Aruba 802.11ax line-up

[Balance]

The Aruba Networks 802.11ax AP-Series

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Aruba just announced their line-up of 802.11ax access points. They say that they are confident they will be software upgradable to pass the AX-certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance later in 2019. Down- and uplink OFDMA, downlink MU-MIMO, TxBF, TWT, 20MHz-only STA and 160MHz are supported, but uplink MU-MIMO, spatial reuse and 80+80 MHz unfortunately not. At first there will be 3 models, the AP 515, AP 535 and AP 555.

Other links

• Overview: https://www.arubanetworks.com/products/networking/802-11ax/
• Reference guide: https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/so/ReferenceGuide_80211ax.pdf
• Technology white paper: https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/wp/WP_802.11AX.pdf

Full talk (802.11ax from 19:20)

 

[Balance]

I'm very curious which chipsets they will use. It looks like a strong line-up, but unfortunate that they don't support MU-MIMO in uplink and spatial reuse.

 

[thiggins]

None of the first round of DRAFT 802.11ax APs or routers support uplink MU-MIMO.

As long as they support DFS, 80+80 channel bandwidth doesn't really matter. 160 MHz is likely to be the standard for 11ax wide channels.
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wir...es/33210-160-mhz-wi-fi-channels-friend-or-foe

 

[zerodegrekelvin]

I'm very curious which chipsets they will use. It looks like a strong line-up, but unfortunate that they don't support MU-MIMO in uplink and spatial reuse.

Broadcom for the low-end (low-end is a figure of speech as those AP are enterprise with the enterpri$e price).
QCA for the high-end.

 

[pege63]

They always paint up a pianting of Picasso, but it always ends up with a picture from kindergarten.