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TEST
REPORT April 2018
Commissioned by
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Huawei WLAN AP8050DN/AP8150DN/AP8082DN/AP8182DN

Outdoor Wireless Access Points
Feature Validation and Performance Evaluation

Executive Summary
With development of the big data era, Wi-Fi coverage is increasingly demanded for both indoor and outdoor areas. As one of the leading vendors in
wireless communications technology, Huawei launches a series of 802.11ac Wave 2 outdoor wireless access points (APs) and solutions.
Tolly evaluated Huawei 802.11ac Wave 2 outdoor APs’ performance and features. APs under test include: AP8050DN, AP8150DN, AP8082DN and
AP8182DN. These models are ideal for high user density outdoor scenarios, such as stadiums, plazas, shopping streets, theme parks, etc.
AP8082DN and AP8182DN are Huawei’s high end outdoor 802.11ac Wave 2 APs with 4x4 MIMO and 4 spatial streams. Specifically, AP8182DN
supports 2.4GHz/5GHz band switchover to provide dual 5GHz radios.
AP8050DN and AP8150DN are Huawei’s standard outdoor 802.11ac Wave 2 APs with 2x2 MIMO and 2 spatial streams. Specifically, AP8150DN
supports 2.4GHz/5GHz band switchover to provide dual 5GHz radios.

The Bottom Line

1 Huawei AP8050DN, AP8150DN, AP8082DN and AP8182DN supported 512 maximum concurrent users per AP.

2 Huawei AP8150DN and AP8182DN are outdoor APs using external antennas with 2.4GHz/5GHz band switchover capability. In
the dual 5GHz mode, Huawei AP8182DN supported 240 users to stream a 720p HD video without lagging or 250 users to
browse web pages smoothly simultaneously; AP8150DN supported 220 users to stream a 720p HD video without lagging or
230 users to browse web pages smoothly simultaneously.

3 Huawei AP8050DN and AP8082DN are outdoor APs using internal antennas. Huawei AP8082DN supported 170 users to
stream a 720p HD video without lagging or 180 users to browse web pages smoothly simultaneously; Huawei AP8050DN
supported 120 users to stream a 720p HD video without lagging or 130 users to browse web pages smoothly simultaneously.

4 Huawei AP8150DN and AP8182DN supported Software-defined Radio (SDR) with 2.4GHz/5GHz band switchover capability.

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Test Results 2.4GHz/5GHz switchover. With the other

fixed 5GHz radio, each of these two APs Huawei
supports dual 5GHz radios to provide higher Technologies, Co.,
Single User Maximum WLAN forwarding capability.
Ltd
Performance Tolly engineers verified that Huawei
AP8150DN and AP8182DN’s dual 5GHz Outdoor WLAN
Tolly engineers used one Apple MacBook aggregated throughput doubled the single
5GHz throughput. This means that Huawei Access Points
Pro to test Huawei AP8050DN, AP8150DN,
AP8082DN and AP8182DN’s single client well controlled the interference between the
performance with the fixed 5GHz radio. two 5GHz radios in the AP. See Figure 1 for Feature Validation Tested
detailed results. and Performance April
Huawei AP8050DN and AP8150DN’s single
Evaluation 2018
client TCP performance was more than
660Mbps while UDP performance was more
Multi-gigabit
than 680Mbps; AP8082DN and AP8182DN’s
single user TCP performance was more than
Interface
940Mbps while UDP performance was more Huawei AP8082DN and AP8182DN provides
than 950Mbps. See Figure 1 for detailed one 100Mbps/1Gbps/2.5Gbps/5Gbps auto-
results. negotiation Ethernet interface. Working
with the multi-gigabit interface on Huawei
Dual 5GHz Radios S6720SI and other series switches for the
uplink, the two APs supported multi-gigabit
All Huawei APs under test support two WLAN performance.
radios. Particularly, one radio of each
AP8150DN and AP8182DN supports

Maximum Performance Test Results

(as reported by Ixia IxChariot)
1,890 1,916
2,000
Throughput (Mbps)

1,500 1,310 1,340

945 959 941 957
1,000 687 687
670 667
500

0
AP8050DN AP8150DN AP8082DN AP8182DN

Single 5G TCP Single 5G UDP Dual 5G TCP Dual 5G UDP

Note: Apple MacBook Pro was used as clients under the HT80 mode with downstream test traffic. Single 5GHz tests used one client. Dual 5GHz tests
used 2 clients.

Source: Tolly, April 2018 Figure 1

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Huawei AP8082DN and AP8182DN are

MU-MIMO 4x4:4 MU-MIMO APs. Their MU-MIMO
performance was about 3 times of their SU-
Performance MIMO performance.

MU-MIMO is an important feature of the See Figure 2 for detailed results.

802.11ac Wave 2 protocol and enables the
WLAN AP to communicate with multiple
clients simultaneously on the 5GHz
frequency band. Tolly engineers tested
SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO performance of
each AP model and verified the gains
brought by the MU-MIMO feature.

Huawei AP8050DN and AP8150DN are

2x2:2 MU-MIMO APs. Their MU-MIMO
performance was about twice of Their SU-
MIMO performance during the test.

Huawei Outdoor Access Points MU-MIMO vs. SU-MIMO Test Results

(as reported by Ixia IxChariot)
Throughput (Mbps)

Note: 1. Huawei AP8050DN and AP8150DN are 2x2:2 MU-MIMO APs. Their MU-MIMO performance was about twice of their SU-MIMO performance.
AP8050DN used one 5GHz radio to connect to 2 clients while AP8150DN used dual 5GHz radios to connect to 4 clients (2 on each radio).
2. Huawei AP8150DN and AP8182DN are 4x4:4 MU-MIMO APs. Their MU-MIMO performance was about three times of their SU-MIMO performance.
AP8082DN used one 5GHz radio to connect to 3 clients while AP8182DN used dual 5GHz radios to connect to 6 clients (3 on each radio).

Source: Tolly, April 2018 Figure 2

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the detailed test results while Figure 3 shows

High-Density Video the test environment.

Streaming User Capacity

In daily use, a large number of clients may
watch videos or browse web pages via the Huawei AP8050DN, AP8150DN, AP8082DN
AP. Tolly engineers verified that each and AP8182DN supported 256 concurrent
Huawei AP under test allowed a large users on each radio and 512 concurrent
number of users to concurrently watch users on each AP. See Table 2 for results.
videos without lagging or simultaneously
browse web pages smoothly. Table 1 lists

High-density Video Streaming Test Results

Number of users to stream a 720p HD video Number of users to browse webpages simultaneously
AP Model
simultaneously via the AP via the AP

AP8050DN 120 130

AP8150DN 220 230

AP8082DN 170 180

AP8182DN 240 250

Note: 1. The bit rate of the 720p HD video was 1.22Mbps. The video file was stored on an video streaming system of a server. Each user browsed the on-
demand video playing platform webpage first and then played the video in the web browser.
2.Detailed number of clients for the video streaming test are as following
AP8050DN: 45 Apple MacBook Pro, 8 Apple iPhones, 64 Huawei tablets, 1 Xiaomi Mi 6 and 2 Xiaomi Mi 4C;
AP8150DN: 45 Apple MacBook Pro, 8 Apple iPhone, 64 Huawei tablets, 1 Xiaomi Mi 6, 52 Xiaomi Mi 4C and 50 Xiaomi Note;
AP8082DN: 45 Apple MacBook Pro, 8 Apple iPhone, 64 Huawei tablets, 1 Xiaomi Mi 6 and 52 Xiaomi Mi 4C;
AP8182DN: 45 Apple MacBook Pro, 8 Apple iPhone, 64 Huawei tablets, 1 Xiaomi Mi 6, 72 Xiaomi Mi 4C and 50 Xiaomi Note;

Source: Tolly, April 2018 Table 1

User Capacity Test Results

AP Model User Capacity per AP

AP8050DN (One 2.4GHz radio and one 5GHz radio) 512

AP8150DN (One 2.4GHz/5GHz radio and one 5GHz radio) 512

AP8082DN (One 2.4GHz radio and one 5GHz radio) 512

AP8182DN (One 2.4GHz/5GHz radio and one 5GHz radio) 512

Source: Tolly, April 2018 Table 2

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(IoT) applications. Working with third-party

PoE Out and IoT IoT modules, Huawei AP8082DN and 200 Meters Ultra Long
AP8182DN provided asset management
Applications and other IoT solutions in the test. Distance PoE
Huawei AP8082DN and AP8182DN Huawei S6720SI and other 802.3bt standard
supported PoE out. They could use the PoE compliant PoE switches could power
Out interface on each AP to power other Huawei AP8082DN or AP8182DN in a 200
802.3af standard compliant devices and meters distance. Tolly engineers used one
provide data transfer. In addition, they could 200 meters Ethernet cable to test and
use the PoE Out port for Internet of Things verified that the APs worked properly.

High-density Video Streaming and Web Browsing Test Environment

AP Under Test

Note: This figure only shows partial of all clients used in the test. There were 45 Apple MacBook Pro laptops placed on surrounding desks.

Source: Tolly, April 2018 Figure 3

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Test Equipment Summary

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of test equipment/software used in this project.
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