Product Overview
Huawei eKitEngine AP361 is an indoor access point (AP) in compliance with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard. It provides services simultaneously on the 2.4 GHz (2×2 MIMO) and 5 GHz (2×2 MIMO) frequency bands, achieving a maximum device rate of 1.775 Gbps. This AP features high bandwidth, high concurrency, and compact size, facilitating flexible deployment and saving customer investment. Such strengths make the AP a good fit for indoor coverage scenarios, such as small and micro enterprise workplaces, small- and medium-sized hospitals, commercial real estate, budget chain hotels, and primary and secondary schools.
Dual-radio mode: 2.4 GHz (2×2) + 5 GHz (2×2), providing a maximum rate of 575 Mbps and 1.2 Gbps, respectively, and a rate of up to 1.775 Gbps for the device.
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l Built-in smart antenna: automatically adjusts the coverage direction and signal strength based on the intelligent switchover algorithm. Such capability enables the AP to flexibly adapt to the application environment changes, providing accurate and stable coverage as STAs move.
l Working modes: Fit, Fat, and cloud management.
l Deployment and O&M through the HUAWEI eKit app.
Feature Descriptions
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard
l As the latest Wi-Fi standard defined in IEEE 802.11, 802.11ax improves the user access capacity and bandwidth in high-density access scenarios, reducing service latency and enhancing user experience.
l 802.11ax supports multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, allowing an AP to transmit data to and receive data from multiple STAs simultaneously and multiplying the utilization of radio spectrum resources.
l 802.11ax supports 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), improving data transmission efficiency by 25% compared with 802.11ac (supporting 256-QAM).
l Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology enables the AP to transmit data to multiple STAs at the same time using different subcarriers, reducing latency and improving network efficiency.
l Spatial reuse (SR) technology uses basic service set (BSS) coloring to enable APs and STAs to distinguish overlapping BSSs, minimizing co-channel interference.
MU-MIMO
The AP supports MU-MIMO and a maximum of four spatial streams, two spatial streams at 2.4 GHz and two spatial streams at 5 GHz. The MU-MIMO technology enables an AP to send data to multiple STAs simultaneously, which doubles the radio spectrum resource usage, increases the number of access users and bandwidth, and improves user experience in high-density access scenarios.
High-speed access
The AP supports 80 MHz frequency bandwidth, which increases the number of available data subcarriers and extends transmission channels. In addition, the AP uses 1024-QAM and MU-MIMO technologies to achieve a rate of up to 0.575 Gbps on the 2.4 GHz frequency band and 1.2 Gbps on the 5 GHz frequency band, and 1.775 Gbps for the device.
High Density Boost technology
Huawei uses the following technologies to address challenges in high-density scenarios, including access problems, data congestion, and poor roaming experience:
5G-prior access
lThe AP supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands. The 5G-prior access function enables the AP to steer STAs to the 5 GHzfrequency band preferentially, which reduces loads and interference on the 2.4 GHz frequency band, improving user experience.
Wired and wireless dual security guarantee
To ensure data security, Huawei APs integrate wired and wireless security measures and provide comprehensive security protection.
Authentication and encryption for wireless access
lThe AP supports WEP, WPA/WPA2-PSK, WPA3-SAE, WPA/WPA2-PPSK, and WPA/WPA2/WPA3-802.1X authentication/encryption modes to ensure wireless network security. The authentication mechanism is used to authenticate user identities so that onlyauthorized users can access network resources. The encryption mechanism is used to encrypt data transmitted over wireless links toensure that data can only be received and parsed by authorized users.
Wired access authentication and encryption for the AP
lThe AP access control ensures validity of APs. The Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) link protection and DTLS encryption provide security assurance, improving data transmission security between the AP and the WLAN AC (WAC).
Automatic radio calibration
Automatic radio calibration allows an AP to collect signal strength and channel parameters of surrounding APs and generate an AP topology according to the collected data. Based on the interference caused by authorized APs, rogue APs, and non-Wi-Fi interference sources, and their loads, the AP automatically adjusts its transmit power and working channel to make the network operate at the optimal performance. In this way, network reliability and user experience are improved.
Cloud-based management
The AP supports cloud-based management. It provides various authentication functions, such as PSK, Portal, SMS, and social media authentication, without the need of a WAC or an authentication server. This greatly simplifies networking and reduces CAPEX. In addition, the AP can be deployed on a cloud management platform to implement cloud-based network planning, deployment, inspection, and O&M. In multi-branch deployment scenarios, after cloud APs are pre-configured on the cloud management platform, deployment personnel only need to power on the cloud APs on site, connect them to network ports of switches, and scan their QR codes to implement the plug-and-play function. Then the pre-configurations are automatically delivered to the APs. This mode greatly accelerates network deployment. The cloud management platform can monitor the network status, device status, and STA connection status at all sites of tenants in a comprehensive and intuitive manner.
Deployment and O&M through HUAWEI eKit app
The HUAWEI eKit app supports deployment through Wi-Fi, and barcode scanning After the deployment is complete, more project maintenance operations can be performed on the HUAWEI eKit app.
Wi-Fi-based deployment
lWi-Fi-based deployment is a fast deployment mode provided by the HUAWEI eKit app. With this function, you can connect your mobile phone to the management Wi-Fi network of an AP and deploy network projects. In this way, devices can be automatically on boarded and remotely managed on the app.
Barcode scanning-based deployment
lIn addition to Wi-Fi-based deployment, the HUAWEI eKit app also provides the barcode scanning-based deployment function. With this function, you only need to scan the SN on the device chassis and synchronize the information to the Huawei eKit system toonboard the device. Barcode scanning-based deployment is ideal for the following scenarios:nDevices in a network project have been deployed through Wi-Fi, and some devices need to be added to this project for capacity expansion.
nThe device version does not support Wi-Fi-based deployment but supports barcode scanning-based deployment, and you want to deploy the device without upgrading the device version first.
Product Features
Fat/Fit AP Mode
| Item | Description |
| WLAN features | Compliance with IEEE 802.11ax and compatibility with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac Wave 2
Maximum ratio combining (MRC) Space time block code (STBC) Cyclic delay diversity (CDD)/Cyclic shift diversity (CSD) Beamforming Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) Compliance with 1024-QAM and compatibility with 256-QAM, 64-QAM, 16-QAM, 8-QAM, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and binary phase shift keying (BPSK) Low-density parity-check (LDPC) Frame aggregation, including A-MPDU (Tx/Rx) and A-MSDU (Tx/Rx) 802.11 dynamic frequency selection (DFS) Short guard interval (GI) in 20 MHz, 40 MHz, and 80 MHz modes Wi-Fi multimedia (WMM) for priority-based data processing and forwarding WLAN channel management and channel rate adjustment Note For detailed management channels, see Country Codes & Channels Compliance. Automatic channel scanning and interference avoidance Separate service set identifier (SSID) hiding configuration for each AP, supporting Chinese SSIDs Signal sustain technology (SST) Unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD) Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) in Fit AP mode Extended service set (ESS) in Fit AP mode Advanced cellular coexistence (ACC), minimizing the impact of interference from cellular networks Multi-user call admission control (CAC) 802.11k and 802.11v smart roaming 802.11r fast roaming (≤ 50 ms) |
| Network features | Compliance with IEEE 802.3ab
Auto-negotiation of the rate and duplex mode and automatic switchover between the Media Dependent Interface (MDI) and Media Dependent Interface Crossover (MDI-X) Compliance with IEEE 802.1Q SSID-based VLAN assignment VLAN trunk on uplink Ethernet ports Management channel of the AP’s uplink port in tagged or untagged mode |
| Description | Item |
| Unified authentication on the cloud management platform
Network address translation (NAT) |
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| QoS features | Priority mapping and scheduling that are compliant with Wi-Fi multimedia (WMM) to implement priority-based data processing and forwarding
WMM parameter management for each radio WMM power saving Priority mapping for upstream packets and flow-based mapping for downstream packets Queue mapping and scheduling User-based bandwidth limiting Airtime scheduling Air interface HQoS scheduling |
| Security features | Open system authentication
WEP authentication/encryption using a 64-bit, 128-bit, 152-bit or 192-bit encryption key WPA2-PSK authentication and encryption WPA2-802.1X authentication and encryption WPA3-SAE authentication and encryption WPA3-802.1X authentication and encryption WPA-WPA2 hybrid authentication WPA2-WPA3 hybrid authentication 802.1X authentication, MAC address authentication, Portal authentication, etc. DHCP snooping Dynamic ARP inspection (DAI) IP Source Guard (IPSG) |
| Maintenance features | Unified management and maintenance on the cloud management platform
Automatic login, automatic configuration loading, and plug-and-play (PnP) Batch upgrade supported Telnet STelnet using SSHv2 SFTP using SSHv2 Web-based NMS management, and login through HTTP or HTTPS Real-time configuration monitoring and fast fault locating using the NMS System status alarm Network Time Protocol (NTP) |
