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Eclipse Installation Manual
Chapter1.About Eclipse
Welcome to the Eclipse User Manual.
This introduction describes:
•What Is Eclipse?
• What You Need To Know to Use Eclipse
• About the Eclipse Documentation
• Documentation Conventions and Terminology
What Is Eclipse?
Eclipse supports multiple point-to-point radios for PDH, SDH and/or Ethernet on a
single rack-mounted platform, to form a complete network node for star or ring
configurations on the 5.8 GHz unlicensed frequency band.
For an introduction to the Eclipse system, see the System Overview.
What You Need To Know to Use Eclipse
To install Eclipse, we recommend you have the following knowledge and skills:
• A basic understanding of the principles of microwave transmission.
• Installation and maintenance experience on PDH and SDH digital microwave radio
systems.
• Familiarity with Ethernet and/or SDH multiplexing where these traffic options are
to be employed on Eclipse.
Familiarity with the operation of a PC using the Windows operating system.
Follow health and safety procedures at all times! See Health and Safety
for complete details.