WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points WLA321, WLA322, WLA522, WLA532, WLA632 Product Overview The Juniper Networks WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points provide client access, spectrum analysis, bridging, and wireless mesh services for indoor and outdoor deployments of enterprise wireless LANs (WLANs). Configured and controlled by Juniper Networks WLC Series Wireless LAN Controllers, the WLA Series performs deep packet inspection, encryption, traffic forwarding, and security enforcement locally, which results in optimized traffic flows, radically reduced latency, and massive scalability. Product Description The Juniper Networks® WLA Series Wireless LAN Access Points provide complete client access, spectrum analysis, mesh, and bridging services. Featuring support for 802.11n as well as 802.11a/b/g, the WLA Series provides seamless mobility both indoors and outdoors, and it enables scalable deployment of wireless voice over IP (VoIP), video, and real-time location services. The WLA Series comes with complete security and networking services, along with advanced performance and scalability features which enable the access points to offload controllers by inspecting and forwarding traffic locally and performing encryption and security enforcement at the access point. The WLA Series also provides band steering, client load balancing, dynamic authorization, quality of service (QoS), bandwidth controls and dynamic call admission control (CAC)—all of which combine to ensure a more consistent user experience as traffic is more evenly distributed across controllers, access points, and radios. This also improves scalability, providing the same consistent user experience for thousands of mobile users and devices. The WLA Series is simple to deploy and can easily be configured and managed remotely. Once installed, the WLA Series access points automatically monitor the data integrity and radio frequency (RF) signal strength of wireless channels, and continually tune for optimal RF channel and transmit power. Continuous scanning of the RF spectrum also allows early detection, classification, avoidance and remediation of performance degrading interference sources. WLA Series access points enforce stringent prioritization of delay sensitive traffic for voice and other critical applications and provide granular quality of service (QoS), and bandwidth management capabilities on a per application, per user or per SSID basis. Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) or SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) can be configured to ensure optimal QoS for voice traffic. Access point policies allow per user, protocol or class-of-service (CoS) mapping. WLA Series access points may also be deployed in branch locations away from a main campus in a controller-less plug and play deployment model. This reduces the cost and complexity of installing wireless access in remote sites. They can be managed via the WAN or through the Internet by controllers at headquarters, and will maintain local session persistence indefinitely, if the WAN link goes down. If the connection to the controller is lost, wireless services continue uninterrupted; connected clients maintain wireless connection to the AP, new clients can connect and authenticate locally, and the Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) continues. Furthermore, the new country code override feature in the remote AP profile allows the AP’s channel and transmit power to be set to meet the specific country’s regulatory requirement where it is located, independent of the location of the WLAN controller which is managing it

Branch Office Wi-Fi phone Simultaneous spectrum scanning and client access Annex Building Tablet Client Access Figure 1: WLA Series Access Points provide client access, spectrum analysis, mesh, and bridging services Table 1: Indoor and Outdoor Wireless Access Point Products Product Indoor Wireless Access Points WLA321 • Single-radio indoor access point for 802.11a/b/g/n • Suitable for low to medium client density deployments • Dual-radio indoor access point for 802.11a/b/g/n • Suitable for low to medium client density deployments • Dual-radio 2x2 MIMO:2SS high-performance indoor access point...

When rogue or interference sources are detected, the WLA Series access points coordinate with the WLC Series controllers for an appropriate mitigation response to ensure the highest air quality for efficient and high performing wireless access services. If an access point goes out of service and leaves a coverage hole, the WLC Series controllers can change channels or adjust power levels on multiple nearby access points in a coordinated fashion in order to restore Wi-Fi coverage and provide optimal reliability and performance. Spectrum Intelligence In addition to the typical RF scanning performed...

Outdoor Deployment Optimized Traffic Flows The WLA522 features external antenna ports, which allows for outdoor rated antennas to be mounted on a building exterior while the access point is mounted inside. The WLA632 outdoor access point comes in a ruggedized, weatherproof enclosure suitable for extreme outdoor environments and industrial-grade deployments. The WLA632 complies with NEMA4X and IP67 standards for corrosion resistance and features built-in lightning protection for antenna ports, as well as surge protection for Ethernet and power ports. The WLA632 also has automatic thermal management...

Single, selectable 802.11a/n (5 GHz) or 802.11b/g/n (2.4 GHz) operation Dual with 802.11a/n (5 GHz) and 802.11b/g/n (2.4 GHz) concurrent operation Dual with 802.11a/n (5 GHz) and 802.11b/g/n (2.4 GHz) concurrent operation Dual with 802.11a/n (5 GHz) and 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) concurrent operation Dual with 802.11a/n (5 GHz) and 802.11b/g/n (2.4 GHz) concurrent operation Internal omni-directional antennas MIMO: (# radio transmit and # radio receive chains) Number of spatial streams PHY Data Rates per Radio Packet aggregation (A-MPDU, A-MSDU) Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) for increasing AP receiver...