Ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi 7 Wireless LAN Solution with Environmentally Hardened Design

The PLANET IAP-3600BE-4PF Industrial Dual Band 802.11be Wireless Access Point comes with 5 × 10/100/1000T LAN ports. The IAP-3600BE-4PF model features 4 × 1000T 802.3at PoE LAN ports with a total PoE budget of 120 watts, and 1 × 1GBASE-X SFP WAN/LAN slot for flexible connectivity.

Both models feature a rugged IP30-rated metal enclosure, ensuring robust performance in harsh industrial environments. Integrated with Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) technology, the IAP-3600BE-4PF delivers exceptional wireless speeds of up to 2882 Mbps on the 5GHz band and 688 Mbps on the 2.4GHz band.

It supports advanced wireless capabilities including 4096-QAM, Multi-Link Operation (MLO), MU-MIMO, MU-OFDMA, and beamforming, enabling lower latency, greater bandwidth efficiency, and highly stable multi-user connections. Supporting up to 256 concurrent client devices, the IAP-3600BE-4PF is the ideal wireless solution for mission-critical industrial applications requiring ultra-fast, reliable, and secure connectivity.

Designed to operate in extreme environments, the IAP-3600BE-4PF supports a wide temperature range from -40 to 70 degree C, making it ideal for deployment in harsh and demanding conditions. It also features flexible installation options with both DIN rail and wall-mount support, maximizing space efficiency within industrial cabinets.

High-Performance Dual Band Wi-Fi 7 Solution

The IAP-3600BE-4PF, compliant with the latest IEEE 802.11be Wi-Fi 7 standard, delivers ultra-high-speed and low-latency wireless connectivity. It supports maximum data rates of up to 688Mbps on the 2.4GHz band (40MHz) and 2882Mbps on the 5GHz band (160MHz), enabling lightning-fast transmission across both frequency bands. With dual-band concurrent operation, users can benefit from improved bandwidth, reduced congestion, and more stable connections in high-density environments.

Boost Network Throughput with 4096-QAM

With 4096-QAM encoding, the IAP-3600BE-4PF transmits more data per signal, increasing throughput and making it ideal for high bandwidth applications such as 4K/8K video streaming, AR/VR experiences, and real time cloud services while maintaining a stable and efficient network connection.

Seamless Connectivity and Peak Network Performance

Designed for robust dual-band operation, the IAP-3600BE-4PF ensures seamless connectivity across both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies. This design guarantees consistent data transfer and stable connections even in interference-prone, high-density scenarios, delivering the reliability demanded by modern commercial applications.

Optimize Spectrum Utilization 

Employing advanced techniques such as dynamic allocation of resource units and spectrum puncturing, the IAP-3600BE-4PF minimizes spectrum waste and maximizes efficiency in densely-populated wireless environments, further enhancing overall network performance and business productivity.

Business-Oriented Wi-Fi 7 Performance in Industrial Environments

The IAP-3600BE-4PF is purpose-built for enterprise and industrial applications, prioritizing network stability, high performance, and environmental durability. Supporting the latest Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) standard, it delivers impressive wireless speeds of up to 2882Mbps on the 5GHz band and 688Mbps on the 2.4GHz band, providing nearly 2.4 times the throughput of Wi-Fi 6 in real-world scenarios.

Ultra-low Latency and Jitter for Real-time Industrial Applications

Equipped with advanced Quality of Service (eQoS) and enhanced channel access mechanisms, the IAP-3600BE-4PF intelligently prioritizes latency-sensitive data traffic, minimizing delay and jitter. This ensures consistent, real-time performance for mission-critical applications such as remote machine control, industrial AR/VR, video surveillance, and low-latency communication in automation systems.

Precision Interference Control for Seamless Industrial Connectivity

The IAP-3600BE-4PF incorporates BSS Coloring technology to intelligently differentiate overlapping basic service sets (BSS), effectively minimizing co-channel interference and maintaining stable wireless connections in high-density environments. Additionally, beamforming enhances signal strength and coverage by directing Wi-Fi signals toward active client devices, ensuring consistent performance throughout industrial deployment zones.

Advanced Wireless Security for Industrial Networks

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports advanced wireless encryption standards including WPA3-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA/WPA2-Enterprise, providing strong data protection and preventing unauthorized network access. For enhanced access control, administrators can configure predefined Access Control Lists (ACLs), making it a reliable and secure solution for sensitive industrial and enterprise applications.

Flexible Deployment Modes and Centralized Management

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports multiple operation modes—including Access Point, Gateway, Repeater, and WISP—to flexibly adapt to a wide range of industrial and enterprise deployment scenarios, whether establishing a new infrastructure or upgrading an existing one. With intuitive remote management via the PLANET CloudViewerPro app and centralized NMS, it streamlines installation, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance across distributed networks.

Built-in Cybersecurity Features for Industrial Network Protection

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports TLS v1.3 for secure remote access and encrypted management traffic, ensuring strong protection against modern cyber threats. It also includes enterprise-grade security features such as SNMPv3 with authentication and encryption, Access Control Lists (ACLs), WPA3 encryption, and 802.1X authentication, forming a comprehensive defense against unauthorized access and data breaches.

Dual Power Input for High-Availability Network Systems

The IAP-3600BE-4PF features a robust dual power input system, supporting a wide voltage range of 48–54V DC, designed for integration into customers’ automation networks to enhance system reliability and uptime. In the example below, if power supply 1 fails, the hardware failover function automatically switches to power supply 2, ensuring uninterrupted operation of the IAP-3600BE-4PF.

Effective Alarm Alert for Better Protection

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports a Fault Alarm feature which can alert the users when there is something wrong with the device. With this ideal feature, the users would not have to waste time finding where the issue is. It will help to save time and human resource.

Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports Digital Input and Digital Output on its upper panel. This external alarm enables users to use Digital Input to detect and log external device status (such as door intrusion detector), and send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators if the IAP-3600BE-4PF port shows link down, link up or power failure.

Flexible and Easy Installation with Limited Space

The compact-sized IAP-3600BE-4PF is specially designed to be installed in a narrow environment, such as a wall enclosure. It can be installed by fixed wall mounting or DIN rail, thereby making its usability more flexible and easier in any space-limited location.

Flexible WAN interface Enables Extension of Network Deployment

The IAP-3600BE-4PF provides both copper and fiber connectors for WAN interface. With one SFP slot, it supports fiber extension for FTTX application. It allows the administrator to flexibly choose the suitable SFP transceiver according to the transmission distance required to extend the network efficiently. The distance can be extended from 550 meters to 2 kilometers (multi-mode fiber) and 10/20/40/80/120 kilometers (single-mode fiber or WDM fiber). They are well suited for applications to uplink to backbone switch and monitoring center in long distance.

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism

The IAP-3600BE-4PF supports SFP-DDM (digital diagnostic monitor) function that greatly helps network administrator to easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.

Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management

The IAP-3600BE-4PF is capable of having a maximum of up to 120 watts of power output and can deliver up to 36W for each port. It also features the following special PoE management functions.

PoE Usage Monitoring

With PoE usage monitoring, it can show the PoE loading of each port, total PoE power usage and system status, such as overload, low voltage, over voltage and high temperature. User can obtain detailed information about the real-time PoE working condition of the IAP-3600BE-4PF directly.

PoE Schedule

Under the trend of energy saving worldwide and contributing to environmental protection, the IAP-3600BE-4PF can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The “PoE schedule” function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and budget. It also increases security by powering off PDs that should not be in use during non-business hours.

Scheduled Power Recycling

The IAP-3600BE-4PF allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points to reboot at a specific time each week. Therefore, it will reduce the chance of IP camera or AP crash resulting from buffer overflow.

PD Alive Check

The IAP-3600BE-4PF can be configured to monitor connected PD status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the IAP-3600BE-4PF will resume the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It will greatly enhance the network reliability through the PoE port resetting the PD’s power source and reducing administrator management burden.