4RF Aprisa XE - Page 8

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Opening the Cross Connections application ......................................................122
The Cross Connections page.............................................................................123
Setting the terminal's address............................................................................125
Management and user ethernet capacity...........................................................125
Setting card types ..............................................................................................126
Getting cross connection configuration from the terminals ................................126
Creating cross connections................................................................................127
Sending cross connection configuration to the terminals...................................130
Saving cross connection configurations.............................................................130
Using existing cross connection configurations .................................................130
Printing the cross connection configuration .......................................................131
Deleting cross connections ................................................................................132
Configuring the traffic cross connections ....................................................................133
Compatible interfaces ........................................................................................133
QJET cross connections ....................................................................................134
Selecting and mapping bits and timeslots..........................................................139
Q4EM cross connections ...................................................................................143
DFXS & DFXO cross connections .....................................................................144
QV24 cross connections ....................................................................................145
HSS cross connections ......................................................................................146
Cross connection example ..........................................................................................147
Symmetrical Connection Wizard .................................................................................148
Starting the wizard .............................................................................................148
Wizard Navigation ..............................................................................................148
Setting the IP address........................................................................................149
Setting the bandwidth.........................................................................................149
Card Selection....................................................................................................150
Interface configurations......................................................................................151
Symmetrical connection summary .....................................................................152
Send symmetrical connection configuration.......................................................152
11. Protected terminals ......................................................................................153
Monitored Hot Stand By (MHSB) ................................................................................153
Tributary switch front panel ................................................................................154
RF switch front panel .........................................................................................155
MHSB cabling ....................................................................................................157
MHSB power supply...........................................................................................157
Configuring the radios for protected mode.........................................................158
12. In-service commissioning............................................................................163
Before you start ...........................................................................................................163
What you will need .............................................................................................163
Applying power to the terminals ..................................................................................164
Review the link configurations using SuperVisor.........................................................164
Antenna alignment ......................................................................................................165
Checking the antenna polarization.....................................................................165
Visually aligning antennas..................................................................................166
Accurately aligning the antennas .......................................................................167
Synchronizing the terminals ...............................................................................169
Checking performance .......................................................................................169
Checking the receive input level ........................................................................169
Checking the fade margin ..................................................................................170
Checking long-term BER....................................................................................171
Bit Error Rate tests.............................................................................................171
Additional tests...................................................................................................172
Checking the link performance...........................................................................173
Viewing a summary of the link performance ......................................................174