Using Standard Power

In the United States and Canada, Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) have historically only been able to operate under Low Power Indoor (LPI) regulations, to prevent radio interference with existing license holders. The LPI standard limits the Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the AP to 5 dBm/MHz, and only allows indoors operations.

In recent years, regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, the EU, and other jurisdictions have begun to allow APs to operate with Standard Power (SP) operating class for the 6 GHz radio band, and for some indoor use cases. .

Juniper Mist APs including AP66/AP66D and AP47E/AP45E support SP, but not all models do. Some support LPI only, and others, such as AP47E/AP45E, support both SP and LPI. Models AP66/AP66D support SP only.

For APs that support SP, enabling it is the result of how you configure the RF Template and the WLAN(s) that will govern the AP.

The following conditions must be true and/or configured in the Mist dashboard:

• the AP must support 6 GHz and SP (such as AP47E/AP45E, AP66/AP66D, and AP 64),
• on the WLAN configuration page (Site | Wireless > WLANs > [Create or select WLAN]), under Radio Bands, you must select 6 GHz,
• on the WLAN configuration page under Wi-Fi Protocol, you must enable Wi-Fi 6 and/or Wi-Fi 7,
• on the RF Templates page (Organization | Wireless > RF Templates [Create or select RF Template]), you must select either United States or Canada as the country (different countries have different regulations and time-lines regarding Wi-Fi, radio channels, and SP),
• on the RF Templates page under 6 GHz, you must enable 6 GHz and select the AP model you want the setting to apply to,
• on the RF Templates page under Dual Band Radio Settings, you must select 6 GHz,
• on the Radio Management page (Site | Wireless > Radio Management), you must click the Optimize Now button for the given radio band to push the new settings to the targeted APs (as determined by the WLAN Template and/or Device Profiles configuration).

In the Mist dashboard there are several different way that you can configure the Wi-Fi and radio settings. These include the individual AP configuration page, the WLAN configuration page, using a WLAN template, and as part of a Device Profile. The RF Templates configuration page is where you can configure global radio setting defaults for all APs or on a per model basis. The Radio Management page is where you can configure the different Radio Settings -- 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz -- for all APs or on a per model basis at the level of Site.