AP12 Access Point
Includes one 1 year, one 3 year, or one 5 year Cloud Subscription
Cloud Subscriptions included: SUB-MAN, SUB-AST, SUB-VNA, SUB-PMA
The AP12 access point leverages Mist AI for AX capabilities to automate network operations and boost Wi-Fi performance for environments that require easy and flexible wall plate deployment. It supports an aggregate data rate up to 1.8 Gbps concurrently on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios, and includes ports for supporting multiple IT and IoT devices.
With the support of omnidirectional Bluetooth antenna and SuperBeacon mode with iBeacon and Eddystone, the AP12 access point provides real-time network insights and asset location service without the need for battery-powered BLE beacons and manual calibration.
Managed by the Juniper Mist cloud services the AP12 access point delivers unprecedented user experiences at a lower cost for branch office, remote worker, school dormitory, and hotel room environments.
Features + Benefits
Wall Plate 802.11ax Wi-Fi
The Juniper AP12 access point is a tri-radio 2x2:2SS 802.11ax access point with maximum data rates of 1,200 Mbps in the 5GHz band and 575 Mbps in the 2.4GHz band.
The wall plate AP12 access point with Five Ethernet ports enable flexible deployment while providing multiple IT and IoT device connections.
The EX Switches provide rich streaming telemetry data to enable the insights for switch health metrics and anomaly detection. Streamline IT operations, reduce mean time to repair, and deliver optimized experiences across wired and wireless.
Automatic RF Optimization
Radio Resource Management (RRM) automates dynamic channel and power assignment, taking Wi-Fi and external sources of interference into account with its dedicated sensor radio.
Mist AI continuously monitors the coverage and capacity SLE metrics to learn and optimize the RF environment.
Unprecedented Insight and Action
A dedicated dual-band third radio collects data for our patent-pending Proactive Analytics and Correlation Engine (PACE).
The AP12 leverages machine learning to analyze user experience, correlate problems and automatically detect the root cause of problems
Dynamic Packet Capture
The Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture automatically captures packets and streams them to the cloud when major issues are detected.
This capability saves IT time and effort and eliminates the need for truck rolls with sniffers to reproduce and capture data for troubleshooting.
Effortless, Cloud-Based Setup and Updates
The AP12 automatically connects to the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture, downloads its configuration, and joins the appropriate network.
Firmware updates are retrieved and installed automatically, ensuring that the network is always up to date with new features, bug fixes, and security updates.
Premium Analytics
Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, User Engagement and Asset Visibility services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30 days of data, simplifying the process of extracting network insights from data and analytics across your enterprise to properly align your support resources or introduce enhanced premium services.
You can also subscribe to our Premium Analytics service to enable these advanced capabilities: further extend network insights and perform analytics for up to a one-year data set; enable custom reporting; and infuse telemetry from third-party data elements.
Improved Battery Efficiency for IoT Devices
By incorporating the 802.11ax Target Wake Time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, battery life for IoT devices can be extended as new IoT devices enter the network.
Dynamic Debugging
Constantly monitor services running on the AP12 Series and send alerts whenever a service behaves abnormally.
Dynamic debugging relieves IT of having to worry about an AP going offline or any services becoming unavailable.
Juniper brings true innovation to the wireless space with the world’s first AI-driven wireless LAN (WLAN).
The Juniper AI-Driven Network makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable with unprecedented visibility into the user experience through customizable Service-Level Expectation (SLE) metrics. Time-consuming manual IT tasks are replaced with AI-driven proactive automation and self-healing networks, lowering Wi-Fi operational costs and saving substantial time and money.
All operations are managed via open and programmable microservices with Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture. This delivers maximum scalability and performance while also bringing DevOps agility to wireless networking and location services.
The Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture
Juniper’s Mist AI leverages a cloud-native microservices architecture that delivers unparalleled agility, scale, and resiliency to your network. An AI engine lowers OpEx and delivers insights by using data science to analyze large amounts of rich metadata collected from Juniper Access Points.
Juniper Access Point Family
The Juniper enterprise-grade access point family consists of:
• AP45 and AP34 Series which support Wi-Fi 6E, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), and Bluetooth LE
• AP43, AP12, AP32, AP33, and AP63 Series, which support 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth LE, and IoT
• AP21, AP41 and AP61 Series, which support 802.11ac Wave 2, Bluetooth LE, and IoT
• BT11, which supports Bluetooth LE
These access points are all built on a real-time microservices platform and are managed by the Juniper Mist cloud.
Wi-Fi Cloud Services
Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance
For IT and NOC Teams
• Predictable and Measurable Wi-Fi
• Service-Level Expectations (SLE) Support
• WxLAN Policy Fabric for Role-Based Access
• Customizable Guest Wi-Fi Portal
• Radio Resource Management
Marvis Virtual Assistant
For IT Helpdesk Teams
• AI-Powered Virtual Network Assistant
• Natural Language Processing Conversational Interface
• Anomaly Detection
• Client SLE Visibility and Enforcement
• Data Science-Driven Root Cause Analysis
Bluetooth Cloud Services
Juniper Mist Asset Visibility
For Process and Resource Improvement Teams
• Identify Assets by Name and View Location
• Zonal/Room Accuracy for 3rd Party Tags
• Historical Analytics for Asset Tags
• Telemetry for Asset Tags (such as temperature and motion data)
• APIs for Viewing Assets and Analytics
Analytics Cloud Services
Juniper Mist Premium Analytics
For Network Teams
• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with WiFi Assurance and Asset Visibility Subscriptions
• End-to-end Network Visibility
• Orchestrated Networking and Application Performance Queries
• Simplified Network Transparency
For Business Teams
• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with WiFi Assurance and Asset Visibility Subscriptions
• Customer Segmentation and Reporting Based on Visitor Telemetry
• Customized* Dwell and 3rd Party Reporting for Traffic and Trend Analysis
• Correlate Customer-Guest Traffic and Trend Analysis
High Performance Wi-Fi
The AP12 access point is a tri-radio 2x2:2SS 802.11ax access point with maximum data rates of 1,200 Mbps in the 5GHz band and 575 Mbps in the 2.4GHz band. The integrated 3rd radio functions as a network, location, and security sensor, a synthetic test client radio, as well as a spectrum monitor.
By adding 802.11ax Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO), and BSS Coloring technologies, performance is
boosted to unprecedented levels to support new bandwidthhungry applications and soaring device densities.
AI for AX
With the new features that 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) introduces to boost performance and efficiency, configuring and operating an access point has has grown more complex. Juniper is applying its industry-leading Mist AI for AX technology to automate these features, optimize BSS Coloring, improve data transmission scheduling within OFDMA and MU-MIMO, and assign clients to the best radio to boost overall network performance.
Spectral Efficiency
OFDMA improves spectral efficiency so that an increasing density of devices can be supported on the network. This is especially helpful as IoT devices join the network; they use smaller data packets than mobile devices, which increases network load and contention. Additionally, BSS Coloring improves the coexistence of overlapping BSSs and allows spatial reuse within channels by reducing packet collisions. This helps you improve spectral efficiency for dense networks in which channel reuse is increasing.
Automatic RF Optimization
Juniper’s radio resource management (RRM) automates dynamic channel and power assignment, taking Wi-Fi and external sources of interference into account with its dedicated sensor radio. The AI engine continuously monitors the SLE coverage and capacity metrics to learn and optimize the RF environment. The RRM learning algorithm uses hysteresis on a 24-hour window to conduct sitewide rebalancing for optimal channel and power assignment.
Unprecedented Insight and Action
A dedicated dual-band third radio collects data for Juniper’s patent-pending Proactive Analytics and Correlation Engine (PACE), which leverages machine learning to analyze user
experience, correlate problems, and automatically detect root causes. These metrics are used to monitor SLEs and provide proactive recommendations to ensure problems don’t occur (or are fixed as quickly as possible when they do). This radio also is able to function as a synthetic test client to proactively detect and mitigate network anomalies.
Dynamic Packet Capture
The Juniper Mist platform automatically captures packets and streams them to the cloud when major issues are detected. This saves IT time and effort and eliminates the need for truck rolls with sniffers to reproduce and capture data for troubleshooting.
Marvis Virtual Conversational Assistant
Marvis is a natural language processing (NLP)-based assistant with a Conversational Interface to understand user intent and goals, simplifying troubleshooting and the collection of network insights. It uses AI and data science to proactively identify issues, determine the root causes and scope of impact, and gain insights into your network and user experiences. It eliminates the need to manually hunt through endless dashboards and CLI commands.
Effortless, Cloud-Based Setup and Updates
The AP12 access point automatically connects to the Juniper Mist cloud, downloads its configuration, and joins the appropriate network. Firmware updates are retrieved and installed automatically, ensuring that the network is always up to date with new features, bug fixes, and security updates.
Premium Analytics
Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, Engagement and Asset Tracking services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30 days of data, from which you can extract network insights across your enterprise. To extend these capabilities for more dynamic insights like motion paths and other third-party data, along with the option to generate customized reports, the Juniper Mist Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.
Improves Battery Efficiency for IoT Devices
The AP incorporates the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability and Bluetooth 5.0, which together extend IoT devices’ battery life as new IoT devices join the network.
Dynamic Debugging
Constantly monitor services running on the AP12 model and send alerts whenever a service behaves abnormally. Dynamic debugging relieves IT of having to worry about an AP going offline or any services running on it becoming unavailable.
Juniper Mist Edge
Juniper Mist Edge is an on-premises appliance that runs a tunnel termination service. Juniper APs offer a flexible data plane. Traffic can be broken out locally, or tunneled to Juniper Mist Edge. There are many use cases the Juniper Mist Edge solves, including seamless mobility in large campus environments, tunneling of guest traffic to a DMZ, IoT segmentation, and teleworker.
Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file
