HPE Aruba Networking 500H Series Unified Hospitality Access Points delivers cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 coverage in a compact form factor that is ideal for hotels, residence halls, and remote offices. With 1.5 Gbps maximum combined speed, Zero Touch Provisioning, and wired ports, the 500H series is ready to improve wireless experiences for guests, employees, students, and teleworkers. The 500H series is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED and supports 802.11ax features: OFDMA for multi-user efficiency, target wake time (TWT) to extend the battery life of connected IoT devices, and WPA3 and Enhanced Open for greater password and guest security. The 500H series includes a limited lifetime warranty.
- Combine wireless and wired access in a single compact form factor
- Ideal for organizations with work from home or teleworking initiatives
- Up to 1.5 Gbps of maximum wireless throughput
- 4 wired network ports and 1 smart rate uplink port
- WPA3 and enhanced open security
- Built-in technology that resolves sticky client issues for Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 5 devices
- OFDMA and MU-MIMO for enhanced multi-user efficiency
- IoT-ready Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee support
Incredible efficiency
The 500H series APs are designed to optimize user experience by maximizing Wi-Fi efficiency and dramatically reducing airtime contention between clients.
IoT platform capabilities
Like all Aruba Wi-Fi 6 APs, the 500H series includes an integrated Bluetooth 5 and 802.15.4 radio to simplify deploying and managing IoT-based location services, asset tracking services, security solutions and IoT sensors. This allows organizations to leverage the 500H series as an IoT platform, which eliminates the need for an overlay infrastructure and additional IT resources.
Aruba secure infrastructure
The Aruba 500H series includes security components to help protect user authentication and wireless traffic.
Simple and secure access
To simplify policy enforcement, the Aruba 500H series uses Aruba's Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) to encapsulate all traffic from the AP to the mobility controller (or gateway) for end-to-end encryption and inspection. Policies are applied based on user role, device type, applications and location. This reduces the manual configuration of SSIDs, VLANs and ACLs. PEF also serves as the underlying technology for Aruba Dynamic Segmentation.
High-density connectivity
Each 500H series AP provides connectivity for a maximum of 256 associated clients per radio (512 in total).
Versatile installation options
The APs can be deployed as a wall-mount or for remote teleworking environments, they can also be converted to a desk‑mount.
Flexible operation and management
A unique feature of Aruba APs is the ability to operate in either controllerless (instant) or controller-based mode.
