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Recently a new product has been added to Huawei's Wi-Fi 6 portfolio where the well-known AP7060DN was alone. Let's take a look at the main features of the AirEngine 5760-10 Access Point.
AirEngine 5760-10 is a Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) wireless access point (AP) released by Huawei. AirEngine 5760-10 supports 2x2 MIMO on the 2.4 GHz band and 2x2 MIMO on the 5 GHz band. When delivering services on both bands, the device can reach a rate of up to 1.774 Gbit/s. AirEngine 5760-10 has built-in smart antennas and is compatible with 802.11n, 802.11ac, and 802.11ax. AirEngine 5760-10 supports high bandwidth and high concurrency, and allows for IoT extension, which greatly enhances user experience on wireless networks and applies to enterprise office, education, and business scenarios.
Provides services simultaneously on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, at a rate of up to 574 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz (2x2 MIMO), 1.2 Gbit/s at 5 GHz (2x2 MIMO), and 1.774 Gbit/s for the device.
Uses adaptive array antenna technology to enable targeted signal coverage for mobile terminals, reduce interferences, and improve signal quality. Additionally, this technology implements switchover as STAs move.
Supports Bluetooth serial interface-based O&M through built-in Bluetooth and CloudCampus APP, and precise locating of Bluetooth terminals by collaborating with eSight.
Provides a USB interface for external power supply and storage. An IoT module can also be installed on the USB interface to implement flexible IoT application extension.
Supports the Fat, Fit, and cloud modes and enables Huawei cloud-based management platform to manage and operate APs and services on the APs, reducing network O&M costs.
Feature Descriptions
Adaptive array antenna technology
The AP integrates adaptive array antenna and implicit beamforming technologies to implement more precise user detection, suppress interference, and improve signal quality, enabling users to have a seamless, smooth wireless network experience.
802.11ax standard compliance
The AP supports 1024QAM modulation and 2x2 MIMO technology, achieving an air interface rate of up to 1.2 Gbit/s on the 5 GHz band and 1.774 Gbit/s for the device.
OFDMA modulation enables multiple users to receive and send information at the same time, reducing the delay and improving network efficiency.
Cloud-based management
Huawei Cloud Managed Network (CMN) Solution consists of the cloud management platform and a full range of cloud managed network devices. The cloud management platform provides various functions including management of APs, tenants, applications, and licenses, network planning and optimization, device monitoring, network service configuration, and value-added services.
High Density Boost technology
Huawei uses the following technologies to address challenges in high-density scenarios, including access problems, data congestion, and poor roaming experience:
SmartRadio for air interface optimization
Load balancing during smart roaming: The load balancing algorithm can work during smart roaming for load balancing detection among APs on the network after STA roaming to adjust the STA load on each AP, improving network stability.
Intelligent DFA technology: The dynamic frequency assignment (DFA) algorithm is used to automatically detect adjacent-channel and co-channel interference, and identify any 2.4 GHz redundant radio. Through automatic inter-AP negotiation, the redundant radio is automatically switched to another mode (dual-5G AP models support 2.4G-to-5G switchover) or is disabled to reduce 2.4 GHz co-channel interference and increase the system capacity.
Intelligent conflict optimization technology: The dynamic enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) and airtime scheduling algorithms are used to schedule the channel occupation time and service priority of each user. This ensures that each user is assigned relatively equal time for using channel resources and user services are scheduled in an orderly manner, improving service processing efficiency and user experience.
Air interface performance optimization
In high-density scenarios where many users access the network, increased number of low-rate STAs consumes more resources on the air interface, reduces the AP capacity, and lowers user experience. Therefore, Huawei APs will check the signal strength of STAs during access and rejects access from weak-signal STAs. At the same time, the APs monitor the rate of online STAs in real time and forcibly disconnect low-rate STAs so that the STAs can reassociate with APs that have stronger signals. The terminal access control technology can increase air interface use efficiency and allow access from more users.
5G-prior access (Band steering)
The APs support both 2.4G and 5G frequency bands. The 5G-prior access function enables an AP to steer STAs to the 5 GHz frequency band first, which reduces load and interference on the 2.4 GHz frequency band, improving the user experience.
Automatic radio calibrationAutomatic radio calibration allows an AP to collect signal strength and channel parameters of surrounding APs and generate AP topology according to the collected data. Based on interference from authorized APs, rogue APs, and non-Wi-Fi interference sources, each AP automatically adjusts its transmit power and working channel to make the network operate at the optimal performance. In this way, network reliability and user experience are improved.
Wired and wireless dual security guarantee
To ensure data security, Huawei APs integrate wired and wireless security measures and provide comprehensive security protection.
Authentication and encryption for wireless access
The APs support WEP, WPA/WPA2-PSK, WPA/WPA2-PPSK, WPA/WPA2-802.1x, and WAPI authentication/encryption modes to ensure security of the wireless network. The authentication mechanism is used to authenticate user identities so that only authorized users can access network resources. The encryption mechanism is used to encrypt data transmitted over wireless links to ensure that the data can only be received and parsed by expected users.
Analysis on non-Wi-Fi interference sources
Huawei APs can analyze the spectrum of non-Wi-Fi interference sources and identify them, including baby monitors, Bluetooth devices, digital cordless phones (at 2.4 GHz frequency band only), wireless audio transmitters (at both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands), wireless game controllers, and microwave ovens. Coupled with Huawei eSight, the precise locations of the interference sources can be detected, and the spectrum of them displayed, enabling the administrator to remove the interference in a timely manner.
Rogue device monitoring
Huawei APs support WIDS/WIPS, and can monitor, identify, defend, counter, and perform refined management on the rogue devices, to provide security guarantees for air interface environment and wireless data transmission.
Automatic application identification
Huawei APs support smart application control technology and can implement visualized control on Layer 4 to Layer 7 applications.
Traffic identification
Coupled with Huawei ACs, the APs can identify over 6000 common applications in various office scenarios. Based on the identification results, policy control can be implemented on user services, including priority adjustment, scheduling, blocking, and rate limiting to ensure efficient bandwidth resource use and improve quality of key services.
Traffic statistics collection
Traffic statistics of each application can be collected globally, by SSID, or by user, enabling the network administrator to know application use status on the network. The network administrator or operator can implement visualized control on service applications on smart terminals to enhance security and ensure effective bandwidth control.
You can find more information in the following links:
https://e.huawei.com/en/products/enterprise-networking/wlan/indoor-access-points/airengine-5760-10
https://e.huawei.com/en/material/networking/wlan/e4a5e6528c1c4fd0a51bef9c0c101182
