ALFOPlus

Access Link Full Outdoor

with Adaptative Code Modulation
Full IP Radio - Point to Point Radio Link

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 Training items
1. General overview ALFOplus
2. ODU Installation
3. Software connection
4. Line up
5. Ethernet switch
6. Maintenance
7. Alarms & Troubleshooting

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 ALFOPlus Connectors
LAN 2 LAN 1 Auxiliary
cable for
(Supervision port) (Traffic port) pointing cable
Status LED
it will provide additional
power supply source and
console
AUX

F03608

PRx (dBm) VAGC /Prx

VRssi
(Volt)

Serial Console 115200 8-N-1-N and

Auxiliary Power INPUT 48Volt
 Block Diagram Radio ALFOPLUS GE

IP Ethernet ODU ALFOPLUS GE RFCOH Ip Ethernet

100 m Traffic :
Remote Site
max cable LAN1 (PoE)
1Gbps Switch
1Gbps
1Gbps Ethernet
LAN2
L2
Internal
or PortA Radio RFCOH( Radio Frame
Complementary Over
In Band
Frame Head) transport
DC/DC
Management information of :
Traffic : CPU -Alingment (new frame)
IP Agent
AUX ( Console
115.2Kbps
-LLI (Local Link ID) 8bit
rs232, 48Vdc )
-Synchronisation
Led Alarm
-etc.
Out
48 Vdc Data + Management
PoE (VLAN:10) + PoE
Injector
1Gbps
In
Data + Management (VLAN:10)
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 Block Diagram Radio ALFOPLUS GO

IP Ethernet ODU ALFOPLUS GO RFCOH Ip Ethernet

Traffic :
Remote Site
1Gbps Switch
LAN1 1Gbps
1Gbps Ethernet
LAN2 (PoE)
L2
Internal
or PortA Radio RFCOH( Radio Frame
Complementary Over
In Band
Frame Head) transport
DC/DC
Management information of :
Traffic : CPU -Alingment (new frame)
IP Agent
AUX ( Console
115.2Kbps
-LLI (Local Link ID) 8bit
rs232, 48Vdc )
-Synchronisation
Optical Led Alarm
cable -etc.

LC connector 48 Vdc
(SFP plug-in) Power
Supply

Data + Management (VLAN:10)

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 ODU characteristics
ALFOplus (Part number Siae from GB6xxx to GB9xxx)

ALFOPLUS description
Frequency range 7 to 42 GHz
Modulation 4 to 1024 QAM
Bandwidth 7,14,28,40,56 standard EU or
10,20,30,40,50 standard USA
Net Throughput 436Mbit/s (without
compression)
Radio Link 1+0 (link unprotected)
Tx dynamic Attenuator 20 dBm
Size (mm) W/H/D 254/254/154

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 ODU polarisation
Use lubricant grease Dow Corning 4 around O-Ring in order to avoid that the rubber is dried and water, sand, dust could
enter into the waveguide.

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 ODU pole mounting
Tighten the 4 screws in order crossed, first on one diagonal and after on the other. Use oil ant-seizing MOLIKOTE P-40
between the threads of nuts and bolts because often lack of lubrication could cause metal parts seized together.

1+0 Integrated Antenna 1+0 Not Integrated Antenna

STANDARD POLE STANDARD POLE
MOUNTING KIT MOUNTING KIT

Leave 25 cm straight Lan

cable between Amphenol
connector and first bending
2 to secure waterproof IPX5.

1- In the top of Antenna, remove the tape and plug the cap.
2- In the bottom of Antenna, remove the cap to drain out 8
the water or Humidity.
 Outdoor RJ45 Amphenol Kit
1 – Be careful when
you crimp amphenol 2 - It’is mandatory to verify with
ethernet test (not supplies) the proper
kit P20032 connectivity of both ends in order to
avoid autonegotiation problems (as for
example 1Gbps full duplex not reached).

Be careful do not use standard

RJ45 connettor for Outdoor
RJ45 standard connector 3 - Tighten strongly
LAN connectors with
wrench J23599 to ensure
the complete isolation
RJ45 Short connector

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 Local Connection to equipment
• Using LAN2, MNGT port (1Gbps) (!! You need to know the ip
address of the radio!!)
• Using auxiliary port (115200bps 8-N-1-N) with HyperTerminal (!!
You don’t need to know the ip address of the radio!!)
• Using Rescue login (!!when you have forgotten the ip address!!)

Software N.E. ( Network Equipment )

Internet Browser (I.E. 9, Mozilla 13, Firefox) WEBLCT Local and Remote
You cannot load firmware or backup/restore config.

Web Lct Console (WinXp, Win7) WEBLCT Local and Remote

Free software downlodable www.siaemic.com after registration

SCT Subnetwork Craft Terminal (WinXp, Win7) 100

NMS5-LX (Linux) 1000

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NMS5-UX (Unix) 10000
User: SYSTEM
Pass: siaemicr SCT distr. ≥ 4.7.4

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 Web Lct Console

Press Double click

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 HyperTerminal Connection

Press Enter
In capitol letter type
login: SYSTEM
Password: SIAEMICR

With auxiliary cable F03594 Serial

Console, as an alternative cable F03622,
115200bps 8-N-1-N

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 Rescue Connection with SCT
1 Assign a static IP address to your PC (172.20.253.14/16)
ALFOPLUS RESCUE IP ADDRESS is:
172.20.253.13/16
2 Connect your PC directly to ALFOplus (only Lan2)
3 With SCT, connect using Local Area
Network, press connect button, type in
equipment IP address 172.20.253.13, user:
System, Password: siaemicr and press Rescue
button

4 Follow the instruction of rescue login

5 In “Rescue Connection” mode it is
possible to set or to recover the values
for management normal access.
Use Rescue only to watch ALFOplus IP Address , Rescue on LAN2 only, FW 01.01.01
or to change Ip Address Rescue on LAN1 and LAN2, FW v01.04.00
 WEBLCT

Default Admin Username: SYSTEM

Default Password: siaemicr
 Default Admin Username: SYSTEM
Default Password: siaemicr
Max 2 User connected
in the same time WEBLCT
Default Read Only Username:RLOM (Monitor)
Default Password: siaemicr

“WEB Local Craft

Terminal” is Open WEB LCT of
similar at SCT - Remote Link Radio
Equipment Menu
Radio
Radio
Status
Setting

hide / show menu

This Web Browser manages a single terminal.
manual refresh

Alarms
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 Line up
1. Radio Configuration : Bandwidth & Modulation/Link ID;
Frequency Tx/Rx, Duplex Spacing; Ptx.
2. Port configuration
3. Agent IP
4. Store Routing Table
5. Remote element List or Subnetwork configuration wizard
6. Restart equipment

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 Radio Throughput
Table of capacity net Ethernet [Mbps] in different bandwidths and modulations

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 Adaptive Code Modulation setting
ACM enable: fixed bandwidth
and variable modulation, at
the maximum possible
Range of dynamic ACM disable: fixed bandwidth
Modulation
and modulation

Radio capacity:

Is Only Ethernet
Radio
Throughput
@28Mhz

• Downshift (from 1024QAM to 4QAM): decrease Ethernet Capacity

• Upshift (from 4QAM to 1024QAM): increase Ethernet Capacity
For each modulation profile the Ethernet throughput is adjusted.

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 Tx Power mode ALFOPlus 13GHz

dBm

+26

+25

+24

+23

PEAK
+22

+21
AVERAGE

4QAM-S 4QAM 16QAM-S 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM 512QAM 1024QAM

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Tx Power Ramp referred at a modulation

TX power

NO NO

Max. TX power @ 32 QAM

Modulation
4QAM 8PSK 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM

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 Radio Branch: Tx Frequency

2
 Traffic ok (normal setting)  no modulator (no traffic)
 Temporary Tx off with Timeout  traffic ok
 Permanent Tx off without Timeout
1
5
Value of Timeout
Local Remote 17700 MHz 18200 MHz 18700 MHz 19200 MHz 19700 MHz

High Low ODU 1L ODU 1H 1 SubBand

ODU 2L ODU 2H 2 SubBand

FTx1A=18878.5MHz FTx1A=17868.5MHz ODU 3L

22 3 SubBand
ODU 3H

FRx1A=17868.5MHz FRx1A=18878.5MHz ODU 4L ODU 4H 4 SubBand

Manual: TX Power Fixed;
Automatic: ATPC enabled
Radio Branch: Powers
ATPC allows Ptx<PtxMAX for most of the
time; when fading occurs, Ptx is increased as
needed until the maximum is reached.
ATPC vs constant Ptx:
- Less power consumption, ACM Zone ATPC reduce Ptx
- higher MTBF,
- reduced interference on other links
Ptx doesn’t change
ATPC increse Ptx up to the max Ptx value

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 Port Configuration OH Payload

2
.73 3
RFCOH Ip Eth
1 (In-Band)

!!! Remember to Enable Internal

Port and PortA to manage
Traffic ethernet ports can be used for remote side !!!
management (in a separated VLAN)

Possible Configuration of Supervisioning Traffic (Local equal remote)

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ALFOPLUS v01.00.01
Main >Port Configuration> Supervisioning

LAN1 is for data

only

LAN2 is for data only

LAN2 is for management only

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Combination1:
LAN1= Disable,
LAN2= Local Access Only

LAN1: Disable LAN1 is for data only

LAN2: LAO LAN2 is local management only

• Management LAN2 Only - Untagged

• Data LAN1 only - Tagged/Untagged

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Combination2:
LAN1= Disable,
LAN2= Out Of Band
(Default)

LAN1: Disable LAN1 is for data only

LAN2: Out Of Band LAN2 is local management only, dedicated
bandwidth for the management over the air

• Management LAN2 Only – Untagged dedicated logical channel

(bandwidth reserved over the radio link)
• Data LAN1 only - Tagged/Untagged

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Combination3:
LAN1= In Band ,
LAN2= Local Access Only

LAN1: In Band LAN1 is for data and management

LAN2: Local Access Only LAN2 is for local management only

• Management LAN1 - Tagged

LAN2 – Untagged
• Data LAN1 only - Tagged/Untagged

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Combination4:
LAN1= In Band ,
LAN2= Drop Node

LAN1: In Band LAN1 is for both data and management

LAN2: Drop Node LAN2 is for management only

• Management : LAN1 - Tagged (InBandVlan)

LAN2 - Untagged
• Data LAN1 only - Tagged and Untagged

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Combination5:
LAN1= In Band ,
LAN2= In Band

LAN1: In Band both data and management

LAN2: In Band both data and management

• Management : LAN1 - Tagged (Tag=InBandVlan)

LAN2 - Tagged (Tag=InBandVlan)
• Data : LAN1 and LAN2

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Combination6:
LAN1= In Band ,
LAN2= Disable

LAN1: In Band both data and management

LAN2: Disable LAN2 is for data only

• Management : LAN1 only - Tagged (Tag=InBandVlan)

• Data: LAN1 and LAN2

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Web LCT: Main Menu – Equipment Properties Agent IP
Restart without cut the traffic

Equipment ID: name view of radio

Agent IP = Ip Ethernet (MNGT port)

Network Element Agent IP is used for snmp

traps to identify the
Network Element. When
(IP ETH) SNMP Agent (Radio A)
OSPF is enabled the Agent
IP Routing
Ip ≠ Ip Ethernet. 32
 Store Routing Table
As a Layer 3 router, the ALFOPLUS equipment uses a Routing
Table to route the management traffic through its ports (LAN ).
- Destination: is the Network
address to send /receive
Management interface management traffic.
- Net Mask: Network Mask of
the destination network.
Store routing table is - Hop: is the next IP address
used for create new one interface that connect the
Destination's net.
“Routing table” is
- Interface: defines the local
used for view the mngt interface that allows to
actual routing mapped reach the next hop
- Protocol: specifies how the
routing row has been inserted.

Local: command inserted automatically by the ALFOplus’s controller.

(Cannot be delete)
NetMgmt: command inserted manually by the user (Can be delete)
OSPF: command inserted automatically by OSPF feature

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 Remote element List
In order to have the whole link in one page only, local equipment is
declared “managed by SCT”, remote one is declared “remote link”.
Opposite configuration on remote side.
1 3
Create Station and Insert the
Network Element using the IP
AGENT

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172.18.41.73 172.18.41.74
2

41. 74
4

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 General Preset
Rx Power Low: pre-alarm threshold configurable
by operator (independence of errors)

Received Signal Strength Indicator : enable the Voltage

AGC on Auxiliary port, during alignment of antenna.

It is recommended to let RSSI = Disable, not overload

CPU. After Enable/Disable perform a Sw restart

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Synchronisation Priority or Quality
SETS is a hardware circuit that select the source
Web LCT: Main Menu – Synchronisation
interface of synch in base at priority or it can
switch the source according with quality.
3

2
Manual
Enable SynchE Operation
After this period the alarm appears
1
Wait time to restore After this period the alarm disappears

Enable SSM G.8264 (Quality of Synch)

Free Running = missing source synch, an auto Internal synch is generated by itself (PLL).
Holdover = degrade of Synch, trying to recover. 36
Locked = normal situation of STM1 synchronisation of status control ALFOPLUS NEW 1.1.x
 Synchronisation Source

1
Manual 4 Enable Source Manual reset
Operation Wait to Restore
Forced by
Operator
Status Alarms is generated by:
- LTI (Loss of timing input)
- Drift (Bad quality)

2 3
Disable
High

Low
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 Ethernet Switch Functionalities
• L2 switching: based on MAC Address and/or VLAN
• Flow Control / Back Pressure (IEEE 802.3x)
• Autonegotiation (IEEE 802.3ab)
• Jumbo Frames
• MSTP, RSTP (IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1d)
• RMON Statistic

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 Ethernet switch
Routing based
on VLAN ID

MTU in Byte

Time to refresh the

MAC address table for
each Lan interface

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Disabled 802.1q or Fallback Traffic Treatment
E-Line

Frame X Lan1 S_Vid=101 Frame X S_Vid=101 Frame X Lan1

Vid=101 Frame X
Vid=101
Port A S_Vid=101 Frame X Port A
Vid=111 Vid=111
Provider S_Vid=102 Frame Y Provider
Lan2 Lan2
Frame Y Frame Y
Vid=102 S_Vid=102 Frame Y S_Vid=102 Frame Y Vid=102

Disabled 802.1q or Fallback

E-LAN
S_Vid=111 Frame X

Lan1 S_Vid=101 Frame X Frame X

Frame X S_Vid=111 Frame Y Lan1
Vid=101 Vid=101 Frame Y
Port A S_Vid=111 Frame X Port A
Vid=111 Vid=111
Provider S_Vid=111 Frame Y Provider
Lan2 Lan2
Frame Y
Vid=102 S_Vid=102 Frame Y
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Vid=102
Exiting from ALFOplus Manager

Only exit with Logout !

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LAN settings: LAN PER PORT

It’s allowed to share traffic Payload

with the other interfaces Ethernet
ALFOPlus
Lan1 PortA
Lan2 Radio Port
External Internal
Interfaces Interface
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 VLAN Lan Configuration
VLanID (Static) is automatically insert when the value belong
at Default Vid of ingress port or value of In Band VLan Id.

Radio Port

VLAN doesn’t transit through Lan2

VLAN exits Lan2 with tag
VLAN exits Lan2 without tag
VLAN exits Lan2, with the same
tag it has at input (unmodified)
 LAN settings: Interface RJ45 Pinout MDI
1 Txp
2 Txn
RJ45 Pinout MDIX
1 Rxp
2 Rxn
Rate control: Used only for 3 Rxp 3 Txp
Full Rate to SyncEthernet: Used only when
4
5
4
5
Enable the Lan 6 Rxn 6 Txn
Interface Master: OUTPUT Speed/Duplex = 7 7
Slave: INPUT Auto 8 8

Table of MAC
address enable

= 1Gb

Indipendend Mac Address

Database segment indexed
by default port VLAN ID

Message to determine the

Step 10Mbps when maximum capacity that
Speed/Duplex is set can handle the Ethernet
Full-Duplex-100M link For 1Gbps

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 Spanning Tree Protocol
Interface Lan1 belong at group Bridge1 of Spanning Tree Protocol or IEEE802.1D or
IEEE802.1W.

Enable spanning tree

Low Priority

High Priority

Low Priority
High Priority

Used to determine priority of port

This interface displays and settings the port states on the feature
enabled. You can enable a single function at time per port
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ALFOPLUS v01.03.00
 Spanning Tree
Resend BPDU
Change Status port
Life of BPDU

First try to use RSPT, if not

available then use standard
STP

Parameters of packet BPDU

(Bridge Protocol Data Unit)
used for manage STP/RSTP

Example all Lan connected in a hub

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Parameter used to elect the root bridge
ALFOPLUS v01.03.00
 LOOPS
0 sec = disable
Manual operation
Timeout

Line Loop Lan (Tx ->Rx)

RF Loop Only for ODU GB6xxx
(GO) and GB8xxx (GE)
Loops used with Ber The packets ethernet doesn't return back,
because are deleted into the switch.
Test measurement or
S/N to search the Packets ethernet return back (Very
failure or check the dangerous for the network, because the
Ethernet traffic should never be looped)
cable connections
ODU BaseBand Loop ODU RF Loop

Line Loop

The loops are combined 47

with Radio BER Test
 Radio BER TEST to check Hardware Failure
Local 1) Set Local Radio Timeout=0
b 2) Enable RF Loop or Baseband Loop in
Local Radio
3) Enable Local Radio BER TEST(step a,b,c)
4) Check Local status: BER,Sync Loss,
Errors, Elapsed Time, events
Timeout = 0
c Ber Test on RF Loop
a
Local ALFOplus
Or for Both radio
1) Set Timeout_Local= 580sec and This operation will result in
Timeout_Remote= 600sec the loss of remote equipment.
2) Enable Remote Radio BER TEST(step a,b,c)
3) Immediately, enable the Local Radio BER
TEST Local
4) Check Local status: BER,Sync Loss, Errors,
Elapsed Time, events
Timeout = 580 Timeout = 600
Ber Test on Ber Test on
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ALFOplus Link
Performance monitoring

To detail

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 Performance monitoring

Alarm Status

Threshold

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Report & Logger Maintenance
Details of Configuration
stored in the radio

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Software info & Maintenance

1 Download “only difference” FW_Boot.dwl

2 Download “Forced” FW_appl.dwl
3 Download “Web Lct” WebLct.zip

After a Bench switch, don’t turn

off the power supply untill the
complete restart of equipment.

IP Factory Default
172.20.254.14/16 ODU L
172.20.255.15/16 ODU H

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!!! SCT or WLC is necessary for FTP file transfer !!!
 Backup/Restore Configuration
Backup with SCT – Tools - Equipment Configuration Wizard
 Full Backup ( Radio Config. , Address, Remote List ) : file not
editable
 Partial Backup Configuration : file editable
- Config. (modulation,capacity,frequency channel, etc)
- Address (IP Eth, Radio PPP, Routing table, etc)
- Remote List
Backup with WebLCT
 Full Backup : file not editable

Backup file made with WLC cannot be

used to restore with SCT and viceversa
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!!! SCT or WLC is necessary for FTP file transfer !!!
Unit List

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Alarm Severity Configuration
3 double click
2

Disable or select the severity of the Alarm

permanently

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 User Manager SNMP Monitor Server

Remote User manager

NMS5UX User manager

Read Only: Monitor user

Read and write: cannot
modified configurations of
Equipment menu
Admin Password
Station Op.: as System user, but
cannot create/modify user and
add new Features Management
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RMON Remote MONitoring
Ethernet performance monitoring

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ALFOPLUS NEW 1.1.x
Front panel LED:
• Orange = Reboot status Alarms Notification
• Red On = An Internal alarm is active
• Red Flashing = An external Alarm is active
• Green On = Radio connection with far end terminal is active
• Green Flashing = No radio connection with far-end terminal
Alarm windows
• SCT: All alarms are listed in “Event History” or the active alarms can be
monitored in a “View current alarms” windows.
• WEBLCT: all current alarms are present in “Event list” area.

Group Alarm:
URGent Critical (red) Hw Fail
affect traffic Link Down Major (Orange) Los

Not URGent Minor (yellow) Radio changing

Don’t affect traffic Link OK Warning (light blue) Alarm indication Signal

TEST = Active Manual Operation (Loop, Radio Switch, FM test, Radio BER TEST, etc)

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Who can generate alarms in a radio link system?
1 ) Propagations of MicroWave
- Interference (in a Link radio turn off the Ptx module (local & remote) and
monitoring the Prx during the day, active Local Link ID)
- Desalign of Antenna (check positions and screws, maximize the Voltage AUX
connector present in ODU)
- Obstacle in the 1° Fresnel Zone (tree, tower building, etc …)
- Particular condition (heavy rain, stratification of different air temperature, flat
surface)
- Using the “Performance Monitoring” Prx, Ptx, BER measuring
2 ) Radio Hardware faulty
- Alarms due of a wrong configurations or actual status of the Radio
- Faulty (using Radio BER TEST to check a Hardware failure)
3 ) External Event
- No constant 48 Volt Power supply during the day/night
- Very High temperature, humidity inside waveguide.
- ODU operating range -33° to +55°C; survival temperature range -40°C to +70°C
- ODU Waterproof according to IP65 environmental class
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 Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting is performed with :
- Check value Power of Transmitter and Receiver.
- Reading Current Alarms and Alarm History labels and
trying to figure out which part of the equipment is affected,
in the following pages there is a description of alarms.
- Disable All Manual Operations.
- Verifying with RADIO BER TEST a Hardware failure or S/N
Measure.
- Verifying the correct initialization of the Local and Remote
Radio.
- HW Restart.
- Factory default
- Firmware Update
- Replace with a spare part. 60
Alarms grouping : Current Alarms
Alarms are divided into groups, the group name
represents the origin of the module that has caused
him.

with SCT
SCT: Equipment – View
Current Alarms…

WEBLCT
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 Alarms groups : COMMON
Alarms related to Controller module and EOC channel.

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Equipment manual operation
2 – type Timeout =1 sec to clear all Manual Op.

1- Press double click

Or using SCT – Equipment – View

Active Manual Operation - set Timeout:
Timeout =1 Sec
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 Alarms groups: ETH LAN
Alarms (internal and external) regarding Ethernet traffic and
relevant ports.

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Alarms groups: P.M. (Performance Monitoring)
Alarms regarding all measurements in Performance Monitoring
section.

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 Alarms groups: Plug-in module
Alarms relevant the plug-in modules used for optical lines.

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Alarms groups: RADIO
Specific alarms the ODU and Radio link.

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Alarms groups: RADIO

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 Link telemetry fail
No link between Local and Remote station. Traffic & Mngt is cut.
Demodulator fail can be when:
To solve problem, try :
-the remote radio is power OFF or TX power Off
-Disable manual operations
-Frequency Channel Local ≠ Remote
-Check Power Tx/Rx and Frequency chan.
-RF Loop on remote Radio
-Line-up (Local&Remote)
-IDU/ODU damaged (using BER TEST to verify the faulty)

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Adaptive Modulation Reduce Capacity Notification
When ACM Engine is enable in both radio (Local and Remote)
and the actual Tx/Rx modulation < Upper modulation.

To clear the alarm, set :

-reduce fading
-Increase Power Tx (Local & Remote)

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 RT Rx Power Low
This alarm occurs when Rx power is under a defined threshold
Threshold value can be set in range:
-40dBm  -99dBm in General preset
The alarm Rx Power Low is a branch alarm and it is used to drive Rx switch

Decrease this value below of actual

Prx, -70dBm is default value

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 RT Tx Power Low
This alarm occurs when actual Tx power is 3 dB under the Tx Power
control setted manually.

ATPC or manual attenuation do not affect this alarm that is given by

internal failure of the radio.
This alarm can be activated by a manual operation also: Tx Transmitter
off in Radio Branch - Settings 72
 RT Rx Quality Warning Alarm

RX Quality Low Warning RX Quality Low Alarm

BER ≈ 10E-10 BER ≈ 10E-6
Quality power receive BER≤10E-10

Quality power receive BER≤10E-6 73

 Alarms grouping : UNIT
This group generates alarms when one of the
units, the equipment consists of, is faulty or does
not respond to controller polling

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ACRONYMS

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 More info? …consult the manual
ALFOPLUS - User manual (mn.00273.e).pdf
WEB LCT ALFOPLUS - User manual (mn.00281.e).pdf

Contact Siae
commercial reference

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