WD-AP1500
- Wi-Fi 7
- 9.3 Gbps Speed
- Tri-Radio + Scanning Radio
- 10G Ethernet & SFP+ Uplink
- AI RF Optimization
- Advanced Security (WPA3)
Key Features
Wi-Fi 7 AP with Powerful Capabilities
WatchDog Wi-Fi 7 Series Access Points (APs) are specifically designed for demanding users, corely delivering secure, highly resilient, and high-performance Wi-Fi connectivity—accurately meeting the rigorous wireless experienc e requirements of enterprise-grade scenarios. WatchDog Wi-Fi 7 series APs support three flexible AP modes (CloudAP, FitAP, AnchorAP), which can operate independently or work in collaboration with wireless controllers and also supports CWMP protocol. They can be freely switched according to actual deployment needs, adapting to different network architectures. Meanwhile, they are paired with WatchDog cloud-based deployment platform and WD-NMC on-premises deployment platform, both platforms are equipped with capabilities for intelligent automated management, AI-driven insights, and unified infrastructure management and control. Leveraging these two flexible deployment options, users can easily enable full-lifecycle management of Wi-Fi 7 APs, maximizing the efficiency of intelligent O&M (Operations and Maintenance). This thus ultimately meets the diverse application scenario needs of various enterprises.
Wi-Fi Advance Features
The device adopts a tri-radio architecture with six spatial streams, supporting 4x4 MIMO across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands. The 6 GHz band supports channel bandwidths of up to 320 MHz, enabling a maximum tri-band aggregated throughput of up to 9.335 Gbps. The 6 GHz radio supports flexible mode switching. When reconfigured to the 5 GHz band, the access point can operate in dual 5 GHz mode, allowing higher client capacity and improved performance across diverse deployment scenarios. The access point is equipped with one 10GE electrical port and one 10G SFP+ optical port. The SFP+ port supports PoE input, enabling up to 400 meters of PoE+ (802.3at) power delivery over a hybrid copper -fiber cable. It integrates a Bluetooth module, PoE-out port, and USB interface, supporting IoT expansion and enabling flexible connectivity for a wide range of IoT applications. Additionally, AI-driven dynamic power-saving technology optimizes energy consumption, helping reduce operational costs while maintaining performance.
WD NMC On-Premises Deployment and Management
WD Wi-Fi 6 series APs can work in cloud AP mode, and can also collaborate with wireless controllers (ACs). If combined with the WD WD-NMC platform, enterprises can achieve unified monitoring and management of wired and wireless networks, and obtain an integrated operation and maintenance experience. The WD-NMC platform is equipped with an intuitive, user-friendly web interface, supports network control, and provides a unified view of the network topology while enabling policy-based network management.
Diverse Multi-Device Collaboration Modes for APs
WD Wi-Fi 6 series APs support operation in FitAP mode and work in collaboration with wireless controllers, switches, routers and security products with embedded wireless controllers. This enables them to adapt to scenarios of different scales, simplify O&M (Operations and Maintenance) to reduce costs, enhance network performance and security, support flexible business expansion, and ultimately achieve on-demand deployment while protecting customers' early-stage investments
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Standards
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
802.11ax uses OFDMA to allow multiple users to transmit data simultaneously. OFDMA splits a channel into sub - channels, known as resource units (RUs), with specific subcarriers, and assigns RUs to different users for simultaneous transmission. OFDMA enables simultaneous multi-user transmission and reduces latency caused by channel contention.
DL/UL MU-MIMO
DL/UL MU-MIMO technology allows AP to send data to multiple stations simultaneously, breaking through the traditional wireless serial communication mechanism, increasing the utilization rate of wireless spectrum resources, and improving the number of effective access users and access experience under high -density deployment.
BSS coloring
Spatial reuse allows the access points and their clients to differentiate between BSSs, assigns a different color per BSS to help access point identify co-channel interference and stop transmission in time. This optimizes frequency reuse and improves network capacity.
Target wake time (TWT)
TWT improves power efficiency and reduces contention by increasing client sleep time and allowing negotiation of the times that clients can access the medium.
SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS
Product Capabilities
- Basic Information - Indoor, dual-radio AP, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac Wave 2/ax
- AP Operating Mode - Fit AP Mode, managed by Wireless LAN Controller
Cloud AP Mode, managed by WD intelligent O&M platform
Note: AP Operating Modes can be switched via CLI, Wireless LAN Control WD intelligent O&M platform, Reset button - Supported Wireless LAN Controllers - WD Wireless LAN Controllers
- Frequency and MIMO - Dual-radio mode
5GHz, 4×4:4, 4.8Gbps
2.4GHz, 4×4:4, 0.575Gbps - Compliance and Bandwidth - 5GHz, 802.11a/n/ac/ax
20MHz/40MHz/80MHz/160MHz
2.4GHz, 802.11b/g/n/ax
20MHz/40MHz - Maximum Transmission Speed - 5.95Gbps (4x4 160MHz on 5GHz, and 4x4 40MHz on 2.4GHz)
- Maximum Number of Clients - 640 (512 on 5 GHz, 128 on 2.4 GHz)
Note: the actual number of users varies according to the environment - Maximum Number of BSSIDs for Each Radio - 16 on 5 GHz, 8 on 2.4 GHz
802.11ax
- MU-MIMO - Uplink / Downlink Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO)
- OFDMA - Uplink / Downlink Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
- TWT - Target Wake Time, allowing clients to sleep for a predetermined period of time and be awakened only when network communication is needed, effectively reducing the power consumption.
- BSS coloring/SR - Spatial reuse, dividing different BSSs into different colors to avoid co-frequency interference and improve the user experience of wireless networks
WLAN Basics
- A-MPDU - Aggregated MAC Protocol Data Unit, improves the data transmission efficiency of wireless networks by optimizing the composition of TX/RX directional data packets
- A-MSDU - Aggregated MAC Service Data Unit, improves the data transmission efficiency of wireless networks by optimizing the composition of TX/RX directional data packets
- LDPC - Low-density Parity-Check, improves the communication efficiency of wireless networks through error correction coding technology
- LACP - Link Aggregation Control Protocol, achieving bandwidth aggregation, redundancy backup, and load balancing, the APs require at least 2 ports
- STBC - Space-Time Block Coding, improve the channel capacity of wireless networks through multi-antenna coding technology
- DFS - Dynamic Frequency Selection, automatically identify DFS frequency bands, automatically adjust frequencies of the devices, and avoid interference with other devices
- TxBF - Transmit Beamforming, improve the signal-to-noise ratio of wireless network signal transmission by adjusting the beam direction of antenna transmitting signals
- CCF - Cellular coexistence feature, use built-in software filtering to minimize the impact of interference from 3G/4G cellular networks
- MRC - Maximum-ratio combining, improve signal reception quality
- CDD/CSD - Cyclic Delay Diversity/Cyclic Shift Diversity, improve signal reception quality
Tunnel Management
- CAPWAP tunnel - Unicast/broadcast/DNS/DHCP/static IP method for discovering AC
- NAT - NAT between AC and AP
- DTLS - Tunnel between AC and AP support DTLS encryption
- IPv4/IPv6 - Tunnel between AC and AP support IPv4 and IPv6
- Time synchronization - Synchronizing clock information from AC
- Dual tunnel - Establishing CAPWAP tunnels with two ACs
- PPPOE - PPPOE Client
- IPsec Cloud AP mode - Support IPsec
WLAN Extension
- RF adjustment - Automatic channel/power/bandwidth adjustment
- SSID hiding - Restrict access and improve wireless network security by SSID hiding
- Limit the number of connected users - User access count restriction based on SSID and RF
- Forwarding mode - Centralized forwarding/local forwarding/policy forwarding
- Local forwarding - Local forwarding based on SSID and VLAN
- VLAN binding - Binding VLAN based on interface/SSID/MAC
- User isolation - VLAN-based user isolation
SSID-based user isolation - Load balancing - Traffic-based load balancing
User-based load balancing
Frequency band-based load balancing, dual-5G devices only - Band steering - Improve service quality by prioritizing access to 5G frequency bands for wireless clients
- Roaming - 802.11k and 802.11v smart roaming
802.11r fast transition roaming - Multicast enhancement - Convert multicast data into unicast data for transmission, reducing network congestion
- Wireless location - Fit AP mode support BLE location
Fit AP mode support RSSI location - Bonjour gateway - Forwarding mDNS packets across VLANs
- Mesh - Mesh link security
Mesh link
Multi-hop Mesh - Wireless probing - Monitor the wireless network environment by monitoring wireless network messages
- Hotspot 2.0 - Fit AP mode support Hotspot 2.0
User Authentication
- 802.1X authentication - Local and remote 802.1X authentication
- MAC authentication - Local and remote MAC authentication
- Portal authentication - Local and remote Portal authentication
- PPSK - Fit AP mode support Private Pre-Shared Key, obtain passwords to access wireless networks through the WD Intelligent O&M platform
- Guest/Captive portal - Supported
- Portal mac-trigger - Supported
- PSK - PSK and Private-PSK
- Social Media APPs Authentication - Cloud AP mode support Google/Facebook/Twitter through the WD Intelligent O&M platform
- Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) - EAP-Transport Layer Security (TLS)
EAP-Tunneled TLS (TTLS)
Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MSCHAP) v2
Protected EAP (PEAP) v0 or EAP-MSCHAP v2
EAP-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST)
PEAP v1 or EAP-Generic Token Card (GTC)
EAP-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
Wireless Security
- Encryption - TKIP, CCMP
- WPA modes - WPA2-Personal (802.11i)
WPA2-Enterprise with 802.1X
WPA3-Personal, WPA3-Enterprise
WPA3-Enhanced Open (OWE) - Advanced Encryption Standard - AES
- Forwarding security - Supported
- Packet filtering - Supported
- MAC address filtering - Supported
- Broadcast storm suppression - Supported
- Wireless EAD - Coupled with EAD (End user Admission Domination) solution, implement security policies for terminals accessing the network to improve wireless network security
- Management frame protection - Provide management frame protection for wireless clients to enhance wireless network security
- WIPS - Wireless Intrusion Prevention System, protect the network from unauthorized access, such as Rogue AP, Rogue client, Rogue Wireless Bridge, Ad-hoc
- IPSG - IP source guard (IPSG) prevents spoofing attacks by using an IPSG binding table to filter out illegitimate packets
Layer 2 and Layer 3
- IP address configuration - Static IP/DHCP assigned IP
- DHCP - Server/client/relay
- NAT - NAT/NAT66/NAT LOG
- LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol, discovering and identifying other LLDP enabled devices and neighboring devices in the network
- IPv4 - ICMP/ACL/DHCP/TFTP/FTP/DNS
- IPv6 - ICMP/ACL/DHCP/TFTP/FTP/DNS
Service Assurance
- Remote AP - After the tunnel between AC and AP is disconnected, AP continues to provide services to clients
- Doctor AP - Fit AP mode support Doctor AP, simulates wireless client access process, diagnoses network issues, and improves network experience
- Spectrum Analysis - Displaying the non-Wi-Fi interference sources through the WD Intelligent O&M platform
- Only 802.11ax accessing - Only wireless clients that support 802.11ax can access the network, improving the network experience
- Intelligent bandwidth guarantee - Ensure that different wireless services can obtain the lowest guaranteed bandwidth during network congestion
- Port Aggregation - Multiple uplink ports for port aggregation to increase uplink bandwidth (only applicable to multiple uplink port APs)
- Broadcast suppression - Discard ARP request and response packets from wireless clients during the suppression cycle
- Prohibit weak signal client access - AP prohibits wireless clients with signals below the threshold from accessing, to avoid low-signal clients occupying more channel resources
- Terminal roaming navigation - Adjust the AP transmission power to create more roaming conditions and improve the roaming experience
- Actively triggering client relinking - AP actively sends messages to allow wireless clients to reconnect or roam actively
- Adjust channel reuse between APs - RF chip adjusts the environmental noise perceived by the device to improve AP transmission efficiency
- Fast forwarding function for client data services - Intelligent optimization of RF chip business processing can improve performance
- Shorten client sleep time - RF chips shorten client sleep time and improve transmission efficiency through beacons
- Software version anomaly repairing - After the software version is damaged due to abnormal circumstances, AP can automatically download the available software version through AC or cloud platform
Service Quality
- WMM - Wi-Fi Multimedia, improve the service quality of audio and video transmission in wireless networks through EDCA scheduling algorithm
- QoS - Priority Class, by marking TOS/DSCP fields to distinguish data streams with different priorities, high priority data streams can be quickly distributed, thereby improving service quality
Priority Class supports mapping from wireless priority to wired priority
QoS policy mapping: support QoS policy mapping based on SSID and VLAN
Layer 2 to Layer 4 packet filtering and traffic classification
- CAR - Committed Access Rate, by limiting data transmission rate, avoid network congestion caused by traffic congestion
- User bandwidth management - Allocate available bandwidth per STA
Allocate total bandwidth for all STA shares based on SSID
Dynamically adjust the available bandwidth of STA based on business
- ATF - Air Time Fairness, by allocating an equal amount of RF usage time, reducing wireless channel congestion and improving the efficiency and fairness of wireless networks
- CAC - Call Admission Control, improve the quality of service for wireless clients that have already received high priority by limiting the number of wireless clients that have received high priority
Supports number of users/Channel utilization based
Power Saving
- Green AP mode - Dynamically adjust MIMO configuration based on wireless client access status to reduce device power consumption
- U-APSD - Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery, reduce device power consumption by scheduling VoIP data streams separately from non-VoIP data streams
- SM Power Save - Spatial Multiplexing Power Save, reduce device power consumption through low-power standby mode
Management and Maintenance
- GUI - Cloud AP mode support WEB management via HTTP/HTTPS
- SNMP - In Fit AP Mode, the Wireless LAN Controller can support SNMP V1/V2c/V3
- MIB - RFC 1213 MIB-II
RFC 3418 Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Remote debugging - SSH V2.0/Telnet/FTP/TFTP
- Local debugging - Support CLI
- Information maintenance - Cloud AP mode support Syslog
- Secure boot - Supporting firmware protection, ensuring the integrity of the subsequent running program codes through the trusted Boot-Loader, forming a trusted device boot chain
- Netconf - Cloud AP mode support Netconf provides programmable and scalable methods to manage network devices
IEEE Standards
- IEEE standards 802.11 - IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac Wave 2/ax
IEEE 802.11d/e/h/i/w/u
IEEE 802.11k/v/r
- IEEE standards 802.3 - 802.3af/at/bt
- 802.15 - 802.15.1
Hardware Specifications
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Weight | 1.05Kg |
| Dimensions (W × D × H) | 210 mm × 210 mm × 45 mm (without mounting brackets) |
| Interface | 1 x 100/1000M/2.5G/5G/10G Ethernet, RJ-45, PoE input 1 x 1000M/2.5G/5G/10G optical, SFP+, PoE input 1 x 10/100/1000M/2.5G Ethernet, RJ-45, PoE output Note: 10G Ethernet and 10G optical are combo port |
| Console port | 1 x Management console port (RJ-45) |
| USB port | 1 (2.0) at 2.5W |
| PoE input | 1 x 100/1000M/2.5G/5G/10G Ethernet, 802.3bt/at 1 x 1000M/2.5G/5G/10G optical, 802.3bt/at |
| PoE output | 1 x 10/100/1000M/2.5G Ethernet, 802.3af |
| Local power supply | 54V DC (center-positive circular plug) power adapter (sold separately) |
| Antenna type | Built-in omni-directional antenna |
| Antenna Gain | 6GHz peak gain: 6.4dBi 5GHz peak gain: 5.8dBi 2.4GHz peak gain: 5.3dBi Note: The equivalent antenna gain is 4.7dBi in 6GHz, 4.1dBi in 5GHz and 2.8dBi in 2.4GHz |
| Built-in IoT module | BLE5.3 |
| External IoT Module | RFID/Zigbee |
| Frequency bands | 2.400 to 2.4835GHz ISM 5.150 to 5.250GHz U-NII-1 5.250 to 5.350GHz U-NII-2A 5.470 to 5.725GHz U-NII-2C 5.725 to 5.850GHz U-NII-3/ISM 5.850 to 5.895GHz U-NII-4 5.925 to 6.425GHz U-NII-5 6.425 to 6.525GHz U-NII-6 6.525 to 6.875GHz U-NII-7 6.875 to 7.125GHz U-NII-8 Note: The available bands and channels are dependent on the configured regulatory domain (country) |
| Modulation technology | 802.11b: Direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) 802.11a/g/n/ac: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) 802.11ax/be: Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) |
| Modulation mode | 11b: BPSK, QPSK, CCK 11a/g/n: BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM 11ac: BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM 11ax: BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM 11be: BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, 4096QAM |
| 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 (NSS = 1 to 4, HT20 to HT40) 802.11ac: 6.5 to 6,933 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS = 1 to 8, VHT20 to VHT160) 802.11ax: 7.3 to 9,608 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS = 1 to 8, HE20 to HE160) 802.11be: 7.3 to 23,059 (MCS0 to MCS13, NSS = 1 to 8, EHT20 to EHT320) |
| Maximum transmit power | 6G: 23dBm 5G: 23dBm 2.4G: 23dBm Note: Transmit power is multi-chain combined power, no antenna gain is included. The actual transmit power depends on local laws and regulations. Note: To comply with spectrum regulatory requirements across different regions, the 6GHz RF (Radio Frequency) function of the device will be in a disabled state in countries/regions where the use of the 6GHz band is prohibited. Once the policy for 6GHz band usage in such countries/regions is implemented, this function can be officially activated in conjunction with future software update processes, ensuring the device operation complies with local regulations. |
| Adjustable power granularity | Configurable in increments of 1dBm |
| Reset button | Restoration to factory default, AP mode control (CloudAP/FitAP) |
| Kensington | Kensington security slot |
| Installation | Wall mounting/ceiling mounting, the mounting bracket has been preinstalled on the back of the AP |
| Indicators (LED) | Yellow/green/blue status LEDs for different working states indicate boot loader status, association status, operating status, and fault states of the system |
| Temperature | Operating temperature: –10°C to +50°C Storage temperature: –40°C to +70°C |
| Humidity | Operating humidity: 5% to 95% (non-condensing) Storage humidity: 5% to 95% (non-condensing) |
| Protection class | IP42 |
| Overall power consumption | 40W (including PSE and USB) 22.5W (excluding PSE and USB) |
| Surge protection | Common Mode: 4KV |
| Overall power consumption by power source | 802.3bt: 6GHz radio 4x4, 5GHz radio 4x4, 2.4GHz radio 4x4, link speed 10Gbps, PSE/USB Yes, max power consumption 42.12W 802.3at: 6GHz radio 4x4, 5GHz radio 4x4, 2.4GHz radio 4x4, link speed 10Gbps, PSE/USB No, max power consumption 24.62W 802.3af: - DC: 6GHz radio 4x4, 5GHz radio 4x4, 2.4GHz radio 4x4, link speed 10Gbps, PSE/USB Yes, max power consumption 42.12W |
| Safety standards | IEC/EN 62368-1 GB 4943.1 |
| EMC standards | EN 301 489-1 EN 301 489-3 EN 301 489-17 EN 60601-1-2 EN 55032 EN 55035 CISPR 32 CISPR 35 IEC/EN 61000-4-2 IEC/EN 61000-4-3 IEC/EN 61000-4-4 IEC/EN 61000-4-5 IEC/EN 61000-4-6 IEC/EN 61000-4-8 IEC/EN 61000-4-11 IEC/EN 61000-3-2 IEC/EN 61000-3-3 |
| Radio standards | ETSI EN 300 328 ETSI EN 301 893 ETSI EN 300 440 FCC Part 15E |
| RoHS standards | EN IEC 63000:2018 |
| Health standards | EN 50385:2017, EN IEC 62311:2020 |
| MTBF (25°C) | >2635665 hours |