AP66 Access Point Datasheet

For IT and NOC teams

• Predictable and measurable Wi-Fi
• SLEs support
• WLAN policy fabric for role-based access
• Customizable guest Wi-Fi portal
• Radio Resource Management (RRM), driven by AI

For IT helpdesk teams

• AI-native virtual network assistant
• Natural language processing 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 location visibility
• 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, User 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, User Engagement, and Asset Visibility subscriptions
• Customer segmentation and reporting based on visitor telemetry
• Customized1 Dwell and third-party reporting for traffic and trend analysis
• Correlation of customer-guest traffic and trend analysis
• Correlated customer-guest traffic and trend analysis

The AP66 Series are four‑radio, 802.11be Wi‑Fi 7 APs with three two‑spatial stream data serving radios with maximum data rates of 5.8 Gbps in the 6 GHz band, 2.9 Gbps in the 5 GHz band, and 688 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. A dedicated fourth tri‑band scanning radio provides WIDS/WIPS, spectrum analysis, and sensor and location analytics. With 802.11be Multi-Link Operation (MLO), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Multi‑User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU‑MIMO), and BSS Coloring technologies, the AP66 Series offers performance at unprecedented levels to support new bandwidth‑hungry applications and soaring device densities.

The new 802.11be amendment (Wi-Fi 7) expands the capabilities of Wi‑Fi 6E, including the use of up to 1200 MHz of the 6 GHz band for higher throughput and improved application performance. New capabilities include 320 MHz channels that provide double the throughput, MLO for more efficient load balancing and failover, Multi‑Resource Units (Multi‑RU), preamble puncturing, and 4K QAM for higher transmission rates and better user experiences. Only Wi‑Fi 7 and 6E client devices can use the 6 GHz band so there is no interference due to IoT or legacy devices.

Juniper automates and optimizes Wi‑Fi 7 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.

The AP66 Series extends network monitoring and insights to support omnidirectional BLE, Thread*, Zigbee*, or Matter* to increase IoT capabilities with dual 802.15.4 radios for concurrent location services and electronic shelf labels (ESL).

*future considerations

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 that 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.

Reliable RF optimization is even more critical with the addition of 6 GHz spectrum. Radio Resource Management uses a dedicated sensor radio to automate dynamic channel and power assignments, thus avoiding Wi‑Fi and external sources of interference. The Marvis^® 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.

In some regulatory domains, there are special rules to govern the usage of 6 GHz when the AP has either removable external antennas or is weatherized.

AP66/AP66D-US/-WW:

• Standard Power only (U.S. and Canada)

A dedicated, tri‑band fourth radio collects data for Juniper Mist, which uses machine learning to analyze user experiences, correlate problems, and automatically detect their root causes. 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).

By incorporating the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 6.0, AP66 Series APs help extend the battery life of IoT devices, particularly as additional ones join the network.

Constantly monitor services running on the AP66, sending 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.

The Juniper Mist platform automatically captures packets and radio frequency spectrum and streams them to the cloud when major issues are detected. AI‑native dynamic packet capture and dynamic spectrum capture enable “network rewind” to identify and resolve wireless interference issues more efficiently. Both features save IT time and effort and eliminate the need for truck rolls with sniffers to reproduce and capture data for troubleshooting.

Marvis AI Assistant is a natural language processing (NLP)-based assistant with a conversational interface that helps the understanding of user intent and goals, simplifies troubleshooting, and collects network insights. Marvis AI Assistant 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. Marvis AI Assistant eliminates the need to manually hunt through endless dashboards and CLI commands.

The AP66 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^® Wireless Assurance, User Engagement, and Asset Visibility services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30 days of data, enabling you to simplify the process of extracting network insights across your enterprise. If you require dynamic insights like motion paths¹ and other third‑party¹ data and would like the option of customized reports, the Juniper^® Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.

Juniper offers a flexible data plane. Juniper Mist Edge is an on‑premises appliance that runs a tunnel termination service. Traffic can be broken out locally or tunneled to Juniper Mist Edge.

Juniper Mist Edge use cases include seamless mobility in large campus environments, tunneling of guest traffic to a DMZ, IoT segmentation, and teleworker services.

Juniper Networks is leading the convergence of AI and networking. Mist^™, Juniper’s AI-native networking platform, is purpose-built to run AI workloads and simplify IT operations, assuring exceptional and secure user and application experiences—from the edge to the data center to the cloud. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net, X, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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