Data Sheet

AP33 ACCESS POINT DATASHEET

Juniper AI-Driven Network

Juniper Mist brings true innovation to the wireless space with the world’s first AI- driven
wireless LAN (WLAN).
The Juniper AI-Driven Enterprise makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable with
unprecedented visibility into the user experience through customizable service- level
expectation (SLE) metrics. Time-consuming manual IT tasks are replaced by AI-driven
proactive automation and self-healing, lowering Wi-Fi operational costs and saving
Product Overview
substantial time and money.
The AP33 access point and All operations are managed via our open and programmable microservices architecture,
dynamic virtual Bluetooth® LE which delivers maximum scalability and performance while also bringing DevOps agility to
(vBLE) antenna array automate wireless networking and location services.
network operations and boost
Wi- Fi performance, while
providing dynamic network The Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture
insights and location services. Mist AI leverages a cloud-native microservices architecture to bring unparalleled agility,
Through its vBLE technology scale, and resiliency to your network. Our AI engine helps lower OpEx and deliver
and open APIs, the AP33
unprecedented insight by using data science to analyze large amounts of rich metadata
enables the delivery of location-
collected from Juniper Access Points.
based services with one- to
three-meter accuracy. It offers
an aggregate data rate up to Juniper Access Point Family
3Gbps with the 2.4GHz and
The Juniper enterprise-grade access point family consists of:
5GHz bands running
• AP45 and AP34 Series, which support Wi-Fi 6E, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), and Bluetooth LE
concurrently. Managed by the
Juniper Mist™ Cloud • AP43, AP12, AP32, AP33, and AP63 Series, which support 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6),
Architecture, it delivers Bluetooth LE, and IoT
unprecedented user experiences • AP43, AP12, AP32, AP33, and AP63 Series, which support 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6),
at a lower cost for retail, Bluetooth LE, and IoT
warehouse, school, clinic, and • AP21, AP41, and AP61 Series, which support 802.11ac Wave 2, Bluetooth LE, and IoT
home office environments. • BT11, which supports Bluetooth LE

These access points are all built on a real-time microservices platform and are managed by
the Juniper Mist cloud.

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The table below compares the supported major functions of the Juniper Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 6 access points to help in selecting the most
appropriate model(s).
AP45 AP34 AP43 AP63 AP33 AP32 AP12
Deployment Indoor
Indoor Indoor Indoor Outdoor Indoor Indoor
Wall Plate/Desk Mount
Wi-Fi Standard 802.11ax 802.11ax
802.11ax 802.11ax 802.11ax 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) 5GHz: (Wi-Fi 6) 5GHz: 802.11ax
(Wi-Fi 6 ) (Wi-Fi 6 ) (Wi-Fi 6 ) (Wi-Fi 6) 4x4 : 4SS 4x4 : 4SS (Wi-Fi 6)
4x4 : 4SS 2x2 : 2SS 4x4 : 4SS 4x4 : 4SS 2.4GHz: 2.4GHz: 2x2 : 2SS
2x2 :2SS 2x2 : 2SS
Wi-Fi Radios Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated
fourth radio fourth radio third radio third radio third radio third radio third radio
Antenna Options Internal/External Internal Internal/External Internal/External Internal Internal/External Internal
Virtual BLE ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ — —
IoT Interface — — ✓ — — — —
IoT Sensors Temperature, Accelerometer Temperature Humidity, Pressure, Temperature — — — —
Warranty Limited Lifetime Limited Lifetime Limited Lifetime One Year Limited Lifetime Limited Lifetime Limited Lifetime
Frequencies Supported 2.4GHz 2.4GHz
2.4GHz 2.4GHz 2.4GHz 2.4GHz 2.4GHz
5GHz 5GHz
5GHz 5GHz 5GHz 5GHz 5GHz
6GHz 6GHz

Services Available for the Juniper AP33

Wi-Fi Cloud Services Juniper Mist Asset Visibility
Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance For Process and Resource Improvement Teams
For IT and NOC Teams • Identification of Assets by Name and View Location
• Predictable and Measurable Wi-Fi • Zonal/Room Accuracy for Third-Party Tags
• Service-Level Expectation (SLE) Support • Historical Analytics for Asset Tags
• WxLAN Policy Fabric for Role-Based Access • Telemetry for Asset Tags (temperature, motion, and other data)
• Customizable Guest Wi-Fi Portal • APIs for Viewing Assets and Analytics
• Radio Resource Management (RRM)

Analytics Cloud Services

Marvis Virtual Assistant Juniper Mist Premium Analytics
For IT Helpdesk Teams For Network Teams
• AI-Powered Virtual Network Assistant • Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with Wi-Fi
• Natural Language Processing Conversational Interface Assurance, Mobile Engagement, and Asset Visibility
• Anomaly Detection Subscriptions
• Client SLE Visibility and Enforcement • End-to-End Network Visibility
• Data Science-Driven Root Cause Analysis • Orchestrated Networking and Application Performance
Queries
• Simplified Network Transparency
Bluetooth Cloud Services
Juniper Mist Mobile Engagement
For Digital Experience Teams
• Accurate (1-3m) Turn-by-Turn Navigation
• Sensor Fusion with Dead Reckoning
• Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Virtual Beacons with Custom Notifications
• Mobile SDK for iOS and Android

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For Business Teams

• Baseline Analytics Features Come Included with Wi- Fi Unprecedented Insight and Action
Assurance, Mobile Engagement, and Asset Visibility A dedicated, dual-band third radio collects data for Juniper’s
Subscriptions patent-pending Proactive Analytics and Correlation Engine (PACE),
• Customer Segmentation and Reporting Based on Visitor which uses machine learning to analyze user experience, correlate
Telemetry problems, and automatically detect their root cause. These metrics
• Customized* Dwell and Third-Party Reporting for Traffic and are used to monitor SLEs and provide proactive recommendations
Trend Analysis to ensure problems don’t occur (or are fixed as quickly as possible
• Correlated Customer-Guest Traffic and Trend Analysis when they do). This radio also functions as a synthetic test client to
proactively detect and mitigate network anomalies.

Access Point Features *Juniper Mist Premium Analytics service subscription is needed

High Performance Wi-Fi

The AP33 is a six-stream access point. It supports 4x4:4SS in the Improved IoT Battery Efficiency
5GHz band, delivering a maximum data rate of 2,400 Mbps for By incorporating the 802.11ax target wake time (TWT) capability
high-bandwidth applications. It also supports 2x2:2SS in the and Bluetooth 5.0, AP33 access points help extend the battery life
2.4GHz band, delivering a maximum data rate of 575 Mbps. The of IoT devices, particularly as additional ones join the network.
integrated third radio functions as a network, location, and security
sensor, a synthetic test client radio, as well as a spectrum monitor. Dynamic Debugging
Constantly monitor services running on the AP33 Series and send
AI for AX alerts whenever a service behaves abnormally. Dynamic debugging
With the new features that 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) introduces to boost relieves IT of having to worry about an AP going offline or any
performance and efficiency, configuring and operating an access services running on it becoming unavailable.
point has grown far more complex. Juniper automates and
optimizes these features with our AI for AX capabilities to improve Dynamic Packet Capture
data transmission scheduling within OFDMA and MU- MIMO and
The Juniper Mist platform automatically captures packets and
assign clients to the best radio to boost the overall performance of
streams them to the cloud when major issues are detected. This
the network.
saves IT time and effort and eliminates the need for truck rolls with
sniffers to reproduce and capture data for troubleshooting.
Greater Spectral Efficiency
OFDMA improves spectral efficiency so that an increasing density Marvis Virtual Conversational Assistant
of devices can be supported on the network. Density has become
Marvis is a natural language processing (NLP)-based assistant with a
an issue with the rapid growth of IoT devices, which often utilize
Conversational Interface to understand user intent and goals,
smaller data packets than mobile devices and hence increase
simplifying troubleshooting and the collection of network insights. It
contention on the network. Additionally, BSS Coloring improves the
uses AI and data science to proactively identify issues, determine
coexistence of overlapping BSSs and allows spatial reuse within a
the root causes and scope of impact, and gain insights into your
given channel by reducing packet collisions.
network and user experiences. It eliminates the need to manually
hunt through endless dashboards and CLI commands.
Automatic RF Optimization
Radio Resource Management automates dynamic channel and
power assignment, taking Wi-Fi and external sources of
interference into account with a dedicated sensor radio. The AI
engine continuously monitors coverage and capacity SLE metrics to
learn and optimize the RF environment. The learning algorithm uses
hysteresis on a 24-hour window to conduct a sitewide rebalancing
for optimal channel and power assignment.

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battery-powered BLE beacons required. With support for Bluetooth

5.0, the access point boosts IoT device signal range and battery life.

Effortless, Cloud-Based Setup and Updates

The AP33 automatically connects to the Juniper Mist cloud,
downloads its configuration, and joins the appropriate network.
Firmware updates are retrieved and installed automatically,
ensuring that the network is always up to date with new features,
bug fixes, and security updates.

Premium Analytics
Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance, User Engagement and Asset Tracking
services include a base analytics capability for analyzing up to 30
days of data, which enables you to simplify the process of
extracting network insights across your enterprise. If you require
dynamic insights like motion paths* and other third- party* data and
would like the option of customized reports, the Juniper Mist
Premium Analytics service is available as an additional subscription.

Juniper Mist Edge

Juniper Mist Edge is an on-premises appliance that runs a tunnel
termination service. Juniper APs offer a flexible data plane.
High-Accuracy Indoor Location
The AP33 has a 16-element vBLE antenna array controlled from Traffic can be broken out locally, or tunneled to Juniper Mist Edge.
the Juniper Mist cloud. Passive antennas enhance the power of a There are many use cases the Juniper Mist Edge solves, including
single transmitter and produce directional beams (or can be seamless mobility in large campus environments, tunneling of guest
combined to act as an omnidirectional radio) to accurately detect traffic to a DMZ, IoT segmentation, and teleworker. Learn more
distance and location with one- to three-meter accuracy. With about Juniper Mist Edge.
Juniper’s patented vBLE technology, you can deploy an unlimited
number of virtual beacons in your physical environment with no

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Mounting Brackets

APBR-U* Universal bracket

APBR-T58 3⁄8" threaded rod
APBR-M16 16mm threaded rod (M16-2)
APBR-ADP-CR9 9⁄16" T-Rail
APBR-ADP-RT15 15⁄16" T-Rail
APBR-ADP-WS15 1½" T-Rail
APBR-ADP-T12 ½" threaded rod

*The AP package includes one Universal Bracket. APBR-U is available separately as an accessory.
Specifications

Patented VBLE Technology

Wi-Fi Standard 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), including support for OFDMA, 1024-QAM,
MU-MIMO, Target Wake Time (TWT), Spatial Frequency Reuse In addition to the industry-leading Wi-Fi technology at the heart of
(BSS Coloring).
Backwards compatibility with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac the AP33 access point, our second-generation, patented, and
Combined Highest 3.0 Gbps dynamic, 16-element virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) antenna array
Supported Data Rates
combines with machine learning to eliminate the need for battery-
2.4 GHz 2x2 : 2 802.11b/g/n/ac up to 400 Mbps data rate;
2x2 : 2 802.11ax up to 575 Mbps data rate powered beacons. This maximizes scalability and optimizes your
5 GHz 4x4 : 4 802.11ax up to 2,400 Mbps data rate deployment investment in location-based services.
MIMO Operation Four spatial stream SU-MIMO for up to 2,400 Mbps wireless data
rate to individual 4x4 HE80 vBLE enables businesses to provide rich location-based experiences
Four spatial stream MU-MIMO for up to 2,400 Mbps wireless that are engaging, accurate, real-time, and scalable.
data rate to up to four MU-MIMO- capable client devices
simultaneously
Dedicated Third Radio 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual-band WIDS/WIPS, spectrum analysis,
synthetic client and location analytics radio
Internal Antennas Two 2.4GHz omnidirectional antennas with 5 dBi peak gain
Four 5GHz omnidirectional antennas with 6 dBi peak gain
Bluetooth 5.0 vBLE 16-element directional antenna array + omnidirecctional
Bluetooth antenna
Beam Forming Transmit Beamforming and Maximal Ratio Combining
Power Options 802.3at PoE, 802.3bt PoE
Dimensions 202 x 202 x 44 mm (7.95 x 7.95 x 1.73 in)
Weight 0.98 kg (2.16 lbs) excluding mount and accessories
Operating Temperature Internal antenna: 0° to 40° C
Operating Humidity 10% to 90% maximum relative humidity, non- condensing
Operating Altitude 3,048 m (10,000 ft)
Mean Time Between Indoor MTBF in hours is 846,297*
Failures (MTBF)
Trusted Platform Module Includes a TPM for infrastructure security
(TPM)

*Based on Telcordia SR-332 issue 3, Method I, Case 3 and measured at temperature of 25°C (77°F) for indoor access
points, and 65°C (149°F) for outdoor access points.

I/O and Indicators

USB USB 2.0 support interface

Eth0 100/1000Base-T, 2.5GBase-T (802.3bz); RJ45; PoE PD
Eth1 10/100/1000Base-T; RJ45
Reset Reset to the factory default settings
Indicators One multicolor status LED

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AP33 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi Antenna Plots

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AP33 Wi-Fi Antenna Plots

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AP33 Directional BLE Antenna Plots

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AP33 Omni BLE Antenna Plots

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