AP63 Access Point Datasheet

For IT and NOC Teams

• Predictable and Measurable Wi-Fi
• Service-Level Expectations (SLEs) Support
• WxLAN Policy Fabric for Role-Based Access
• Customizable Guest Wi-Fi Portal
• Radio Resource Management (RRM) Driven by AI

For IT Helpdesk Teams

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

For Digital Experience Teams

• Accurate (1-3m) Turn-by-Turn Navigation
• Sensor Fusion with Dead Reckoning
• Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Virtual Beacons with Custom Notifications
• Mobile SDK for iOS and Android

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, 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
• Customized¹ Dwell and Third-Party Reporting for Traffic and Trend Analysis
• Correlation of Customer-Guest Traffic and Trend Analysis
  
  

The outdoor AP63 Series comprises tri-radio 4x4 802.11ax access points with maximum data rates of 2,400 Mbps in the 5 GHz band and 1,148 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. The 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, the AP63 Series offers performance at 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 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.

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 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.

Radio Resource Management automates dynamic channel and power assignment, taking Wi-Fi and external sources of interference into account with a dedicated sensor radio. The 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.

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 experiences, 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.

By incorporating the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, AP63 access points help extend the battery life of IoT devices, particularly as additional ones join the network.

Constantly monitor services running on the AP63 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.

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 that helps with understanding user intent and goals, simplifies troubleshooting, and collects 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 AP63 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 Wireless Assurance, User Engagement, and Asset Visibility 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 paths1 and other third-party1 data and would like the option of customized reports, the Juniper Mist Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.

The AP63 has a 16-element vBLE antenna array controlled from the Juniper Mist cloud. Passive antennas enhance the power of a single transmitter and produce directional beams (or can be combined to act as an omnidirectional radio) to accurately detect distance and location with 1-3 meter accuracy. With Juniper’s patented vBLE technology, you can deploy an unlimited number of virtual beacons in your physical environment with no need to install battery-powered physical BLE beacons. Support for Bluetooth5.0 boosts IoT device range and battery life.

In addition to the industry-leading Wi-Fi technology at the heart of the AP63 access point, our second-generation, patented, and dynamic, 16-element vBLE antenna array combines with machine learning to eliminate the need for battery-powered beacons. This maximizes scalability and optimizes your deployment investment in location-based services.

vBLE enables businesses to provide rich location-based experiences that are engaging, accurate, real-time, and scalable.

Juniper APs offer 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 believes that connectivity is not the same as experiencing a great connection. Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver the best and most secure user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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