Product description

The Juniper AP63 is a ruggedized and weather-resistant outdoor Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) access point that delivers fast and reliable Wi-Fi experiences in extremely harsh environments. The AP63 integrates AI for AX capabilities and dynamic virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) antenna array to automate network operation and boost Wi-Fi performance while providing real-time network insights and location services. Managed by the Juniper Mist cloud architecture, the outdoor AP63 is ideal for retail curbside, enterprise campus, public venue, outdoor station, and industrial environments.

While wired and wireless networks are business critical, without the right architecture they can be harder to operate given the sheer number of mobile and IoT devices — not to mention the extensive variety of hardware, operating systems, and applications currently in use. Traditional architectures — highly manual and network-centric — lack the scale, flexibility, and end-to-end visibility required to support modern mobility requirements and the IT departments that manage them.

Juniper AI-Native Network

Juniper Mist brings true innovation to wireless networking with the world’s first AI-Native wireless LAN (WLAN). The Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable, offering unprecedented visibility into the user experience through the use of unique SLE metrics. Proactive, AI-driven automation and a self-healing network replace time-consuming manual tasks, lowering Wi-Fi operational costs and saving substantial time and money.

All operations are managed using the open and programmable microservices that are based on the Juniper Mist cloud architecture. The system delivers maximum network scalability and performance while also bringing DevOps agility to wireless networking and location services .

The Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture

The Juniper Mist cloud-native, AI-driven microservices architecture delivers unparalleled agility, scale, and resiliency to your network. It lowers OpEx and delivers unprecedented insights into network performance, behaviors, traffic patterns, and potential trouble spots by using data science to analyze large amounts of rich metadata collected by the Juniper Access Points .

The HPE enterprise-grade access point family consists of:

• Wi-Fi 6E: AP45 , AP34 , AP24 , and AP64
• Wi-Fi 6: AP43 Series, AP33 , AP32 , AP12 , and AP63 Series

The real-time microservices in Juniper Mist cloud manage all these access points.

Table 1 compares the supported major functions of the Juniper Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 6 access points to help in selecting the most appropriate model(s).

Table 1: Juniper Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 6 Access Points

Juniper Mist Premium Analytics

For Network Teams

• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with Wi-Fi Assurance, Mobile Engagement, and Asset Visibility Subscriptions
• End-to-End Network Visibility
• Orchestrated Networking and Application
• Performance Queries
• Simplified Network Transparency For Business Teams

For Business Teams

• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with Wi-Fi Assurance, Mobile Engagement, and Asset Visibility Subscriptions
• Customer Segmentation and Reporting Based on Visitor Telemetry
• Dwell and Third-Party Reporting for Traffic and Trend Analysis
• Correlation of Customer-Guest Traffic and Trend Analysis

High performance Wi-Fi

The outdoor AP63 Series comprises tri-radio 4x4 802.11ax access points with maximum data rates of 2,400 Mbps in the 5 GHz band and 1,148 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. The third radio functions as a network, location, and security sensor, a synthetic test client radio, as well as a spectrum monitor.

With 802.11ax Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO), and BSS Coloring technologies, the AP63 Series offers performance at unprecedented levels to support new bandwidth-hungry applications and soaring device densities.

AI for AX

With the new features that 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) introduces to boost performance and efficiency, configuring and operating an access point has grown far more complex. HPE automates and optimizes these features with AI for AX capabilities to optimize BSS Coloring, improve data transmission scheduling within OFDMA and MU-MIMO, and assign clients to the best radio to boost the overall performance of the network.

Greater spectral efficiency

OFDMA improves spectral efficiency so that an increasing density of devices can be supported on the network. Density has become an issue with the rapid growth of IoT devices, which often utilize smaller data packets than mobile devices and hence increase the burden and contention on the network. Additionally, BSS Coloring improves the coexistence of overlapping BSSs and allows spatial reuse within a given channel by reducing packet collisions.

Automatic RF optimization

Radio Resource Management automates dynamic channel and power assignment, taking Wi-Fi and external sources of interference into account with a dedicated sensor radio. The AI engine continuously monitors coverage and capacity SLE metrics to learn and optimize the RF environment. A learning algorithm uses hysteresis on a 24-hour window to conduct a sitewide rebalancing for optimal channel and power assignment.

Proactive insight and action

A dedicated, dual-band third radio collects data for HPE patent-pending Proactive Analytics and Correlation Engine (PACE), which uses machine learning to analyze user experiences, correlate problems, and automatically detect their root cause. These metrics are used to monitor SLEs and provide proactive recommendations to ensure problems don’t occur (or are fixed as quickly as possible when they do). This radio also functions as a synthetic test client to proactively detect and mitigate network anomalies.

Improved IoT battery efficiency

By incorporating the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, AP63 access points help extend the battery life of IoT devices, particularly as additional ones join the network.

Dynamic debugging

Constantly monitor services running on the AP63 and send alerts whenever a service behaves abnormally. Dynamic debugging relieves IT of having to worry about an AP going offline or any services running on it becoming unavailable.

Dynamic packet capture

The Juniper Mist platform automatically captures packets and streams them to the cloud when major issues are detected. This saves IT time and effort and eliminates the need for truck rolls with sniffers to reproduce and capture data for troubleshooting.

Marvis Virtual Network Assistant

Marvis is a natural language processing (NLP)-based assistant with a conversational interface that helps with understanding user intent and goals, simplifies troubleshooting, and collects network insights. It uses AI and data science to proactively identify issues, determine the root causes and scope of impact, and gain insights into your network and user experiences. It eliminates the need to manually hunt through endless dashboards and CLI commands.

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About HPE

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