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ADTRAN Bluesocket 1940
802.11a/b/g/n (3x3:3) Outdoor Access Point with Six External N-type Antenna Connectors

ADTRAN Bluesocket 1940

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Bluesocket Access Point
Bluesocket 1940 Access Point
- Dual radio, Dual Band (2.4GHz/5GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n with 6 N-type external antenna connectors supporting a MIMO antenna array, 3x3:3 - Includes mount kit.
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Bluesocket

Overview:

The ADTRAN® Bluesocket® family of high-performance Access Points (APs) is the perfect fit for educational institutions, enterprises, and service providers who are looking to deploy secure wireless networks. Bluesocket APs are completely plug-and-play requiring no manual configuration and deliver optimal performance. Whether you want to add wireless to your office or deploy across an entire campus, the Bluesocket APs are designed to meet your needs.

High-Performance

The Bluesocket 1940 outdoor APs include three transmit and three receive streams providing data rates up to 450 Mbps per radio for a total of 900 Mbps per AP.

With a weather resistant, industrial-grade enclosure, the Bluesocket 1940 APs provide the highest performance, extended range wireless coverage in the most harsh outdoor environments. The Bluesocket 1940 APs are ideal for warehouses, outdoor sports arenas, outdoor malls, campuses, and Municipal Wi-Fi deployments. The Bluesocket 1940 Series APs support the newer generation of laptops with three-stream radio support, and offer higher receive sensitivity on both the 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz radios to compensate for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) type mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets that have a fraction of the transmit power of traditional laptops.

The Bluesocket 1940 outdoor AP includes six N-type connectors for external antennas. It is fully functional with the power delivered by a single-port 802.3at PoE+ solution.

High-Density Wi-Fi

For high-density Wi-Fi deployments, the Bluesocket 1900 APs do not a include a limit on the number of clients (mobile devices) per radio. Instead, users can configure the maximum number of associated-clients per radio, based on application requirements, to ensure a better user experience.

Cloud-Based Control and Management

The Bluesocket APs operate in conjunction with the ADTRAN Bluesocket virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN), the industry’s first cloud-based control and management software. By removing 100 percent of the controller hardware, Bluesocket vWLAN® eliminates scale limitations, and enables centralized control and management of APs across multiple buildings, the corporate campus or across any geographic location. Cloud control provides the ability to trouble-shoot APs without physically traveling to each location. Bluesocket vWLAN can be deployed on a no cost vWLAN Virtual Appliance (VMware®) or a low cost vWLAN Appliance (hardware). In addition, ADTRAN offers ProCloud Wi-Fi, a cloud-hosted and fully managed wireless LAN offering.

Unmatched Security at the Edge

The Bluesocket family of APs includes a built-in stateful firewall that enforces security policies at the edge to turn away malicious traffic before it hits the LAN. In addition, with Wireless Intrusion Detection System (W-IDS) as a standard feature, comprehensive user authentication options, support for many encryption protocols, combined with Bluesocket vWLAN’s role-based authentication, ensures a secure wireless environment.

Smart Bandwidth Management

Leveraging ADTRAN’s technology leadership, the Bluesocket APs offer many smart bandwidth management features including beamforming, granular bandwidth management, Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) enabled packet prioritization, and packet remarking, to provide the highest level of performance.

DynamicRF Management

The Bluesocket APs incorporate ADTRAN’s DynamicRF™ radio resource management technology that ensures your entire wireless network is setup with the right balance of channels and power. DynamicRF reduces the effort to setup and maintain your wireless network—the system detects any non-optimal environmental conditions, and can automatically adjust RF parameters, or provide administrators with a recommended list of changes.

Zero Touch, Plug-and-Play Deployment

ADTRAN’s Bluesocket APs are completely plug-and-play and self-configuring, requiring no manual configuration, ensuring faster deployment of your wireless network.

Features:

  • 802.11a/b/g/n outdoor wireless access point with six N-type connectors
  • Dual radio 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz
  • Full 3x3:3 MIMO performance powered by 802.3at (PoE+) power source
  • Simple "zero-config" deployment
  • DynamicRF delivers automatic channel and pow er adjustments to avoid noise, interference, coverage holes and AP failures while providing load balancing and fast roaming
  • Integrated RF IDS protects WLAN from rogue APs and wireless attackers
  • Enterprise-class & secure voice over WLAN: Enterprise QoS (WMM/802.11e), Diffserv, Controller prioritization, Seamless layer-3 roaming
  • Industrial grade, weather resistant
  • Automatic channel and power adjustments to optimize coverage and maximize performance
  • Integrated stateful firewall for highest security at the edge
  • Provides greater range through beamforming

Specifications:

Bluesocket 1940 Specifications
Interfaces One auto-sensing, 10/100/1000Base-T, RJ-45 connector
Antenna Six N-type external connectors
Radios
  • 802.11a/n and 802.11b/g/n
  • Configurable for sensor-mode RF scanning
  • A-MPDU and A-MSDU frame aggregation
  • HT20 and HT40 high throughput
  • Max transmit power—100mW
  • Beamforming
Certifications Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n Certification
Mobility Services
  • Eight SSIDs per radio
  • Wireless client load balancing
  • Secure fast roaming
  • High Availability
  • Opportunistic Key Caching (OKC)
  • Mesh Networking
Voice Quality of Service
  • Wireless Multi-Media QoS
  • Seamless Layer 2 and 3 roaming
  • WMM Power Save (U-APSD)
  • Single click voice configuration
    • Simple and automatic policy configuration
    • Advanced quality of service
Security
  • 802.1x port-based authentication
  • Open System (WEP-64/128)
  • Shared System (WEP-64/128)
  • WPA/WPA2-Personal
  • WPA/WPA2-Enterprise
  • EAP-TTLS
  • EAP-PEAP
  • EAP-FAST
  • EAP-TLS
  • EAP-SIM
  • EAP-AKA
Environment
  • Operating: -40° F to 140° F (-40° C to 55° C)
  • Storage: -58° F to 150° F (-40° C to 70° C)
  • Humidity: 5% to 90% typical
  • Waterproof:
    • IP67
    • Salt-spray resistant
Physical
  • Dimensions: 9.6 in. x 7.8 in. x 1.9 in. (L x W x H) (245 mm x 200 mm x 75 mm)
  • Weight: 3.2 lbs (1.45 kg)
Power 802.3at compliant Power over Ethernet
Agency Approvals Electrical/Safety Compliance
  • UL 1950
  • CSA 22.2
  • IEC 60950
  • EN 60950
Radio Approvals
  • FCC Part 15.247
  • RSS-210 (Canada)
  • ICES-003 (Canada)
  • EN 300.328 (Europe)
  • EN 300.893 (Europe)
  • EN 301.489-1/-17 (Europe)
  • AS/NZS 44268/C-Tick (Australia & New Zealand)
Warranty One-year

Deployment:

Virtualizing the Wireless Network

ADTRAN's next-generation vWLAN architecture brings all the benefits of virtualization to the wireless network. vWLAN unifies wireless and existing wired networks to produce a truly integrated and optimized networking solution. vWLAN enables customers to dramatically reduce the cost of deploying and operating large-scale Wi-Fi networks while providing wired-equivalent performance to wireless users, with seamless roaming and enterprise-class security and policy management.

Simplified Scalability
vWLAN architecture was designed around a concept of simplified scalability and flexibility. In the era of wireless advancements including 802.11n, voice, and larger wireless networks; maintainability and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) are at the forefront of new network designs. vWLAN removes the complexities and limitations of dealing with controller capacity by centralizing the management and control functions. Further advantages are gained with security and mobility distributed at the edge of the network, the logical placement in networks that are designed for scalability and high availability. Adding additional access points to the vWLAN system is as easy as installing an ADTRAN software license, which extends coverage to thousands of APs without needing to worry about controller capacity or adding additional hardware.

Unprecedented Wireless Security
The Bluesocket vWLAN solution was designed from the beginning with security in mind from both the client side and network side of the system. The Bluesocket APs control the data plane and include a built-in stateful firewall that enforces security policies at the edge to turn away malicious traffic before it hits the LAN. In addition, with Wireless Intrusion Detection System (W-IDS) as a standard feature, comprehensive user authentication options, support for multiple encryption protocols, combined with role-based authentication, Bluesocket vWLAN ensures a secure wireless environment.

Optimized Performance
With vWLAN, 802.11n system capacity is no longer computed by the backplane capacity of the hardwarebased controller; rather, it's determined by the aggregate throughput of the APs. This is a revolutionary change from traditional, centralized wireless LAN solutions. The vWLAN distributed architecture enables a tenfold increase in total capacity. Because the packet forwarding functionality is offloaded from the controller to the access point, the controller is free to now manage thousands of AP's and tens of thousands of users.

Businesses of all Sizes
vWLAN provides a flexible solution that can operate in multiple deployments from a branch office to a large campus environment while offering a lower cost of ownership and optimal performance. Remote offices deployments are demanding more from wireless LAN solutions and vWLAN responds by integrating flexibility into the security and data forwarding modules. Wireless LAN systems, especially in large campus environments, are expected to provide minimal downtime as they support a significant number of users and critical applications. vWLAN addresses this requirement by providing a seamless, high availability solution that is transparent to the wireless users (with zero packet loss) while also providing flexible deployment options. Virtualization By virtualizing the centralized management and control function and making it available on a hypervisor, like VMware, ADTRAN removes 100 percent of the controller hardware, vastly reducing capital costs and TCO. This in conjunction with the other benefits that virtualization provides like, speedy deployments, infinite scale and virtual consolidation across the organization, makes vWLAN on VMware the most powerful and complete choice for an efficient, secure, high performing and cost-effective wireless LAN solution.

Virtualizing the Wireless Network Deployment

vWLAN Benefits

  • Eliminates the cost and constraints of a physical controller: Eliminating the physical controller triggers a number of advantages not the least of which is cost. Both the initial CAPEX and the ongoing OPEX associated with the controller are gone.
  • Enforces network security at the edge: vWLAN takes advantage of intelligent access points and enforces security policies at the edge. A full stateful firewall is configured and managed centrally but the policy is enforced at the access point.
  • Provides seamless, cost-effective scaling: vWLAN separates the control and data plane. This allows for separate scaling and greater capacity. Adding more access points (data plane) does not drive an increase in the control plane. Likewise, adding more locations or more users does not require an additional investment in the control plane.
  • Optimizes Performance: With vWLAN, system capacity is no longer determined by the backplane capacity of the controller; rather, capacity is a function of the aggregate throughput of the APs.
  • Flexibility: Virtualization permits a single application to run independent of the underlying server infrastructure. A vWLAN control instance in one city can control access points anywhere in the world.
  • Reliability: vWLAN can be configured in a high availability arrangement such that a failover can take place with zero packet loss. Reliability is based on the dependency of the data center as opposed to a single purpose controller.

Bluesocket APs Comparison:


  BSAP 1800/1840 BSAP 1920/1925 BSAP 1930/1935 BSAP 1940
Type Indoor Indoor Indoor Outdoor
Deployment Scenario High density – offices, schools, hospitals, retail stores High density – offices, schools, hospitals, retail stores Ultra high density – indoor arenas, conference centers, hotel lobbies, libraries Ultra high density outdoors – warehouses, college commons, outdoor malls, harsh weather environments
Radio Specification 2x3:2 Dual Radio 802.11a/b/g/n, MIMO 2x2:2 Dual Radio 802.11a/b/g/n, MIMO 3x3:3 Dual Radio 802.11a/b/g/n, MIMO 3x3:3 Dual Radio 802.11a/b/g/n, MIMO
Antennas 1800 – Six internal antennas
1840 – Six external connectors
1920 – Four internal antennas
1925 – Four external connectors
1930 – Six internal antennas
1935 – Six external connectors
1940 – Six external connectors
Throughput 600 Mbps 600 Mbps 900 Mbps 900 Mbps
Physical Profile Slim profile, mounts flush to drop ceiling Ultra-slim, smoke detector style, round profile Ultra-slim, square profile, mounts flush to drop ceiling Rugged industrial design, weather resistant, outdoor
Dimensions W 8"x D 8"x H 2" DIA ~6.5" x H 1.5" W 6.5" x D 6.5" x H 1.5" L ~10" x W 8" x H 3"
Weight 2 lbs 0.44 lbs 1.25 lbs 3.2 lbs
Power 802.3af PoE 802.3af PoE 802.3af PoE or 802.3at PoE+ 802.3at PoE+
Enclosure Plenum rated Plenum rated Plenum rated Ruggedized, weather resistant
Warranty 1 year hardware 1 year hardware 1 year hardware 1 year hardware

Documentation:

Download the ADTRAN Bluesocket 1940 Datasheet (PDF).

 

ADTRAN Products
Bluesocket Access Point
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- Dual radio, Dual Band (2.4GHz/5GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n with 6 N-type external antenna connectors supporting a MIMO antenna array, 3x3:3 - Includes mount kit.
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