideal for many verticals,
including; retail, education, hospitality and healthcare. These enterprises
need to support a high density of users and IoT devices, while delivering
an exceptional user experience.

The AP505i is managed by the Smart OmniEdge solution and powered by
the WiNG 7 operating system. WiNG?s legendary distributed architecture
places the intelligence at the edge where it unleashes the true capabilities
and performance of 802.11ax, without bottlenecks and limits. WiNG
incorporates the functionality of a controller in each access point,
enabling network solutions with controller-less solutions using a virtual

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controller that supports up to 64 access points or
distributed solutions comprised of branch sites with up to
256 access points per site. The solution can scale to
25,000 access points and are managed with a simple,
cloud UI and workflow with ExtremeCloud or
ExtremeCloud Appliance for campus and private
cloud networks.

Managing the Complexity of RF

Network managers will appreciate a powerful choice of RF
management for their 80 2.11 networks, with SmartRF or
ExtremeAI. WiNG?s SmartRF, is a robust RF management
system with AI/ ML ?like? functionality. Built on 10 years of
experience across thousands of large scale networks and
millions of access points, SmartRF?s algorithms manage
channels, radios, load balancing, band steering and many
other attributes of the RF.

For enterprises with highly dynamic RF environments,
ExtremeAI is a hosted service which delivers the latest in
AI/ ML technology for RF networks. ExtremeAI monitors
and learns the behavior of all your Smart OmniEdge RF
networks and applies artificial intelligence to auto tune the
network to achieve optimum performance and user
experience. Applied to 802.11ax, this technology will lessen
the workload of network engineers, while ensuring their
network users have the best experience.

The following table provides a brief description of the
various new elements in the 802.11ax standard. To learn
more about 802.11ax, go to: https://www.extremenetworks.
com/are-you-ready-for-802-11ax/

ExtremeCloud and ExtremeCloud Appliance

The AP505i is the latest access point in the Smart
OmniEdge portfolio. Network managers have a choice of
cloud or premise-based solutions; both using the same
UI and workflows. ExtremeCloud is a hosted cloud service,
while ExtremeCloud Appliance is designed for
premise-base solutions of campus and private cloud.
Both support secure zero touch provisioning that
significantly reduces deployment time connectivity via a
single pane of glass for unified management of Extreme
wired and wireless components in your network.

See the ExtremeCloud and ExtremeCloud Appliance data
sheets for details and ordering part numbers.

802.11ax Technology

Whereas prior generations of 802.11n, 802.11ac wave 1 and
2, can be considered generational improvements, each
building on the prior standard, the new PHY technology of
80 2.11ax adds a significant level of new technology which
takes Wi-Fi networks to an entirely new level.

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Specifications

Product Features AP 50 5i

General

Fully-Featured Enterprise Class AP
Number of Wi-Fi Radios 2

Internet of Things (IoT) Radio

MIMO Implementation for High-Performance 11ax, 11ac & 11n 4x4
Number of Spatial Streams 4 per radio

Number of Simultaneous Streams

Maximum Datarate 2.4 GHz Radio 1.148 Gbps (40 MHz)
Maximum Datarate 5 GHz Radio 4.8 Gbps (Full 5 GHz 160 MHz)
Number of SSIDs Supported Per Radio/ Total 8/ 16
Simult aneous Users Per Radio/ Total 256/ 512 Per AP
Mode of Operation Semi-autonomous/Autonomous
Plug and Play Operation/ Zero Touch Deployment

Security and Standards

Centralized Dat a Paths Within Same SSID ?
Application Based Distributed and Centralized Data Paths Within

Same User / Device Session
Simult aneous RF Monitoring and Client Services ?
BYOD / Device Fingerprinting Visibility ?
Application / Layer 7 Visibility and Cont rol ?
In-Channel WIDS ?
In-Channel WIPS ?
Dedicated Multi-Channel WIDS (Guardian Mode) ?
Dedicated Multi-Channel WIPS (Guardian mode) ?
Dedicated Multi-Channel RF Spectrum Analysis and Fingerprinting ?
Locates Devices and Threat s via RF Triangulation ?
Remote Access Point ?

- Dual mode selectable (2.4 GHz with coexistence): Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.1

- Single and Dual mode operation (Classic and Low Power Profiles 802.15.4 -2011)

5 GHz radio:

- Four spatial stream Mult i User (MU) MIMO for up to 4.8 Gbps wireless data rate to up
to four 1 SS or two 2SS HE160 802.11ax DL-MU-MIMO capable client devices
simultaneously (max)*

- Four spatial stream Mult i User (MU) MIMO for up to 2.4 Gbps wireless data rate to up
to four 1 SS or two 2SS HE80 80 2.11ax DL-MU-MIMO capable client devices
simultaneously (typical)*

2.4 GHz radio:

- Four spatial stream Mult i User (MU) MIMO for up to 1.148 Gbps w ireless data rate to
up to four 1 SS or two 2SS HE40 802.11ax DL-MU-MIMO capable client devices
simultaneously (max)*

- Four spatial stream Multi User (MU) MIMO for up to 572Mbps wireless data rate to up
to four 1 SS or two 2SS HE20 802.11ax DL-MU-MIMO capable client devices
simultaneously (typical)*

WPA, W PA2 (AES), W PA3*, 802.11i, 802.1x, IPSec, IKEv2, PKCS #10,

Multiple Operating Modes

X509 DER / PKCS #12, SSL

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