FibeAir IP-10 G-Series

EMS Performance Monitoring

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Agenda
EMS General Information
Faults:
Current Alarms
Event Log

PM & Counters:
Remote Monitoring
TDM Trails
TDM interfaces
Radio (RSL, TSL, MRMC and MSE)
Radio TDM
Radio ETH
XPI

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EMS - General

Easy, user friendly GUI

No need to install an application WEB Based software
No need to upgrade your EMS application embedded in the IDU SW
No need for strong working station simple PC is sufficient
(For maintenance issues FTP Server is required)

Easy access simply type the IP address of the IDU on your web page
Supports all IDU versions and configurations

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EMS Main View

Access application via IP address

User friendly navigation menu

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EMS Main View

Graphical MENU: Click to configure

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EMS Main View

Protection Status Display &

Quick Access Icons

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EMS Main View

In this example slot #1 and slot #2 are configured to support 1+1 Protection
Slot #1 is selected and in Active mode.

Black Rectangular to indicate

selected slot for configuration

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EMS Main View

When the user selects Slot 2 the GUI updates automatically

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Faults - CAS
The CAS window shows collapsed list of alarms
By expanding a line we can see additional information:
Probable cause
Corrective Actions

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Faults Event Log

The Event Log shows max. 200 lines of events
When Event #201 occurs, Event #1 is erased and #201
is logged as #200.

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Available PM Statistics - Radio

TDM PM
(allocated E1/T1 VCs)
TDM
(E1/T
1)

ETH PM (Data + In-Band):

1.Aggregated Errors
2.Throughput
3.Capacity
4.Radio Link Utilization
5.RMON standard is
implemented as well to provide
detailed data
ETH BW is a function of
available radio capacity as TDM
and STM-1 have higher priority

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STM-1

STM-1 PM
When STM-1 T-Card
is inserted in front
panel)

Radio Signal PM:

1.RSL
2.MSE
3.MRMC (ACM)
4.Aggregate
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Available PM Statistics Line Interfaces

STM-1 interface facing customer equipment
TDM interfaces facing customer equipment
End-to-End Trails

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Clearing previous data

To erase all IDU PM data, click the CLEAR button -

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ETH PM RMON
The system supports Ethernet statistics counters (RMON) display (depends on
port availability). The counters are designed to support:
RFC 2819 RMON MIB.
RFC 2665 Ethernet-like MIB.
RFC 2233 MIB II.
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB.

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ETH PM RMON

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PM RMON Special Registers

RMON register / Counter

Description

Undersize frames received

Frames shorter than 64 bytes

Oversize frames received

Frames longer than 1632 bytes

Jabber frames received

Total frames received with a length of more than

1632 bytes, but with an invalid FCS

Fragments frames received

Total frames received with a length of less than 64

bytes, and an invalid FCS

Rx error frames received

Total frames received with Phy-error

FCS frames received

Total frames received with CRC error, not

countered in
"Fragments", "Jabber" or "Rx error" counters

In Discard Frames

Counts good frames that cannot be forwarded due

to
lack of buffer memory

In Filtered Frames

Counts good frames that were filtered due to

egress
switch VLAN policy rules

Pause frames received

Number of flow-control pause frames received

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Troubleshooting with RMON: Filtering Example

Radio port is a
member of VID 100

Site A
A

Tagging

Radio port is a
member of VID 100

Untagged Frames
Tagged with default
VID 100

Site B

No membership

Access port with

default VID = 300

Site B Ingress port (Radio) receives the frame and checks the Egress port VID
membership
Egress port default VID is 300, therefore frame is filtered by the remote Radio port
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Troubleshooting with RMON: Oversized frames

Site A
T

Site B
T

Tagged Frames with

frame size > 1632 bytes

When ingress frames exceed the maximum frame size, RMON counter Oversized frames
received is updated accordingly

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Troubleshooting with RMON: Discarding Example

Site A
T

Site B
T

Ingress traffic does not

comply to Policer rules

Discarding Examples:
Ingress rate > Rate Limiter
Ingress frames do not qualify to Policer rules
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Troubleshooting with RMON: Monitoring specific

traffic types
Site A

Site B
Rate Limiter

Monitor

Video streams are generally transmitted over UDP

with multicast addresses
To monitor traffic, check out the Multicast Frames
Received register
To limit MC traffic, assign a Policer with a UDP & MC
CIR rules

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PM TDM Trails

Trails can only be configured in the Main

IDU/Slot #1
Extension Trails (trails via extension IDU)
are also configured in the Main IDU
TDM Trail PM can only be viewed in the
Main IDU menu
The number of trails that can be
configured is a function of available radio
BW (license + script)

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PM TDM Trails

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Errored Second (ES):
A one-second period with one or more errored blocks or at least one defect

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Severely Errored Second (SES):
A one-second period, which contains 30% errored blocks or at least one
defect.
SES is a subset of ES.

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

A period of unavailable time begins at the onset of 10 consecutive Severely
Errored Second (SES) events. These 10 seconds are considered to be part of
unavailable time.
A new period of available time begins at the onset of 10 consecutive non-SES
events. These 10 seconds are considered to be part of available time.

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Background Block Error (BBE):
An errored block not occurring as part of a SES.

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Number of Switches (only relevant for Protected SNCP Trails):
The number of times the IP-10 switched from Primary Path to Secondary Path
and vice versa (per 15min or 24hrs interval)

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Active Path Seconds (only relevant for Protected SNCP Trails):
The number of times seconds the Active Path was available

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PM TDM Trails In Detail

Integrity:
Indicates whether information is reliable for analysis (ticked) or not
For example if clock was changed or system was restarted during this interval
then information is not reliable

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PM TDM Trails through Radio

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PM E1 / DS-1 (PM received from customer)

This PM data
relates to the
TDM Line
Interfaces.

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PM STM-1 (Slot #2)

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PM Radio - RF
Signal Level RSL & TSL analysis
Allows setting RSL & TSL thresholds
EMS will notify when signal exceeds THSLD
>> Easier maintenance
Aggregated radio traffic analysis
MRMC PM related to ACM:
Associated Script
Available Bit rate
Available Radio VCs
MSE analysis (quality of received signal)
XPI analysis (when XPIC enabled)
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PM Radio Signal Level Using Threshold

- 40dBm = Nominal RSL for an operational Link

Level 1: 25 sec
Level 2: 15 sec
900 sec = 15min Interval
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PM Radio Signal Level - Using Threshold

Using graphical display of the THSLD analysis allows us easier
examination of the RSL & TSL state throughout certain period of time

RSL
-40

-50
-68
-99

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T [sec]

PM Radio - Aggregate
Aggregated radio
traffic analysis

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PM Radio - MRMC
The information displayed in this page is derived from the license and script
assigned to the radio.
When ACM is enabled and active, as link quality degrades or improves, the
information is updated accordingly.

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PM Radio - MRMC

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PM Radio - MSE
The information
displayed in this page
is derived from the
license and script
assigned to the radio.
When link quality
degrades or
improves, the MSE
reading is updated
accordingly.
Differences of 3dB
trigger ACM
modulation changing.
Threshold can be
configured as well for
easier maintenance.
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PM Radio - XPI

Use this report to evaluate the cross-polarization

interference
Apply a threshold to establish a better notification
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PM Radio - Ethernet
Frame Error Rate (%) measured on radio-Ethernet
interface (port 8)
Ethernet Capacity (a.k.a. Ethernet L1 capacity) - Total
bit rate from an Ethernet user port. Taking into account
the full Ethernet frame including the IFG and preamble
fields. Ethernet capacity is sometimes referred to as
"port utilization rate".
Radio Throughput - Total bit rate supported by the
radio link running in a specific channel/modulation
including radio frame overhead, etc.
Utilization (%) is displayed as one of five bins:
0-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, 60-80%, 80-100%
Ethernet throughput & Capacity PMs are measured by
accumulating the number of Ethernet octets every
second
Accurate analysis requires accumulating a full interval
(15min/24hrs)
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PM Ethernet Frame Error Rate

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PM Ethernet Throughput

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PM Ethernet Capacity

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PM Ethernet Utilization

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Throughput / Capacity / Utilization

To better understand these terms, we shall examine the Ethernet tagged frame full
structure:
A frame viewed on the actual physical wire would show Preamble and Start Frame
Delimiter, in addition to the other data (required by the physical hardware).
However, these bits are stripped away at OSI Layer 1 by the Ethernet adapter before
being passed on to the OSI Layer 2 which is where data is detected.

Pre.

7
octets

SFD

DA

1 octet 6
octets

SA

VLAN

ETH
Type /
Length

Payloa
d+
Paddin
g

CRC

6
octets

4
octets

2
octets

461500
octets

4
octets

Interfram
e Gap

12
octets

Data Rate: min. 64 octets max. 1522

octets
Physical wire rate: min. 84 octets max. 1542 octets
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Throughput / Capacity / Utilization

Pre.

7
octets

SFD

DA

1 octet 6
octets

SA

VLAN

ETH
Type /
Length

Payloa
d+
Paddin
g

CRC

6
octets

4
octets

2
octets

461500
octets

4
octets

Interfram
e Gap

12
octets

Data Rate: min. 64 octets max. 1522

octets
Physical wire rate: min. 84 octets max. 1542 octets
In case we use a 64 bytes frame:
Throughput (Data rate) = ~ 77% of physical transmitted rate
Stripped bits = ~ 23% of physical transmitted rate

(64/84=0.77)
(20/84=0.23)

Hence, when we transmit 100Mbps, the actual throughput would be 77 Mbps

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Throughput / Capacity / Utilization

Throughput = 77 Mbps

Radio Capacity =
(license) = 400Mbps

Transmitted rate =
100 Mbps

Capacity = Received frame rate

= 100 Mbps

Utilization = Throughput = 77 = 20 %
Radio Capacity 400
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