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telesat LIGHTSPEED Installation Manual

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  • Page 1 N E T W O R K E M U L A T O R I N S T A L L A T I O N G U I D E S O F T W A R E V E R S I O N 2 0 2 4 .
  • Page 2 OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT. NOTHING IN THIS SITE SHALL ADD TO OR CHANGE ANY CONTRACT YOU MAY HAVE WITH TELESAT CANADA, IT’S SUPPLIERS OR AFFILIATES.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Audience Network Emulator Hardware and OS Hardware Operating System Software Version Physical Connection Mapping 2.4.1 Front Power Button 2.4.2 Rear Ports & Connectors 2.4.3 Port Assignments Installing the Network Emulator Plug In and Turn On Network Emulator Connecting a PC to the Network Emulator Management Port Appendix A: Baseline and Recommended Hardware Specifications Appendix B: System Performance...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Lightspeed Network Emulator. 1.1 Audience The audience for this document is any customer unpacking and installing a Lightspeed Network Emulator for the first time. Additional details are available in the Lightspeed Network Emulator User Guide, which should accompany this Installation guide.

  • Page 5: Network Emulator Hardware And Os

    Network Emulator Hardware and Operating System 2.1 Hardware The Telesat Lightspeed Network Emulator runs on a Dell 3460 PC. For detailed information, see Appendix A. The equipment is bench portable and operates stand alone in a normal laboratory environment. Warning Use of this equipment in a manner not specified by Telesat may impair the protection afforded by the equipment and invalidate the warranty.

  • Page 6: Physical Connection Mapping

    Telesat Lightspeed Emulator Installation Guide 2.4 Physical Connection Mapping 2.4.1 Front Power Button Power Button Figure 1: Front Ports 2.4.2 Rear Ports & Connectors MGMT Power LAN1 LAN3 UT2 Connector LAN4 LAN2 LAN5 Display Port (DP) LAN6 Figure 2: Rear Ports & Connectors...

  • Page 7: Port Assignments

    Telesat Lightspeed Emulator Installation Guide 2.4.3 Port Assignments The default network port IDs and assignments are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 3. TABLE 1: PORT IDs Hardware Linux Interface Network Emulator Layer Two Connection LAN1 enp1s0f1 Management...

  • Page 8: Installing The Network Emulator

    The solid-state hard drive on the Emulator is securely encrypted. On start up the user will be prompted with ‘Please unlock disk dm_crypt-0:’. Your Telesat account representative will provide you with the required credentials.

  • Page 9: Connecting A Pc To The Network Emulator Management Port

    Users can connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse directly to the device to use it. The Telesat Lightspeed Network Emulator can be managed through a browser-based GUI on a PC over an Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Network Emulator management interface (LAN 1 or Wi-Fi).

  • Page 10: Figure 4: Network Emulator Home Screen

    Telesat Lightspeed Network Emulator Terms of Use. Read the terms of use and click Close. The Telesat Lightspeed Network Emulator is now ready for use. Refer to the Telesat Lightspeed Network Emulator Release # User Guide for information on operation.

  • Page 11: Appendix A: Baseline And Recommended Hardware Specifications

    Telesat Lightspeed Emulator Installation Guide Appendix A: Baseline and Recommended Hardware Specifications SPECIFICATION TELESAT LIGHTSPEED NETWORK EMULATOR RJ45 Management Ports GE RJ45 Data Ports 4 (OR 8 with expansion) 10GE RJ45 Data Ports 2 (OR zero(0) with expansion) Internal Wi-Fi + Ant.

  • Page 12: Appendix B: System Performance

    Emulator endpoints, show in the figure below (right) is expected behaviour. If API response times meet or exceed 1 second consistently it could indicate a system loading issue. Figure 6: System Dashboard Report system performance related issues to your Telesat account representative including a snapshot of this Dashboard.

  • Page 13: Figure 7: Toggle Core Session Icon In Task Tray

    Telesat Lightspeed Emulator Installation Guide Network View Desktop can be accessed in Network View by toggling the ‘CORE Session(98) topology.xml icon on the task tray at the bottom of the view as illustrated in the following figure. Figure 7: Toggle Core Session Icon in Task Tray Performing this action will show the Network Emulator desktop which hosts widgets that indicate various system performance metrics.

  • Page 14: Figure 8: Network View Desktop System Performance

    10Gbps, User Terminal interfaces (LAN2,3,4,5/enp3s0f0-4) provide up to 1Gbps each. Note that this performance is of the physical interfaces, data bandwidth available for traffic flowing through the Emulator is subject to the User Terminal terminal performance characteristics based on the future Telesat Lightspeed network performances.
  • Page 15 Telesat Lightspeed Emulator Installation Guide...

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