EtherHaul™ 8010FX

Release Notes

Release: 10.4.2
April. 2021
vA0

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Introducing the EtherHaul™ 8010FX

The EtherHaul™ 8010FX (EH-8010FX) point-to-point radio delivers up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet capacity utilizing the
70/80 GHz lightly-licensed E-Band spectrum, with a choice of channel bandwidth starting at 250MHz up to 2,000MHz.
This product can be used to provide high-capacity connectivity of telecom sites, residential MDU or commercial
buildings, back to aggregation sites, up to 10Km and beyond with ExtendMM™. AES encryption of the data is available
for those critical infrastructure applications demanding an additional layer of security.
The EH-8010FX combines enhanced adaptive bandwidth, coding & modulation for maximum services availability.
These features are delivered together with a choice of port types (10GbE fiber and 10GbE/1GbE copper) and advanced
tools for Operations and Maintenance (OAM) & Performance Monitoring (PM) to ease the deployment and operations.
The radio supports PtP, rings and drop-and-insert topologies, optimized for high-availability connectivity. All in a
very small and light outdoor package that is designed for zero footprint installations.

EtherHaul™ 8010FX

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SW Release 10.4.2
Features and resolved limitations
New General Availability Software Version for EtherHaul 8010FX.

Key features supported with this release:

1. Automatic daylight-saving time changes according to country/area.

2. SFP digital diagnostics monitoring (DDM) alarms and warnings for monitored parameters: TX power, RX power,
temperature, TX bias current and VCC.
3. Air capacity OID.
4. Year stamp on radio logs.

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. ETH2(10G copper port) works as expected when the speed is auto-negotiated to 1GbE.

Upgrading to SW 10.4.2 is optional. Please check the Product Compatibility table below for supported HW revisions.

Product Compatibility
SW Versions Supported Models and HW Revisions
10.4.2 EH-8010FX (HW revisions B1 and C0)
EH-8010FX-A- (All HW revision: A0, B1 and C0)
10.4.1 EH-8010FX (HW revisions B1 and C0)
EH-8010FX-A- (All HW revision: A0, B1 and C0)
10.4.0 EH-8010FX (HW revisions B1 and C0)
EH-8010FX-A- (All HW revision: A0, B1 and C0)
10.3.2 EH-8010FX (HW revisions B1 and C0)
EH-8010FX-A- (All HW revision: A0, B1 and C0)
10.3.1 EH-8010FX (HW revision B1)
EH-8010FX-A- (AES HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
10.3.0 EH-8010FX (HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
10.2.2 EH-8010FX-A- (AES HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
10.2.1 EH-8010FX (HW revision B1 only)
EH-8010FX -A- (AES HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
10.2.0 EH-8010FX (HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
EH-8010FX -A- (AES HW revision A0 and HW revision B1)
10.1.5 EH-8010FX (HW revision A0 and revision HW B1)
10.1.4
10.1.3 EH-8010FX (HW revision A0)
10.1.2
10.1.1
10.0.0

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Deployment rules, Limitations and Known Issues

Topic Rule, Limitation, Known Issue Workaround / Note
1. Provider EH-8010FX cannot insert/remove a service provider tag (S- Workaround: network
bridging tag) to an Ethernet packet (also called push/pop). interface device (NID) of
service provider to tag all
customer traffic per service
provider rules.
Will be resolved in a future
SW release.
2. RF LED RF LED does not properly reflect RF status during power up Workaround: wait for power
sequence. The RF status is reflected correctly during normal up sequence to complete.
operations.
3. LLDP Link Local Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is not supported. Will be resolved in a future
SW release.
4. Remote SNMP and Syslog messages may not be sent during reset or
Management during ETH ports down/up events.
5. Passwords The following 5 symbols [?] [;] [,] [$] [%] are reserved and
may not be used as part of user defined passwords. System
configured in non-local user auth mode (TACACS/RADIUS)
erases user info in /etc/passw on power up.
6. iPerf iPerf has limited throughput of 100Mbps in TCP mode. In
addition, iPerf is not usable in UDP mode.
7. Distance The reported link distance may show 0 instead of the real Will be resolved in a future
measurement link distance. SW release.
8. TX power A short burst of errors may occur when Tx power level
changes changes, for example in case of manual Tx power control or
automatic change resulting from DTPC control.
9. IPv6 IPv6 for management is not functional on HW revision A0.

Release History
Date Release Content
Jan. 2021 10.4.1 New General Availability Software Version for EtherHaul™ 8010FX.

Key features supported with this release:

1. SFP digital diagnostics monitoring (DDM) is supported. Monitored parameters

include TX power, RX power, temperature, TX bias current and VCC.
2. The ability to cancel a scheduled SW upgrade.
3. Hostname for Syslog message is configurable

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. PCP/DSCP Prioritizing traffic works as expected. Turning off pause frames on ETH0
(radio) port and ETH2 port is required.
2. Wrong Classifier-cos commands were removed from CLI.

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Date Release Content

Oct. 2020 10.4.0 New General Availability Software Version for EtherHaul™ 8010FX.

Key features supported with this release:

1. 1G SFP is supported in ETH2.

2. The “ifHCOutOctets” and “ifHCInOctets” counters are now 64 bits.

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. ETH1 LED lights green when negotiated to 1Gbps.

Sep. 2020 10.3.2 Key features supported with this release:
1. Alarm Propagation: ETH2 port goes down when the RF link modulation drops below
lowest modulation settings. Allows switch over to lower-band backup link (sub-6 or
microwave) when using an external switch.
2. Supported additional Channel Plans: the list of supported country spectrum
restrictions has been expanded with Spain, Israel & South Africa, adding to already
supported Japan & UK. (supported in HW revision C0 and above).

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. Setting higher TX power in GUI.

2. Occurrences where SNMP agent stopped responding are resolved.
June 2020 10.3.1 Key features supported with this release:
1.ExtendMM™: Extends a link distance while maintaining very high-availability,
controlled from a single configuration screen and utilizing any lower-band radio backup
link (sub-6 or microwave).

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. GUI may be slow to respond.

2. RF loopbacks are now supported.
3. UK Frequencies – eliminated unauthorized channel.
4. Missing log information from System Info script.

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Date Release Content

Feb. 2020 10.3.0 Key features supported with this release:
1. Spectrum Analyzer- A site survey option to identify free and un-interfered channels.
2. Selection of country: An approved frequency list per country regulation rules
(countries: Japan, UK)
3. Antenna-heater control

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. C-VLAN support
2. Admin user can now log into radios when connectivity to the Radius/AAA server is
lost.
3. Cases where a switch or router connected to ETH2 (fiber port) would show occasional
errored packets
4. DTPC settings are now saved

Upgrading to SW 10.3.0 is mandatory for Japan and is highly recommended for the
rest of the world.
Sept. 2019 10.2.2 Limitations fixed with this release:
1. Estimated throughput displayed in main screen of the GUI corrected for all channel
bandwidth and modulations settings.
2. Model information displayed correctly for all variants of the EH-8000 family.
July 2019 10.2.1 Key features supported with this release:
1. IPv6 for management: it is possible to manage an EH-8010FX radio within an IPv6
address space. Note: HW revision must be B1 or above.

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Date Release Content

April 2019 10.2.0 Key features supported with this release:
1. Class of Service (COS): the EH-8010FX can be configured to classify traffic into 8
queues, according to the priority levels indicated in the PCP bits of the VLAN
header, or per the DSCP codes in the IP packet header. This feature is supported
with HW revision B1 or higher.
2. Quality of Service (QOS), Strict Priority (SP): the EH-8010FX can be configured to
drop incoming traffic in excess of the radio link-capacity, in a Strict Priority mode
(SP) per the assigned COS of the incoming packets. This feature is supported with
HW revision B1 or higher.
3. Radio rate limiter: the EH-8010FX can be operated with user configurable reduced
link-capacity. The effective link-capacity will be the lower of the licensed radio
capacity and the configured rate limiter. This feature is supported with HW revision
B1 or higher.
4. AES encryption: AES128 encryption operates transparently at the link layer and at
wire-speed, supported on -A- models only.
5. Radio capacity options: the EH-8010FX can be deployed with a choice of link-
capacity licenses: 2Gbps, 5Gbps or 10Gbps (all capacities are full duplex). This
feature is supported for HW revision B1 or higher.
6. Channel bandwidth and channel plan options: the EH-8010FX can be configured for
operations with reduced channel bandwidth: 250MHz, 500MHz and 1250MHz. This is
in addition to the default channel bandwidth of 2000MHz.
7. Country code: the EH-8010FX can be configured to operate according to the common
world-wide E-Band channel plan, or per the channel plan of some specific countries
(Spain & the United Kingdom are currently supported).
8. Dual-level Transmit Power Control (DTPC): a feature designed to optimize link
availability in those installations where the transmit power is reduced to avoid
saturating the receiver. With DTPC engaged, the link will automatically switch to
full transmit power in case of rain-induced fading.

Limitations fixed with this release:

1. Ethernet port speed is reported correctly in SNMP.
2. Duplicated HTTP responses which prevented management over proxy server are
eliminated.
December 10.1.5 SW 10.1.5 supports a new HW revision to improve production yields, revision B1, with
2018 a streamlined transparent bridge feature set. General VLAN-related manipulations are
not supported, except for management traffic of the EH-8010FX (which can be
isolated in a CVLAN, applies to in-band or out-of-band management).

Upgrading revision B1 hardware to SW 10.1.5 is mandatory (upgrading revision A0

hardware to SW 10.1.5 is not required).
December 10.1.4 SW 10.1.4 supports a new HW revision to improve production yields, revision B1.
2018
Upgrading revision A0 hardware to SW 10.1.4 is not required.
November 10.1.3 Limitations fixed with this release:
2018 1. Radio resets with an error message “first time power up”, while power remains
available.

Upgrading to SW 10.1.3 is mandatory to maintain stability of the radios.

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Date Release Content

October 10.1.2 Limitations fixed with this release:
2018 1. Link may stop in case of specific traffic patterns.

New limitations with this release:

1. Distance measurement may show 0 instead of the real link distance.

Upgrading to SW 10.1.2 is mandatory to maintain traffic across the link.

September 10.1.1 Key features supported with this release:
2018 1. Out-of-band management (OOB): user can assign ETH1 port as the port for OOB
management.
2. VLAN exclude: VLAN membership exclusion rule can be defined per port. This is
useful when a traffic port should not belong to a specific VLAN
3. MAC-learning: can be disabled (and enabled again), except when the ODU is
configured for Out-of-Band management (OOB).
June 2018 10.0.0 Key features supported with this release:
1. 10Gbps capacity and 2000MHz channel bandwidth, with adaptive modulation.
2. ETH2 10GbE combo port, SFP+ and RJ-45: RJ-45 port has priority over SFP+ fiber port
when 2 connections are active. User can change the default behavior.
3. ETH1 1GbE port: can be used for traffic or out-of-band management.
4. Customer bridging.
5. Transparent bridge with flow-control.
6. Management: dual-ended GUI for management of local and remote ODUs via Web
GUI; CLI, TACACS / Radius, Syslog, SNMP V2/V3.
7. Scheduled SW upgrade.

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