User's Manual

Chapter 5: GlobeSpan Control Panel Application

18 GlobeSpan, Inc. Proprietary – Use Pursuant to NDA

• Click Error Counters to obtain counts for ADSL line related near-end and far-end

anomalies and defects. The counts provided are detailed below. Click Close to

return to the “ Advanced Link Data” window.

Note: Reed-Solomon forward error corrections are perfectly normal, and will not

necessarily affect the application. CRC errors, however, may affect the application.

RS - Interleaved

Count of local and remote Reed-Solomon forward error corrections for the

interleaved data stream

RS - Fast

Count of local and remote Reed-Solomon forward error corrections for the fast data

stream

CRC - Interleaved

Count of local and remote CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors for the interleaved

data stream

CRC - Fast

Count of local and remote CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors for the fast data

stream

Severely Errored Frame

Count of local and remote severely errored frame (sef) defects

Loss of Signal

Count of local and remote loss of signal (los) defects.

• Click Actual Configuration to return the current configuration of the modem. The

configuration items are detailed below. Click Close to return to the “ Advanced Link

Data” window.

Downstream Channel

Downstream bit rate in kbps. The latency is also provided.

Upstream Channel

Upstream bit rate in kbps. The latency is also provided.

R_F

Upstream and downstream number of redundant bytes per Reed-Solomon code

word for the fast buffer.