Deployment Guide
1.2 Hardware
The 7signal Sapphire Eye is a wireless probe or a monitoring station that is installed in a central position
within the WLAN network. Currently there are five different hardware variants: the Standard Eye supporting
802.11a/b/g standards, Standard Eye supporting 802.11a/b/g/n standards, Indoor Eye supporting
802.11a/b/g/n standards and Gigabit Indoor Eyes supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac standards.
1.2.1 802.11a/b/g/n Indoor Eye (Sapphire Eye 2000)
802.11a/b/g/n version of the Eye has the following main features (partly optional):
● Mechanical parts injection molded polycarbonate plastic
● Linux computer, 1GB Flash memory
● WLAN radio module, 802.11 a/b/g/n support (2.4 GHz, 5.180 GHz - 5.825 GHz)
● Expansion card slots inside the unit: One PCI Express for future use
● Micro SD card slot inside the unit
● Spectrum Analyzer component
● 6 sectored high gain antennas covering 360 degrees in horizontal directions
● RF board with antenna beam selection and low noise amplifiers in the receiver chain
● Electronic compass
● Reset button
● LED indicating status
7signal Solutions Inc., 6155 Rockside Road, Suite 110, Independence, Ohio 44131, USA,
216-777-2900, info@7signal.com, www.7signal.com