H3C WA6120X Outdoor Access Point

H3C WA6120X Outdoor Access Point

Operating mode

Fit AP mode

The WA6120X supports the Fit AP mode and can be managed by the wireless controller equipped with the Comware system. In this networking mode, the user can locally manage the APs in batches.

Cloud AP mode

WA6120X supports H3C Cloudnet solution that enables wireless networking without hardware AC and authentication server. It can perform authentications via PPSK, PSK, Portal, SMS, and WeChat. Customized development is implemented for multi-branch scenarios such as hotel chains and supermarkets, enabling features such as easy deployment, hierarchical and decentralized management, smart large screen at headquarters, and customized configuration templates. The Cloudnet smart O&M platform enables users to grasp the status of wireless devices, networks, and terminal devices, and allows for simple management and O&M. This helps to reduce customer capital investment and O&M labor costs, and increase efficiency.

WA6120X supports Quicknet local automatic networking solution. Automatic discovery and construction of devices to achieve unified management of multiple devices and ensure network experience by relying on AP intelligent native technology.

Smart O&M

The visualized, measurable, and auto-optimized H3C smart O&M system facilitates operation and maintenance and saves labor costs.

Data visualization

The H3C smart O&M system collects and displays rich O&M data via telemetry techniques. On the terminal side, it records the terminal's roaming log, authentication log, signal strength, important packet interaction log, packet loss, latency, etc., and can identify over 150 reasons for terminal failures to go online, over 140 reasons for terminals to go offline, and over 100 reasons for authentication failures. On the AP side, it collects data such as AP association failures, reasons for detaching from the AC, traffic composition of each wired interface, error packet information, radio traffic composition, radio channel utilization, radio interference strength, and WIPS wireless attacks.

Measurability

The H3C smart O&M system has established a perfect evaluation system to measure the user experience, device health status, and network status, enabling the administrators to view and maintain the network easily.

Automatic optimization

The changing wireless network, radio environment, services, and user scale require the network to have the ability of automatic issue resolving and network optimization. The H3C smart O&M system features intelligent and progressive optimization. It can identify and analyze network issues automatically, and deliver policies for automatic issue resolving and network optimization. In this way, the network will always have high performance, low interference, and optimal user experience without human interference.

Security protection of wired and wireless networks

Terminal device access and admission security

With the wireless controller, wireless switches, and authentication system self-developed by H3C, WA6120X can support authentication and encryption via 802.1x, PSK, MAC address, PPPoE, Portal, WeChat, and SMS. This ensures network security.

Wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS)

WA6120X supports WIPS. In combination with the wireless controller/wireless switch, it supports WIPS features such as detection, intrusion detection, as well as blacklist and whitelist of rogue devices at the same time. The WIPS features enable the device to detect, identify, take countermeasures against, and effectively intercept rogue devices.

Wired network security

WA6120X supports wired access and control of APs. The wireless port of APs can be authenticated as an 802.1X client of the wired access network to ensure the legality of the AP. It guarantees the security of the wireless tunnel through encryption methods such as CAPWAP tunnel and DTLS.

Wired network security can be enhanced with the H3C Security Situational Awareness. When the wired terminal detects a security issue in the wireless terminal, a linkage mechanism will be triggered to notify the wireless controller to block the wireless access of the terminal, thereby ensuring network security.