Cisco Catalyst 9130AXI Indoor Wi-Fi 6 Access Point

C9130AXI-E is the Cisco Catalyst 9130AXI, the indoor Wi-Fi 6 access point with internal antennas. Cisco writes the part number with a regulatory-domain letter as the last character, and not every domain is approved, so the country of use needs checking against Cisco's compliance page.

By default it runs one 8x8 radio on 5 GHz and one 4x4 radio on 2.4 GHz. Its tri-radio mode (flexible radio assignment) instead gives two 4x4 radios on 5 GHz plus one 4x4 radio on 2.4 GHz. Cisco gives a maximum 802.11ax PHY rate of 5.38 Gbps and an 802.11n PHY rate of up to 1.5 Gbps.

The wired uplink is one RJ-45 Multigigabit port at 100, 1000, 2500 or 5000 Mbps, with an RJ-45 console port and a USB 2.0 port at 4.5 W. It takes 802.3at, 802.3bt (Cisco UPOE) or 802.3af power. On 802.3at it draws up to 25.5 W, with 8x8 on 5 GHz and no USB, or 4x4 with USB at 4.5 W. On 802.3bt it draws up to 30.5 W with 8x8 and USB, and on 802.3af it falls to 1x1 radios, a 1G link and 13.4 W.

The internal antennas peak at 4 dBi on 2.4 GHz and 6 dBi on 5 GHz, and the AP has an integrated Bluetooth Low Energy 5 radio. Cisco IOS XE 16.12.1 with the AP Device Pack or later is the minimum software.

Other access points are in the Cisco wireless access points category, including the Catalyst C9120AXI-E and the Catalyst C9120AXE-E with external antennas.