California, U.S.A., March 2020 – Ethernet Direct, a professional and primary provider of industrial networking and communication solutions introduces IEEE 802.11AC industrial access point supporting wave 2.

The Falcon series FWI-692 is a 2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11ac Wave-2 indoor ceiling/wall wireless access point that supports latest Wi-Fi standard. It is designed with 2x2 SU/MU-MIMO technologies, concurrent dual-band operation with aggregated data rate up to 1300Mbps and supports security features such as WEP/ WPA-PSK/ WAP-Enterprise/ WPA2-PSK/ WPA2-Enterprise authenicaion with AES/TKIP encryption. The hardware comes with built-in dual-band 6dBi antenna and supports an operating temperature of -35 to 65℃. Wi-Fi standards are continually evolving to keep pace with growing demand and the FWI-692 is an ideal choice of cost performance indoor ceiling/wall wireless access point

IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard providing high-throughput wireless local area networks on 5GHz band. The specification has multi-station throughput of at least 1 Gbit per second and single-link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second. The Wi-Fi Alliance separated the introduction of ac wireless products into "Wave 1" and "Wave 2". The Wave 2 compliance includes additional features like MU-MIMO, 160MHz channel width support, support for more 5 GHz channels, and four spatial streams with four antennas. This means Wave 2 products would have higher bandwidth and capacity than Wave 1 products.

Features

• Supports latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard
• Supports 2x2 SU/MU-MIMO with two spatial streams
• Concurrent dual radio opera􀆟on with aggregated data rate up to 1300Mbps
• Supports radio frequency band from 2.412 to 2.465 GHz & 5.180 to 5.825 GHz
• Supports flexible operating modes selection, options including AP/Client Bridge, WDS AP/Client/Repeater
• Supports advance software functions like QoS (WMM), STP, IGMP Snooping, VLAN, DHCP Server, SNMP...etc.
• Flexible softwaree configuration through WEB/Telnet/SSH for easy management
• Strong network security with 64/128-bit WEP, WPA/WPA2, 802.1X authentication with TKIP/AES encryption and MAC Filtering
• Advanced Wireless functions like Multiple SSID, VLAN assign by SSID, Client Isolation, Site Survey, Bandwidth Control, Hide SSID, Enable/Disable Radio
• Supports 802.3af PoE or DC power jack connection, bundled with 48VDC PoE Injector

New technologies introduced with 802.11ac include the following: (according to Wikipedia)

• Extended channel binding: Optional 160 MHz and mandatory 80 MHz channel bandwidth for stations; cf. 40 MHz maximum in 802.11n.
• More MIMO spatial streams: Support for up to eight spatial streams (vs. four in 802.11n)
• Downlink multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO, allows up to four simultaneous downlink MU-MIMO clients): Multiple STAs, each with one or more antennas, transmit or receive independent data streams simultaneously.
• Space-division multiple accesses (SDMA): Streams not separated by frequency, but instead resolved spatially, analogous to 11n-style MIMO.
• Downlink MU-MIMO (one transmitting device, multiple receiving devices) included as an optional mode.
• Modulation: 256-QAM, rate 3/4 and 5/6, added as optional modes (vs. 64-QAM, rate 5/6 maximum in 802.11n).

Other elements/features

• Beamforming with standardized sounding and feedback for compatibility between vendors
• MAC modifications (mostly to support above changes)
• Coexistence mechanisms for 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz channels, 11ac and 11a/n devices
• Adds four new fields to the PPDU header identifying the frame as a very high throughput (VHT) frame as opposed to 802.11n's high throughput (HT) or earlier. The first three fields in the header are readable by legacy devices to allow coexistence

To learn more about our IEEE 802.AC Industrial wireless product solutions, please send an e-mail to sales@ethernetdirect-tw.com