Datasheet

Huawei AirEngine AirEngine

8771-X1T Access Point
Datasheet

www.huawei.com
Product Overview
Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T is an indoor access point (AP) in compliance with Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be). It can simultaneously
provide services on 2.4 GHz (4x4 MIMO), 5 GHz (4x4 MIMO), and 6 GHz (4x4 MIMO) frequency bands, achieving a device
rate of up to 18.67 Gbps. The AirEngine 8771-X1T excels in innovative application scenarios such as metacosm, XR remote
collaboration, XR telemedicine, and XR interactive teaching.

AirEngine 8771-X1T

 Triple-radio: 2.4 GHz (4x4 MIMO) + 5 GHz (4x4 MIMO) + 6 GHz (4x4 MIMO), achieving rates of up to 1.376 Gbps,
5.765 Gbps, and 11.53 Gbps respectively, and 18.67 Gbps for the device.

Frequency Channel MIMO Peak Data Rate Wi-Fi Standard

Band Bandwidth

6 GHz 320 MHz 4x4 11.53 Gbps 802.11a/n/ac/ac Wave

2/ax/be

5 GHz 160 MHz 4x4 5.765 Gbps 802.11a/n/ac/ac Wave 2

/ax/be

2.4 GHz 40 MHz 4x4 1.376 Gbps 802.11b/g/n/ax/be

 6 GHz radio that can be switched to the 5 GHz radio flexibly, adapting to scenarios where the use of the 6 GHz
frequency band is not clear yet.
 2 x 10GE electrical ports and 1 x 10G SFP+ port. The 10G SFP+ optical port supports 300 m long-distance PoE++ power
supply with hybrid cable 2.0.
 Built-in dynamic-zoom smart antennas that can flexibly work in omnidirectional or high-density coverage mode. The
former mode promises wider coverage, while the latter mode maximizes performance and optimizes user experience
in dense environments. It makes the AP capable of adapting to omnidirectional and high-density scenarios dynamically
based on STA access requirements.
 USB interface can be used for external IoT expansion (supporting protocols such as ZigBee and RFID).

 Installation type can be wall-mounting and ceiling-mounting.

 Bluetooth serial interface-based O&M through built-in Bluetooth and CloudCampus APP.
 Fat, Fit, and cloud working modes.

Feature Descriptions
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) standard
Wi-Fi 7 (Wi-Fi 7) is the next-generation Wi-Fi standard to be launched, also known as IEEE 802.11be or extremely high
throughput (EHT). Based on Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7 introduces technologies such as 320 MHz bandwidth, 4096-quadrature
amplitude modulation (QAM), multi-resource unit (RU), multi-link operation (MLO), enhanced multi-user multiple-input
multiple-output (MU-MIMO), and multi-access point coordination. Drawing on these cutting-edge technologies, Wi-Fi 7
delivers a higher data transmission rate and lower latency than Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 7 is expected to support a throughput of up
to 30 Gbps, about three times that of Wi-Fi 6.

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 2

Wi-Fi 7 vs. Wi-Fi 6
Based on the Wi-Fi 6 standard, Wi-Fi 7 introduces a plurality of new technologies. The following compares Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-
Fi 7.

New Features in Wi-Fi 7

Wi-Fi 7 aims to increase the WLAN throughput to 30 Gbps and provide low-latency access assurance. To achieve this goal,
the standard defines modifications to both the physical layer (PHY) and MAC layer. Compared with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7 brings
the following technical innovations:

Up to 320 MHz Bandwidth

The 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands are unlicensed spectrums that limited and congested. When running emerging
applications (such as VR/AR), existing Wi-Fi networks inevitably encounter low quality of service (QoS). To achieve a
maximum of 30 Gbps throughput, Wi-Fi 7 will support the 6 GHz of frequency band and extend new bandwidth modes,
including contiguous 240 MHz, non-contiguous 160+80 MHz, contiguous 320 MHz, and non-contiguous 160+160 MHz.

Multi-RU

In Wi-Fi 6, each user can send or receive frames only on the RUs allocated to them, which greatly limits the flexibility of
spectrum resource scheduling. To resolve this problem and further improve spectrum efficiency, Wi-Fi 7 defines a
mechanism for allocating multiple RUs to a single user. To balance the implementation complexity and spectrum utilization,
the standard specifications impose certain restrictions on RU combination. That is, small RUs (containing fewer than 242
tones) can be combined only with small RUs, and large RUs (containing greater than or equal to 242 tones) can be
combined only with large RUs. Small RUs and large RUs can be combined together.

Higher-Order 4096-QAM

The highest order modulation supported by Wi-Fi 6 is 1024-QAM, which allows each modulation symbol to carry up to 10
bits. To further improve the rate, Wi-Fi 7 introduces 4096-QAM so that each modulation symbol can carry 12 bits. With the
same coding, 4096-QAM in Wi-Fi 7 can achieve a 20% rate increase compared with 1024-QAM in Wi-Fi 6.

Multi-Link Mechanism

To efficiently utilize all available spectrum resources, the industry is in urgent need to introduce new spectrum
management, coordination, and transmission mechanisms on the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz frequency bands. The TGbe
defines multi-link aggregation technologies, including the MAC architecture of enhanced multi-link aggregation, multi-link
channel access, and multi-link transmission.

More Data Streams and Enhanced MIMO

Wi-Fi 7 increases the number of spatial streams from 8 to 16, increasing the theoretical physical transmission rate by more
than twice than Wi-Fi 6. With more data streams, Wi-Fi 7 supports distributed MIMO. That is, 16 data streams can be
provided by multiple access points at the same time, meaning that multiple APs need to coordinate with each other.

Multi-AP Coordination

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 3

In the current 802.11 protocol framework, there is not much coordination between APs. Common WLAN functions, such as
automatic radio calibration and smart roaming, are vendor-defined features. Multi-AP coordination aims to optimize
channel selection and adjust loads between APs to achieve efficient utilization and balanced allocation of radio resources.
Coordinated scheduling between multiple APs in Wi-Fi 7 involves inter-cell coordinated planning in the time and frequency
domains, inter-cell interference coordination, and distributed MIMO. This reduces interference between APs and greatly
improves the utilization of air interface resources.

Multi-AP coordination can be implemented in various methods, such as coordinated orthogonal frequency division multiple
access (C-OFDMA), coordinated spatial reuse (CSR), coordinated beamforming (CBF), and joint transmission (JXT).

Wi-Fi 7 Application Scenarios

New functions introduced by Wi-Fi 7 will significantly improve the data transmission rate and deliver lower latency. These
highlights will contribute to the development of emerging applications:

 Video stream
 Video/Voice conference
 Online gaming
 Real-time collaboration
 Cloud/Edge computing
 Industrial IoT
 Immersive AR/VR
 Interactive telemedicine

Cloud-based Management
The AP can be managed via cloud, then no need to deploy a WLAN AC and an authentication server. In cloud-based
management mode, abundant authentication functions, such as pre-shared key (PSK) authentication, Portal authentication,
SMS authentication, and social media authentication, can be implemented. This mode significantly simplifies the
networking and reduces the capital expenditure (CAPEX). In addition, multiple advanced functions, such as online cloud-
based network planning, cloud-based deployment, cloud-based inspection, and cloud-based O&M, can be implemented
through Huawei cloud management platform. In multi-branch deployment scenarios, cloud APs are pre-configured on the
cloud management platform firstly. Then on site, you only need to power on the cloud APs and connect them to switch
ports, then scan the QR code to implement AP plug-and-play. Pre-configurations are automatically delivered to devices,
greatly shortening the network deployment time. The cloud management platform can monitor the network status, device
status, and terminal connection status of all sites of a tenant in a comprehensive and intuitive way to learn the network
and service running status in real time.

Basic Specifications
Fat/Fit AP mode
Item Description

WLAN features Compliance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac Wave 2/ax/be

Maximum ratio combining (MRC)
Space time block code (STBC)
Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD)/Cyclic Shift Diversity (CSD)
Beamforming
Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO)
Uplink/downlink OFDMA (Orthogonal frequency division multiple access)
Compliance with 4096-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and compatibility with 1024-
QAM, 256-QAM, 64-QAM, 16-QAM, 8-QAM, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and binary
phase shift keying (BPSK)

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 4

 Item Description
Target wake time (TWT)
Low-density parity-check (LDPC)
Frame aggregation, including A-MPDU (Tx/Rx) and A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)
802.11 dynamic frequency selection (DFS)
Short guard interval (GI) in 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz, 160 MHz, and 320 MHz modes
Priority mapping and scheduling that are compliant with Wi-Fi multimedia (WMM) to
implement priority-based data processing and forwarding. Automatic and manual rate
adjustment (the rate is adjusted automatically by default)
WLAN channel management and channel rate adjustment
NOTE
For detailed management channels, see the Country Code & Channel Compliances.
Automatic channel scanning and interference avoidance
Separate service set identifier (SSID) hiding configuration for each AP, supporting Chinese SSIDs
Signal sustain technology (SST)
Unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD)
Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (APs) in Fit AP mode
Automatic login in Fit AP mode
Extended Service Set (ESS) in Fit AP mode
Advanced cellular coexistence (ACC), minimizing the impact of interference from cellular
networks
Multi-user call admission control (CAC)
802.11k and 802.11v smart roaming
802.11r fast roaming (≤ 50 ms)

Network features Compliance with IEEE 802.3ab

Auto-negotiation of the rate and duplex mode and automatic switchover between the Media
Dependent Interface (MDI) and Media Dependent Interface Crossover (MDI-X)
Compliance with IEEE 802.1q
SSID-based VLAN assignment
Uplink VLAN trunks on Ethernet ports
Management channel of the AP's uplink port in tagged and untagged mode
DHCP client, obtaining IP addresses through DHCP
Tunnel data forwarding and direct data forwarding
Application identification and QoS classification when AP local forwarding (also called direct
forwarding), which can significantly improve voice quality for applications such as Skype, QQ,
and WeChat
STA isolation in the same VLAN
IPv4/IPv6 access control lists (ACLs)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Uninterrupted service forwarding upon CAPWAP channel disconnection in Fit AP mode
Unified authentication on the AC in Fit AP mode
AC dual-link backup in Fit AP mode
Network Address Translation (NAT) in Fat AP mode
IPv6 in Fit AP mode
Soft Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Telemetry in Fit AP mode, quickly collecting AP status and application experience parameters

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 5

 Item Description
IPv6 Source Address Validation Improvements (SAVI)
Multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS) gateway protocol

QoS features WMM parameter management for each radio

WMM power saving
Priority mapping for upstream packets and flow-based mapping for downstream packets
Queue mapping and scheduling
User-based bandwidth limiting
Adaptive bandwidth management (automatic bandwidth adjustment based on the user quantity
and radio environment) to improve user experience
Airtime scheduling
Air interface HQoS scheduling
Application acceleration for VR and mobile gaming Application identification
Intelligent multimedia scheduling

Security features Open system authentication

WEP authentication/encryption using a 64-bit, 128-bit, 152-bit or 192-bit encryption key
WPA2-PSK authentication and encryption (WPA2-Personal)
WPA2-802.1X authentication and encryption (WPA2-Enterprise)
WPA3-SAE authentication and encryption (WPA3-Personal)
WPA3-802.1X authentication and encryption (WPA3-Enterprise)
WPA-WPA2 hybrid authentication
WPA2-WPA3 hybrid authentication
WPA2-PPSK authentication and encryption in Fit AP mode
Wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) and wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS),
including rogue device detection and containment, attack detection and dynamic blacklist, and
STA/AP blacklist and whitelist
802.1X authentication, MAC address authentication, and Portal authentication
DHCP snooping
Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)
IP Source Guard (IPSG)
802.11w Protected Management Frames (PMF)
IPsec/DTLS hardware encryption

Maintenance features Unified management and maintenance on the AC in Fit AP mode

Automatic login, automatic configuration loading, and plug-and-play (PnP) in Fit AP mode
Automatic batch upgrade in Fit AP mode
Telnet
STelnet using SSHv2
SFTP using SSHv2
Remote wireless O&M through the Bluetooth serial interface
Web system-based AP management in Fat AP mode, login through HTTP or HTTPS
Real-time configuration monitoring and fast fault locating using the NMS
SNMP v1/v2/v3 in Fat AP mode
System status alarm
Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Fat AP mode

BYOD NOTE

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 6

 Item Description
The AP supports bring your own device (BYOD) only in Fit AP mode.
Device type identification according to the organizationally unique identifier (OUI) in the MAC
address
Device type identification according to the user agent (UA) information in an HTTP packet
Device type identification according to DHCP options
The RADIUS server delivers packet forwarding, security, and QoS policies according to the device
type carried in the RADIUS authentication and accounting packets.

Location service NOTE

The AP supports the location service only in Fit AP mode.
Wi-Fi terminal location
Working with the location server to locate rogue devices

Spectrum analysis NOTE

The AP supports spectrum analysis only in Fit AP mode.
Identification of more than eight interference sources including Bluetooth devices, microwave
ovens, cordless phones, ZigBee devices, game controllers, 2.4 GHz/5 GHz wireless video and
audio devices, and baby monitors
Working with the location server to locate interference sources and perform spectrum analysis
on them

Cloud-based management mode

Item Description

WLAN features Compliance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac Wave 2/ax/be

Maximum ratio combining (MRC)
Space time block code (STBC)
Beamforming
Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO)
Uplink/downlink OFDMA (Orthogonal frequency division multiple access)
Compliance with 4096-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and compatibility with 1024-
QAM, 256-QAM, 64-QAM, 16-QAM, 8-QAM, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and binary
phase shift keying (BPSK)
Low-density parity-check (LDPC)
Frame aggregation, including A-MPDU (Tx/Rx) and A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)
802.11 dynamic frequency selection (DFS)
Priority mapping and packet scheduling based on a Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) profile to
implement priority-based data processing and forwarding
WLAN channel management and channel rate adjustment
NOTE
For detailed management channels, see the Country Code & Channel Compliances.
Automatic channel scanning and interference avoidance
Service set identifier (SSID) hiding
Signal sustain technology (SST)
Unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD)
Automatic login

Network features Compliance with IEEE 802.3ab

Auto-negotiation of the rate and duplex mode and automatic switchover between the Media

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 7

 Item Description
Dependent Interface (MDI) and Media Dependent Interface Crossover (MDI-X)
Compliance with IEEE 802.1q
SSID-based VLAN assignment
VLAN trunk on uplink Ethernet ports
Management channel of the AP uplink port in tagged and untagged mode
DHCP client, obtaining IP addresses through DHCP
Tunnel data forwarding and direct data forwarding
STA isolation in the same VLAN
IPv4/IPv6 access control lists (ACLs)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Uninterrupted service forwarding upon CAPWAP channel disconnection in Fit AP mode
Unified authentication on the AC in Fit AP mode
AC dual-link backup in Fit AP mode
Network Address Translation (NAT) in Fat AP mode
IPv6 in Fit AP mode
Soft Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
IPv6 Source Address Validation Improvements (SAVI)
Multicast Domain Name Service (mDNS) gateway protocol

QoS features WMM parameter management for each radio

WMM power saving
Priority mapping for upstream packets and flow-based mapping for downstream packets
Queue mapping and scheduling
User-based bandwidth limiting
Airtime scheduling
Application acceleration for VR and mobile gaming
Air interface HQoS scheduling

Security features Open system authentication

WEP authentication/encryption using a 64-bit, 128-bit, 152-bit or 192-bit encryption key
WPA2-PSK authentication and encryption (WPA2-Personal)
WPA2-802.1X authentication and encryption (WPA2-Enterprise)
WPA3-SAE authentication and encryption (WPA3-Personal)
WPA3-802.1X authentication and encryption (WPA3-Enterprise)
WPA-WPA2 hybrid authentication
WPA2-WPA3 hybrid authentication
802.1x authentication, MAC address authentication, and Portal authentication
DHCP snooping
Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)
IP Source Guard (IPSG)

Maintenance features Unified management and maintenance on the Agile Controller

Automatic login and configuration loading, and plug-and-play (PnP)
Batch upgrade
Telnet
STelnet using SSHv2

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 8

 Item Description
SFTP using SSHv2
Remote wireless O&M through the Bluetooth console port
Web-based local AP management through HTTP or HTTPS
Real-time configuration monitoring and fast fault locating using the NMS
System status alarm
Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Technical Specifications
Item Description

Technical Interface type 2 x 100M/1000M/2.5GE/5GE/10GE BASE-T RJ-45 auto-sensing

specifications 1 x 1G/10G SFP+
1 x USB 2.0 port
NOTE
 The 10GE electrical port supports PoE input.
 The 10G optical port supports the 10GE optical module, GE
optical module, or hybrid module (supporting PoE input).

Bluetooth BLE 5.2

Power specifications Power input  DC: 48 V ± 10%

 PoE power supply: in compliance with 802.3at

Environmental Operating temperature -10°C to +50°C

specifications
Storage temperature -40°C to +70°C

Radio specifications Antenna type Built-in dynamic-zoom smart antennas

Maximum number of SSIDs ≤ 16

for each radio

Maximum number of users ≤ 1536 (512/Radio)

NOTE
 The actual number of users varies according to the
environment.

Reliability MTBF 53.2 years (466276.5 hours)

Standards Compliance
Item Description

Safety  UL 60950-1  UL 62368-1  GB 4943.1

standards  EN 60950-1  EN 62368-1  CAN/CSA 22.2 No.60950-1
 IEC 60950-1  IEC 62368-1

Radio  ETSI EN 300 328  ETSI EN 301 893  AS/NZS 4268

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 9

 Item Description
standards

EMC  EN 301 489-1  GB 9254  IEC/EN61000-4-2

standards  EN 301 489-17  GB 17625.1  IEC/EN 61000-4-3
 EN 60601-1-2  GB 17625.2  IEC/EN 61000-4-4
 EN 55024  AS/NZS CISPR32  IEC/EN 61000-4-5
 EN 55032  CISPR 24  IEC/EN61000-4-6
 EN 55035  CISPR 32  ICES-003
 CISPR 35

IEEE standards  IEEE 802.11a/b/g  IEEE 802.11h  IEEE 802.11v

 IEEE 802.11n  IEEE 802.11d  IEEE 802.11w
 IEEE 802.11ac  IEEE 802.11e  IEEE 802.11r
 IEEE 802.11ax  IEEE 802.11k  IEEE 802.3bz

Security  802.11i, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), WPA2, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-PSK, WPA3, WAPI
standards  802.1X
 Advanced Encryption Standards (AES), Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), WEP, Open
 EAP Type(s)

EMF  EN 62311  EN 50385

RoHS  Directive 2002/95/EC &  (EU)2015/863

2011/65/EU

Reach  Regulation 1907/2006/EC

WEEE  Directive 2002/96/EC & 2012/19/EU

More Information
For more information about Huawei WLAN products, visit http://e.huawei.com or contact us in the following ways:

 Global service hotline: http://e.huawei.com/en/service-hotline

 Logging in to the Huawei enterprise technical support website: http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/
 Sending an email to the customer service mailbox: support_e@huawei.com

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 10

 Copyright © Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 2023. All rights reserved.
No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written consent
of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Trademarks and Permissions

and other Huawei trademarks are trademarks of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
All other trademarks and trade names mentioned in this document are the property of their respective holders.

Notice
The purchased products, services and features are stipulated by the contract made between Huawei and the customer.
All or part of the products, services and features described in this document may not be within the purchase scope or the
usage scope. Unless otherwise specified in the contract, all statements, information, and recommendations in this
document are provided "AS IS" without warranties, guarantees or representations of any kind, either express or implied.
The information in this document is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made in the preparation of
this document to ensure accuracy of the contents, but all statements, information, and recommendations in this
document do not constitute a warranty of any kind, express or implied.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Address: Huawei Industrial Base Bantian, Longgang Shenzhen 518129 People's Republic of China

Website:www.huawei.com

Huawei AirEngine 8771-X1T Access Point Datasheet 11