AP-SG6500M-18X-P-6XG
Multi-gigabit Access Switches
- 12 x 100/1000M/2.5G/5G/10GBase-T + 6 x 1G/10G/25GE(SFP28) ports
- 1 console, 1 USB, 1 reset, 1 RJ45 Management port
- PoE / PoE+ /PoE++ (60w) up to 370w
- 1 fixed AC & 48VDC RPS
- Forwarding performance: 405Mpps
- Switching capacity: 540Gbps
Product Overview
The AirPro AP-SG6500M Series is a next-generation family of intelligent, secure, and energy-efficient multi-gigabit access switches, designed to meet the growing bandwidth and power requirements of modern enterprise networks.
Featuring 2.5GbE and 10GbE multi-gigabit access connectivity, the AP-SG6500M Series provides the performance required for high-speed devices such as Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, and Wi-Fi 7 access points, high-resolution IP surveillance systems, workstations, and other bandwidth-intensive endpoints.
Selected PoE models support IEEE 802.3at/802.3bt PoE, delivering up to 30W or 60W per port, helping simplify deployment by providing both high-speed data connectivity and power through a single Ethernet cable.
High-bandwidth 10G, 25G, and 40G uplink options provide flexible connectivity to aggregation and core networks, enabling scalable network expansion while minimizing potential uplink bottlenecks.
Designed for enterprise campus, hospitality, education, healthcare, retail, and high-density wireless environments, the AP-SG6500M Series combines high performance, advanced Layer 2/Layer 3 capabilities, comprehensive security, intelligent network management, and energy-efficient operation in a cost-effective access switching platform.
With its multi-gigabit architecture and high-power PoE capability, the AP-SG6500M Series provides an ideal access-layer foundation for organizations upgrading their infrastructure to support the latest generation of high-performance wireless and connected devices.
Key Features
Ready for Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7
The AirPro AP-SG6500M Series is purpose-built to support the performance and power requirements of next-generation wireless networks. Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (mGig) interfaces provide 2.5GbE and 10GbE access connectivity, helping eliminate the traditional 1GbE bottleneck between high-performance wireless access points and the wired network.
Selected PoE models support PoE+ and PoE++, delivering up to 60W per port to power high-performance Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) access points, IP cameras, IoT gateways, and other powered devices.
By delivering high-speed data and power over a single Ethernet connection, the AP-SG6500M Series simplifies cabling, reduces deployment complexity, and provides a scalable access infrastructure ready for increasing wireless traffic and application demands.
High Availability and Carrier-Class Reliability
The AP-SG6500M Series is engineered for highly available enterprise and carrier-grade networks. High-speed 10G and 25G uplink interfaces provide flexible connectivity to aggregation and core networks and can be configured for redundant uplink architectures to improve network resiliency.
Support for ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) enables rapid network convergence, with protection switching of less than 50 milliseconds in supported Ethernet ring topologies.
Business-facing Ethernet ports provide enhanced 6kV–8kV surge and lightning protection, helping improve equipment reliability and reduce the risk of service interruption in electrically challenging deployment environments.
Together, high-speed redundant uplinks, fast ring protection, and enhanced surge protection help provide a resilient infrastructure for business-critical network services.
VSF – Virtual Switch Framework
AirPro Virtual Switch Framework (VSF) enables multiple physical switches to operate as a single logical switching system.
By virtualizing multiple AP-SG6500M switches into one logical device, VSF enables participating switches to share system information and forwarding resources while increasing overall port density and system scalability.
VSF simplifies network architecture and day-to-day administration by allowing multiple switches to be managed as one system. It also improves network availability by providing resilient inter-switch connectivity and reducing dependence on individual switching devices.
Key benefits include:
- Simplified network topology and management
- Increased switching capacity and port density
- Centralized configuration and administration
- Improved network resiliency
- Flexible scalability for growing enterprise networks
Advanced Layer 3 Routing
The AP-SG6500M Series delivers high-performance hardware-based Layer 3 switching and IP routing, enabling deployment across sophisticated enterprise campus and aggregation environments.
Comprehensive routing capabilities include static routing, RIP, OSPF, and BGP, providing flexible route exchange and dynamic path selection between Layer 3 switches, routers, and external networks.
Support for Policy-Based Routing (PBR) provides additional traffic-engineering flexibility by allowing administrators to forward traffic according to defined policies rather than relying solely on the destination routing table.
This capability is particularly valuable in multi-WAN, multi-exit, traffic segmentation, application steering, and redundant gateway environments.
Comprehensive Multicast Services
The AP-SG6500M Series provides comprehensive Layer 2 and Layer 3 multicast capabilities for applications including IPTV, video distribution, surveillance, multimedia, and enterprise collaboration.
Layer 2 multicast capabilities include:
- IGMP v1/v2/v3 Snooping
- Fast Leave
- Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
- Multicast sender and receiver control
- Illegal multicast source detection
Layer 3 multicast capabilities include:
- IGMP v1/v2/v3
- PIM-DM
- PIM-SM
- PIM-SSM
- MSDP
These capabilities provide efficient multicast forwarding while helping reduce unnecessary broadcast traffic and optimize available network bandwidth.
Comprehensive Quality of Service
The AP-SG6500M Series provides advanced Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to deliver predictable performance for business-critical and latency-sensitive applications.
With eight hardware queues per port, the switches can classify and prioritize multiple traffic classes according to application and service requirements.
Traffic classification and prioritization can be based on:
- IEEE 802.1p
- DSCP
- IP precedence
- TCP/UDP port information
- Traffic class and policy
Advanced queue management enables organizations to prioritize delay-sensitive applications such as voice, video conferencing, IPTV, surveillance, and other real-time services.
Flexible bidirectional rate limiting can be applied by port or traffic class, helping administrators control bandwidth utilization, prevent individual applications from consuming excessive network resources, and maintain consistent service levels across the network.
Comprehensive IPv6 Support
The AP-SG6500M Series provides extensive IPv4 and IPv6 switching and routing capabilities, with hardware-based forwarding designed to maintain high network performance.
Native IPv6 capabilities help organizations transition to next-generation IP networks while supporting the rapidly increasing number of connected users, wireless devices, IoT endpoints, and applications.
With scalable addressing, IPv6 routing, security, management, and coexistence capabilities, the AP-SG6500M Series provides a future-ready switching platform for organizations adopting dual-stack or IPv6-based network architectures.
Hardware Specifications
| Access Ports | 12 × 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T Multi-Gigabit |
| Uplink Ports | 6 × 1G/10G/25G SFP28 |
| Auto MDI/MDIX | Yes |
| Management Port | 1 × 100/1000BASE-T RJ45 |
| Console Port | 1 × RJ45 |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Reset Button | Yes |
| Switching Capacity | 540 Gbps |
| Forwarding Rate | 405 Mpps |
| MAC Address Table | 32K |
| Routing Table | 16K |
| Layer 3 Interfaces | Up to 1K |
| Dimensions (W × H × D) | 440 × 44 × 320 mm |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C to 50°C |
| Storage Temperature | –40°C to 75°C |
| Relative Humidity | 5% to 95%, non-condensing |
| Power Input | Fixed AC + 48V DC |
| Maximum Power Consumption | <35W* |
| PoE Budget | 370W |
*Power consumption should be reconfirmed for the PoE model because total system consumption with a 370W PoE load will exceed 35W.
Power over Ethernet
AP-SG6500M-18X-P-6XG
- IEEE 802.3af PoE — up to 15.4W
- IEEE 802.3at PoE+ — up to 30W
- IEEE 802.3bt PoE++ — up to 60W
- Maximum PoE power budget: 370W
AP-SG6500M-24T-P-6XG
- IEEE 802.3af PoE — up to 15.4W
- IEEE 802.3at PoE+ — up to 30W
- Maximum PoE power budget: 720W
Layer 2 Switching
Ethernet and Link Management
- Port loopback detection
- LLDP
- LLDP-MED
- UDLD
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Up to 128 link aggregation groups
- Up to 8 member ports per LAG
- LACP-based load balancing
- IEEE 802.3x flow control
- Head-of-Line (HOL) blocking prevention
- Port-based bandwidth control
High Availability and Ring Protection
- ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS)
- Rapid topology recovery for resilient Ethernet ring deployments
Port Mirroring
- N:1 port mirroring
- Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN)
Spanning Tree
- IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
- Root Guard
- BPDU Guard
- BPDU Tunnel
VLAN Services
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
- Up to 4096 VLANs
- MAC-based VLAN
- Voice VLAN
- Private VLAN (PVLAN)
- Protocol-based VLAN
- Multicast VLAN
- QinQ
- Selective QinQ*
- Flexible QinQ
- GVRP
- N:1 VLAN translation
- Broadcast storm control
- Multicast storm control
- Unknown-unicast storm control
*Availability may vary by model/software release.
Layer 2 Multicast
- IGMP v1/v2/v3 Snooping
- IGMP Snooping Querier
- MLD v1/v2 Snooping
- ND Snooping
- Fast and efficient multicast forwarding
Layer 3 Routing
The AP-SG6500M Series provides advanced hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6 routing for enterprise access, aggregation, and campus deployments.
IPv4 Routing
- Static routing
- RIPv1/v2
- OSPFv2
- Multiple OSPF processes
- BGP4
- Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
- VRRP
- Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
- Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
IPv6 Routing
- IPv6 static routing
- RIPng
- OSPFv3
- BGP4+
- IPv6 Policy-Based Routing
- VRRPv3
- IPv6 uRPF
- IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA)
- ICMPv6
- Neighbor Discovery (ND)
- DNSv6
Multicast Routing
IPv4 Multicast
- IGMP v1/v2/v3
- IGMP Proxy
- DVMRP
- PIM-DM
- PIM-SM
- PIM-SSM
- Anycast RP
- MSDP
- Static multicast routing
- Multicast receiver control
- Illegal multicast source detection
IPv6 Multicast
- MLD v1/v2
- MLD Snooping
- PIM-SM for IPv6
- PIM-DM for IPv6
- IPv6 Anycast RP
- IPv6 Multicast VLAN
ARP and Network Protection
- ARP Guard
- Local Proxy ARP
- Proxy ARP
- ARP Binding
- Gratuitous ARP
- ARP rate limiting
- Anti-ARP spoofing
- Anti-ARP scanning
Quality of Service
The AP-SG6500M Series provides advanced traffic classification, scheduling, policing, and congestion-management capabilities for latency-sensitive and business-critical applications.
Queuing and Scheduling
- 8 hardware queues per port
- Strict Priority (SP)
- Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
- Smooth Weighted Round Robin (SWRR)
- Weighted Deficit Round Robin (WDRR)
- Smooth Weighted Deficit Round Robin (SWDRR)
- Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)
Traffic Classification
Classification based on:
- IEEE 802.1p CoS
- ToS
- DiffServ / DSCP
- ACL
- TCP/UDP port
- Physical port
Traffic Management
- Traffic policing
- Bandwidth control
- Priority marking and remarking
- DSCP remarking
- CoS remarking
Access Control Lists
Comprehensive Layer 2–4 ACL capabilities include:
- IPv4 ACL
- IPv6 ACL
- MAC ACL
- IP-MAC ACL
- Standard ACL
- Extended ACL
- Time-range ACL
ACL policies can classify traffic based on:
- Source/destination IPv4 or IPv6 address
- Source/destination MAC address
- IP protocol
- TCP/UDP port
- DSCP
- ToS
- IP precedence
- VLAN ID
- Tagged/untagged status
- IEEE 802.1p CoS
ACL policies can be applied to ports and VLANs and can support traffic redirection and statistics collection.
Enterprise Security
Network Access Control
- IEEE 802.1X authentication
- AAA
- Port-based authentication
- MAC-based authentication
- MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB)
- Guest VLAN
- Dynamic/automatic VLAN assignment
- Time-based accounting
- Traffic-based accounting
Authentication Services
- RADIUS over IPv4 and IPv6
- TACACS+ over IPv4 and IPv6
Port Security
- Port security
- MAC address access control
- Controlled access to network resources
DHCP Services and Security
IPv4
- DHCP Server
- DHCP Client
- DHCP Relay
- DHCP Option 82
- DHCP Snooping
IPv6
- DHCPv6 Server
- DHCPv6 Client
- DHCPv6 Relay
Traffic Visibility and Monitoring
- sFlow traffic analysis
- Port statistics
- Interface monitoring
- Traffic visibility for network troubleshooting and capacity planning
Management and Operations
The AP-SG6500M Series provides flexible management options for centralized and standalone network operation.
Management Interfaces
- Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Web-based management
- Telnet
- SSH v1/v2
- HTTP/HTTPS
- SNMP v1/v2c/v3 over IPv4 and IPv6
Monitoring and Logging
- Syslog
- External Syslog server
- SNMP MIB
- SNMP Trap
- RMON Groups 1, 2, 3 and 9
- sFlow
File and Configuration Management
- FTP
- TFTP
- Dual firmware images
- Multiple configuration files
- Configuration backup and recovery
Time Synchronization
- SNTP
- NTP
Secure Administration
- RADIUS authentication
- TACACS+ authentication
- HTTPS/SSL
- SSH
Ethernet OAM
- IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet OAM
- IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management
VSF – Virtual Switch Framework
Virtual Switch Framework (VSF) enables multiple physical AP-SG6500M switches to operate as a single logical switching system.
VSF simplifies network design and operations by combining switching resources, management, and control into a unified logical device.
Key benefits include:
- Single logical management plane
- Simplified network topology
- Increased port density
- Expanded switching capacity
- Improved system availability
- Resilient inter-switch connectivity
- Easier network expansion
- Reduced operational complexity
VSF makes the AP-SG6500M Series well suited for enterprise campus, aggregation, high-density wireless, and other environments requiring scalable and highly available access infrastructure.