iPaso Link Configuration and Commissioning

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Configuration and Commissioning NEC iPasolink. TP Vega Project Commissioning Print Screen

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LOGIN TO iPasolink Equipment.

User Name: Admin Password: 12345678

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Main Window

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Equipment Configuration

Click on “Setup” to start configuration.

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NE Name

Type NE name here and use same format. Don’t write link ID .Only mention station ID e.g: site_id-iPaso (200/400/1000)-1 (1 represent the sequence number of IDU on same station. If there are two IDU write “1” on upper IDU and write “2” on second IDU and so on.)

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Pluggable Module Detection

If new modem card or any other card used, click on “Auto Detect” or select manually from the drop down list. Otherwise you cannot use new cards.

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Link Configuration

Select link configuration from the drop down list. Note: For 1+1 link configuration make sure the license is available otherwise you cannot select 1+1 configuration.

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Click “OK” button after finish.

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Radio Configuration:

In Radio configuration Menu, Click on “Setup”

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ODU Information:

Make sure that ODU information is not “invalid” here. If it is “invalid” check ODU power, IF cable, IF Connectors etc.

Set Channel spacing as per link budget.

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Modulation Scheme:

Select Modulation as per link budget.

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Radio Mode:

Select Radio Mode:

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Frequency:

Set frequency as per link budget:

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Press “OK” button after finish:

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Modem Port Setting

Click on Provisioning->Modem Function Setting->Modem Port Setting.

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Link Name/ID:

Click on MODEM Slots and type LINK ID as per actual scenario. We can identify the links with the this setting. So this is mandatory.

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Transmit Power Setting:

Click on “Tx Power Setting” to set the radio transmit power.

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Tx Power Setting:

Click on desired link MODEM slot and set the power as per link budget..

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Metering:

Click on Metering-> Current Metering Click on MODEM to check the RSL change during Alignment.

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Comments: 

After aforementioned steps we can start the alignment.  Keep watching RSL at Metering and lock the antennas at more than 3db of required RSL given in link budget.

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NMS Configuration for Root NE:

Click on Network Management Configuration and then click on General Setting. Click on setup to set the IP.

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General Setting.

Set IP, Subnet Mask and GW as per given DCN plan and check “connect NMS port to NMS” to yes for root NE which is connected with NEC server through router.

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General Setting (Detailed)

Click on Setup to start configuration.

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Inband Management & Ethernet Port Setting

Set Inband Management to “not used”

Set NMS port “Used”

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NE Branch Setting

Set branch number to “2 branches” Default Gateway is same as the GW given in General Setting. Therefore no need to change.

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NMS Branch IP Setting.

Click on “1” to set branch 1 IP. Branch 1 is NMS and the IP given in General Setting will appear automatically there so no need to change.

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NE Branch Setting: Click on “2” and set NE branch IP and subnet mask as per given DCN plan. Note: All MODEM with this IDU will automatically get Branch 2 IP.

Check “yes “ for Connect to NMS port and check “any” for Protect LCT connection.

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Routing Setting.

No need to change Routing Setting. Gateway will automatically appear here when General Setting is finished.

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NMS Setting Service Setting Click on User Account/ Security Setting->Security Management>Service Status Setting.

Service Status Summary. Should be same as here.

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SNMP Setting. Click on “SNMP” and enable SNMP V1, SNMP V3. Set UDP port to 161.

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SNMP Community Click on “SNMP Community” and set: Community Name: public Access Level: Admin. Access Control: Enable Service IP Address: 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255

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SNMP Trap Entry and NTP SNMP Trap Entry : No change. NTP Should be in Running Status and parameters should be same as given here.

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NTP Server Address and FTP SNMP Service Address : No change. FTP Should be in Running Status and parameters should be same as given here.

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SFTP, HTTP and HTTPS SFTP : Stopped HTTP: Running and TCP port is 80. HTTPS: Stopped

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Normal NE NMS Configuration:

For Normal NE we use the same steps in General Setting but set “Connect NMS port to NMS” to NO.

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General Setting (Detailed)

Set Inband Management to “not used”

Set NMS port “Used”;;

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NE Branch Setting:

Set Branch number to ‘1’ Default GW and branch “1” IP’s will be same as in general Setting. No need to change here.

Set NMS port to “NO” and Restrict LCT connection to “Any”

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Equipment Cascade setting

If there are two IDU’s in station then for DCN we need to cascade setting for the two IDU’s. Click on Equipment Cascade Setting and then click on Setup.

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Equipment Cascade Setting:

Select Number of NE’s in station: 2 for two IDU’s Own Cascade ID: 1 is for the same IDU connected with your laptop. 2 is for other IDU on the same station. Set the IP of other IDU and click OK.

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Comments   

Service Status setting in Normal NE is same as root NE. So do the same steps for normal NE. In a hub if there are two IDU’s use LAN cable between NMS port to NMS port. If in any case NMS port is used we can configure first Eth Port as NE management.

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Ethernet Function Setting:

Click on Bridge Setting and then click on Modify .

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Bridge Setting:

Set Aging “On” FDB Aging Time:300s GbE Max Frame Size: 2000 bytes FE Max Fame Size:1522bytes Vlan Mode:802.1Q (Mandatory) Default VLAN ID1 Default VLAN TPID: 8100

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Ethernet Ports Enable/Disable

Ethernet port can be enable or disable from Eth Port Setting. Click on desired port to enable or disable.

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Ethernet Port Speed:

If Ethernet port enabled its speed should be set “auto”.

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VLAN Creation:

Example: Site MMN012-MMN008-MMN751_BSC

We want to create VLAN for ZTE SDR. First we enable eth port-1 for SDR. Set the station ID in port name.

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VLAN Setting: Example site:MMN012

Click on VLAN Setting and then click on VLAN List.

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VLAN List

Click on “Add VLAN. Type VLAN id and VLAN Service Name. Type site id in VLAN service Name.

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VLAN Assignment to Eth Port:

Click on Main Board Port01 to assign a VLAN from VLAN list:

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VLAN Assignment:

Set port mode “trunk” and check the planned VLAN ID from list.

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VLAN assignment to MODEM (radio link) Port:

Click on Main Board Port01 to assign a VLAN from VLAN list:

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VLAN Assignment:

Set port mode “trunk” and check the planned VLAN ID from list.

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VLAN Main Page after Creation:

After VLAN creation the VLAN ID’s will appear against each port like here:

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Far End MMN008 VLAN Creation:

First of all VLAN id of Site MMN012 should be added in VLAN list of MMN008.:

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VLAN Assignment of Modem (Radio Link) Port

Assign the VLAN of Site MMN012 to the link MMN012MMN008 Modem. Use the same procedure as described in previous slides:

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VLAN Assignment to other port facing MMN751-BSC

As there are two IDU on MMN008 station and our example link is in second IDU but the link with BSC is in first IDU. Therefore we use Ethernet Ports and a physical LAN cable between two IDU’s. So we assign VLAN to eth port02 which is connected with first IDU.

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MMN008 facing MMN751 IDU.

Assignment of VLAN of MMN012 coming from other IDU via eth port. Assignment of VLAN of MMN012 to the link facing BSC_MMN75 1.

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BSC Site MMN751

At MMN751 VLAN for MMN012 should be added in VLAN list.

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VLAN assignment to Link facing MMN008

Assign the VLAN of MMN012 to Modem Port MMN008-MMN751.

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VLAN Assignment to LAG Ethernet Group:

At BSC site VLANs of all cluster Sites are assigned to two GbE Optical Ports. Normally 3rd &4th port is used in iPaso. We set LAG function over these ports. These ports are physically connected with PTN via fiber cables and then PTN is connected with BSC. So we assign VLAN of our example site MMN012.

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Tips for VLAN Configuration:   

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VLAN is used for ZTE SDR in Telenor Vega Project. We assign VLAN to ZTE SDR and same VLAN is assigned to NEC iPasolink’s ethernet and modem ports from terminal site to up till BSC site. In a hub site we simply assign the VLAN to MODEM facing terminal site and to MODEM facing BSC site. Same rule of thumb is used for all the hub in the path. If there are two IDU’s in a hub we use physical LAN cable between two IDU and assign all the VLAN coming from sites to both end IDU’s eth ports. VLAN mode is always “trunk”

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Equipment Clock Setting:

Use this setting for Root NE. Root NE is always master and all other NE’s are salve in iPaso Network.

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Equipment Clock Setting: Slave

For normal NE use this Clock Setting. Normal NE is always Slave. Note: In a hub if there are two IDU’s then the first IDU will be slave and second IDU will be master. All other IDU connected with second IDU will be slave.

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Ethernet QoS Setting:

Click on QoS/ Classification Setting. Click on classification mode.

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Equipment Based QoS Mode:

Set Equipment Based QoS mode.

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Select Profile No.

Click on “Select Profile No”.

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Profile 0.

Select the profile no “0” to set planned QoS parameters.

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Profile “0” configuration:

Select the profile no “0” to set planned QoS parameters. Click on entry “1” to set the Priority.

Note: By default required setting for Profile “0” is available in iPasolink. No need to change profile “0” setting.

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Profile 1 Configuration.

Select the profile no “1” to set planned QoS parameters. Click on entry “1” to set the Priority.

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Profile 1 Setting:

Set the classify field, classify Priority and Classify internal Priority as per given Plan.

Click on entry no one by one as per required entries and set classify priorities.

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Ingress Setting:

No need to set Ingress Setting.

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Port Setting:

No need to change Port Setting.

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Link Aggregation.

Click on Eth Port and Enable Port 3 and port 4 optical ports. Set the name of ports as the given ports in PTN.

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Link Aggregation

Click Link aggregation Setting and click on “Add Lag”

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LAG configuration.

Select ETH GRP1, Set the Name, Mode: Static Interval: Short Distribution Rule: L2

Set LAG on Port 3 and Port 4 as given here.

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Link Aggregation Status:

After LAG creation if the fiber cables connected with PTN then the status should be up. Example is here.

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VLAN assignment to LAG

Assign All VLAN from VLAN list to LAG . Example is given here.

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VLAN assignment to LAG.

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Thank you.

Yasir Masood Microwave Expert ZTE (Pvt) Ltd Pakistan