Wireless Management Solution with PoE

PLANET WS-1232P, an enhanced Wireless AP Managed Switch, features Smart AP control, Layer 3 OSPF/static routing and Intelligent PoE capability to enable service providers and IT managers to control all wireless APs at the same time in small- and medium-scale wireless network environments, such as hotels, villas, resorts and any public area. The WS-1232P provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit Switching engine along with 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring up to 36-watt 802.3at PoE+, 2 additional Gigabit copper ports and another 2 extra 1/10 Gigabit BASE-X SFP+ fiber slots which definitely offer enterprises a quick, safe and cost-effective AP Control with Power over Ethernet network solution.

Five Steps to Manage AP Cluster within Minutes

The WS-1232P offers a user-friendly Web GUI for easy configuration. It features centralized management of PLANET Smart AP series without needing to manually configure each AP for the wireless SSID, radio band and security settings. With a five-step configuration process, different purposes of wireless profiles can be simultaneously delivered to multiple APs or AP groups to minimize deployment time, effort and cost.

Visualizing Wi-Fi Signals through Map

Importing your floor maps and locating each AP or AP group according to the field deployment can save your time and cost of on-site support and monitoring. It shows real-time AP status, and its signal heat map is capable of reflecting the actual coverage and helps the administrator to fine-tune the overlapping of the adjacent APs anytime to optimize the wireless network performance.

Maximal Scalability and Compatibility with Various Smart APs

To fulfill various business needs, the WS-1232P provides a maximum scalability and is compatible with over 10 models of Smart APs from indoor to outdoor series including ceiling-mount, wall-mount, in-wall, industrial, single-band, dual-band and high-power access points which are able to adapt to different environments.

10Gbps Ethernet Uplink for High-volume Transmission

As to the bandwidth, the WS-1232P offers 10Gbps uplink ports to relieve huge network traffic. Each of the 10G SFP+ slots in the WS-1232P supports dual speed and 10GBASE-SR/LR or 1000BASE-SX/LX. With its 10G Ethernet link capability, the administrator now can flexibly choose the suitable SFP/SFP+ transceiver according to the transmission distance or the transmission speed required to extend the network efficiently. The WS-1232P provides greater bandwidth and powerful processing capacity to make central management more efficient.

Unique PoE Management Features

The WS-1232P has a built-in L2/L4 Gigabit Switching engine and 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 36-watt 802.3at PoE+, with a total power budget of up to 240W for different kinds of PoE applications. It perfectly meets the power requirements of PoE Wi-Fi access points including dual-band or outdoor high-power AP/CPE with high power consumption. As a managed PoE Switch for stable and reliable wireless AP operation, the WS-1232P features the following intelligent PoE management functions:

　■ PD Alive Check

　■ Scheduled Power Recycling

　■ SMTP/SNMP Trap Event Alert

　■ PoE Schedule

Layer 3 Routing Support

The WS-1232P enables the administrator to conveniently boost network efficiency by configuring Layer 3 IPv4/IPv6 VLAN static routing manually, and the OSPFv2 (Open Shortest Path First) settings automatically. The OSPF is an interior dynamic routing protocol for autonomous system based on link state. The protocol creates a database for link state by exchanging link states among Layer 3 switches, and then uses the Shortest Path First algorithm to generate a route table based on that database.

IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Management Network

The WS-1232P offers IPv4/IPv6 VLAN routing feature which allows to crossover different VLANs and different IP addresses for the purpose of having a highly-secure, flexible management and simpler networking application. With the support for IPv6/IPv4 protocol, and user-friendly management interfaces, the WS-1232P is the best choice for system integrators to migrate network infrastructure from the IPv4 to the IPv6 network. It also helps SMBs to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment and without having to replace the network facilities even though ISPs establish the IPv6 FTTx edge network.

Optimal Redundant Ring for Faster Recovery of Managed Network

The WS-1232P supports redundant ring technology and features strong, rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology, and Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w RSTP) into customer’s network to enhance system reliability and uptime in harsh environments. In a certain simple ring network, the recovery time could be less than 10ms to quickly bring the network back, thus enabling the management network to keep on operating.

User-friendly Secure Management

For efficient management, the WS-1232P is equipped with console, web and SNMP management interfaces. With the built-in web-based management interface, the WS-1232P offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. The WS-1232P supports SNMP and it can be managed via PLANET centralized network management suite or any management software based on the standard SNMP v1 and v2 protocols. For reducing product learning time, the WS-1232P offers Cisco-like command via Telnet or console port and customer doesn’t need to learn new command from these switches. Moreover, the WS-1232P offers remote secure management by supporting SSH, SSL and SNMPv3 connection which can encrypt the packet content at each session.

Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks

The cybersecurity feature included to protect the switch management in a mission-critical network virtually needs no effort and cost to install. Both SSH and SSL protocols are utilized to provide strong protection against advanced threats. The network administrator can now construct highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.

Centralized AP Management for Enterprises

PLANET WS-1232P Wireless AP Managed Switch helps service providers and IT managers control all wireless APs at the same time. The WS-1232P enables administrators to effectively manage various wireless access points deployed 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.

Cost-effective PoE Management Solution with Smart AP Control

The WS-1232P, providing eight 10/100/1000BASE-T PoE ports, in-line power interfaces and two 10 Gigabit SFP interfaces, is capable of building a secure and highly-efficient managed wireless network for the enterprises. For instance, it can work with the RADIUS Server to perform comprehensive security for wireless user authentication with powered APs.

Physical Port

• 8-port 10/100/1000BASE-T with 36W PoE injector
• 2-port 1/10G BASE-X SFP+
• RS-232 RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup

Wireless LAN AP Management

• Dashboard: provides at-a-glance view of system and wireless network status
• AP Discovery: one key to discover the managed APs on the managed LAN
• Customized Profile: allows multiple wireless profiles creation and maintenance
•  Auto Provision: multi-AP provisioning with one click
• Cluster Management: simplifies high-density AP management
• Zone Plan: optimizes AP deployment with actual signal coverage
•  Analysis: real-time AP status monitoring
• Scalability: free system upgrade and AP firmware bulk upgrade capability

Power over Ethernet

• Up to 8 ports of IEEE 802.3af/802.3at devices powered
• Supports PoE Power up to 36 watts for each PoE port
• Auto detects powered device (PD)
• Circuit protection prevents power interference between ports
• Remote power feeding up to 100 meters
• PoE Management
• - PoE Port Status monitoring
• - Total PoE power budget control
• - Over Temperature Protection
• - PoE usage threshold
• - Temperature threshold
• - Per port PoE function enable/disable
• - PoE Port Power feeding priority
• - Per PoE port power limit
• - PD classification detection
• - Sequence port PoE

Layer 2 Features

• Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex)
• High performance of Store-and-Forward architecture and runt/CRC filtering eliminates erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth
• Storm Control support
• - Broadcast/Multicast/Unknown unicast
• Supports VLAN
• - IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
• - Up to 255 VLANs groups, out of 4094 VLAN IDs
• - Supports provider bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad)
• - Private VLAN Edge (PVE)
• - Protocol-based VLAN
• - MAC-based VLAN
• - Voice 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, spanning tree by VLAN
• - BPDU Guard
• Supports Link Aggregation
• - 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• - Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
• - Maximum 6 trunk groups, up to 4 ports per trunk group
• - Up to 44Gbps 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
• Supports ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching)

Layer 3 IP Routing Features

• Supports maximum 128 static routes and route summarization
• IP dynamic routing protocol supports OSPFv2
• Routing interface provides per VLAN routing mode 

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
• Supports QoS and In/Out bandwidth control on each port
• Traffic-policing policies on the switch port
• DSCP remarking

Multicast 

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

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
• - IP-based Access Control List (ACL)
• - MAC-based Access Control List
• Source MAC/IP address binding
• DHCP Snooping to filter un-trusted 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
• IPv6 IP Address/NTP/DNS management
• Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
• BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
• System Maintenance
• - Firmware upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
• - Reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
• - Dual Images
• DHCP Relay
• DHCP Option82
• User Privilege levels control
• NTP (Network Time Protocol)
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP-MED
• Network Diagnostic
• - ICMPv6/ICMPv4 Remote Ping
• - Cable Diagnostic technology provides the mechanism to detect and report potential cabling issues
• SMTP/Syslog remote alarm
• Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms and events) 
• SNMP trap for interface Linkup and Linkdown notification
• System Log
• PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management