Series

Aruba AP-505

AP type

Indoor, dual radio, 5GHz and 2.4GHz 802.11ax 2x2 MIMO

5GHz radio

Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 1.2Gbps wireless data rate with 2SS HE80 802.11ax client devices

2.4GHz radio

Two spatial stream Single User (SU) MIMO for up to 574Mbps (287 Mbps) wireless data rate with 2SS HE40 (HE20) 802.11ax client devices

Maximum number of BSSIDs

16 BSSIDs per radio

Supported frequency bands (country-specific restrictions apply)

• 2.400 to 2.4835GHz

• 5.150 to 5.250GHz

• 5.250 to 5.350GHz

• 5.470 to 5.725GHz

• 5.725 to 5.850GHz

Available channels

Dependent on configured regulatory domain

Supported radio technologies

• 802.11b: Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS)

• 802.11a/g/n/ac: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)

• 802.11ax: Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) with up to 8 resource units

Supported modulation types

• 802.11b: BPSK, QPSK, CCK

• 802.11a/g/n: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM (proprietary extension)

• 802.11ac: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM (proprietary extension)

• 802.11ax: BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM

Antenna

2 Internal Omni-directional 5.7 DBi Antenna

Maximum number of associated

client devices

Up to 256 associated client devices per radio

Supported 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 300 (MCS0 to MCS15, HT20 to HT40), 400 with 256-QAM

• 802.11ac: 6.5 to 867 (MCS0 to MCS9, NSS = 1 to 2, VHT20 to VHT80), 1,083 with 1024-QAM

• 802.11ax (2.4GHz): 3.6 to 574 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS = 1 to 2, HE20 to HE40)

• 802.11ax (5GHz): 3.6 to 1,201 (MCS0 to MCS11, NSS = 1 to 2, HE20 to HE80)

802.11n high-throughput (HT) support

HT20/40

802.11ac very high throughput (VHT) support

VHT20/40/80

802.11ax high efficiency (HE) support

HE20/40/80

802.11n/ac/ax packet aggregation

A-MPDU, A-MSDU

Transmit power

Configurable in increments of 0.5 dBm

Maximum (aggregate, conducted total) transmit power (limited by local regulatory requirements)

2.4 GHz band: +21 dBm (18dBm per chain) 5 GHz band: +21 dBm (18 dBm per chain) Note: conducted transmit power levels exclude antenna gain. For total (EIRP) transmit power, add antenna gain.