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10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual List of figures Fig. 1-1. Example of application I......................2 Fig. 1-2. Example of application II......................2 Fig. 2-1. View and description of the front panel..................4 Fig. 2-2. View and description of the rear panel..................5 Fig.
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10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual A list of used abbreviations NUAL Non-urgent alarm Urgent alarm Errored Seconds ES15 ES 15-minute errored second counter ES24 ES 24-hour errored second counter HDLC High Level Data Link Control IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ITU-T International Telecommunication Union –...
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10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual User’s safety The TM-170 converter has been designed and tested for the operation and safety in accordance with PN-EN-60950 standard. It complies with Class 1 safety requirements. ! Grounding terminal located on the rear panel of the device should be connected to grounding.
General Properties 1.1. Description and requirements EtherCon TM-170.1 is a converter enabling the connection of independent Ethernet 10/100BASE – TX local network segments using the SDH or PDH telecom network based on an E3 frameless signal at a transmission speed of 34368 kbit/s and with a ITU – T G.703 recommendation.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 1.2. Examples of application Fig. 1-1 and 1-2 show the connection of Ethernet computer networks using fiber optic lines, PDH and SDH telecom network E3/G.703 EtherCon SDH, PDH telecommunications Ethernet network E3/G.703 EtherCon Ethernet Fig. 1-1. Example of application I. E3/G.703 EtherCon MODEM ŚWIATŁOWODOWY...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 2. Connectors and diode indicators 2.1 Front panel Fig. 2-1. View and description of the front panel. 1. Power status signaling diode 2. RS-232 monitoring and control connector 3. Group of panel light indicators signaling statuses detected by the E3 interface: •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 2.3 Connector properties Description of RJ-45 4 – Ground 5 – RXD 6 – TXD Fig. 2-3. RS-232 RJ-45 control connector Fig. 2-4. Power interface connector. The converter is powered with a voltage range 24 ÷ 60 VDC without the necessity of maintaining polarization on the power connector.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 3. Function description 3.1. Function properties The device has a 3-port Ethernet switch, two ports are used to connect external network segments, the third port configured as MII (Medium Independent Interface) is attached by a bridge system to the E3 transreceiver.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual E3 line interface: • loss of signal at the interface input • deviation of the recovered clock • too high bit error rate (HDB3 code violation) 1x10 and 1x10 in the incoming signal Ethernet interface: • loss of connection •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual • Number of available seconds – AS • Number of unavailable seconds – UAS, 10 subsequent SES changes the status of the line into unavailable, 10 seconds without SES returns availability status • Number of total seconds of operation from the moment of turning on the converter – TS AS number = TS –...
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10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual • exceeding or falling below the user defined twenty-four hour count threshold of the ES (ES24) counter • exceeding or falling below the user defined fifteen-minute count threshold of the SES (SES15) counter • exceeding or falling below the user defined twenty-four hour count threshold of the SES (SES24) counter •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 4. Installation and operation 4.1 Introduction Prior to using the equipment, it should be properly installed and configured, according to the recommendations described in its subsequent sections of the above operating manual. 4.2 Operating conditions The converter may operate continuously in closed premises in conditions described in the Technical Specifications section.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 1 White & green stripe 1 White & orange stripe 2 Green 2 Orange 3 White & orange stripe Pin1 3 White & green stripe 4 White & blue stripe 4 White & blue stripe 5 Blue 5 Blue 6 Orange 6 Green...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 5. SNMP Agent Properties 5.1. Software properties Software block diagram is presented below. SNMP Agent Telnet Agent LNMP Agent SNMP LNMP TCP UDP IP ICMP RS-232 Ethernet Interface Fig. 5-4. TM-170.1 converter software block diagram All information on control and monitoring points of the device are cumulated in the central management information base (MIB).
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 5.2. MIB base description MIB base is divided into the following groups: system, interfaces, at, ip, tcp, udp, snmp, icmp. Group layout is shown on the Fig. below. root ccitt (0) iso (1) joint-iso-ccitt (2) org (3) dod (6) internet (1) <- 1.3.6.1...
. . . lanex (5746) ..telecom (1) TM170.1(1701) 1.3.6.1.4.1.5746.1.1701 TM-79.1(4) 1.3.6.1.4.1.5746.1.4 Fig. 5-3. Location of the TM-170.1 converter’s MIB base in the registration tree. 5.4. Traps Information about alarm modes are forwarded to the administrator in a form of TRAP SNMP v1 frames with an error type description in the frame’s data field.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6. Configuring the converter using LanWin LANWIN local version application enables control and monitoring of the TM-170.1 converter. Description of connecting a computer can be found in p. 4.4.3. 6.1 Global configuration This tab allows to enter the name of the device, date and time set up and to view additional information about the converter.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.1.3 Date and time set up Click on Date and time set up and a window will open as shown below. Fig. 6-3. Date and time set up After entering changes click on OK and the changes will be updated in the device. 6.1.4 Additional information After clicking on Additional information a window will open with additional information...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.2 Configuring the SNMP agent Access to IP and SNMP parameters is possible from the Main Menu’s LANWIN application. Fig. 6-5. SNMP tab. The following parameters are to be set as follows in order for the proper operation of the TM-170.1 converter in the management system: IP address of the device, Subnet mask,...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.4 Interfaces 6.4.1 E3 Interface Secondary tabs are used for configuring and monitoring of interfaces 6.4.1.1 Tab – E3 - Monitoring In this panel are shown parameters displaying the current E3 interface counter and indicators status described in p. 3.4. Fig.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.4.3 Tab – Global Clock Source A clock for forwarded data to E3/G.703 interface may come from two sources: • From internal quartz 34,368 MHz ± 20 ppm frequency generator, MASTER operation mode • From clock recovery systems of the opposite E3/G.703 transmission direction, SLAVE operation mode Fig.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.5 Event Log 6.5.1 Tab – Event Log Fig. 6-12. Log – Event log. In the Event Log tab shows registered events pertaining to the converter. Types of registered events have been described in p. 3.5. The user can delete the entire registered list of events in the above said tab.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.5.2 Tab – Log – Event log filters Fig. 6-13. Log – Event Log Filters. This tab is divided into two parts. In the upper part of the tab events are displayed, which are the result of filtering all registered events (displayed in the Event Log tab). Three component tabs are on the left lower part of the window.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 6.6 G.826 Statistics The tab enables to set the start of counting: • Number of errored seconds – ES • Number of severe errored seconds– SES • Number of errored blocks – EB • Number of unavailable seconds – UAS, Additionally, maximum and minimum threshold value for SES15, SES24 and ES15, ES24 counters may be set based on which entries to the event log and alarms are generated.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual Fig. 6-16. G.826 Statistics – time periods. Fig. 6-17. Hour of launching the counter. Fig. 6-18. Thresholds of setting the alarms on. IOA170-1A January 2006...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7. Configuring the converter using the VT-100 terminal The converter may be configured and monitored at the VT-100 terminal emulator application level. 7.1. Launching the configuration and control program In order to launch the control software the product is to be connected to the terminal or a PC computer with a terminal emulation program compliant with VT-100 and next the terminal or the terminal emulation program should be configured (for example TERM95 of the Norton Commander packet or Windows system’s HYPERTERMINAL ).
In the above case – instead of the password – enter %kod01. The program will generate an eight digit sequence, which is to be submitted to the LANEX service center. Based on the sequence an emergency password will be generated enabling a 12 hour access to the device.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.3. Configuration Configuration – enables to set the device’s interface parameters Fig. 7-3. Configuration menu. 7.3.1. System parameters Fig. 7-4. System parameters. The panel enables: • Modifying the name of the device • Activating a password and entering a new one (when entering a password during the launch of the terminal we will be asked to give the password) •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.3.2. Clock configuration Fig. 7-5. Configuration of E3 interface. The clock for the forwarded data in the direction of the E3/G.703 linear interface may come from two sources: • From internal quartz 34,368 MHz ± 20 ppm frequency generator, MASTER operation mode •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.3.4. Access configuration from IP Fig. 7-7. IP access configuration. In order to prevent unwanted access to the management application access may be allowed by only selected users by entering appropriate IP addresses. Lack of such entries enables access to everyone.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.4. Monitoring Fig. 7-9. Monitoring. 7.4.1. Monitoring – E3 Fig. 7-10. E3 monitoring. Monitored parameters: LOS – Loss of Signal at input LOL – Loss of Lock of recovered clock 10E-3 –higher bit error rate than 10 10E-6 –...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.4.2. Monitoring – Ethernet Fig. 7-11. Monitoring Ethernet. Link – Loss of signal at entry Link Speed – AUTO, 10Mbit/s, 100Mbit/s, full duplex and half duplex MDI/MDIX – type of port LANPacketRXCnt – number of packets received from Ethernet interface LANErrPacketRXCnt –number of errored packets received from Ethernet interface LANFCtrlPacketRXCnt –...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.5. Event log Fig. 7-12. Event log. In the EVENT LOG registered events of the converter are displayed. Types of registered events have been described in p. 3.5. In this panel it is possible to delete the record of all events from the device’s memory using CTRL+R.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 7.6. G.826 Statistics The tab enables to set the start of counting (Fig. 7-15): • Number of errored seconds – ES • Number of severe errored seconds– SES • Number of errored blocks – EB • Number of unavailable seconds – UAS, Additionally, maximum and minimum threshold value for SES15, SES24 and ES15, ES24 counters may be set based on which entries to the event log and alarms are generated Fig.
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual Fig. 7-17. 24-hour registers. In the TIME PERIODS panel (Fig. 7-18), the following are displayed: • Errored second ratio to all seconds when the device is available – ESR [%] • Severe errored second ratio to all seconds when the device is available – SESR [%] •...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual Technical specifications 8.1. Electrical parameters 8.1.1. E3 Line Interface Parameter Parameter value 34368 kbit/s ±20 ppm Rated bit rate • n x 64 kbit/s , n = 1 to 32. Transmission speed • n x 1024 kbit/s, n = 3 to 32 75 Ω...
10Base-T/100Base-TX/E3 Converter Operating Manual 8.3.2. Transport Transport of the devices in original packaging should be carried out under the following conditions: Environment parameter Permissible value - 25 ÷ + 40 Environment temperature ≤ 10 Temperature change rate Maximum air humidity 700 ÷...
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