ASUS EA-AC87

ASUS EA-AC87 A1
Availability: common

Manuf (OEM/ODM): Arcadyan WA5005A AC44-ASU

FCC approval date: 03 September 2014
Country of manuf.: China

Amazon image

ASINs
B010QDFITS (, On Amazon, On CCC)
B01560A5FI (, On Amazon, On CCC)

Type: media bridge, access point

FCC ID: MSQ-EAAC87
IC ID: 3568A-EAAC87

Power: 12 VDC, 1.5 A
Connector type: barrel

CPU1: Quantenna QT3840BC (500 MHz, 2 cores)
FLA1: 16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (Macronix MX25L12845EMI-10G)
RAM1: 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (ESMT M15F1G1664A-ADB)

Expansion IFs: none specified
JTAG: yes, 7-pin header, unpopulated
Serial: yes, internal, 4-pin header, populated, 3.3V TTL, (115200,8,N,1)

WI1 chip1: Quantenna QT3840BC
WI1 chip2: Quantenna QT2518B
WI1 802dot11 protocols: an+ac
WI1 MIMO config: 4x4:4
WI1 antenna connector: U.FL, RP-SMA

ETH chip1: Quantenna QT3840BC
Switch: Realtek RTL8367RB
LAN speed: 1G
LAN ports: 5

an+ac

Additional chips
5GHz Power Amplifier;Skyworks;SKY85405-11;;4;
5GHz SPDT Switch;Skyworks;SKY13370-374LF;;4;

Flags: MU-MIMO, signal-quality indicators

Default SSID: ASUS_5G (44 addl. devices)
Default IP address: 192.168.1.1
the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1298 additional devices
of which 167 are ASUS devices
Default login user: admin
Default login password: admin
admin:admin credentials used by 1322 additional devices
of which 198 are ASUS devices

802dot11 OUI: 10:C3:7B (2 E, 2 W)
Ethernet OUI: 10:C3:7B (2 E, 2 W)

For a list of all currently documented Quantenna chipsets with specifications, see Quantenna.

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• 1733Mbps - 4-stream 802.11ac device (433Mbps per stream) = 1800 Mbps class

5GHz Wireless AC1800 Media Bridge / Access Point

Product page

The device can operate as a Media Bridge or a Access Point.

AP: http://findasus.local (http://www.asusrouter.com)

SSID: ASUS_5G

"AW5005AAC44-ASU", "HannStar", "1505" (02/2015), ASUS logo and

"EA-AC87 REV 1.40" is silkscreened on the board in the photos.

See also: Arcadyan and ASUS RT-AC87U

Wi-Fi Certified : WFA55379 (as of 06/27/2014)

Additional external links

Reviews

• Asus EA-AC87 Review on iXBT (RU)

CPU: Quantenna QT3840BC @500MHz SoC (Argonaut RISC)

WLAN: Quantenna QT2518B 802.11ac 4T4R (1733Mbps)

RAM: 128MB, Flash: 16MB, Switch: Realtek RTL8367RB

• Asus EA-AC87 Review on K.L.Seet
• Asus EA-AC87 Review on FoxNetLab

Flash: Macronix MX25L12845EMI-10G 16MB (SPI)

5GHz Power Amplifier: 4x Skyworks SKY85405-11 (FCC images)

5GHz SPDT Switch: 4x Skyworks SKY13370-374LF (SKY3370)

• Asus EA-AC87 Review on OpenITforum (PL)

Forum threads

• Reviewed on KoolShare forums (CN) (internal images)

Quantenna QSR1000 @500MHz ARC 700 Dual on-chip processors

Quantenna QSR1000 (QV840/HS800): SoC QT3840BC + RFIC QT2518B

Blogs

• RT-AC87U The Ultimate Router 4×4 MU-MIMO – CES 2014 @ ASUS' PCDiY blog

Press releases

• Quantenna Powers World’s Fastest 802.11ac Dual-Band Wave 2 ASUS RT-AC87U Router - Quantenna press release

Other

• FCC doc w/ more details about the Quantenna QV840 chipset (via an Actiontec filing)

This module is noted to contain a small 64KB SPI Flash w/ not

much else on-board besides the bootloader and calibration data.

The main firmware is uploaded to the device via its RGMII interface.

• ASUS AC2300 Router Coming @ SmallNetBuilder

Wave 2, AC2400

4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac

IEEE 802.11ac: 5 GHz (80MHz) 4T4R 1700 Mbps

• WLAN mit 1700 MBit/s @ heise.de (DE)
• Erster Chipsatz für 11ac-WLAN mit 4 MIMO-Streams @ heise.de (DE)

See also

• Asus Wireless AC networking solutions
• Asus Routers with DD-WRT firmware support
• AsusWRT Support List
• Devices ASUS Routers

Images

@ koolshare.cn

• Board top
• Board bottom
• RTL8367RB GbE Switch
• Block diagram