Aruba 500 Series

Cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) for medium-density indoor environments

Groundbreaking Wi-Fi 6 capabilities

Supports wired and wireless connectivity (in a single device) for up to 1.5 Gbps wireless and 256 associated clients per radio.

1.5 Gbps maximum real-world speed (HE80/HE20)

Delivers speed and reliability for work and indoor environments.

Wi-Fi 6 support for OFDMA plus Client Match

Handles multiple clients on each channel regardless of device or traffic type, using AI to eliminate sticky client issues.

IoT-ready Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee support

Simplifies deploying and managing IoT location services, asset-tracking services, security solutions, IoT sensors, and includes third party USB support.

Dynamic Segmentation and policy- enforcement firewalls

Flexible and scalable, it automatically enforces consistent policies across wired and wireless networks.

AI-powered, Wi-Fi radio frequency RF with AirMatch

Utilizing AI learning, Air Match provides automated RF optimization and looks at analytics across the entire network.

Application assurance

With Air Slice, the 500 Series APs provide guaranteed bit rate and bounded latency with intelligent scheduling.

Specifications 

• AP type: Indoor, dual radio, 5GHz and 2.4GHz 802.11ax 2x2 MIMO
• 5GHz radio: Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 1.2Gbps wireless data rate with individual 2SS HE80 802.11ax client devices, or with two 1SS HE80 802.11ax MU-MIMO capable client devices simultaneously
• 2.4GHz radio: Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 574Mbps wireless data rate with individual 2SS HE40 802.11ax client devices or with two 1SS HE40 802.11ax MU-MIMO capable client devices simultaneously
• Maximum number of associated client devices: Up to 256 associated client devices per radio
• Maximum number of BSSIDs: 16 BSSIDs per radio
• Supported frequency bands (country-specific restrictions apply):
  • 2.400 to 2.4835GHz ISM
  • 5.150 to 5.250GHz U-NII-1
  • 5.250 to 5.350GHz U-NII-2A
  • 5.470 to 5.725GHz U-NII-2C
  • 5.725 to 5.850GHz U-NII-3/ISM
  • 5.850 to 5.895GHz U-NII-4
• Available channels: Dependent on configured regulatory domain
• Supported radio technologies:
  • 802.11b: Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS)
  • 802.11a/g/n/ac: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • 802.11ax: Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) with up to 8 resource units
• Supported modulation types:
  • 802.11b: BPSK, QPSK, CCK
  • 802.11a/g/n: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM (proprietary extension)
  • 802.11ac: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM (proprietary extension)
  • 802.11ax: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM
• 802.11n high-throughput (HT) support: HT20/40
• 802.11ac very high throughput (VHT) support: VHT20/40/80
• 802.11ax high efficiency (HE) support: HE20/40/80
• Supported data rates (Mbps):
  • 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11
  • 802.11a/g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
  • 802.11n: 6.5 to 300 (MCS0 to MCS15, HT20 to HT40), 400 with 256-QAM
  • 802.11ac: 6.5 to 867 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS = 1 to 2, VHT20 to VHT80), 1,083 with 1024-QAM
  • 802.11ax (2.4GHz): 3.6 to 574 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS = 1 to 2, HE20 to HE40)
  • 802.11ax (5GHz): 3.6 to 1,201 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS = 1 to 2, HE20 to HE80)
• 802.11n/ac packet aggregation: A-MPDU, A-MSDU
• Transmit power: Configurable in increments of 0.5 dBm
• Maximum (aggregate, conducted total) transmit power (limited by local regulatory requirements):
  • 2.4 GHz band: +21 dBm (18dBm per chain)
  • 5 GHz band: +21 dBm (18 dBm per chain)
  • Note: conducted transmit power levels exclude antenna gain. For total (EIRP) transmit power, add antenna gain.
• 802.11mc Fine Timing Measurement (FTM):
  • for precision distance ranging