aruba340 AP-344 AP-345

The Aruba 340 Series APs offer a choice of deployment andoperating modes to meet your unique management and deploymentrequirements:

For large installations across multiple sites, the ArubaActivate service significantly reduces deployment time byautomating device provisioning, firmware upgrades, and inventorymanagement. With Aruba Activate, the Instant APs arefactory-shipped to any site and configure themselves when poweredup.

The 340 Series AP is a unified AP that supports bothcontroller-based and controller-less deployment modes, providingmaximum flexibility.

Controller-based mode – When deployed in conjunction with anAruba Mobility Controller, Aruba 340 Series APs offer centralizedconfiguration, data encryption, policy enforcement and networkservices, as well as distributed and centralized trafficforwarding.

Controller-less (Instant) mode – The controller function isvirtualized in a cluster of APs in Instant mode. As the networkgrows and/or requirements change, Instant deployments can easilymigrate to controller-based mode.

Remote AP (RAP) mode for branch deployments

Air monitor (AM)1for wireless IDS, rogue detection andcontainment

Spectrum analyzer (SA)1, dedicated or hybrid, for identifyingsources of RF interference

Secure enterprise mesh portal or point

AP-344: External antenna models

AP-345: Internal antenna models

AP type: Indoor, dual radio, 5 GHz 802.11ac 4x4 MIMO and 2.4 GHz802.11n 4x4 MIMO

The 2.4 GHz radio supports all 802.11ac rates as well(proprietary extension)

Software-configurable dual radio supports:

Dual-radio mode: 5 GHz (Radio 0) and 2.4 GHz (Radio 1)

Dual-5 GHz mode: upper 5 GHz (Radio 0) and lower 5 GHz (Radio1)

5 GHz:

Four spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 1,733 Mbpswireless data rate to individual 4SS VHT80 or 2SS VHT160 clientdevices

Four spatial stream Multi User (MU) MIMO for up to 1,733 Mbpswireless data rate to up to four 1SS or two 2SS MU-MIMO capableclient devices simultaneously

Peak datarate increases to 2,166 Mbps when using 1024-QAMmodulation (proprietary extension)

2.4 GHz:

Four spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 600 Mbpswireless data rate to individual 4SS HT40 client devices, and up to800 Mbps to individual 4SS VHT40 devices (proprietaryextension)

Support for up to 256 associated client devices per radio, andup to 16 BSSIDs per radio

Supported frequency bands (country-specific restrictionsapply):

2.400 to 2.4835 GHz

5.150 to 5.250 GHz2

5.250 to 5.350 GHz2

5.470 to 5.725 GHz3

5.725 to 5.850 GHz3

Available channels: Dependent on configured regulatorydomain

Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) optimizes the use of availableRF spectrum

Supported radio technologies:

802.11b: Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS)

802.11a/g/n/ac: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing(OFDM)

Supported modulation types:

802.11b: BPSK, QPSK, CCK

802.11a/g/n/ac: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM(proprietary extension)

Transmit power: Configurable in increments of 0.5 dBm

Maximum (aggregate, conducted total) transmit power (limited bylocal regulatory requirements):

2.4 GHz band: +24 dBm (18dBm per chain)4

5 GHz band: +24 dBm (18 dBm per chain)4

Note: Conducted transmit power levels exclude antenna gain. Fortotal (EIRP) transmit power, add antenna gain.

Advanced Cellular Coexistence (ACC) minimizes the impact ofinterference from cellular networks

Maximum ratio combining (MRC) for improved receiverperformance

Cyclic delay/shift diversity (CDD/CSD) for improved downlink RFperformance

Short guard interval for 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz and 160 MHzchannels

Space-time block coding (STBC) for increased range and improvedreception

Low-density parity check (LDPC) for high-efficiency errorcorrection and increased throughput

Transmit beam-forming (TxBF) for increased signal reliabilityand range

Supported data rates (Mbps):

802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11

802.11a/g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54

802.11n: 6.5 to 600 (MCS0 to MCS31)

802.11ac: 6.5 to 1,733 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS = 1 to 4 forVHT20/40/80, NSS = 1 to 2 for VHT160)

802.11ac: 1,950 and 2,166 (MCS10 and MCS11, NSS = 1 to 4 forVHT20/40/80, NSS = 1 to 2 for VHT160)5

802.11n high-throughput (HT) support: HT20/40

802.11ac very high throughput (VHT) support: VHT20/40/80/160

802.11n/ac packet aggregation: A-MPDU, A-MSDU

AP-344: External antenna models. Two sets of four RP-SMA antennaconnectors:

With AP in dual-radio mode: 2.0 dB for 5 GHz, 2.0 dB for 2.4GHz

With AP in dual-5 GHz mode: 2.0 dB for upper 5 GHz, 1.7 dB forlower 5 GHz

With AP in dual-radio mode: not used

With AP in dual-5 GHz mode: 5 GHz interfaces from radio 1 (lower5 GHz)

With AP in dual-radio mode: dual-band interfaces, diplexingsignals to/from radio 0 (full 5 GHz) and radio 1 (2.4 GHz)

With AP in dual-5 GHz mode: 5 GHz interfaces from radio 0 (upper5 GHz)

Primary: A0 – A3, connected to chains 0 through 3 respectivelyon each associated radio

Secondary: B0 – B3, connected to chains 0 through 3respectively

Total internal losses between radio and external connectors:

AP-345: Internal antenna models. A total of eight internalomni-directional  downtilt antennas

Radio 1: 3.1 dBi in 2.4 GHz and 2.7 dBi in 5 GHz.

Radio 0: 2.2 dBi in 5 GHz.

With AP in dual-radio mode: used for full 5 GHz only

With AP in dual-5 GHz mode: used for upper 5 GHz only

With AP in dual-radio mode: used for 2.4 GHz only

With AP in dual-5 GHz mode: used for lower 5 GHz only

Radio 1: four cross-polarized dual-band downtiltomni-directional antennas for 4x4 MIMO with peak antenna gain of5.8 dBi (2.4 GHz) and 5.6 dBi (5 GHz) per antenna.

Radio 0: four cross-polarized 5 GHz downtilt omni- directionalantennas for 4x4 MIMO with peak antenna gain of 5.5 dBi perantenna

All internal antennas are optimized for horizontal ceilingmounted orientation of the AP. The downtilt angle for maximum gainis roughly 30 degrees.

Combining the patterns of all antennas per radio, the peak gainof the average (effective) pattern is: