Aerohive HiveAP 20 Access Point
The Aerohive HiveAP 20 Access Point is a highly reliable 802.11a/b/g access point combining an enterprise-class access point with cooperative control technology.
This combination provide the benefits of a controller-based wireless LAN solution, without requiring a controller or an overlay network. HiveAPs are organized into groups, or “hives”, enabling functions like fast L2/L3 roaming, coordinated RF management, security, QoS and mesh networking.
HiveAPs provide all of the benefits of a controller-based, but is easier to deploy and expand, lower cost, more reliable, more scalable, more ubiquitously deployable, higher performing and more suitable for voice over WLAN than today’s controller-based architectures. A hive of cooperative control access points (CC-APs) is able to operate independantly without any centralized control or data forwarding, however to provide for global policy management and centralized configuration and monitoring of many HiveAPs, the Aerohive Networks HiveManager Network Management System Appliance provides a centralized management instance for the entire wireless network. The HiveManager lowers operating costs by speeding deployment, configuration and monitoring of the wireless network.
Aerohive HiveManager Online Features Comparison Chart
Feature
|
Express |
Enterprise |
| Wi-Fi Alliance certified "WPA2 Enterprise" |
Yes |
Yes |
| Full User Policy Configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
| Number of Policy Configurations per SSID |
1 |
Up to 64 |
| Multiple VLANs per SSID |
Yes |
Yes |
| The ability for different SSID sets to be applied to different APs |
No |
Yes |
| Full 802.1X Authentication capability with Fast Roaming |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication against external user authentication database (ie, Active Directory, LDAP, etc) |
Yes |
Yes |
| HiveAP RADIUS with Active Directory, LDAP, Open Directory, eDirectory integration |
No |
Yes |
| TeacherView Cart |
No |
Yes |
Aerohive HiveAP 20 Access Point Technical Specifications
Flexible Hardware Design
- Multi radio provides concurrent 802.11a and 802.11b/g
- Allows greater flexibility in deployments
- Allows automatic mesh backup or dedicated mesh backup based on customers needs
- Flexible environment support allows the ability to deploy a 20 series AP in a variety of environments.
- Hive AP 20 is a Plenum Rated, Indoor/Industrial AP
- Supports 802.3af PoE or a standard power adapter
Cooperative Control
- Cooperative fast L2/L3 roaming
- Cooperative RF control
- Aerohive Mobility Routing Protocol (AMRP) for mesh routing
- Tunnel load balancing for L3 roaming
Security
- Wireless privacy and authentication 802.11i, WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X, PSK, WiFi Alliance Certified
- Granular user profile-based management defines SSIDs, VLANs, QoS and security policy for each user that enters the network
- Encryption AES, TKIP or RC4 (WEP only)
- Time-of-day and day-of-week-based access control and SSID enablement
- Up to 32 SSIDs for network segmentation
- On-board stateful-inspection firewall policy enforcement with session state sync with neighbors
- ALG support for SIP, TFTP and FTP
- Destination-based MAC firewall support
- Tunneled guest networks
Authentication
- 802.1x authentication for WEP, WPA, and WPA2
- RADIUS support with PEAP, EAP-TLS, TTLS, LEAP and EAP-FAST
- LDAP authentication to directory servers
- Authentication to Microsoft Active Directory with local caching
- Multiple RADIUS server support (per AP, per SSID)
- Built-in RADIUS server
- MAC based RADIUS authentication
Cooperative RF Management
- Auto channel selection
- Station (client) load balancing
- Cooperative transmit power level control
Mesh
- Flexible radio configuration allows for either interface to be configured as a mesh
- Ethernet bridging support across mesh connections for a single device or workgroup
- Automatic neighbor detection and route determination
- Mesh traffic encrypted with AES
- L2 routing rather than spanning tree used for greater perfor-mance and less overhead
- Self-healing enabled by dynamic path selection
