User's Guide

3e-531AP Wireless Access Point
Chapter 2: Hardware Installation
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Chapter 2: Hardware Installation
Preparation for Use
The 3e Technologies International's 3e-531AP Wireless Access Point
requires physical mount ing and in stal la tion on the site, following a
prescribed placement design to ensure optimum operation and roaming.
Professional installation is required.
If the 3e-531AP's Power over Ethernet (PoE) solution is being activat-
ed, it will, in addition, re quire the installation of a separate PoE-capable
hub switch which “in jects” DC cur rent into the Cat5 cable. This injector
device should have been spec’ed and installed by a wireless LAN installa-
tion team.
To ensure that there is no possibility of danger from contact with the
in ject ed current should anyone open the 3e-531AP enclosure, each 3e-
531AP device has been  tted with a safety interlock that functions as an
in ter nal circuit breaker to interrupt the  ow of current when the device is
opened.
The 3e-531AP package includes the following items:
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The FIPS-compliant 3e-531AP
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2 removable antennas
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Documentation as PDF  les (on CD-ROM)
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Installable RF Manager utility (on CD-ROM)
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Registration card
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Warranty card
The following items are separately purchased in accordance with the
exact dimensions of the network to be con gured:
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Power cable with water-resistant circular connector
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Ethernet cable with special water-resistant circular con-
nec tor