4ipnet OWL800 - Rugged Multi-Radio Multi-Mode 802.11a/b/g Outdoor Access Point

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4ipnet OWL800 - Rugged Multi-Radio Multi-Mode 802.11a/b/g Outdoor Access Point

4ipnet OWL800 - Rugged Multi-Radio Multi-Mode 802.11a/b/g Outdoor Access Point

Price:

$800.00

SKU:

OWL800

Brand:

4ipnet

Weight:

1.00 KGS

Shipping:

Calculated at checkout

Product Description

Heavy Duty Design

Rugged Housing, Industrial-grade Components,Redundant Power over Ethernet Inputs

The OWL800 is a rugged access point specifically designed for building wireless networks in harsh outdoor or critical industrial environments. Its IP68 rated metal housing is weather-proof, water-tight and rust-resistant. Inside it contains industrial-grade components to allow for operation under extreme temperatures (-30~+70oC) and provide surge immunity up to 15KV. Tolerant to vibration and wind, OWL800 is also ideal for installation at locations such as railways, bridges and windy harbors. Its dual Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports provides redundant power feeds to increase power supply availability.

Hardware Flexibility for Networking

Multi-Radio, External Antenna Connectors

Hardware wise, a single OWL800 is capable of hosting 2-4 multiple radio modules simultaneously. Each module can be used for serving wireless clients, building wireless bridges, or establishing wireless backhauls. For some countries that permit high-power transmission, higher power modules are optionally available. There are 4 N-type antenna connectors extended from the modules on the OWL800 board, which not only gives the flexibility in choosing antennas but greatly simplifies the antenna installation.

Software Flexibility for Networking

Multi-Mode, Multi-Link,AP, Bridge/Mesh Node, Gateway

To support diversified wireless network architectures, the OWL800 provides multiple operating modes,including Point-to-Point Bridge, Point-to-Multipoint Bridge, AP station and AP Gateway. Unlike most of common access points that rely on a single radio for different purposes at one time, the OWL800 with multiple radio modules receives and transmits over-the-air signals for each bridge link or AP station with one dedicated wireless radio to prevent degraded performance.

Wireless Mesh Deployment with OWL800

Combined with a variety of directional antennas (chosen by professionals), one OWL800 with multiple radios is easy to serve clients located in different directions as well as to cover longer range. With all modules supporting a/b/g bands, more channels are available for better channel planning. For example, to reduce radio interferences, network planners may select channels in 5 GHz for backhaul or bridges while allocating non-overlapping channels in 2.4 GHz for serving clients.

Last-mile (Backhaul) Connecting to WISP and Point-to-Multipoint Deployment

Enterprise-grade Network Properties All the Way

Support QoS Tags, VLAN Tags, and Encryption over WDS Bridges

For the purpose of data security and network efficiency, VLAN and QoS[1] tagging are common practices used by enterprises for segregating user traffics and prioritizing voice/video/data traffics. OWL800 not only supports AES encryption and VLAN/QoS tagging over the air between its wireless clients and itself (client to AP) but also supports same over wireless WDS[2] links in-between OWL800 devices (AP to AP). Most of access points on the market may support the same scenario for the client-to-AP connections, but not for the AP-to-AP communications. OWL800 allows enterprises to implement VLAN and QoS dependent applications over the wireless network as consistently as they could in the wired network. Take a VoIP implementation for example: an enterprise could reserve a VLAN with higher bandwidth for voice transmission by using a QoS tag to prioritize voice traffic.

High Processing Power

Multi-Radio Processors plus One Intel IXP CPU,Self-contained Hotspot Gateway with SPI Firewall

Besides the Atheros™ processors in the multiple radio modules that handle the wireless traffic dedicatedly, there is a built-in powerful IXP CPU for extra applications and traffic processing without sacrificing its radio performance. When working standalone or as the root node of a mesh network, an OWL800 can be configured in Gateway mode that has hotspot and firewall features built-in. More than just a RADIUS authenticator; OWL800 running in Gateway mode has a built-in local user database, supports time-based billable accounts, and works with multiple external RADIUS servers.

Usually, in a multi-point hotspot deployment, a central access controller is placed indoors in the data center, to authenticate clients and process traffic of clients. It is a typical model as mentioned above when multiple OWL800 devices work under a 4ipnet Controller. However, there are saturations when budget is tight to acquire both good outdoor access points and a decent controller. OWL800 in Gateway mode, acting as a local hotspot gateway with built-in radio modules, would be ideal economic wise. For a small WISP operator, the feature-rich OWL800 brings the best price/performance solution for deploying a serviceable wireless network in a remote venue, such as a distant village with less than 10 households. OWL800 can be employed as the village’s WiFi base station and at the same time a hotspot gateway!

4ipnet introduces a quick, easy, flexible and cost-effective way of deploying outdoor wireless network by using the combination of OWL800 and 4ipent’s other outdoor equipments such as OWL500/510.