User's Manual

DragonWave Inc.

Horizon Compact Release 1.01.01 Wireless Ethernet Product User Manual – Volume 1

6.1.3 Using the Web interface

The Horizon Compact Web interface is disabled by default. You must use Telnet to enable the Web

interface by issuing the CLI command set web server on press Enter.

Open a Web browser and, in the “Address” or URL field at the top of the page, enter the IP address of the

Horizon unit (default is 192.168.10.100) and press Enter. If your laptop or PC has been correctly set up,

you will be prompted for the user name and password. Type in the default Super User name “energetic”

and password “wireless”. The Horizon Compact Home Web page will be displayed.

6.2 Configuring Radio Band and Frequency Channels

Both Horizon Compact units in a system (near and far end) have to be configured with the same radio

band. Volume 3 of this manual lists all the radio bands supported by the Horizon Compact system. The

radio band selected must match that for which the Horizon Compact units have been manufactured. Only

those radio bands for which the radio can be configured are available for selection. The radio band will

also be dictated in the wireless licensing documents.

Typical radio band configuration selections have the format “fcc23_3_50”, “etsi23_3_14” ,

“ul_fcc24_1_40” etc.

For licensed radio bands, the Horizon Compact units at each end of the link have different frequency

banks allocated to them. One unit will be allocated the “LOW” bank and the other the “HIGH” bank. This is

in dicated on the label attached to each unit (LOW or HIGH). Wireless licensing documents will indicate at

which end of the link each should be located. The radio part number, that is stored in the system,

determines if it is a LOW or HIGH unit and automatically configures the correct frequency bank for each

unit.

Note that Horizon Compact units designed to operate at unlicensed frequencies have the same type of

radio at each end of the link and do not have a LOW or HIGH indication on their labels.

Each bank contains a number of frequency channels, of which only one will be selected. Once again the

actual frequency channel will be dictated in the wireless licensing documents.

You also need to configure the system mode (determines bandwidth and throughput parameters).

Use the following procedures to configure the radio parameters:

6.2.1 Using Telnet

1. Type the CLI command: get radio band and press Enter. The system will respond with

the currently configured radio band and a list of all supported radio bands

2. Type the CLI command: set radio band <radio band> and press Enter, where <radio

band> is the required radio band

3. Type the CLI command get system mode and press Enter. The system will respond

with the current mode plus a list of allowable modes for the selected radio band.

4. Type the CLI command set system mode <Horizon mode> and press Enter. The

mode follows the format of hc< channel bandwidth >_< speed >_<modulation>. For

example, for a 50 MHz channel bandwidth with average Horizon speed of 110 Mbps

using 16QAM modulation, enter set system mode hc50_110_16qam . Note that for

unlicensed frequencies the mode includes “ul” in the mode descriptor. For example

hc40_ul_212_128qam.

5. Type the CLI command get system speed and press Enter. The current system speed

will be display ed. This, by default, will be the maximum speed supported by your

purchased licensed speed key. Note that the mode configured in step 4 will determine

the speed available to the system and cannot exceed the licensed speed, regardless of

the mode selected.