Setup Guide Part 1

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7signal Solutions, Inc., 526 S. Main Street, Akron, Ohio 44311, USA, 855-763-9526, [e-mail], www.7signal.com
7signal Sapphire Carat User Guide Release 5.0
2 MONITORING STATIONS
2.1 Sapphire Eye
Sapphire Eye is a monitoring station for WLAN environments. Unlike a common access point or
client, the Eye monitoring station uses advanced broadband antenna technology, which
creates an exceptionally large coverage area. Consequently, one Eye can monitor several
access points, or WLAN cells. The typical number of monitored cells is 5–8.
There are two monitoring station variants: the Standard Eye and the Indoor Eye. The Standard
Eye is protected against dust and water (conformant to IP55 or IP65 specifications, depending
on the model), so it can be installed outdoors and in challenging environments.
Figure 2: Monitoring station on customer's premises
In the picture above:
• The monitoring station (Eye) is the grey cone-like object in the center;
• the Carat management interface is on the service provider’s premises (top left
corner);
• the customer’s premises have a wireless network with six access points (center part
of the picture, access points in red);
• there is one monitoring station on the customer’s premises (the colored lobes
depict the station’s directional antennas and their range);
• a problem has occurred in an access point in the red lobe;
• the problem can be seen in the monitoring interface or in a report as a falling
performance indicator value (lower right corner).