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AP3500 Hardware details
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Hardware Description
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The AP3500 is a outdoor wire access point designed to be used in Point to Point or Point to Multipoint applications.
The AP3500 is designed to attach to a number of different external anntena units. These feature differing Gain, beam 
widths and mounting options for differing deplyoments.

- 90° beam width sector anntena with 9.6dBi Gain
- 60° beam width sector anntena with 13.2dBi Gain
- 30° beam width sector anntena with 18.4dBi Gain
- Point to Point dish anntena with 24.5dBi Gain
- Point to Point dish anntena with 27.5dBi Gain

**Block Diagram**

The AP3500 features a dual core 880Mhz 32bit Mips1004kc procressor. This is connected to 256MB of DDR2 memory, 16MB of NAND flash,
it features a single 1Gbit/sec Ethernet interface and a Wireless radio interface. The CPU features a network accelerator that supports
2Gbps of IPv4/6 routing, NAT and NAPT+HQoS. 

.. image:: ../images/AP3500-Block-Diagram.png
  :width: 600
  :alt: Screenshot of the Opuntia login page

The system is powered by Ethernet PoE using the IEEE 802.3af standard. 

Visual Guide
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**Front View**

.. image:: ../images/AP3500-Front-view.png
   :width: 600
   :alt: Front view

**Side View**

.. image:: ../images/AP3500-Side-view.png
   :height: 700
   :alt: Side view

**Port View**

.. image:: ../images/AP3500-Port-view.png
   :width: 600
   :alt: Port view