AP12 Access Point Datasheet

For IT and NOC Teams

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

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

• Identify Assets by Name and View Location
• Zonal/Room Accuracy for 3rd Party Tags
• Historical Analytics for Asset Tags
• Telemetry for Asset Tags (such as temperature and motion data)
• APIs for Viewing Assets and Analytics
  
  
  

For Network Teams

• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with Wi- Fi Assurance 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 and Asset Visibility Subscriptions
• Customer Segmentation and Reporting Based on Visitor Telemetry
• Customized* Dwell and 3rd Party Reporting for Traffic and Trend Analysis
• Correlate Customer-Guest Traffic and Trend Analysis

The AP12 access point is a tri-radio 2x2:2SS 802.11ax access point with maximum data rates of 1,200 Mbps in the 5GHz band and 575 Mbps in the 2.4GHz band. The integrated 3rd radio functions as a network, location, and security sensor, a synthetic test client radio, as well as a spectrum monitor.

By adding 802.11ax Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO), and BSS Coloring technologies, performance is boosted to 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 has grown more complex. Juniper is applying its industry-leading Mist AI for AX technology to automate these features, optimize BSS Coloring, improve data transmission scheduling within OFDMA and MU-MIMO, and assign clients to the best radio to boost overall network performance.

OFDMA improves spectral efficiency so that an increasing density of devices can be supported on the network. This is especially helpful as IoT devices join the network; they use smaller data packets than mobile devices, which increases network load and contention. Additionally, BSS Coloring improves the coexistence of overlapping BSSs and allows spatial reuse within channels by reducing packet collisions. This helps you improve spectral efficiency for dense networks in which channel reuse is increasing.

Juniper’s radio resource management (RRM) 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 the SLE coverage and capacity metrics to learn and optimize the RF environment. The RRM

learning algorithm uses hysteresis on a 24-hour window to conduct 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 leverages machine learning to analyze user experience, correlate problems, and automatically detect 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). This radio also is able to function 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 AP12 access point 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, Engagement and Asset Tracking services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30 days of data, from which you can extract network insights across your enterprise. To extend these capabilities for more dynamic insights like motion paths* and other third-party* data, along with the option to generate customized reports, the Juniper Mist Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.

The AP incorporates the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, which together extend IoT devices’ battery life as new IoT devices join the network.

Constantly monitor services running on the AP12 model 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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