WAPC-1232HP

Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+

Wireless Management Solution in All Aspects
PLANET WAPC-1232HP, a brand-new Wireless Access Point Controller, features smart AP control, L2+/L4 IP management and intelligent PoE capability to enable service providers and IT managers to control all wireless APs at the same time in small and medium wireless network environments, such as hotels, villas, resorts and any public area deployment. The WAPC-1232HP provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit Switching engine along with 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 30-watt 802.3at PoE+, 2 additional Gigabit copper ports and another 2 extra 100/1000BASE-X SFP fiber slots. Its simplified deployment and management ease the integration of devices into the existing wired and wireless networks.
Centralized Remote Control of Managed APs
PLANET Wireless AP Controller features centralized remote control of managed APs without needing to manually configure each AP for the wireless SSID, radio band and security settings. With one click of the mouse for the one-time configuration of the WAPC-1232HP’s wireless parameters, wireless settings of multiple APs can be simultaneously established to minimize deploying time, effort and cost.
Optimizing Wireless Network within Minutes
The WAPC-1232HP offers a user-friendly Web GUI for easy configuration. It enables wireless IT managers to complete a four-step configuration process of multiple APs. Through this Web interface, the wireless IT managers can discover manageable APs on the networks first, edit AP profiles and then apply the profiles to selected AP or AP group. Following these steps, configurations for multiple APs can be done in just a few minutes.
Wireless AP Cluster Management
The WAPC-1232HP supports wireless AP cluster management, which enables the central management of a group of wireless APs at one time. According to requirements, wireless APs can be flexibly expanded or removed from a wireless AP group in the future.
Centralized Power Management for Wireless AP Networking
The eight Gigabit PoE ports of the WAPC-1232HP can be used to provide power directly to APs that connect to the AP controller. Each of the eight Gigabit ports provides 30 watts of power, which means a total power budget of up to 240 watts can be utilized simultaneously without considering the different types of PoE applications being employed. It provides a quick, safe and cost-effective Power over Ethernet network solution to Access Points for small businesses and enterprises.
Built-in Unique PoE Functions for AP Power Control
As a managed PoE Switch for stable and reliable wireless AP operation, the WAPC-1232HP features special PoE Management functions:
■ AP Alive Check
■ Scheduled AP Power Recycling
■ PoE Schedule
■ SMTP/SNMP Trap Event Alert

Intelligent PoE AP Alive Check
The WAPC-1232HP can be configured to monitor connected AP status in real time via ping action. Once the AP stops working and responding, the WAPC-1232HP will recycle the PoE port power and bring the AP back to work. It will greatly enhance the network reliability through the PoE port resetting the AP’s power source and reduce administrator management burden.
PoE Schedule for Energy Saving
The “PoE schedule” function enables wireless IT managers to activate or inactivate PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals, which is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and money.

Robust Layer2 Features
The WAPC-1232HP can be programmed for advanced switch management function, such as dynamic port link aggregation, Q-in-Q VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), Loop protection, IGMP/MLD snooping, Layer 2/4 QoS, and bandwidth control. The WAPC-1232HP allows the operation of a high-speed trunk with multiple ports and supports connection fail-over as well.
Powerful Security
The WAPC-1232HP offers comprehensive layer2 to layer4 access control list (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It can be used to restrict to network access by denying packets based on source and destination IP address, TCP/UDP port number or defined typical network applications. Its protection mechanism also comprises802.1x port-based and MAC-based users and device authentication.

Enhanced Security and Traffic Control
The WAPC-1232HP also provides DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Dynamic ARP Inspection functions to prevent IP snooping from attack and discard ARP packets with invalid MAC address. The network administrator can now build highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.
User-friendly Secure Management
For efficient management, the WAPC-1232HP is equipped with console, Web and SNMP management interfaces. With the built-in web-based management interface, the WAPC-1232HP offers an easy-to-use, platform independent management and configuration facility. Moreover, the WAPC-1232HP offers remote secure management by supporting SSH, SSL and SNMPv3 connection which can have the packet content encrypted at each session.
Ordering Information
WAPC-1232HP Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+ (10 x 10/100/1000T + 2 x 100/1000 SFP, 32 x APs controllable)
Centralized AP Management for Enterprises
When service providers deploy a large number of wireless APs in buildings such as hotel, villas, resorts and more, PLANET WPAC-1232HP Wireless Access Point Controller helps service providers and IT managers control all wireless APs at the same time. The WAPC-1232HP enables administrators to effectively manage up to 32 controlled wireless access points in different locations. The administrator can automatically discover, configure, update and monitor all the managed APs through one single browser-based web user interface. Such design avoids the need to configure the wireless APs one by one.
Ordering Information
WAPC-1232HP Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+ (10 x 10/100/1000T + 2 x 100/1000 SFP, 32 x APs controllable)
Physical Port
  • 10-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper with 8-Port IEEE 802.3at PoE Injector (Port-1 to Port-8)
  • 2 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots, SFP type auto detection
  • RJ45 type console interface for basic management and setup

Wireless AP Management
  • Automatically discovers managed APs, up to 32 units
  • Locally maintains configuration profiles for all managed APs
  • Centrally monitors all managed APs’ statuses and associated client list
  • Eight built-in 802.3at PoE+ ports to directly manage AP power control
  • AP alive check for automatic operating status diagnostic

Power over Ethernet
    • Complies with IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus
    • Backward compatible with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
    • Up to 8 ports for IEEE 802.3af/at devices powered
    • Supports PoE power up to 30.8 watts for each PoE port
    • Auto detects powered device (PD)
    • Remote power feeding up to 100m
    • PoE Management
- Total PoE power budget control- Per port PoE function enable/disable- PoE Port Power feeding priority- Per PoE port power limitation- PD classification detection- PD alive-check
Layer 2 Features
    • Storm Control support
- Broadcast / Multicast / Unicast / Unknown unicast
    • Supports VLAN
- IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN- Up to 255 VLANs groups, out of 4095 VLAN IDs- Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad)- Private VLAN Edge (PVE)- Protocol-based VLAN- MAC-based VLAN- IP Subnet-based VLAN- Voice VLAN- Management VLAN
    • Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
- STP, IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol- RSTP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol- MSTP, IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (via VLAN)- STP BPDU Guard and BPDU filtering
    • Supports Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)- Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)- Maximum 4 trunk groups, up to 4 ports per trunk group- Up to 8Gbps bandwidth (full duplex mode)
  • Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
  • Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port
  • Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops

Layer 3 IP Routing Features
  • Supports maximum 32 software static routes and route summarization

Quality of Service
    • Ingress Shaper and Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
    • 8 priority queues on all switch ports
    • Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS- TOS / DSCP / IP Precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets- IP TCP/UDP port number- Typical network application
  • Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies
  • Traffic-policing policies on the switch port
  • DSCP remarking

Multicast
  • Supports IGMP Snooping v1, v2 and v3 for IPv4 multicasting network
  • Supports MLD Snooping v1 and v2 for IPv6 multicasting network
  • Querier mode support
  • IGMP Snooping port filtering
  • MLD Snooping port filtering
  • MVR (Multicast VLAN Registration)

Security
    • Authentication
− IEEE 802.1x Port-based / MAC-based network access authentication− Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers− TACACS+ login users access authentication− RADIUS / TACACS+ users access authentication
    • Access Control List
− IPv4 / IPv6 IP-based ACL− MAC-based ACL
  • Source MAC / IP address binding
  • Port Security for Source MAC address entries filtering
  • DHCP Snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
  • Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
  • IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
  • Auto DoS rule to defend DoS attack
  • IP address access management to prevent unauthorized intruder

Management
    • IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
    • Switch management interfaces
- Console / Telnet command line interface- Web switch management- SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 switch management- SSH / SSL secure access
    • User privilege levels control
    • System maintenance
- Firmware upload/download via HTTP / TFTP- Configuration upload / download through web interface- Dual images- Reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default- Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
  • Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms and events)
  • IPv6 IP Address / NTP / DNS management and ICMPv6
  • BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
  • DHCP Relay
  • DHCP Option82
  • NTP (Network Time Protocol)
  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP-MED
  • Cable Diagnostic technology provides the mechanism to detect and report potential cabling issues
  • PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management
Ordering Information
WAPC-1232HP Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+ (10 x 10/100/1000T + 2 x 100/1000 SFP, 32 x APs controllable)
Hardware Specifications
Copper Ports 10 x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 auto-MDI/MDI-X ports
SFP/mini-GBIC Slots 2 1000BASE-SX/LX/BX SFP interfaces (Port-11 and Port-12)
Supports 100/1000Mbps dual mode and DDM
Console Port 1 x RS232-to-RJ45 serial port (115200, 8, N, 1)
Switch Architecture Store-and-Forward
Switch Fabric 24Gbps / non-blocking
Switch Throughput 17.76Mpps@64 bytes
Address Table 8K entries, automatic source address learning and ageing
Shared Data Buffer 1392 kilobytes
ESD Protection 6KV
Flow Control IEEE 802.3x pause frame for full-duplex
Back pressure for half-duplex
Jumbo Frame 9Kbytes
Reset Button < 5 seconds: System reboot
> 5 seconds: Factory default
Dimensions (W x D x H) 330 x 200 x 43.5 mm, 1U height
Weight 2kg
LED Power, fan alert,
10/100/1000 Link / Act per RJ45 port,
100/1000 Link / Act per SFP port,
PoE-in-Use for Port 1~ 8
Power Consumption Max. 320 watts / 1091 BTU
Power Requirements 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz
Enclosure Metal
Fan Smart fan x 1 (Speed depending on operating temperature)
Wireless AP Management
Maximum Managed APs 32
Maximum AP Groups 10
Maximum APs per AP Group 32
Compatible Access Points ■ WDAP-C7200AC
■ WDAP-W7200AC
Encryption Security ■ WEP (64/128-bit) encryption security
■ WPA Personal / Enterprise (TKIP / AES)
■ WPA2 Personal / Enterprise (TKIP / AES)
■ Enterprise Class 802.1x
Centralized AP Management ■ AP auto discovery
■ Remote AP power reboot
■ AP auto IP assignment
■ AP group management
■ AP status monitoring
■ AP real-time traffic monitoring
■ AP device name / location editing
Power over Ethernet
PoE Standard IEEE 802.3af PoE / 802.3at PoE+ PSE
PoE Power Supply Type End-span
PoE Power Output Per port 56V DC, max. 30.8 watts
Power Pin Assignment 1/2(+), 3/6(-)
PoE Power Budget 240 watts (max.) @ 25 degrees C
200 watts (max.) @ 50 degrees C
PoE Ability PD @ 7 Watts:8 units
PD @ 15.4 Watts:8 units
PD @ 30.8 Watts:8 units
Layer 2 Functions
Port Configuration Port disable / enable
Auto-negotiation 10/100/1000Mbps full and half duplex mode selection
Flow control disable / enable
Port Status Display each port’s speed duplex mode, link status, flow control status, auto-negotiation status, trunk status
Port Mirroring TX / RX / both
Many-to-1 monitor
VLAN 802.1Q tagged based VLAN
802.1ad Q-in-Q tunneling
Private VLAN Edge (PVE)
MAC-based VLAN
Protocol-based VLAN
Voice VLAN
MVR (Multicast VLAN Registration)
Up to 255 VLAN groups, out of 4094 VLAN IDs
Link Aggregation IEEE 802.3ad LACP / static trunk
5 trunk groups with each 5-port trunk supported
Spanning Tree Protocol STP, IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
RSTP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
MSTP, IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
QoS Traffic classification based, strict priority and WRR
8-level priority for switching
- Port number
- 802.1p priority
- 802.1Q VLAN tag
- DSCP/TOS field in IP packet
IGMP Snooping IGMP (v1/v2/v3) Snooping, up to 255 multicast groups
IGMP Querier mode support
MLD Snooping MLD (v1/v2) Snooping, up to 255 multicast groups
MLD Querier mode support
Access Control List IP-based ACL / MAC-based ACL
Up to 256 entries
Bandwidth Control Per port bandwidth control
Ingress: 100Kbps~1000Mbps
Egress: 100Kbps~1000Mbps
Layer 3 Functions
IP Interfaces Max. 8 VLAN interfaces
Routing Table Max. 32 routing entries
Routing Protocols IPv4 software static routing
IPv6 software static routing
Management Functions
Basic Management Interfaces Console / Telnet / Web browser / SNMP v1, v2c
Secure Management Interfaces SSH, SSL, SNMP v3
SNMP MIBs RFC 1213 MIB-II
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
RFC 1643 Ethernet MIB
RFC 2863 Interface MIB
RFC 2665 Ether-Like MIB
RFC 2819 RMON MIB (Group 1, 2, 3 and 9)
RFC 2737 Entity MIB
RFC 2618 RADIUS Client MIB
RFC 2863 IF-MIB
RFC 2933 IGMP-STD-MIB
RFC 3411 SNMP-Frameworks-MIB
RFC 4292 IP Forward MIB
RFC 4293 IP MIB
RFC 4836 MAU-MIB
IEEE 802.1X PAE
LLDP
Power over Ethernet MIB
Standards Conformance
Regulation Compliance FCC Part 15 Class A, CE
Standards Compliance IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T
IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX/100BASE-FX
IEEE 802.3z Gigabit SX/LX
IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit 1000T
IEEE 802.3x flow control and back pressure
IEEE 802.3ad port trunk with LACP
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q VLAN stacking
IEEE 802.1X Port Authentication Network Control
IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus
IEEE 802.1ab LLDP
RFC 768 UDP
RFC 793 TFTP
RFC 791 IP
RFC 792 ICMP
RFC 2068 HTTP
RFC 1112 IGMP version 1
RFC 2236 IGMP version 2
RFC 3376 IGMP version 3
RFC 2710 MLD version 1
FRC 3810 MLD version 2
Environments
Operating Temperature: 0 ~ 50 degrees C
Relative Humidity: 20 ~ 95% (non-condensing)
Storage Temperature: -20 ~ 70 degrees C
Relative Humidity: 20 ~ 95% (non-condensing)
Ordering Information
WAPC-1232HP Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+ (10 x 10/100/1000T + 2 x 100/1000 SFP, 32 x APs controllable)

Quick Guide

Date Version Description Download
2015-07-24 1.0 Initial release.
Ordering Information
WAPC-1232HP Wireless AP Controller with 8-Port 802.3at PoE+ (10 x 10/100/1000T + 2 x 100/1000 SFP, 32 x APs controllable)