Extends the benefits of Wi‑Fi 6

670 series access points are based on the 802.11ax (Wi‑Fi 6) standard, which means that all its efficiency and security enhancements are also available on the 6 GHz band. Wi‑Fi 6 features such as orthogonal frequency−division multiple access (OFDMA), BSS coloring, and more, are fully supported on the HPE Aruba Networking Wi‑Fi 6E access points as well.

Advantages of OFDMA

This capability allows HPE Aruba Networking access points to handle multiple 802.11ax capable customers on each channel simultaneously, regardless of device or traffic type. Channel utilization is optimized by handling each transaction through smaller sub‑carriers or resource units (RUs), which means that customers are sharing a channel and not competing for airtime and bandwidth.

Simplified deployment and operations

HPE Aruba Networking access points can operate as stand−alone access points or with a gateway for greater scalability, security, and manageability. Access points can be deployed using zero touch provisioning—without on‑site technical expertise—for ease of implementation in branch offices and for remote work.

HPE Aruba Networking access points can be managed using cloud‑based or on‑premises solutions for any campus, branch, or remote work environment. With HPE Aruba Networking Central, onboarding, configuring, and provisioning are simpler and require no manual CLI configuration or maintenance windows. Once the access point is plugged in, the device connects and receives its running configuration from the cloud using zero touch provisioning, which allows remote workers and offices to onboard and configure wireless connectivity without any on‑site IT support. HPE Aruba Networking Central licenses are available in 1‑, 3‑, 5‑, 7‑, and 10‑year increments, making it easy to align requirements for AIOps, security, and other desired management features.

Flexible power deployment

Power through PoE 802.3bt (802.3at w/IPM) or for AC or DC power, use outdoor power injector (PD 9501 5GCO AC/DC Outdoor Power over Ethernet [PoE] injectors).

Key Wi−Fi features

Wi Fi 6E

670 series outdoor access points meet the requirements for Wi Fi 6E (802.11ax) for greater efficiency including OFDMA, MU MIMO, and Target Wake Time (TWT) to extend the battery life of devices.

Client optimization

HPE Aruba Networking patented AI powered ClientMatch technology helps eliminate sticky customer issues by steering a customer to the access point where it receives the best radio signal. HPE Aruba Networking ClientMatch steers traffic from the noisy 2.4 GHz band to the preferred 5 GHz or 6 GHz band depending on customer capabilities. HPE Aruba Networking ClientMatch also dynamically steers traffic to load balance access points to improve the user experience.

RF optimization

HPE Aruba Networking AirMatch, a radio frequency optimization technique with machine learning capabilities, aims to dynamically adjust resources like power to improve coverage and potentially reduce coverage gaps.

Reduce interference

Unique advanced cellular coexistence (ACC) uses built in filtering to automatically minimize the impact of interference from cellular networks, distributed antenna systems (DAS), and commercial small cell or femtocell equipment.

Self locating access points

The 670 series access points include built in GPS receivers and fine time measurement (FTM) to allow them to automatically locate themselves accurately within the universal framework of latitude and longitude. As part of location solutions of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, they serve as reference points for customer devices and other technologies using FTM.

Open Locate, an emerging standard that allows access points to share their location over the air and through cloud based application programming interface (APIs), enables mobile devices to locate themselves and applications to support network analytics.

IoT ready

By combining IoT radios with a zero trust network framework, the 670 series outdoor access points can serve as flexible IoT platforms that bolster network security, provide coverage for broad range of IoT devices, and help eliminate the need for network overlays just for IoT devices.

The 670 series access points include integrated high power Bluetooth and 802.15.4 radios for Zigbee support to simplify deploying and managing IoT based location services, asset tracking services, security solutions, and IoT sensors. There are also two USB ports to provide IoT connectivity to a wider range of devices. These IoT capabilities allow organizations to leverage our access points as an IoT transport, which helps eliminate the need for an overlay infrastructure and additional IT resources and can accelerate IoT initiatives.

In addition, TWT establishes a schedule when customers need to communicate with an access point. This helps in improving customer power savings and reducing airtime contention with other customers, which is ideal for IoT.

The Advanced IoT Coexistence (AIC) feature uses built in filtering to allow Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee radios to operate at increased capacity without the impact of interference.

AI powered dynamic power save mode

Access points switch into a dynamic power save mode and automatically wake up at a schedule when connectivity demand arises, reducing power demands and saving money in alignment with the organization’s sustainability initiatives.

Intelligent power monitoring (IPM)

For better insights into energy consumption, HPE Aruba Networking access points continuously monitor and report hardware energy usage. Unlike other vendor’s access points, HPE Aruba Networking access points can also be configured to enable or disable capabilities based on available PoE power—ideal when wired switches have exhausted their power budget. Enterprises can deploy Wi Fi 6E access points and update switching and power at a later date if needed based on their actual usage.

In addition, Target Wake Time (TWT) establishes a schedule for when clients need to communicate with an AP. This helps improve client power savings and reduces airtime contention with other clients, which is ideal for IoT.

The Advanced IoT Coexistence (AIC) feature uses built−in filtering to allow Wi−Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee radios to operate at maximum capacity without the impact of interference.

Key security features

AI customer insights

ML based classification of all customer through customer insights uses deep packet inspection to provide additional context and behavioral information that help ensure devices are receiving proper policy enforcement and continuously monitor for rogue devices.

User and device authentication

Cloud native network access control (NAC) provided by HPE Aruba Networking Central further simplifies how IT controls network access while providing a frictionless experience for end users. Global policy automation and orchestration enables IT to define and maintain global policies at scale with ease, using UI driven, intuitive workflows that automatically translate security intent into policy design and map user roles for employees, contractors, guests, and devices to their proper access privileges.

Intrusion detection

HPE Aruba Networking Central utilizes the Rogue AP Intrusion Detection Service (RAPIDS) to identify and help resolve issues caused by rogue access points and customers. Wired and wireless data is automatically correlated to identify potential threats, thereby strengthening network security and improving incident response processes by reducing false positives.

Web content filtering

Web content classification (WebCC) classifies websites by content category and rates them by reputation and risk score, enabling IT to block malicious sites to help prevent phishing, DDoS, botnets, and other common attacks.

WPA3 and Enhanced Open

As part of Wi Fi 6E (802.11ax), Wi−Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) helps ensure stronger encryption and authentication while Enhanced Open offers protection for users connecting to open networks by automatically encrypting each session to protect user passwords and data on guest networks.

WPA2 MPSK

MPSK enables simpler passkey management for WPA2 devices—should the Wi Fi password on one device or device type change, no additional changes are needed for other devices (requires HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager).

Trusted platform module (TPM)

For enhanced device assurance, all HPE Aruba Networking access points include an installed TPM for secure storage of credentials and keys, and boot code.

Simple and secure access

To improve security and ease of management, IT can centrally configure and automatically enforce role based policies that define proper access privileges for employees, guests, contractors, and other user groups—no matter where users connect on wired and WLANs. Dynamic segmentation helps eliminate the time consuming and error prone task of managing complex and static VLANs, ACLs, and subnets by dynamically assigning policies and keeping traffic secure and separated.

Standards Based Technologies

670 series access points also include the following standards based technologies:

• − Transmit beamforming (TxBF) to increase signal reliability and range
• − Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) to optimize use of available RF spectrum
• − Maximum rate combining (MRC) for improved receiver performance
• − Cyclic delay / shift diversity (CDD/CSD) to deliver greater downlink RF performance
• − Space time block coding (STBC) to increase range and improve reception
• − Low density parity check (LDPC) to provide high efficiency error correction and improve throughput

Wi−Fi antennas

• – HPE Aruba Networking AP−674: Two Nf dual band (2.4/5 GHz) connectors (chains DB0 + DB1), two Nf 6GHz connectors (chains 6G0 + 6G1), one Nf 2.4Ghz IoT connector (5dBi antenna included), and one Nf GPS/GNSS connector (30dBi antenna included)

  • • Worst−case internal loss between radio interface and external antenna connector should be 0.8 dB for IoT, 1 dB for 2.4/5GHz, and 1.5dBi for 6 GHz.
• – HPE Aruba Networking AP−675: Two integrated tri−band omni−directional antennas for 2x2 MIMO with antenna gain of 3.8dBi in 2.4GHz, 5.7dBi in 5GHz, and 5.9dBi in 6Ghz. Built−in antennas are optimized for a horizontally mounted orientation of the AP. The downtilt angle for maximum gain is roughly 5−10 degrees.

  • • A mix of horizontally and vertically polarized antenna elements are used
  • • Combining the patterns of each of the antennas of the MIMO radios, the peak gain of the combined, average pattern is 4.6dBi in 2.4GHz, 7.9dBi in 5GHz, and 6.2dBi in 6Ghz
• – HPE Aruba Networking AP−677: Two integrated tri−band directional antennas for 2x2 MIMO with antenna gain of 6.9dBi in 2.4GHz, 6.5dBi in 5GHz, and 6.9dBi in 6Ghz. Built−in antennas are optimized for either wall/pole vertically oriented (or with downtilt), or down−firing in a horizontally mounted orientation of the AP. The antenna beamwidth is approx. 90° x 90°.

  • • Cross−polarized antenna elements are used
  • • Combining the patterns of each of the antennas of the MIMO radios, the peak gain of the combined, average pattern is 6.9dBi in 2.4GHz, 6.5dBi in 5GHz, and 6.9dBi in 6Ghz
• – HPE Aruba Networking AP−679: Integrated tri−band directional antennas for 2x2 MIMO with two different modes for the 5 GHz and 6 GHz antennas (a wider 90°x30° antenna, and a narrow 30°x30°) that are software provisioned. The built−in antennas are optimized for either wall/ pole vertically oriented (or with downtilt), or down−firing in a horizontally mounted orientation of the AP. The antenna beamwidth is approx. 90° x 90°.

  • • Wide 90°x30° has 7.1dBi in 5Ghz and 8.1dBi in 6Ghz (peak of 7.7dBi and 8.6dBi respectively)
  • • Narrow 30°x30° has 10.5dBi in 5Ghz and 10.1dBi in 6Ghz (peak of 11dBi and 11.2dBi respectively)
  • • 6.1dBi in 2.4GHz (approx. 90°x90°) in either mode –6.6dBi for BLE/IoT in either mode
  • • Cross−polarized antenna elements are used

Other interfaces and features

• – Wired network interface (E0)

  • • Auto−sensing link speed (100/1000/2500BASE−T) and MDI/MDX
  • • 2.5 Gbps speed complies with NBase−T and 802.3bz specifications
  • • PoE−PD: 48 Vdc (nominal) 802.3at/bt PoE (class 4 or higher)
  • • 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• – Wired Network Interface (E1)

  • • SFP Fiber Port
  • • When used in operation it is expected that this is the primary uplink port
  • • Only recommended industrial temperature SFP/SFP+ modules should be used for optimal performance
• – USB 2.0 host interface (Type C connector), supporting 2A/10W maximum
• – USB 2.0 host interface (Type A connector), supporting 1A/5W maximum
• – Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE5.0) and Zigbee (802.15.4) radio
• – BLE: up to 8 dBm transmit power (class 1) and −100 dBm receive sensitivity (125 kbps)
• – Zigbee: up to 8 dBm transmit power and −97 dBm receive sensitivity (250 kbps)
• – GNSS L1 (1575.42 MHz) receiver supporting GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou signal

  • • Receive sensitivity: −163 dBm (tracking)
  • • Integrated antenna with gain of ~2 dBi
• – Advanced IoT Coexistence (AIC) allows concurrent operation of multiple radios in the 2.4 GHz band
• – Built−in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for enhanced security and anti−counterfeiting
• – Visual indicators for System and Radio status (1x multi−color LED), auto−disable after 15 min when up
• – Reset button: factory reset, LED mode control (normal/off)
• – Serial console interface (proprietary, USB−C physical jack)
• – Automatic thermal shutdown and recovery function