EDGE access point AP505i series

Bluetooth2.4/5 GHzwireless

Extreme’s AP505i is a high performance, enterprise class 802.11ax access point at the price/performance point that is ideal for many verticals including; retail, education, hospitality, and healthcare. These enterprises need to support a high density of users and IoT devices, while delivering an exceptional user experience. The AP505i is powered by the WiNG 7 operating system. WiNG’s legendary distributed architecture places the intelligence at the edge where it unleashes the true capabilities and performance of 802.11ax, without bottlenecks and limits. WiNG incorporates the functionality of a controller in each access point, enabling network solutions with controller-less solutions using a virtual controller that supports up to 64 access points or hardware/VM controllers that can support up to 25,000 access points. To support both IoT and Guest Engagement services, the AP505i integrates Bluetooth to connect with IoT devices with Thread wireless or engage loyalty customers with Apple iBeacon. Enterprises can use Google Eddystone to send advertisements directly to shoppers, guests, and conference attendees. This makes it ideal for businesses to advertise their app-download pages, captive portals, or site- specific information. In conjunction with management system, cloud or on-premises, the AP505i provides a very rich set of data displayed via context driven widgets, representing historical data or a combination of historical and current data. This provides context-specific granularity with perspective views for locations, network, APs, individual client devices, and policy roles. In each context, administrators can adjust dashboards from widget library.