User's Manual

Hardware Installation
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2.3.1 AP-7131 Antenna Options
Motorola supports two antenna suites for the AP-7131. One antenna suite supporting the 2.4 GHz
band and another antenna suite supporting the 5.2 GHz band. Select an antenna model best suited
to the intended operational environment of your AP-7131.
Antenna connectors for Radio 1 are located in a different location from the Radio 2 antenna
connectors. On single radio versions, the R-SMA connectors can support both bands and should be
connected to a R-SMA dual-band antenna or an appropriate single band antenna. If necessary a
R-SMA to R-BNC adapter (Part No. 25-72178-01) can be purchased separately from Motorola.
Certain Rogue AP Detection and Intrusion Detection features use an AP-7131 radio to perform
dual-band scanning. The dedicated radio should be connected to an appropriate dual-band dipole
antenna (Part No. ML-2452-APA2-01).
NOTE On a single-radio AP-7131, Radio 1 can be configured to be either a 2.4
GHz or 5.2 GHz radio. On a dual-radio model, Radio 1 refers to the
AP-7131’s 2.4 GHz radio and Radio 2 refers to the AP-7131 5.2 GHz radio.
However, there could be some cases where a dual-radio AP-7131 is
performing a Rogue AP detector function. In this scenario, the AP-7131 is
receiving in either 2.4 GHz or 5.2 GHz over the Radio 1 or Radio 2
antennas depending on which radio is selected for the scan.