The H3C WX1800H wireless Access Controller (AC) is well designed and positioned for SME network. It features gateway and AC function integration, reducing the number of devices and TCO in network. It adopts the innovative Comware V7 platform (referred to as V7 hereafter). V7 comes with the standard granular user control management, comprehensive RF resource management, 7x24 wireless security control, fast layer-2 and layer-3 roaming, strong QoS and IPv4/IPv6 dual stack. V7 adds in various novel wireless technologies such as multi-core control plane, Bonjour and Hotspot 2.0. It also supports multiple network configurations such as cloud management and layered AC.
H3C WX1800H series AC consists of four models: WX1804H-PWR, WX1810H-PWR, WX1820H and WX1840H. When paired with H3C Fit Access Point (AP), it serves as an ideal access control solution for WLAN access of SME network.
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The WX1800H series AC integrates PoE (WX1804H-PWR & WX1810H-PWR), gateway and AC function in one box, which is perfect for SOHO, SMB and SME environment. WX1800H series AC supports full enterprise controller feature sets, in addition, WX1800H series AC supports gateway function, such as PPPOE, NAT, dynamic IP address, and static IP address setting function. It also support Bonjour Gateway, which helps enterprise to easily manage and control Apple devices, such as AirPrint printers, Apple TVs, iPad and more.
The WX1800H series AC (WX1804H-PWR & WX1810H-PWR) all LAN ports support 802.3af/802.3at PoE function, which saves TCO to customer’s existing environment and reduce the single points of failure at the same time. Single port can provide maximum 30w, providing power to connected devices, such as IP phones, wireless APs, and high power cameras.
The WX1800H series AC includes AP license as following by default, which protects customer’s investment to maximum, which also give SMB/SME a great opportunity to add new AP with the wireless network expansion without additional cost.
Model | AP licenes by default |
WX1804H-PWR | 4 |
WX1810H-PWR | 10 |
WX1820H | 20 |
WX1840H | 20 |
The WX1800H series AC can work together with H3C 802.11ac-based APs to provide wireless access speed several times faster than a traditional 802.11a/b/g network. With 802.11ac large proximity which makes WLAN multimedia applications deployment a reality.
The WX1800H series AC is developed based on the latest H3C V7 platform. The new system sports significantly improvements in performance and reliability over the previous version, and is able to run the increasingly complicated network applications in the enterprise market. V7 features the following advantages:
The WX1800H series AC supports H3C Oasis Wireless Cloud platform management. H3C Oasis Cloud platform is the latest offering to enterprise network, which is hosted in cloud. It caters for different wireless scenarios to provide a variety of applications and services. IT managers can achieve remote operation, maintenance, network deployment and more application management and other functions. For business driven purpose, it can provide WeChat authentication and other certification methods, precision marketing and clients’ analysis services.
Below are the benefits:
In a wireless network of centralized forwarding mode, all wireless traffic is sent to an AC for processing which the forwarding capability of the AC may become a bottleneck. Especially on wireless networks where APs are deployed at branches, ACs are deployed at the headquarters, and APs and ACs are connected over a WAN. In this scenario, Distributed forwarding is more suitable. The WX1800H series AC supports both distributed forwarding modes and centralized forwarding mode and it can set SSID based forwarding as needed.
Layered AC architecture is the brand new network configuration engineered by H3C to cater for the need of multi-layer network construction in the market. Layered AC employs the centralized management hierarchy similar to the large enterprise, where one core layer management AC associates with multiple local access layer ACs, and access layer ACs directly connects with underlying APs. Access layer ACs' mainly serve real-time applications such as AP access and data forwarding, while core layer ACs' mainly focus on non-realtime tasks such as management control and centralized authentication, and still retain the functions of connecting APs and forwarding data that typical ACs have. Core layer ACs are high performance ACs and are deployed in the convergence layer; access layer ACs can be comprised of standard ACs, all-in-one ACs (with router and DPI features), or wired and wireless ACs, and are deployed in parallel with existing network. Layered AC network construction model puts wired and wireless integration to the next level, and is applicable to large scale wireless network construction. Layered AC model maps naturally to the head quarter and branch deployment scenario, where core link bandwidth and core AC forwarding power no longer become a bottleneck. Core layer AC centralized control, access layer AC and lower level APs can be conveniently upgraded and synchronized automatically, and greatly simplifies version upgrade tasks. Access layer AC will be responsible for AP switching and significantly improves roaming performance.
According to IEEE 802.11, wireless clients control wireless roaming in WLANs. Usually, a wireless client chooses an AP based on the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI). Therefore, many clients may choose the same AP with a high RSSI. As these clients share the same wireless medium, the throughput of each client is reduced greatly.
The intelligent AP load sharing function can analyze the locations of wireless clients in real time, dynamically determine which APs at the current location can share load with one another, and implement load sharing among these APs. In addition to load sharing based on the number of online sessions, the system also supports load sharing based on the traffic of online wireless users.
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