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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 MMN012-

MMN008 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:

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