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- Page 1 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge AirEther™ BR108 5.3 / 5.8 GHz OFDM Point to Multipoint WIRELSS BRIDGE User Manual Version 3.2b...
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Page 2: P Revious H Istory
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge PREVIOUS HISTORY Revision Date of Issue Scope March 31, 2004 Initial A p r i l 2 , 2 0 0 4 First draft A p r i l 2 , 2 0 0 4 Correct errors and the paragraph orders May 25, 2004 Second draft... -
Page 3: P Reface
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge PREFACE We are so honored to offer you this product – “AirEther BR108 Wireless Outdoor Bridge”. The AirEther BR108 Wireless Outdoor Bridge is cost-effective to expand or relocate your local wired networks (LANs). This advanced design suits the goal to create an unwired working environment. -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
ISTORY ................................3 REFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................4 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................6 ............................7 ANUAL ONVENTIONS ................................8 ISCLAIMER 1. INTRODUCTION ..............................9 2. AIRETHER BR108 HARDWARE FEATURE ......................10 2.1 H ................E ARDWARE RCHITECTURE RROR OOKMARK NOT DEFINED 2.2 P ............................10 RODUCT EATURE 2.3 P... - Page 5 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 7.1 U ...........................44 NPACK THE SHIPMENT 7.1.1 Required Tools:............................44 7.1.2 Product..............................44 7.1.3 Accessories............................44 7.2 I ODU............................45 NSTALLING THE 7.2.1 Required Tools:............................45 7.2.2 Installed Accessories: ..........................45 7.2.3 How to Mount the Bridge: ........................45 7.2.4 Connecting the cable ...........................46 7.2.5 General Antenna and Safety Tips......................46 7.2.6 Basic Antenna Alignment ........................47 7.2.7 ESD Protection.............................47...
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Page 6: Table Of Contents
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Table of contents Picture1 Bridge Architecture Error! Bookmark not defined. Picture 2 Bridge Picture 3 Connection1 Picture 4 IP Discover Tool Picture 5 Find out the IP and MAC address Picture 6 Start Menu Picture 7 Network Connection Picture 8 Local Area Connection Properties Picture 9 Internet Protocol Properties Picture 10 Enter Username and Password... -
Page 7: Manual Conventions
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge MANUAL CONVENTIONS Bold Bold type within paragraph text indicates commands, file names, directory names, paths, output, or returned values. Italic Within commands, italics indicate a variable that the user must specify. Titles of manuals or other published documents are also set in italics. -
Page 8: Disclaimer
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge DISCLAIMER AirEther BR108 Wireless Outdoor Bridge User Manual Document No.: 50-5000(REV: 3.24), July. 14, 2006. Any part of this publication could not be copied, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language in any form or any means, electronic, magnetic, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of our company. -
Page 9: Introduction
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 1. Introduction The AirEther BR108 is designed for the outdoor environment. It will function under the strict weather as the following passages you see. About the further protection, the bridge and Power over Ethernet adapter are built with the lightning protector. This advanced innovation is to help you to increase from the productivity, cost-effective, mobile Internet access, to other sections. -
Page 10: Airether Br108 Hardware Feature
2.2 Product and Accessories AirEther BR108 high capacity outdoor bridge unit Ethernet Inline Power Injector (PoE), 48V, 1Amp,with Power Cord C. Weatherproof connector kit D. Installation CD with Locator Utility & User Manual CD... -
Page 11: Product Connection Feature
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 2.4 Product Connection Feature 2.4.1 External Antenna & Power over Ethernet (PoE) Cable Connector External Antenna Connector PoE Cable Connector Picture 2 Bridge 2.4.2 Grounding Screw 1) Be grounding strip connection. 2) Proper grounding is always for the safety consideration. 2.4.3 CAUTION OVER CABLE CONNECTION Picture 3 Connection1... -
Page 12: Product Warranty
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 2.5 Product Warranty Our product is warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from date of shipment. During the warranty period time, we will either repair or replace products which to be defective. For warranty service or repair, this product must be returned to a service facility designated by us. -
Page 13: Feature Summary
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 2.8 Feature Summary Provide the Ethernet to Wireless LAN Bridge fully compatible on IEEE 802.3 Ethernet side and fully interoperable with IEEE 802.11a compliant equipments. The Ethernet interface with 10 /100Base-T. The operating mode is for IEEE 802.11a infrastructure. The dynamic data rate switching with 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 and turbo mode allows auto fallback data rate for optimized reliability, throughput and transmission range. -
Page 14: Ip Discover Utility
AirEther BR108 Outdoor Bridge on the same sub-network segment. Although the AirEther BR108 Outdoor Bridge has a default IP address, this utility useful when the network administrator forgets the modified IP address. Before using this utility, please make sure the system firewall installed in your PC is “Disable”. -
Page 15: Picture 5 Find Out The Ip And Mac Address
5. Click on the “Scan” button for the utility to start searching. And the utility will display the IP address and MAC address of the available AirEther BR108 Outdoor Bridge. Now you can using a web browser to access the management interface with the IP address. -
Page 16: Bridge (Airether Br108) Configuration
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4. Bridge (AirEther BR108) Configuration 4.1 The Master/Slave side PC Network Configuration 4.1.1 How To Start Network Configuration on your PC 1) Click the “Start Menu” and choose “Setting”. 2) Click “Network and Dial-up Connection”. -
Page 17: Master Bridge Side Pc Tcp/ Ip Setup
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.1.2 Master Bridge side PC TCP/ IP Setup 4.1.2.1 Master side PC TCP/IP Setup 1) After clicking on “Property”, you will see the diagram as below. 2) Marking the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and click the “Properties” Picture 8 Local Area Connection Properties 4.1.2.2 Master Bridge Side PC IP/ MAC Address Set up 1) Use “IP address (ex. -
Page 18: Slave Side Pc Configuration And Tcp/Ip Set Up
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 9 Internet Protocol Properties 4.1.2.3 Slave Side PC Configuration and TCP/IP set up 1) About “ the Slave side PC Configuration “, you just follow “the same Set up method” as how you set the Master side. As TCP/IP, you also follow “the exact same procedure”... -
Page 19: Master/Slave Bridge Configuration
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.1.3 Master/Slave Bridge Configuration 4.1.3.1 How To Start 1) Launch a Web Browser. 2) Key in the default IP Address as URL (Default IP Address is http:// 192.168.1.20). 3) “Enter Network Password” Diagram will appear. 4) Enter “Username: Admin”(Case Sensitive). -
Page 20: Master/Slave Bridge Configuration
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.1.3.2 Master/Slave Bridge Configuration 4.1.3.2.1 After Login You will access by clicking the “Management” from left side menu. Picture 11 Statistic Page 4.1.3.2.2 Region/Country Set up 1) Click the “Management” on the left side of the Web page. 2) Select the “... -
Page 21: Picture 12 Region/Country Setup
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge name is “public”. You may change the community name here as your plan. 6) Trap Receiver Trap is the notification of certain events generated by SNMP agent to send to the network management server. To have the Outdoor WLAN product send SNMP trap, you need to enter the IP address of the server where the trap is sent to. -
Page 22: Master/ Slave Side Ip/ Mac Address First Time Set Up
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.1.3.2.3 Master/ Slave side IP/ MAC Address first time Set up 1) “ Bridge Default IP Address (192.168.1.20) ” to do the first time set up and you could change the IP Address you have after signing. 2) “Default value (255.255.255.0)”... -
Page 23: Configure 5Ghz Bridge Setting
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 14 Auto Get IP This will get the IP address from DHCP server if you have DHCP server enable in your subnet. 4.1.3.2.3 Configure 5GHz Bridge Setting Radio Setting 1) Bridge Type If the application is only for “Point to Point” architecture, the set it as Slave one on each side. - Page 24 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge and 54Mbps are supported for the wireless mode of 54Mbps (802.11a). And, rates of 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72, and 108Mbps are supported for the wireless mode of 108Mbps (802.11a Turbo). The mode of 108Mbps offers the double data rate than of 54Mbps.
- Page 25 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge transmitting the data frame and expect to receive a CTS (Clear To Send) from remote Bridge. You may define a threshold for those frame size greater than the threshold need to activate RTS/CTS mechanism. The valid range is between 256 and 2346.
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Page 26: Security Setting - Master / Slave Side Share/Unique Key
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 15 5GHz Bridge (Master) Picture 16 5GHz Bridge (Slave) Security Setting – Master / Slave side Share/Unique Key To have a secured data transmission, Outdoor WLAN Product provides 3 encryption mechanisms. -
Page 27: Master Side
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 64-bit WEP (10 Hex. Digits/ 5 ASCII Keys) 128-bit WEP (26 Hex. Digits/ 13 ASCII Keys) 152-bit WEP (32 Hex. Digits/ 16 ASCII Keys) The key entry method can be in either “Hexadecimal” or “ASCII Text”. The security setting between Master and Slave Bridge are different. -
Page 28: Slave Side
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge B. Unique Key In some special applications, you may need to assign different key for each Master-Slave link instead of the same key for all links. It can be done by setting up Unique Key per MAC address of Slave Bridge. Note: It is required to have the same security setting between linked Bridges to communicate. -
Page 29: Master & Slave Bridge Joining Condition
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 19 Master/Slave Bridges Connections 4.1.4.2 Master & Slave Bridge joining condition 1) Local Bridge This line shows the IP and MAC address of local Bridge as well as its state. 2) Remote Bridge This line shows the IP and MAC address of remote Bridge as well as its state. -
Page 30: Picture 20 Statistics
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 20 Statistics Values on this page are automatically refreshed every minute. You may manually press the refresh button of browser to get the updated data more frequent. As RF signal strength is more critical for outdoor deployment purpose, RSSI bar is refreshed every 2 seconds. - Page 31 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Field Description RSSI Displays the strength of the received signal in dBm (the remote bridge received signal strenth). Refresh every 2 seconds. RSSI of ACK Displays the strength of the far end received signals in dBm (the local bridge received signal strength).
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Page 32: Firmware And License Upgrade
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.2 Firmware and License Upgrade 1) Firmware upgrade is for you to upgrade your bridges when the upgrade files release. 2) “ Browse” the firmware files to be uploaded from the Disc in the Picture 20 then click “... -
Page 33: Rebooting
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 4.3 Rebooting 1) Click and “ Reboot “ either “ each time “or “ reboot “ the system once when you finish all kinds of settings. Picture 22 Rebooting Window When all the parameters have been setup according to the network configuration and requirements, click “Update”... -
Page 34: Snmp
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 5. SNMP The system provides SNMP v2c read capability for the network management. SNMP interface can be reached both locally and remotely. The supported standard MIB including System of MIB-II Interfaces of MIB-II Address Translation of MIB-II IP of MIB-II ICMP of MIB-II SNMP of MIB-II... - Page 35 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge .1.2.1 dot11DisassociateReason .1.2.2 dot11DisassociateStation string .1.2.3 dot11DeauthenticateReason .1.2.4 dot11DeauthenticateStation string .1.2.5 dot11AuthenticateFailStatus .1.2.6 dot11AuthenticateFailStation string .1.3.1 dot11PrivacyInvoked When this attribute is true, it shall indicate that the IEEE 802.11 WEP mechanism is used for transmitting frames of type Data. .1.3.2 dot11WEPDefaultKeyID This attribute shall indicate the...
- Page 36 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 2.2.6 dot11MaxRxLifetime This value is 512 2.3.1 dot11TxFragmentCount counter =Tx MSDU on statistics web 2.3.2 dot11MulticastTxFrameCount counter =web’s Multicast-Broadcast on statistics web 2.3.3 dot11FailedCount counter =TxError on statistics web 2.3.4 dot11RetryCount counter =Excessive Retries on statistics 2.3.5 dot11MultipleRetryCount counter...
- Page 37 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 3.2.3 dot11TurboModeEnabled enable (1); disable (0)
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Page 38: Planning Linkage
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 6. Planning Linkage 6.1 Site Survey You need to consider the following operating and environmental conditions when performing a site survey: Data rates – The sensitivity and the radio range are inversely proportional to data rates. Therefore, the maximum radio range is achieved at the lowest workable data rate, and a decrease in receiver threshold sensitivity occurs as the radio data rate increases. -
Page 39: Data Rate
According to the following table, you will have the idea about over what range the AirEther BR108 with what kind of antenna could operate under what data rate. You might also know the relationship between the data rate and the maximum radio range;... -
Page 40: Picture 23 Line-Of-Sight (Los)
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Picture 23 Line-of-Sight (LOS) If there is any obstacle in the radio path, it may still be a radio link but the quality and the signal strength will be affected. Ensuring the maximum clearance from objects on a path is important to locate the antennas and the height. -
Page 41: Antenna Height
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 6.3.1 Antenna Height The reliable wireless linkage usually depends on the both sides’ antennas for a clear radio line of sight. The minimum height is up to the link distance, obstacles that may be in the path, topology of the terrain, and the curvature of the earth (for links over 2 miles). -
Page 42: Antenna Types
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge For example, the wireless link between the building A and the building B is located three miles (4.8 km) away. There is a tree-covered hill in the mid-way. From the table above, it can be seen that for a three-mile link and the object clearance required at the mid-point is 5.4 m (17.6 ft). -
Page 43: Weather Affection
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 6.3.4 Weather Affection The weather plays one of major matters to the antenna performance for the wireless communication. The raining day, the lightning day, the cloudy day, or the windy day will make a quite big impact to the both side antennas over the communication results. -
Page 44: Field Installation
Please, inspect the equipment to see if there is any shipping damage. If it does have any damage, you could contact the sales representative for repair or replacement. 7.1.2 Product AirEther BR108 Outdoor Bridge x 1 7.1.3 Accessories Outdoor Mounting Kits x 1(Set) DC Injector /RJ45 (RJ45DI-48) x 1 AC/DC Power Supply (DC48V 1.37A) x 1... -
Page 45: Installing The Odu
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 7.2 Installing the ODU 7.2.1 Required Tools: Screw Driver Sealing Type 7.2.2 Installed Accessories: Antenna Mounting Set x 1 Grounding rod x 1 Waterproof Seal Ethernet Cable x 1 7.2.3 How to Mount the Bridge: You could follow the steps to mount the bridge as below: Picture 26 Mount the ODU on the Mask or the Pole... -
Page 46: Connecting The Cable
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 7.2.4 Connecting the cable An Ethernet cable connects to the power over Ethernet (P.O.E.) output port. Another Ethernet cable (RJ – 45; the crossover cable) connects to the Power over Ethernet (P.O.E.) input port. The POE AC Adapter supplies the AC power to the bridge system. -
Page 47: Basic Antenna Alignment
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge 7.2.6 Basic Antenna Alignment When you use directional antennas to communicate between two bridges, you must manually align the antennas for proper bridge operation. Directional antennas have greatly reduced radiation angles. The radiation angle is approximately 25 to 30 degrees, and the parabolic dish antennas radiation angle is approximately 12.5 degrees. -
Page 48: Appendix A
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Appendix A GLOSSARY Auto Reboot Specifies the enable/disable of auto reboot function for auto recovery. Authentication Type Specifies open-system or shared key. Authentication / Deauthentication Always 0 for Bridge Bridge Distance Enter the value (1 – 28 KM) to specify the distance between a pair of bridges. Cipher Advertised Specifies current state of advertised cipher negotiations, AES and/or WEP, and None. - Page 49 AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge RSSI AUX Output Specifies the activation of RSSI AUX Output for antenna alignment. RTS/CTS Threshold Specifies the value of the RTS/CTS threshold. Enter a value between 256 and 2346. State Current state of Bridge. Transmit Power Specifies the level of transmit power. Choose the value of the transmit power from the dropdown menu.
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Page 50: Glossary
AirEther™ BR108 5GHz Wireless Bridge Appendix B TROUBLESHOOTING The bridges could not associate appropriately with each other: To make sure the cables is connected properly. To check the POE adapter’s green light is on or not. To check the both Frequency settings are on the same channel or not. To check the data rate is matched with one and another through the statistic RSSI display or the advance setting inside the Frequency setting.
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