A Little Terminology - Radwin WinLink 1000 Series User Manual

A Little Terminology

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A Little Terminology
In the field, a link typically has a local or headquarters site as for example in
Figure 1-1
site. The service recipient is the remote site.
Where the link is completely internal to a corporation, the choice of the local
and remote is just a matter of convenience.
link
A
In Broadband Wireless terminology, the local and remote sites are some-
times referred to as "near" and "far", "HQ" and "remote" and so on.
The site which is closer to the network core (often the local site) will be
referred to as
end user, as
This choice is application-neutral and will be used throughout the manual
both to describe the sites and their names as in the examples.
The link is configured and managed using a PC, the
connected to site A. (The precise requirements for the managing computer
are set out on
We will occasionally need to distinguish between the site to which the man-
aging computer is connected, and the second site, when they are not nec-
essarily A or B. The former will be called the
over-the-air site
the
tion of the managing computer.
WinLink™ 1000 supports three connection methods for the managing com-
puter:
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WinLink™ 1000 User Manual
Subject
Installing the Link
TheRADWIN Manager:
Main Window
Configuring the Link
Site Configuration
Monitoring and Diagnos-
tics
above. Here the service provider is the local or headquarters
sites
then, consists of two
site A
, and the opposite side of the link, usually closer to the
site B
.
page 4-1).
. Which is which, is always determined by the loca-
Local
- a direct peer to peer connection between the Ethernet ports
on the managing computer and the IDU or PoE device. Local con-
nection is always read-write.
Network
- the managing computer and the site A IDU or PoE
device belong to a LAN and communicate through a router or hub
Over-the-air
- the managing computer connects to site B via the
air interface
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Audience
Installation technician
Installation technician, System manager
Installation technician, System manager
Installation technician, System manager
Installation technician, System manager
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managing computer
managing site
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and the latter,
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