HP HPE MSM-802.11n User Manual
HPE MSM-802.11n Dual
Radio Access Point Series
Data sheet
Key features
• First three-spatial stream MIMO AP in the industry
• Up to 450 Mb/s per radio on MSM460 and MSM466/MSM466-R access points
• Support for a range of indoor and outdoor antennas for the MSM466 and outdoor MSM466-R
access points
• Comprehensive WLAN security
• Indoor APs include Limited Lifetime Warranty
Product overview
Working in unison with HPE controllers, the HPE 802.11n Dual Radio Access Point Series
delivers high-performance networking solutions. The enhanced controller architecture scales
to IEEE 802.11n without requiring a controller replacement. The controller provides advanced
radio resource management (RRM), including client load balancing and interference mitigation.
The HPE wireless controllers support a fast-roaming capability—an important feature,
especially for VoIP communications.
The access points can be used in managed as well as autonomous mode without a controller.
The access points provide RF spectrum analysis with detection and classification of non-IEEE 802.11
interference and have the ability to automatically avoid interference. Wireless security is comprehensive
with integrated Wireless IDS and support for internal and external authentication, authorization,
and accounting (AAA) servers; built-in stateful firewall; per-user VLAN mapping; and authentication.
In addition to working with the HPE MSM controllers, these access points work with the
HPE 10500/7500 20G Unified Wired-WLAN Module, the HPE 800 Series Unified Wired-WLAN
Controllers and Switches, and the HPE WX5002/5004 wireless controllers.
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Features and benefits
Management
• Wi-Fi Clear Connect
provides a system-wide approach to improving WLAN reliability by proactively determining
and adjusting to changing RF conditions; helps optimize WLAN performance by detecting
interference from Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi sources using spectrum analysis capabilities built into
the access points, identifying rogue activity and making decisions at a system-wide level
• Advanced radio resource management
– Automatic radio power adjustments
include real-time power adjustments based on changing environmental conditions and
signal coverage adjustment
– Automatic radio channel
provides intelligent channel switching and real-time Interference detection
– Intelligent client load balancing
determines number of clients across neighboring APs and adjusts client allocation to
balance the load
– Airtime fairness
provides equal RF transmission time for wireless clients
• Spectrum analysis
– Power/frequency spectrum analysis
measures noise from IEEE 802.11 remote sources
– Signal detection/classification
identifies source of RF interference, for example, Bluetooth®, cordless phones, and microwave ovens
– Evaluation of channel quality
helps detect severe channel degradation and improve the reporting of poor RF performance
• Integrated IDS
detects and locates unknown and rogue devices (see controller datasheet for details)
• Access point management
provides secure Web browser (SSL and VPN), command-line interface, SNMP v2c, SNMP v3,
MIB-II with traps, and RADIUS Authentication Client MIB (RFC 2618); oers embedded HTML
management tool with secure access (SSL and VPN); implements scheduled configuration
and firmware upgrades from a central controller
• HPE Intelligent Management Center and Wireless Services Manager Software
provides central management for discovery, logging, status, and configuration management
• Diagnostics
records association, authentication, and DHCP events in client event log; packet capture tool
for Ethernet and IEEE 802.11 interfaces (PCAP format); includes data rate matrix
• Enhanced AP survivability
continues to operate using the old IP address while the AP searches for a new controller
• Compatible with HPE WLAN Controllers, HPE Unified Switches and Modules
– Refer to the HPE Access Point—Controller Compatibility Matrix at
h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA5-0345ENW&cc=us&lc=en
– Refer to the release notes for minimum version numbers required.
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Quality of Service (QoS)
• Rate limiting
supports per-wireless client ingress-enforced maximums and per-wireless client, per-queue
guaranteed minimums
• Centralized traic
maintains Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS settings when using centralized traic or guest access
• IEEE 802.1p prioritization
delivers data to devices based on the priority and type of traic
• Wireless
– L2/L3/L4 classification
supports IEEE 802.1p VLAN priority, SpectraLink SVP, and DiServ
– Multiple SSIDs per radio
Wi-Fi MultiMedia (WMM), IEEE 802.11e EDCF, and Service-Aware priority
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and 2013 Qualified
Qualified in the Microsoft Lync Server Wi-Fi interoperability program to ensures that products
comply with Microsoft’s guidelines for voice and video quality of service (QoS) delivery
• SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) support
prioritizes SpectraLink voice IP packets sent from a SpectraLink NetLink SVP server to
SpectraLink wireless voice handsets to help ensure excellent voice quality
Connectivity
• IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) support
simplifies deployment and dramatically reduces installation costs by helping to eliminate the
time and cost involved in supplying local power at each access point location
• Auto-MDIX
adjusts automatically for straight-through or crossover cables on the Ethernet interface
Mobility
• Three spatial stream MIMO technology
provides the latest in Wi-Fi technology, which allows for 450 Mb/s of signaling per radio;
delivers potentially more than a 50 percent increase in performance over any two spatial
stream product
• Beamforming
provides better coverage area and better performance at distances from the AP
• Bandsteering
redirects 5 GHz-capable clients automatically to the less-congested 5 GHz spectrum
• Concurrent operation in the 5 GHz band
provides the ability to run both radios in the 5 GHz band for outstanding performance
(MSM466 and MSM466-R access points only)
• MSM430 and MSM460 AP antennas
provides excellent coverage through use of embedded high-gain antennas (5 dBi antenna
at 2.4 GHz and 7 dBi antenna at 5 GHz); no need for the added cost of external antennas
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• MSM466 and MSM466-R access points
– External antenna options
– MSM466 access point includes six indoor RP-SMA connectors; MSM466-R access point
includes six outdoor standard N connectors
– Two indoor ceiling mount antennas
provide good coverage when embedded antennas are not an option
– Outdoor IP67-rated antennas
enhances point-to-point, multipoint, mesh, and outdoor coverage; two omnidirectional and
two directional MIMO antennas are weatherproof IP67 tested
• Anywhere, anytime wireless coverage
includes dual-radio IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n and 802.11a/n access points; per-radio software-selectable
configuration of frequency bands; self-healing, self-optimizing local mesh that extends network
availability; Wi-Fi Alliance Certifications for interoperability with all IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n client
devices; and IEEE 802.3af PoE
• Medical standards
meets the European EN60601-1-2 standard for healthcare
• Multiple SSIDs per radio
– Up to 16 SSIDs per radio, each with unique MAC address, configurable SSID broadcasts
– Individual security and QoS profiles
– Configurable DTIM and minimum data rate
– Each mapped to separate IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
– WMM and/or WMM-PS
– Security filter
• AP client access control functions
– oers IEEE 802.1X authentication using EAP-SIM, EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, and PEAP
– delivers MAC address authentication using local or RADIUS access lists
– provides RADIUS AAA using EAP-MD5, PAP, CHAP, and MS-CHAPv2
– supports RADIUS Client (RFC 2865 and 2866) with location-aware support
– provides Layer 2 wireless client isolation
Security
• Integrated IDS support
– Automated AP and client classification
reduces manual eort (administrator can override AP classification)
– Comprehensive detection capabilities
detects a wide range of attacks
– Flexible event reporting
enables configuration of which events will result in notifications
– Location tracking capabilities
helps identify the rogue device location
– Flexible deployment models
supports time slicing or dedicating a radio to detect full-time
– see the controller datasheet for more detail
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• IEEE 802.1X suppor t
provides port-based user authentication with support for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
MD5, TLS, TTLS, and PEAP with choice of AES, TKIP, and static or dynamic WEP encryption
for protecting wireless traic between authenticated clients and the access point
• Choice of IEEE 802.11i, WPA2, or WPA
locks out unauthorized wireless access by authenticating users prior to granting network access;
robust Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) or Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption
secures the data integrity of wireless traic
• TKIP/WEP encryption
is supported only on legacy IEEE 802.11a/b/g clients as it has been deprecated from the
IEEE 802.11n standard
• Local wireless bridge client traic filtering
prevents communication between wireless devices associated with the same access point
Additional information
• RFC support
refer to the controller datasheet for specific RFCs and other industry standards supported
• TAA-compliant versions available
for U.S. government manufactured sales requirements, order the TAA variant of the MSM430,
MSM460, and MSM466 access point (all MSM466-R units are TAA approved)
Warranty and support
• Limited Lifetime Warranty
See hpe.com/networking/warrantysummary for warranty and support information included
with your product purchase.
• 1-year Warranty
See hpe.com/networking/warrantysummary for warranty and support information included
with your product purchase.
• Software releases
to find software for your product, refer to hpe.com/networking/support; for details on the software
releases available with your product purchase, refer to hpe.com/networking/warrantysummary
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