The Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point provides reliable wireless connectivity for mission-critical applications in a state-of-the art platform to deliver a network that is more reliable and secure, with higher throughput, more capacity, and less device interference. IW9167E is Cisco’s first outdoor Wi-Fi 6E ready access point supporting tri-radio and triband (2.4/5/6 GHz bands). The Cisco URWB software on IW9167E designed to remove open source CLI and support the Cheetah OS based Cisco style parser. IW9167E can operate as Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi (CAPWAP) mode or Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) mode. This Release Notes covers the Cisco URWB mode specific to the IW9167EH access point.

The Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point supports following functionalities.

• Supporting tri-radio and tri-band (2.4/5/6 GHz bands) with WiFi-6E.

• The Catalyst IW9167E is designed to take advantage of the 6 GHz band expansion.

• Cisco Catalyst IW9167E Access Point supports two wireless technologies on a single hardware platform (Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi or Cisco URWB).

• IW9167E supports dual image with same Cheetah OS (Cisco URWB and CAPWAP Stack) for different feature sets and data plane logic.

• Supports 802.11ax High Efficiency (HE).

• Supports 802.11ax guard interval 1600ns and 3200ns.

• IW9167E supports enabling indoor deployment for -E domain.

• Supports software license management solution that provides a seamless experience with the various aspects of licensing.

• The Cisco URWB Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Point provides feature parity with FM3500 and FM4500 9.3 firmware release.