Product Overview
HPE Aruba Networking 500H Series Hospitality Access Points, High performance, cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) APs for hospitality, branch offices, and teleworker deployments. High-performance, wired and wireless connectivity for any organization experiencing growing mobile, cloud, and IoT requirements in medium-density environments.
Ultimate efficiency
Built on Wi-Fi 6 standards, 500H Series APs include features such as OFDMA, MU-MIMO, and Target Wake Time for better multi-user performance and improved efficiency.
IoT and location-ready
HPE Aruba Networking’s Wi-Fi 6 AP provides support for Zigbee, Bluetooth 5, and third party overlays to simplify the deployment and management of IoT services. Advanced IoT Coexistence provides uninterrupted connectivity for Wi-Fi and IoT.
Unified infrastructure
Purpose-built to deliver unified wired and wireless connectivity and flexible deployment. Install on a wall or desktop with up to four Ethernet ports for local wired access. Select cloud-native HPE Aruba Networking Central or on-prem management options.
Simple and secure access
500H Series APs protect network security with stronger encryption and authentication with WPA3, secure credentials/keys storage for guest access with Enhanced Open, and user and IoT access policy enforcement firewalls.
Features
Groundbreaking wireless capabilities, Product features support wired and wireless connectivity (in a single device) from hotels, branch offices, or teleworker initiatives for up to 1.5 Gbps of maximum wireless throughput and 256 associated clients per Wi-Fi radio. USB port for cellular backhaul or IoT expansion (505H).
Best-in-class hardware
Up to four ports for local wired connectivity, PoE out support on up to two ports (505H), and crypto performance of up to 500 Mbps.
Wi-Fi 6-certified with OFDMA and MU-MIMO support
Handles multiple Wi-Fi 6 capable clients on each channel simultaneously, regardless of device or traffic type.
Policy enforcement for wireless traffic through Dynamic Segmentation
Flexible and scalable, it automatically enforces consistent policies across wired and wireless networks.
WPA3 and Enhanced Open security
Increases enterprise-level security without increasing complexity, and ensures stronger guest access protections.
IoT-ready Bluetooth 5 and Zigbee support
Simplifies deploying and managing IoT location services, asset-tracking services, security solutions, and IoT sensors.
HPE Aruba Networking’s ClientMatch technology
Eliminates sticky client issues and optimizes performance with Wi-Fi 6 clients using HPE Aruba Networking’s AI-powered solutions.
Air Slice for SLA-grade performance
Provides service level agreement-grade performance for latency-sensitive, high-bandwidth, and IoT services.
Hardware variants
Wi-Fi radio specifications
Two spatial stream (SU/MU) MIMO for up to 287Mbps wireless data rate (HE20)
Note: HE40 operation is supported in 2.4GHz, but uncommon and not recommended for enterprise deployments
Supported frequency bands (country-specific restrictions apply):
Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) optimizes the use of available RF spectrum
Supported radio technologies:
Supported modulation types:
802.11n high-throughput (HT) support: HT20/40
802.11ac very high throughput (VHT) support: VHT20/40/80
Supported data rates (Mbps):
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):
Minimum configurable transmit power level: 0 dBm (conducted, per chain)
Advanced Cellular Coexistence (ACC): Minimizes the impact of interference from cellular networks
Advanced IOT Coexistence (AIC): Allows concurrent operation of multiple radios in the 2.4GHz band without performance, range or capacity degradation
Maximum ratio combining (MRC): For improved receiver performance
Cyclic delay/shift diversity (CDD/CSD): For improved downlink RF performance
Space-time block coding (STBC): For increased range and improved reception
Low-density parity check (LDPC): For high-efficiency error correction and increased throughput
Transmit beam-forming (TxBF): For increased signal reliability and range
802.11ax Target Wait Time (TWT): To support low-power client devices
VPN IPsec throughput performance: 500Mbps or better
802.11mc Fine Timing Measurement (FTM): for precision distance ranging
Table 1. HPE Aruba 500H Series Hospitality Access Points
Part number | Description |
AP-503H access points | |
R3V44A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (EG) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V42A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (IL) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V40A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (JP) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V36A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (RW) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V38A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (US) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R7G96A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503HR (EU) Remote AP bundle with AP-503H (RW)+desk mount+power adapter + EU power cord |
R7G97A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503HR (US) Remote AP bundle with AP-503H (US)+desk mount+power adapter + NA power cord |
AP-505H access points | |
R3V54A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (EG) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V52A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (IL) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V50A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (JP) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V46A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (RW) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V48A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (US) Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V56A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505HR (EU) Remote AP bundle with AP-505H (RW)+desk mount + power adapter + EU power cord |
R3V57A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505HR (US) Remote AP bundle with AP-505H (US)+desk mount + power adapter + NA power cord |
AP-503H access points – TAA models | |
R3V45A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (EG) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V43A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (IL) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V41A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (JP) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V37A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (RW) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
R3V39A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-503H (US) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+2 Ethernet |
AP-503H access points | |
R3V55A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (EG) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V53A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (IL) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V51A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (JP) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V47A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (RW) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
R3V49A | HPE Aruba Networking AP-505H (US) TAA Dual-radio 802.11ax 2×2 Unified Hospitality AP with 1+4 Ethernet, PSE, USB |
