X series AC with Powerful Capabilities
H3C X series Wireless Controllers are specifically designed for demanding users, corely delivering secure, highly resilient, and high-performance Wi-Fi connectivity—accurately meeting the rigorous wireless experience requirements of enterprise-grade scenarios.
H3C X Series ACs support both Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 APs, and can either operate independently or work in collaboration with H3C intelligent O&M platform. They seamlessly integrate with H3C Cloudnet cloud deployment platform and AD-Campus on-premises platform — both featuring intelligent automated management, AI-driven insights, and unified infrastructure control capabilities. With these two flexible deployment choices, users can effortlessly implement full-lifecycle management of Wi-Fi devices, maximizing intelligent O&M efficiency and ultimately meeting the diverse application scenario needs of various enterprises.
WX2812X-PWR Key Features
The WX2812X-PWR is a high-performance wireless controller with the ability to support up to 18 access points and 1024 clients with up to 4 Gbps of maximum throughput. The WX2812X-PWR includes AP license as following by default, which protects customer’s investment to maximum, which also give SMB/SME a great opportunity to add new AP with the wireless network expansion without additional cost.
AP Management
In addition to 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax AP management, the WX2812X-PWR can work together with H3C 802.11be based APs to provide wireless access speed several times faster than a traditional 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax network. With 802.11be large proximity which makes WLAN multimedia applications deployment a reality.
High Availability
High Availability Enabled: 1:1 Master/backup Dual-link backup and N+1 Redundancy ensure non-stop network, services & client connectivity—no matter unplanned events.
Intelligent AP upgrades
APs automatically discover the AC and establish Capwap tunnel connection once powered on. If the AP’s software version is incompatible with the AC’s, it automatically downloads the corresponding version from the AC and finishes the upgrade independently.
The AC supports phased intelligent AP upgrades, allowing for either individual AP upgrades or unified upgrades for AP group members. Intelligent upgrade technology eliminates full network restart requirements.
Hot-Patched Software Upgrades
Hot patching is a preferred solution for rapidly fixing product software defects at low cost, enabling repairs without restarting the device or disrupting ongoing services.
AP license synchronization
Two ACs in the cloud cluster share the AP licenses. An AP license installed on one AC can be used by the other AC. AC1 has N licenses installed; AC2 has M licenses installed. After AC1 and AC2 form a cloud cluster, the cloud cluster has N+M licenses. After AC1 fails or disconnects in the cloud cluster, AC2 still possesses N+M licenses to provide time for AC1 repair, allowing up to N+M APs to connect. If AC1 is disconnected for more than 30 days, AC2 cannot use the licenses on AC1 and can allow only M APs to connect.
Wireless Security
The ACs support WPA2-Personal, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA3-Personal, WPA3-Enterprise authentication and encryption modes to ensure security of the wireless network.
The CAPWAP link protection and DTLS encryption provide security assurance, improving data transmission security between the AP and the AC.
Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (WIDS / WIPS)
The AC offers comprehensive security capabilities: blacklisting, whitelisting, rogue device defense, bad packet detection, unauthorized user removal, and signature-based MAC layer attack detection (covering DoS, Flood, and man-in-the-middle attacks). It enables real-time monitoring, identification, defense, counteraction, and refined management of rogue devices, safeguarding the network against unauthorized access from Rogue APs, Rogue Clients, Rogue Wireless Bridges, and Ad-hoc Networks and delivering robust security for the air interface environment and wireless data transmission.
Trusted systems built on H3C Secure Boot provide a strong security foundation for H3C products.All device software compilations utilize RSA asymmetric encryption to ensure the integrity and authenticity of firmware and boot programs. The basic boot code in tamper-resistant partitions establishes a Root of Trust, and forms a Chain of Trust by verifying subsequent stages to enable secure system boot and validate software trustworthiness, thus effectively defending against man-in-the-middle attacks targeting software and firmware.
Wireless Smart Roaming
Support intra-AC roaming, cross-AC roaming, and cross-VLAN Layer 3 roaming.
Support 802.11k/v/r fast roaming protocols.
Support Portal roaming and 802.1X roaming.
Client reassociation — this feature enables an AP to send unsolicited deauthentication frames to a client when the client’s signal strength is lower than the specified RSSI threshold. Then, the client can reassociate with the original AP or roam to another AP.
There are many possible interference sources that can affect the normal operation of APs in a WLAN, such as rogue APs, radars and microwave ovens. The intelligent channel switching technique can ensure the allocation of an optimal channel to each AP, thereby minimizing adjacent channel interference. Besides, the real-time interference detection function can help keep APs away from interference sources such as the aforementioned radars and microwave ovens.
Intelligent AP load balancing
The intelligent AP load balancing function can analyze the locations of wireless clients in real time, dynamically determine which APs at the current location can share load with one another, and implement load balancing among these APs. In addition to load balancing based on the number of online sessions, the system also supports load balancing based on the traffic of online wireless users.
The system supports the automatic SSID hiding function based on radio resource utilization. When radio resources reach or exceed the configured threshold, the SSID is automatically hidden to provide users with stable and reliable wireless services.
Flexible Forwarding Modes
In a wireless network using centralized forwarding mode, all wireless traffic is sent to an AC for processing, and thus the AC’s forwarding capability may become a bottleneck. This is especially true for wireless networks where APs are deployed at branches, ACs at headquarters, and APs and ACs are connected over a WAN. In this scenario, distributed forwarding is more suitable. The WX2812X-PWR supports both distributed and centralized forwarding modes, and it can configure SSID-based forwarding as needed.
Radio Resource Management
Radio Resource Management (RRM), the AP monitors air interface channel utilization, channel interference, and signal conflict in real time, and works with H3C intelligent O&M platform to adjust RF parameters such as working channel, bandwidth, and power in a timely manner to maintain the optimal RF resource status.
The Station Access Control Policy (SACP) restricts, controls, and guides the access of wireless terminals to better AP or wireless services. In addition, terminal traffic is controlled and scheduled according to network applications to improve the overall performance of the wireless network and improve the experience and effect of wireless access applications.
Roaming protection
Wireless AP fully supports the Fast BSS Transition function defined in the 802.11r standard, which can accelerate the roaming process of wireless users, reduce the probability of connection interruption, and improve the roaming service quality. Through 802.11k protocol mechanism, AP and wireless client interact with each other to perceive the network topology in multiple dimensions. The AC recognizes and calculates the roaming time and roaming access location of the wireless client in full view, and negotiates the switch with the client through 802.11v and 802.11r mechanisms.
Application guarantee
Coupled with WX2812X-PWR, the APs can identify a large number of common applications in various office scenarios. Based on the identification results, policy control can be implemented on user services, including priority adjustment, scheduling, blocking, and rate limiting to ensure efficient bandwidth resource and improve quality of key services.
H3C Cloudnet Cloud-Based Deployment and Management
H3C WX2812X-PWR can collaborate with H3C Cloudnet Platform. If WX2812X-PWR is combined with the H3C Cloudnet Platform, enterprises can thus achieve unified monitoring and management of wired and wireless networks, and obtain an integrated operation and maintenance experience. The Cloudnet Platform is equipped with an intuitive and interactive web interface and advanced, scalable management tools. It adopts a fully distributed architecture, enabling comprehensive management of network, terminal, user, and service activation functions.
H3C AD-Campus On-Premises Deployment and Management
H3C WX2812X-PWR can collaborate with H3C AD-Campus platform. If WX2812X-PWR is combined with the H3C AD-Campus platform, enterprises can achieve unified monitoring and management of wired and wireless networks, and obtain an integrated operation and maintenance experience.The AD-Campus 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.
Smart WebUI
The AC supports two Web access methods: HTTP and HTTPS. Users can easily select function menus in the navigation bar to view the device’s current status and statistical information in real time, including logs, current AP information, system utilization, wireless services, clients, interface traffic, and other system data.
API-driven configuration
The AC supports powerful open APIs via the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), injecting high efficiency and flexibility into network operation, maintenance, and integration scenarios. Leveraging these protocol-based open APIs, the AC breaks the closed nature of device management, providing standardized access interfaces for third-party systems, automation tools, and custom platforms.
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