Fortinet FortiAP 14C Access Point
Secure Remote Access Points

Overview:

The need for Secure Remote Access Points

Enterprises are looking to increase productivity through uninterrupted access to applications and resources, without compromising security and agility. You want to also extend your network to your employees’ home offices and increase productivity, yet you want to retain visibility and control of your wireless network traffic by enforcing the same policies. You also need a solution that is easy for the employees to self install and for you to provision quickly and troubleshoot remotely.

Integrated Wireless Security and Access Solution

Fortinet’s remote wireless access points deliver secure, identity-driven WiFi client access that creates a fortified WLAN network for the home user and tunnels traffic security to the corporate network. Centrally managed by a supported FortiGate® or FortiWiFi™ platform with its integrated wireless controller, these remote APs allow you to deploy a comprehensive, integrated security solution for your wireless and wired networks. The centralized FortiGate controllers enable you to deploy comprehensive unified threat management (UTM) protection over your wireless network.

Method of Operation

Upon powering up, this family of remote FAP automatically retrieves an IP address from the home WAN router and performs a DNS lookup of the preprovisioned domain name of your company to locate the wireless controller installed in your private cloud. Once connected to the wireless controller, it provides its device certificate to authenticate itself to the wireless controller and downloads its configuration along with the SSIDs it needs to broadcast throughout the home. You can configure the corporate controller to broadcast the same office SSID at the home office for seamless roaming and zero reconfiguration of employee laptops. Once the home user connects to the office SSID in their home, all their traffic will be forwarded through a secure SSL tunnel to the corporate network without the need for any VPN clients. The wired ports can also be bridged with one of the SSIDs so devices, such as VoIP phones, can also connect to corporate office without any need for complex configuration. We have designed this product to save IT administrators time and reduce helpdesk calls.

High Performance Secure Thin Access Points

• Leverage existing FortiGate or FortiWiFi platforms as controllers for low TCO
• Full range of authentications and access for all use cases
• Integration with FortiManager™ and FortiAnalyzer™ for unified control and reporting
• Fast Roaming for uninterrupted data access
• Automatic Radio Resource Provisioning (ARRP) for optimized throughput
• Flexible deployment options with simple per device pricing
• Layer 7 application QoS for maximum business productivity
• Rogue AP control for PCI DSS compliance

Features & Benefits:

Features	Benefits
Enterprise Unified Threat Management	Protects your network with the widest range of security and networking technologies seamlessly integrated into a single device: Firewall, IPS, Application Control, VPN, Web Filtering, and many others.
Application-Layer Quality of Service	Going above and beyond Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME) by offering layer 7 traffic shaping and application use control.
‘Single Pane of Glass’ Management Console	Unmatched visibility and control of all wired and wireless network traffic that eliminates blind spots in your security infrastructure and ensures consistent and effective policy enforcement and compliance.
Remote AP	Allows simple and secure teleworker connection for wireless and wired devices alleviating the need for host VPN agents and complex configuration.

Deployment:

Remote AP discovers private cloud WiFi controller and securely tunnels all traffic

Performance Table:

RF RX/TX Performance Table
	Radio 1, 5GHz
802.11 b	Tx Power	Rx Sensitivity
1 Mbps	17	-86
11 Mbps	16	-83
802.11 g
6 Mbps	16	-85
9 Mbps	16	-83
12 Mbps	16	-81
18 Mbps	16	-79
24 Mbps	16	-77
36 Mbps	15	-73
48 Mbps	14	-71
54 Mbps	13	-69
802.11n HT20
MCS0	15	-83
MCS1	14	-80
MCS2	14	-77
MCS3	14	-74
MCS4	14	-72
MCS5	13	-70
MCS6	12	-68
MCS7	12	-66

Specifications:

Model:	FortiAP-11C	FortiAP-14C	FortiAP-28C
Hardware Specifications
Hardware Type	Remote AP	Remote AP	Remote AP
Indoor/Outdoor Deployment	Indoor - Travel	Indoor - Home Office	Indoor - Small Office
Number of Radios	1	1	1
Number of Antennas	1 Internal	1 Internal	2
Peak Antenna Gain	3 dBi for 2.4 GHz	3 dBi for 2.4 GHz	3 dBi for 2.4 GHz, 4 dBi for 5 GHz
Frequency Bands (GHz)*	2.400 - 2.4835	2.400 - 2.4835	2.400 - 2.4835
Frequency of Radio 1	2.4GHz IEEE b/g/n	2.4GHz IEEE b/g/n	2.4 GHz IEEE b/g/n, 5 GHz IEEE a/n
Tx/Rx Streams (802.11n mode)	1x1 MIMO with 1 spatial stream	1x1 MIMO with 1 spatial stream	2x2 MIMO with 2 spatial streamsEthernet Port
	150 Mbps association rate	150 Mbps association rate	300 Mbps association rate
Ethernet WAN Ports	1 x 10/100/1000	1 x 10/100	2 x 10/100/1000
Ethernet LAN Ports	1 x 10/100/1000	4 x 10/100	8 x 10/100/1000
Serial Console Port	No
USB Port	1 type A, 1 type B	No	2 type A, 1 type B
Power over Ethernet (PoE)	N/A
WME Multimedia Extensions	Yes (4 priority queues for voice, video, data and background traffic)
Simultaneous SSIDs	8 (7 for client access, 1 for monitoring)
EAP Type(s)	EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2, EAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2, PEAPv1/EAP-GTC EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-FAST
User/Device Authentication	WPA™ and WPA2™ with 802.1x or Preshared key, WEP and Web Captive Portal, MAC blacklist & whitelist
Maximum Tx Power	17 dBm (50mW) *
IEEE Specifications	802.11b, 802.11e, 802.11g, 802.11h, 802.11i, 802.11j, 802.11n, 802.1X
Dimensions
Height x Width x Length (in)	4.3 x 3.5 x 1.5	1.06 x 4.92 x 3.86	1.38 x 8.43 x 7.09
Height x Width x Length (mm)	110 x 89 x 34	27 x 125 x 98	35 x 214 x 180
Mounting Options	0.22 kg (0.5 lbs)	0.1 kg (0.2 lbs)	0.5 kg (1.1 lbs)
Environment
Power Required	Integrated Power Plug	100–240 VAC, 50–60 Hz (external DC power adaptor)	100–240 VAC, 50–60 Hz (external DC power adaptor)
Power Consumption (AVG)	5 W	1.5 W	12 W
Power Consumption (MAX)	7 W	2 W	15 W
Heat Dissipation	17 BTU/h	4.5 BTU/h	45 BTU/h
Operating Temperature	-4–140°F (-20–60°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)
Storage Temperature	-4–158°F (-20–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)
Humidity	10 to 90% non-condensing	20 to 90% non-condensing	20 to 90% non-condensing

* Frequency selection and power may be restricted to abide by regional regulatory compliance laws.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiAP-14C Series Datasheet (PDF).