H3C WX3840X New Generation Access Controller

802.11be AP Management

In addition to 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax AP management, the WX3800X series AC 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.

Brand New Operating System

WX3800X series AC is developed based on the latest H3C V9 platform. The new system sports significantly improvements in performance and reliability over the previous version, and is able to run the increasingly complicated network applications in the enterprise market. V9 features the following advantages:

Multi-core control: V9 can adjust the ratio of control cores to the forwarding cores in the CPU to make the most out of CPU computing power and strike the balance between control tasks and forwarding tasks, while providing strong concurrent computing power

User mode multi-tasking: V9 adopts a completely new software privilege level system, where most network applications are executed in user mode, and allow each application runs a different task. Each task has its own dedicated resource and when a task fault occurs which will be isolated at its own space avoiding interruption of other tasks. This makes system run more securely and reliably

User task monitoring: V9 comes with task monitoring feature, in which all tasks are monitored. When a user task goes wrong, system will reload and application will quickly recover

New independent application upgrade: V9 supports independent application upgrade, where a single application module is upgraded instead of the whole operating system. This greatly reduces the number of system reboots compared with the previous version, keeping the upgrade secure and sustaining the network stability

Wired and Wireless Processing Capability

WX3800X series AC adopts the latest high performance multi-core CPU. WX3840X AC CPU possesses 8 independent cores that can be virtualized to 32 logical cores, WX3820X series ACs have 4 independent cores that can be virtualized to 16 logical cores. The strong computing power allows the devices to handle more users, more concurrent transactions, decrease latency in order to improve user experience.

Flexible Forwarding Modes

In a wireless network of centralized forwarding mode, all wireless traffic is sent to an AC for processing which the forwarding capability of the AC may become a bottleneck. Especially on wireless networks where APs are deployed at branches, ACs are deployed at the headquarters, and APs and ACs are connected over a WAN. In this scenario, Distributed forwarding is more suitable. The WX3800X series AC supports both distributed forwarding modes and centralized forwarding mode and it can set SSID based forwarding as needed.

Hardware specifications

Software specifications