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InfiNet Wireless R5000

Technical User Manual

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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Table of contents FCC REGULATORY NOTICE.................................................................................................... V INDUSTRY CANADA REGULATORY NOTICE.........................................................................VI ANTENNA INSTALLATION AND OPERATION INFORMATION ............................................ VII 1. System Design......................................................................................................
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Precaution measures .................................................................................................... 14 Service cable soldering procedure .................................................................................. 14 Connectors hermetic sealing.......................................................................................... 17 Tools to be available at the installation site .....................................................
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual 2. Link diagnostic tools........................................................................................................ 36 Muffer ........................................................................................................................ 36 RMA Test .................................................................................................................... 39 Load Meter...............................................................
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual IX. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION................................................................................. 55 1. Connectors soldering schemes.......................................................................................... 55 Service cable connector soldering scheme....................................................................... 55 Console cable connector for 5000-M and 5000-O soldering scheme ...................................
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual FCC Regulatory Notice A following notice is applicable to models R5000-L, R5000-O and R5000-S which are configured to work in 5.8 GHz band Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statement Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Industry Canada Regulatory Notice A following notice is applicable to models R5000-L, R5000-O and R5000-S which are configured to work in 5.8 GHz band Industry Canada compliance statement This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations. This device complies with Industry Canada specification RSS-210.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Antenna installation and operation information 1. System Design Infinet Wireless, wireless routers, can be operated in both point to point and Point to Multipoint modes, depending on equipment and system configuration. System designers must be aware that changes to operating power levels and antenna selection are required depending on the mode of operation of this equipment.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Waves) Sector SEC-5V-90-17 (Radio Waves) 5.725 - 5.850 17.0 dBi Yes N/A N/A Sector TA-5705H-14-90 (Til Tek) 5725-5875 16.5 dBi Yes N/A N/A Sector SAH58-90 (Pacific Wireless) 5725-5875 17.0 dBi Yes N/A N/A Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual I. Getting Started This Technical User Manual is a description of InfiNet Wireless Routers and contains installation and configuration guidelines, recommendations and troubleshooting sections, and supplementary materials. The document is intended to be used by Qualified RF engineers/technicians and IT professionals.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Supplementary information Contains supplementary information (specifications, schemes and InfiNet Wireless Routers product matrix). connectors soldering 2. General products description InfiNet Wireless FBWA products offer scalable, robust, flexible and cost-effective fixed broadband wireless access solutions for carrier-class networks.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual The data network built on InfiNet Wireless products is implemented as a routed IP network which reduces flooding and broadcast messages specific to bridged networks and to implementation of Quality-of-Service (QoS) features set. QoS definitions per subscriber’s data flows are effectively mapped on MAC level flow attributes. Each device in the network can be configured using serial console port, Telnet protocol or HTTP (web-based).
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • The device was opened and/or repaired by the owner on his own • Improper exploitation conditions (including improper grounding) • Electrical damaging of the print circuit board due to electric disruption caused by improper grounding • Mechanical defects of the case 6.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual II.Hardware description 1. Power supply unit (IDU) All outdoor equipment is equipped with indoor power supply units. Power supply unit exterior Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual III.Installation procedure 1.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual General recommendation for antennas placement are the following: • Install antennas as high as possible over specific level. In case of flat surface - it will be ground level, in case of vegetation and forest – it will be tree heights, in urban environment – it will be the highest building in the observed area (specific level definition).
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual impulses are terminated on the IDU case by the winding shield, and further – on the grounding contour. The data & power wires pickups on the top are terminated via ODU protection scheme; on the bottom – via IDU protection scheme (discharger and additional air gap).
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • type: "rma autotest mcast • config save • restart the device • plug the monitor to the console and listen Usage algorithm: • Fix the antenna • Skip one indication cycle • Listen to the sound indication • Align the antenna and then fix the antenna again • Skip the indication cycle • Listen to the sound indication • … etc Precaution measures Before you start the installation please read this section very care
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Step 1. Peel STP cable as shown Step 2. Use outdoor unit to fix the connector for further faster disassembling Step 3. To disassemble the connector detach its bottom part by turning it clockwise as shown Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Step 4. Disassembled connector is shown on the picture Step 5. Insert the cable into the bottom part of the connector Step 6. Solder the top side of the connector according to the soldering scheme. Unscrew the top side of the connector from the unit Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Step 7. Using outdoor unit as a holder assemble the connector Connectors hermetic sealing A big number of problems with link signal quality in case of outdoor installations result from RF cable and connectors corrosion. In order to avoid these problems it is necessary to isolate all the connections that are situated outdoors. One needs to use either thermal shrinkage with gel stuff or special waterproof tape.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Tools to be available at the installation site 1. Screwdrivers set 2. Pliers 3. Soldering iron 40 W 4. Spanners set 5. Connectors isolating set • Raw rubber • Thermal shrinkage tube • Scissors • Fan • Mantling gun 6. Additional equipment • GPS receiver or area map (with compass and alidade) • Big zoom binoculars Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual 2. InfiNet Wireless R5000-L and InfiNet Wireless R5000-O Installation guidelines 1. Unpack the equipment 2. Check items integrity 3. Prepare required devices maximal 1 meter. RF-cables of the length. For 5GHz the recommended RF cable length is 4. Install and isolate the connectors on the RF cable 5. Determine the STP cable length that is used to connect IDU and ODU. The total cable length between LAN (behind IDU) and ODU should not be longer than 100 meters.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual It is extremely important to install ODU connectors down! Wall mounting Assembled mounting kit is shown on the picture below. 3. InfiNet Wireless R5000-S Installation guidelines 1. Unpack the equipment 2. Check items integrity 3. Determine the STP cable length that is used to connect IDU and ODU. The total cable length between LAN (behind IDU) and ODU should not be longer than 100 meters. 4.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual 9. Isolate the ODU connector joint place 10. Once the ODU and antenna pole are installed they must be grounded via lightning protection grounding contour. ODU position must be lower than the highest antenna pole point at least by 2 ODU heights 11. Connect the UTP cable to IDU 12. Provide grounding for IDU 13. Connect Ethernet cable to IDU 14. Provide power supply for IDU 15.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual IV. Device configuration instructions 1. Initial settings configuration procedure Before starting new device, one should perform initial configuration. The configuration can be performed either using serial console port or using Telnet protocol. In order to configure the device using Console port, follow the instructions below: • Device should be connected with host serial interface, using InfiNet Console cable • Start any terminal emulation software (e.g.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • rf3.0, rf4.0 - radio interface. See device’s labeling it learn your radio interface name • pppX – point-to-point interfaces • tunX - interfaces used for IPIP tunnels building • vlanX – interfaces supporting VLAN 802.1q tagging All configures interfaces of the router can be reviewed using the following command: ifconfig -a 3. Command line interface (CLI) For device’s management and configuration a Unix-like command line language is used.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Example: config show ifc This command will print the interfaces configuration. You can specify several parts of the configuration separating them with a space bar. Example: config show rip nat In order to save your configuration “config save” command is used. It saves the current system configuration in the router's flash memory for subsequent permanent use.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual 6. IP address formats Many commands of the operating system require specification of IP addresses. In OS WANFleX, the IP-addressees may be specified in traditional numeric format. Optionally, the mask may be specified either by its bit length (the specified number of leading bits in the mask are set to 1, the remaining bits are reset to 0) or numeric value. The IP address 0/0 denotes all possible IP addresses.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual This command outputs the following information: MAC silicon revision: 5.6 PHY silicon revision: 4.1 5GHz analog silicon revision: 1.7 Power levels (mW): 6, 8, 16, 32, 63 MAC address: 00028AE1D787 Frequency list: 5260, 5280, 5300, 5320, 5340. Bitrate list: 6000, 9000, 12000, 18000, 24000, 36000, 48000, 54000 Radio interface configuration is performed using “rfconfig” command. Example: rfconfig rf4.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual subscriber, and subscriber will calculate a distance to the base station. If the CPE has a link coordinates information it will use this information, otherwise it will use the distance parameter value got from the base station. o If distance parameter is set to 0 radio module will use default settings. o pwrctl – automatic transmitting power control mode. In this mode the output power is set up automatically within the values available for the radio module.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Base Station configuration BS is configured by specifying all of its CPEs using “rma ab” command. The command format looks as follows: rma ab MAC ip=MYIP [name=NAME] [options] “Rma ab” parameters: • IFNAME – name of the radio interface • MAC – MAC-address of the CPE.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual B – burst mode on P – polling mode on 7 / CPE configuration CPE configuration is performed using “rma bs” command. For each subscriber one can specify several base stations at which the CPE can be registered (see Roaming section). The command syntax looks as follows: rma bs sid/speed[/minspeed] freq [,freq...
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • 7/6 – “signal level from the subscriber”/”signal level from the BS”.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • Specify using “rma bs” command all BS that CPE can potentially work with • On each BS that is specified in CPE’s configuration one need to configure the CPE Subscriber’s LAN switching from one base station to another takes place with no LAN Ethernet interface IP-addresses changing. Router’s configuration rebuilding takes not more than 15 seconds when the base station changing is performed.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Link Test & Control A Base Station performs a permanent link testing with a subscriber. Each testing is accompanied by subscriber’s information update in the Base Station’s tables. This mechanism provides a system operator with comprehensive data concerning registered subscribers and links quality without any additional tests launching.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual V. Link Configuring 1. Preliminary decisions Speed selection Basic recommendations for the device’s speed selection are the following: • The overall performance of the channel built using 54 Mbps devices is just a little bit higher than for 48 Mbps devices. However, the noise immunity for 54 Mbps is less than for 48 Mbps.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • Bottom value for the speed: 12 Mbps • This solution provides with the performance of not less than 8 Mbps of real throughput for upstream traffic and 14 Mbps for downstream traffic with maximal coverage area Frequency planning for multi-sectored Base Stations Base Stations with six sectors deliver the maximal performance by providing with sector reciprocal reservation and best price/performance parameter value.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual parameters. If not, please select another speed and go back to Step 6 In order to obtain speed range calculation for the link (for 5GHz devices only), please refer to “Speed range calculator”. Landscape details and signal propagation path obstructions are not taken into account in the calculator. Speed range calculator Speed range calculator is used for Speed/Coverage parameters calculation for the link. The Calculator is available at the www.infinetwireless.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual what frequencies can be used for the link so that the link did not interfere with other sources of signals. The scan is performed only for the packets corresponding with the standard of the radio module (802.11a for 5GHz devices and 802.11b for 2.4 GHz devices. Other sources of signals on the scanned frequencies stay unseen. The picture above shows the output of review mode.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Like in review mode this regime provides with the information about a current activity but on the configured frequency. To run the review mode please type the following command: muffer mac2 Statistics The statistics gathering is used for estimating link load intensity and per client. The amount of packets sent and received, and the number of retransmissions is shown for each MAC address participating in the data exchange.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual muffer stat clear Other modes of muffer The muffer also has the following modes: • mac mode. Compared to the mac2 mode this mode does not take linklevel ACK messages sent by protocol support devices into account • mynet mode performs the radio testing without disturbing radio module's normal operation, but taking into account only packets from within the given network • sid mode.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Example of rma test mode usage for manual mode: rma rf4.0 test ab1 1400 mcast Here: • Test key word means that the test is performed in the manual mode • Ab1 – system assigned name for the subscriber (do not mix with a mnemonic subscriber name, see rma ab section). You can use subscriber MAC-address instead • 1400 – testing packet length • mcast – multicast mode.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual To run load meter like it is shown above, please type: loadm –l Acquiring interfaces statistics Interface statistics can be acquired using netstat module which includes two modes: • Routing tables output (using “-r” parameter with the command) • Interfaces statistics output (using “-I” parameter with the command) Below picture shows the example of interfaces statistics output.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual VI. Services, features and tools This chapter describes router’s built-in services, features and tools which were not described in previous parts of the document. Descriptions provided in this chapter are shortened. Full description is available in the OS WANFlex User Guide. 1. Network services MAC filter The MAC filter (macf command) performs static mapping of IP-addresses to MAC addresses in an Ethernet network.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual • The MAC address of the destination station or of the source station. QoS QoS manager (qm command) is a convenient and flexible mechanism to manipulate data streams going through the router. The user can create up to 64 logical channels characterized by different properties (such as priority levels and data transfer rates), and then assign data streams to these logical channels according to special rules of assignment.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual 3. Routing protocols Static The router has a feature of creating static routing tables The route command provides with manual management of system routing tables. In the normal mode, when a routing daemon is active, this command is not needed. However, in some cases it allows to achieve more precise, nonstandard configuration. All routes that are described using route add command are “pseudostatic”.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual VII.GUI “InfiNet Wireless Router Manager” 1.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual In system panel at the bottom of the window the following parameters are permanently updated: • Sys uptime. A time since last device’s reboot. • CPU load. Current CPU load. Also, a set of buttons is also available at the bottom of the window: • Save all. Saves all changes. Equivalent to “config save” command. • Refresh all. Updates all information is all tabsheets. • Quit. Closes the application.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Interfaces Among all interfaces parameters that can be adjusted in this tabsheet, the most important are radiointerface parameters: • Working frequency. Usually this parameter is relevant only for BS. For the CPE the frequency (or a list of frequencies) is set in RMA protocol configuration and determines the list of frequencies where the BS should be searched. • The bit transfer rate (in Kbit/s) of the radio link. • Power of a transmitter (in milliwatts).
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual o If the CPE has auto value instead of a number (by default), the CPE will configure its parameters using Base Station commands. It is enough to set a numeric value on a Base Station (the distance to the remotest CPE); all other CPEs will automatically adjust their work. While configuration showing, there might be the current distance value after auto parameter: auto (XX) o when knowing exact device's geographical coordinates (e.g.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Base Station In this Tabsheet the user can edit the following parameters: • Create/delete/edit records for the CPEs that can register on this Base Station. Each record corresponds with “rma ab” string in RMA protocol configuration • Manual CPEs switching on/off The application is capable of periodic update of the CPE current information which includes: • BS registration status • Signal levels from BS to CPE and from CPE to BS.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual CPE – Customer Premises Equipment) For each CPE there can be several configured BS. Surely, CPE at the moment can be registered only at one BS. Each BS is represented by three parameters: SID of the searched BS, requested transmitting speed and list of frequencies where the BS should be searched at. Each time RMA is run or CPE looses registration at the BS, it starts searching for a new BS scanning through the list of configured BS.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Interfaces statistics Prompts and hint available in this tabsheet provide the user with all necessary information on all displayed parameters. Also, the page has a feature of running a load meter which provides with a detailed information on interfaces load dynamics.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual Routing/ARP tables This Tabsheet lets the user to view routing table and ARP-table.. Graphs This Tabsheet contain three subsheets: • CPU Load. Builds a graph, showing CPU load changing in time • CPE signal levels. Shows how levels from different CPEs change in time • Interfaces Graphs. Displays current load on all interfaces. Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual VIII.Recommendations 1. Using InfiNet Devices for High Speeds (48, 54 Mbps) Using InfiNet devices on greater speeds 48 and 54 Mbps can specific limitations and requirements because of low noise immunity of high-order modulation techniques (64 QAM). One should take all possible precautions to prevent exceeding of parasite signals over receiver sensitivity threshold. The problem is aggravated by the presence of this parasite signal in entire spectrum.
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InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual IX. Supplementary information 1. Connectors soldering schemes Service cable connector soldering scheme Copyright © 2004-2006 by InfiNet Wireless Limited.