WAP C9130AX DART connector RF and Digital lines pinout

[Borislav Kostadinov]

Hi Dears,

I am looking for a pinout diagram for WAP C9130AX DART connector (RF and Digital lines) ports assignment. Can someone help with this? There are big quantity of these WAP deployed in our company infrastructure, all of them with external antennas but the issue is that the antennas are few different models, using either 4-port or 8-port DART cable. The 8-port antennas are C-ANT9103, seems they are "Self-Identify" with an EEPROM inside, connected to the digital ports, which is fair enough, but the antennas that use the 4-port DART cable , they are not Self-Identify, there is just a 10kOhm rezistor on two of the digital port pins, but noone knows what is the pinout of this digital ports, so we struggle when need to do any trouble-shooting.

Thanks

[balaji.bandi]

check below guides may help you (not installed my self 4 port be honest)

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/8-4/b_cisco_access_points_with_smart_antennas.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/aironet-antennas-accessories/product_data_sheet09186a008008883b.html

[Borislav Kostadinov]

Thank you Bandi,

excellent articles about antennas. but unfortunately no information given about the DART connector digital ports assignment / pinout.

it would be beneficial just to understand if this port is used at all in case non-SIA antennas are to be connected to the RF ports. I know the image contains instructions for the WAP to address certain RF ports ( A/B/C/D only or A/B/C/D + E/F/G/H) and what band to enable on the combined ones, but the thing is- does the WAP expect to see anything on the digital port when non-SIA antenna is to be connected (DART-4 or DART-8 cable only). this will help us proceed further with trouble-shooting of the wireless infrastructure, and particularly - the mesh part of it.