Apogee™ is the world’s first antenna technology that overcomes strict FCC power restrictions to produce Wi-Fi coverage areas of unprecedented size and performance. Developed through years of rigorous lab and field trials, Apogee’s revolutionary approach to RF propagation unlocks the full potential of license-free networks and makes dependable, ubiquitous WiFi coverage truly scalable.

Apogee™ was developed by Aura Wireless, a developer and manufacturer of technology that transforms how large scale license-free networks are designed, deployed, & maintained.

Yes. Apogee™ is an antenna that connects to any AP with external RF ports.

Apogee™ is ideal for any large-scale indoor or outdoor wireless deployment where traditional WiFi is costly and inadequate. This includes (but is not limited to) distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, big box retail locations, agricultural operations, transportation depots, ports, event venues, and municipal deployments.

Traditional legacy antennas feature symmetrical gain, meaning the transmit gain and receive gain of those antennas are identical. Because of this symmetry, FCC power restrictions on transmit power also limit “receive” power too. This greatly limits a devices ability to connect over larger distances.

Apogee™ is different. Apogee’s groundbreaking Asymmetrical Gain™ generates a whopping 24dbi of receive gain while keeping transmit gain at 9dbi. This keeps everything FCC-compliant.

Yes.  Apogee™ supports 802.11ax and is also backward compatible to 802.11ac and 802.11n.

No, not without severe performance degradation due to the APs interfering with each other. Aura Wireless does not support connecting 2 APs to a single Apogee™.

Apogee™ neither increases nor decreases concurrent sessions. Apogee™ is designed to operate strictly on the RF layer. Its function is to vastly improve the range and signal-to-noise ratio of any AP connected to it. The number of concurrent sessions is determined by the AP.

Yes, to the extent that the connected AP’s do. It should be noted here that because Apogee™ ensures connections between remote devices and AP’s up to 1,000 feet, the need for and number of meshes in the wireless LAN will be reduced significantly.

Apogee™ features 4 external SMA female RF ports. Those 4 external ports connect to up to 4 external AP ports.  For each AP required for a deployment, Aura will build custom LMR240 cables that are terminated with the appropriate connector type and include them in your order. The 4 external Apogee ports can be expanded to connect with up to 8 AP ports (from 1 AP) through Aura Wireless’ proprietary diplexers.

Apogee™ is a PoE device that supports PoE and PoE+ through a switch or UPS.  PoE injectors are not supported by Apogee due to the wide variation in how PoE injectors supply power to a device.  Customers can attempt to power an Apogee™ using a PoE injector, but we do not recommend this.

Apogee™ has no throughput limitations. The throughput of an Apogee is determined by the connected AP’s throughput, AP channel size, and the internet connection.

Yes!  Apogee™ is very effective in large indoor venues like distribution centers, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities.  Apogee’s asymmetrical gain and hybrid polarization settings significantly improve wireless connectivity between the AP and low-power IoT devices.

No. The customized predictive RF modeling tool we use is the only one that will reflect the asymmetrical gain achieved with Apogee. Results from any other tool will inaccurately indicate the requirement of more infrastructure than is actually needed to achieve the desired coverage.