AP32 Access Point Datasheet

For IT and NOC Teams

• Predictable and Measurable Wi-Fi
• Service-Level Expectation (SLE) Support
• WxLAN Policy Fabric for Role-Based Access
• Customizable Guest Wi-Fi Portal
• Radio Resource Management

For IT Helpdesk Teams

• AI-Powered Virtual Network Assistant
• Natural Language Processing Conversational Interface
• Anomaly Detection
• Client SLE Visibility and Enforcement
• Data Science-Driven Root-Cause Analysis

For Process and Resource Improvement Teams

• Identification of Assets by Name and View Location
• Zonal/Room Accuracy for Third-Party Tags
• Historical Analytics for Asset Tags
• Telemetry for Asset Tags (temperature, motion, and other data)
• APIs for Viewing Assets and 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

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

The AP32 series offers six-stream wireless access points. They support 4x4:4SS in the 5GHz band, delivering a maximum data rate of 2,400 Mbps for high-bandwidth applications. They also support 2x2:2SS in the 2.4 GHz band, delivering a maximum data rate of 575 Mbps. The integrated 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 supported, AP32 series performance reaches unprecedented levels to support new bandwidth-hungry applications and soaring device densities.

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. Juniper automates and optimizes these features with our AI for AX capabilities, which improve data transmission scheduling within OFDMA and MU-MIMO and assign clients to the best radio to boost the overall performance of the network.

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 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.

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

A dedicated, dual-band third radio collects data for Juniper’s patent-pending Proactive Analytics and Correlation Engine (PACE), which uses machine learning to analyze user experience, 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.

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 is a natural language processing (NLP)-based assistant with a Conversational Interface to understand user intent and goals, simplifying troubleshooting and the collection of 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.

The AP32 series automatically connects to the Juniper Mist cloud, downloads its configuration, and joins the appropriate network. Firmware updates are retrieved and installed automatically, ensuring that the network is always up to date with new features, bug fixes, and security updates.

Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, User Engagement, and Asset Tracking services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30 days of data, which enables you to simplify the process of extracting network insights across your enterprise. If you require dynamic insights like motion paths* and other third- party* data and would like the option of customized reports, the Juniper Mist Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.

By incorporating the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, AP32 access points help extend the battery life of IoT devices, particularly as additional ones join the network.

Constantly monitor services running on the AP32 series 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.

Juniper Mist Edge is an on-premises appliance that runs a tunnel termination service. Juniper APs offer a flexible data plane.

Traffic can be broken out locally, or tunneled to Juniper Mist Edge. There are many use cases the Juniper Mist Edge solves, including seamless mobility in large campus environments, tunneling of guest traffic to a DMZ, IoT segmentation, and teleworker. Learn more about Juniper Mist Edge.

At Juniper Networks, we are dedicated to dramatically simplifying network operations and driving superior experiences for end users. Our solutions deliver industry-leading insight, automation, security and AI to drive real business results. We believe that powering connections will bring us closer together while empowering us all to solve the world’s greatest challenges of well-being, sustainability and equality.

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