ALS Series

Microwave Radio for Point-to-Point

applications

ALCplus2e IDU
ASN ODU
IP/ SDH/ SPDH
Dual Native TDM/IP Microwave Radio

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 GENERAL INDEX
ABBREVIATIONS........................................................................................................................................................... 4

GENERAL INTRODUCTION ON ALS SERIES ................................................................................................................... 6

Applications ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Product Range ......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Main Features.......................................................................................................................................................... 8
NMS common Platform ........................................................................................................................................... 8

IDU and ODU SYSTEM OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 9

ASN ODU Characteristics ......................................................................................................................................... 9
ATPC Feature ......................................................................................................................................................... 11
ALCplus2e IDU – 1RU Compact ............................................................................................................................. 11
Additional features ................................................................................................................................................ 12

Adaptive Code Modulation (ACM) ............................................................................................................................ 13

General Concepts .................................................................................................................................................. 13
Traffic classification ............................................................................................................................................... 13
Link Quality measurement .................................................................................................................................... 13
Throughput ............................................................................................................................................................ 14

Nodal Interconnections in ALCplus2e IDUs (N-concept) ........................................................................................... 15

ETHERNET CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................... 16

Ethernet Frame mapping over Radio Link ............................................................................................................. 16
Ethernet Throughput ............................................................................................................................................. 17
Ethernet Interface characteristics ......................................................................................................................... 17
QoS management .................................................................................................................................................. 17
Ethernet Resiliency ................................................................................................................................................ 18
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs ................................................................................................................................................ 19
VLAN stacking (QinQ) ............................................................................................................................................ 19

ALplus2e specific Ethernet characteristics ................................................................................................................ 20

VLAN rewriting ...................................................................................................................................................... 20
Ingress Filter Policing (CIR/EIR according to MEF 10.2) ........................................................................................ 20
Ethernet frame fragmentation .............................................................................................................................. 21
Header compression.............................................................................................................................................. 21

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................ 23

TMN Connection.................................................................................................................................................... 23

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 TMN Protocols ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
Management Functionalities................................................................................................................................. 24
Management Software.......................................................................................................................................... 24

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................. 26

Physical Dimensions of system components......................................................................................................... 26
Weight ................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Power supply ......................................................................................................................................................... 26
Power Consumption (W) ....................................................................................................................................... 26

Frequently requested standards compliances (Note1) ............................................................................................. 27

APPENDIX 1: Radio Performances ............................................................................................................................. 28

APPENDIX 2: Adaptive Modulation details................................................................................................................ 29

APPENDIX 3: Ethernet Benchmark parameters. ....................................................................................................... 29

Latency .................................................................................................................................................................. 29
Throughput ............................................................................................................................................................ 31

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ABBREVIATIONS

 ACM Adaptive Code Modulation

 ATPC Automatic Transmission Power Control
 BW Bandwidth
 CAPEX Capital Expenditure
 CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
 DCCr Data Communication Channel Regenerator
 DCN Data Communication Network
 DSCP Different Service Code Point
 ETH` Ethernet
 FEC Forward Error Corrector
 IDU Indoor Unit
 IP Internet Protocol
 IPV4 – IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 4 and Version 6
 IS-IS Intermediate system to intermediate system
 LAN Local Area network
 LCT Local Craft Terminal
 MAC Media Access Control
 MDI Medium Dependent Interface
 MDIX Medium Dependent Interface Crossover
 MPS Multiplex Section Protection
 MSE Mean Square Error
 MST Multiple Section Terminal
 NE Network Element
 NMS Network Management System
 NML Network Manager
 NMS5UX/LX SIAE MICROELETTRONICA Network Management System
 ODU Outdoor Unit
 OSI Open System Interconnection

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 OSPF Open Shortest Path First
 PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
 QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
 QoS Quality of Service
 RU Rack Unit
 SCT Subnetwork Craft Terminal
 SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
 SNMP Simple Network Protocol Management
 SPDH Super PDH
 SW Software
 TDM Time Division Multiplexing
 TMN Telecommunication Management Network
 ToS Type of Service
 VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
 WAN Wide Area Network
 XPIC Cross Polar Interference Canceller

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION ON ALS SERIES

The PDH/SDH/Ethernet ALS MW Radio series is the ideal solution for a

wide range of applications in both access networks and backbone
provisioning. It is also a competitive alternative or complement solution
to optical fiber networks in any application that requires:

 Cost-effective, rapid deployment and modular implementation of

a network

 Terrain independent connectivity

The ALS Series provides scalable data rates from 4 to 500 Mbit/s per
radio module with a single platform across the full range of licensed Figure 1 - ALS Series MW Radio
frequency bands.

A single shelf can manage up to 1 Gbit/s with 1RU version. A unique distributed processing architecture allows
expanding the node capacity up to 8xGbit/s.

A wide range of tributary interfaces and system configurations offer maximum versatility in system engineering
and network planning. Ethernet traffic is handled by a powerful integrated switch able to manage VLANs, QoS
and ToS.

Modularity options, commonalities, and extensive software management capabilities result in cost-effectiveness
and scalability, yielding a product that will easily fulfill any future requirement.

Full SW licensing approach allows very smooth migration from pure TDM to IP networks, with very low initial
CAPEX.

The ALS equipment is managed by an SNMP agent using communication ports that are able to connect to IP and
OSI DCNs. This greatly simplify integration efforts in existing NMS networks.

The IDU and the ODU model for Marinha will be:

 ALCplus2e IDU (Compact and Enhanced Compact for PDH, SDH and Ethernet
traffic or a mix of them)

 ASN ODU

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Applications
The ALS Series has been conceived and designed to cover a wide range of applications, such as:

 2G / 3G / LTE Cellular Network Infrastructure

 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet connections

 WiMAX backhauling

 Private data Networks (WANs, LANs, etc.)

 Utility Networks (Railways, Pipelines, etc.)

 Back-up transmission medium to Fibre Optic links

 Spur Links for Backbones/Rings

 Last Mile Fibre Extension

 Leased Lines Replacement

 High Capacity SDH/IP Radio Ring Deployment up to 4xSTM-1/800 Mbit/s

 High Capacity Broadband Access Networks

Product Range
The ALS Series is available in all frequency bands from 6 GHz (6L and 6U) to 42 GHz (4GHz is available for
PDH/ETH application), unduplicated or duplicated configuration and with radio capacity from 4 to 400 Mbit/s
per radio module with mixed TDM and ETH interfaces.

The modulation scheme is software programmable from 4QAM to 256QAM for ALplus2 IDU, with full featured
ACM. ALS exploits an innovative dual native radio engine capable of transmitting both native TDM (4xE1 to
4xSTM-1) and native ETH (up to 400 Mbit/s) .

In equipment configurations such as 4xSTM-1 and 2xSTM-1, frequency re-use (co-channel operation) with the
XPIC technology (Cross Polar Interference Canceller) is employed.

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Main Features
Scalable capacity, integrated XPIC functionality, high performance and reliability, ease of installation, common
NMS platform and cost effectiveness make the ALS Series the proper network solution for a wide set of network
applications.

Both electrical and optical interfaces are available on the same terminal radio equipment.

Adaptive Code and Modulation allows the automatic selection of the optimum modulation scheme according to
current radio link propagation conditions and on received signal’s quality can be software enabled; on the basis of
received signal quality calculations, the ALS Series can increase the system gain when needed, thus forwarding
the high priority traffic in bad propagation conditions too. In addition, the introduction of heavily coded
modulation schemes allows the system to perform in challenging environmental conditions.

With ACM and traffic classification, each traffic class is assigned with its minimum required QoS, allowing easy
overbooking of existing radio link, without any impact on antenna sizes and infrastructure hardware.

ALCplus2 IDU with its state-of-art high speed ACM can compensate fading speed up to 40dB/s; this allows easy
network planning in very bad environment condition characterized of deep fading conditions and with fast fading
phenomena (e.g multiple path interference for lower frequency bands)

In addition, user configurable ACM profiles allow per-link optimization with the possibility to full customize
adaptive modulation behavior.

Delay compensation allows jitter free modulation switchover

NMS common Platform

The ALS series is integrated into the SCT/LCT, NMS5LX and NMS5UX Network Management System platforms
developed by SIAE MICROELETTRONICA, and capable of controlling and monitoring all equipment included in SIAE
MICROELETTRONICA product catalogue.

As an alternative a WEB management (with embedded WEB server) is available as an installation-less

management option.

All SIAE MICROELETTRONICA NMS solutions are based on standard protocols. SNMP Protocol is used for TMN
connections with standard communication protocol stacks and industry-standard interfaces allowing equipment
connection to any IP or OSI-based DCN.

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IDU and ODU SYSTEM OVERVIEW

ASN ODU Characteristics

The ODU has been designed with the target of being at the same time compact, light and easy to install/maintain
and characterized by high performances.

Universal ASN ODU supports all modulation schemes (4/8/16/32/64/128/256QAM) and all capacities from 8
Mbit/s to 400 Mbit/s. ASN ODU doesn’t require any hardware change if configured for frequency reuse
(independence from XPIC functionality), moreover It is compatible with ALL IDU models. This model provides up
to 20 dB ATPC.

Figure 2 - ASN Universal ODU

These modulation independent ODUs allow an “install-and-forget” approach for simple station upgrading.

AS/ASN ODU

Integrated antenna solutions

Figure 3 - AS/ ASN ODU with integral antenna in 1+0 and 1+1/2+0 configurations

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Not integrated antenna solutions

Figure 4 - AL ODU/AS Universal ODU with not integrated antenna solution in 1+0 and 1+1/2+0 configurations

Compact IDU mechanical layout

The single board compact IDUs are provided with adjustable brackets on both sides. It allows an easy IDU
positioning into a rack in three different 30 mm steps as shown in the picture below. This simplifies the IDU
installation in street cabinet applications.

Figure 5 – Bracket on IDU compact version

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ATPC Feature
Automatic Transmit Power Control (ATPC) is available as a standard feature in all configurations.

Power Control has two operational modes:

 Fixed output power attenuation mode (ATPC disabled); the output power can be reduced up to 20dB in
1dB steps.

 ATPC mode: the ATPC algorithm adjusts the output power attenuation in order to reach a predefined Rx
level at the remote terminal.

ALCplus2e IDU – 1RU Compact

ALCplus2e version the throughput up to 1Gbps per direction and enhanced Ethernet functionalities.

The e equipment Includes XPIC technology, advanced header compression and a more complex set of
configurations (2+0 in single shelf arrangement).

It supports Synchronous Ethernet with mixed TDM/ETH synchronism distribution and 1588v2.

ALCplus2e supports all modulations schemes up to 256QAM and in addition 40 MHz channel bandwidth in the
6U and 11 GHz frequency bands (7, 14, 28 and 56 MHz already provided by ALCplus2).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 1 9 10

Figure 6 - ALCplus2e IDU - 18xE1 + 4xGE + 2xSTM-1 + Nodal Bus

1. TMN-access (ETH, USB-B, RS232) 10. IDU-ODU cables interfaces

2. ETH payload 10/100/1000 RJ45 FE/GE
3. STM-1 payload With SFP modules
4. 2xE1 payload
 Traffic
 Sync In/Out (G703/2 MHz clock or HDB3 AIS)
 Traffic + EOC (G704 framing)
5. CAT6 proprietary expansion Bus Traffic
6. nxE1 payload on SCSI connectors (120/75 ohm)
7. Power Supply
8. ETH payload with optical GE SFP modules
9. Alarm IN/OUT

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IDU
o 4xFE/GE Sync/Async + 2xE1 + 16xE1 + 2xSTM-1(1+1 MSP) + Nodal Bus

Protection Schemes
 XPIC 2x(1+0)

 1x(1+0) and 2x(1+0)

 (1+1)HSB, (1+1)FD/FSD (up to 28 MHz), (1+1)SD

 2+0 same polarization

Additional features
Some major upgraded features to be underlined, as following:

 1 Gbit/s total throughput capacity managed by a single equipment

 2+0 configuration as well as 2+0 XPIC, both available in 1RU shelf

 Advanced Ethernet /IP features

 Header Compression: over 200% throughput more.

ALCplus2e is available in following HW configurations1:

 With built-in XPIC

 Without built-in XPIC

In addition to the some Traffic Management features have been improved:

 Bandwidth profiling
o Bandwidth limiting per VLAN
o Bandwidth limiting per priority.
o Frame fragmentation
 TDM redundancy on selected E1s
 Hard limiting or WRED algorithm (software selectable)
 Enhanced Ethernet prioritization based on MPLS “Exp bits”
 Selective QinQ based on VLAN and 802.1p priority
 VLAN rewriting
 8 queues Ethernet scheduler towards radio interface
 Layer2 Link Aggregation (802.3ad), also available on Layer1

1
Both versions will be available with or without Header Compression.

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  M-STP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol) support up to 4 instances
 Selective RMON on VLAN basis
 G.8261/8262/8264 Synchronous Ethernet and 1588v2

Note: These functionalities are available if both terminal of the link are with ALCplu2e.

Regardless to the configuration options, in the following table are summarized the limits applied for the different
HW versions:

IDU type Permanent TDM traffic Extra TDM traffic Total

ALCplus2e IDU XPIC Max. 2x80 Max. 2x2 164
ALCplus2e IDU 2x(1+0) Max. 2x80 Max. 2x21 164

Table 1 - TDM capacity for the different HW version

Adaptive Code Modulation (ACM)

General Concepts
A radio communication system should be designed with a nominal received level well above its threshold, this
allows withstanding received signal reduction in bad weather conditions.

This procedure has a drawback: when propagation conditions are favourable the system could support higher
data traffic but it cannot increase its throughput unless it changes its modulation scheme.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA radio systems gives this possibility through Adaptive modulation, please refer to
Appendix 1 for more details.

Traffic classification
The adaptive modulation entails a change in the available bandwidth with regard to the modulation scheme that
is used and as a consequence, moving from higher modulation downward, the decreasing of the traffic capacity.
The possibility to classify the traffic allows to decide what traffic to transport according to the available
bandwidth. For example if the modulation is reduced from 128QAM to 4QAM all traffic exceeding 4QAM
capacity cannot be carried anymore.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA solutions have four output queues –through which up to 8 priority classed can be
managed– with user configurable quality management.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA implementation manages TDM and ETH traffic in different ways:

 E1 ports are manually configured for being high or low priority.

 ETH packets are usually classified according to 802.1p layer 2 tag, SIAE MICROELETTRONICA systems are
also able to classify them, according to IP TOS or IPV6 TC.

This allows real time traffic to be always transmitted.

Link Quality measurement

In order to trigger a modulation change some switching criteria must be implemented. SIAE MICROELETTRONICA
solutions are based on MSE measurements that allow the system to react to any source of degradation, well
before errors are detected by the FEC. It involves one direction at a time and the process is completely jitter and
error free for surviving traffic.
SIAE MICROELETTRONICA implements MSE based Adaptive Modulation in all channel bandwidths. 8 ACM profiles
are provided, each one can be selected by SW in order to build a user configured Adaptive Modulation Profile.

Figure 7 - ALplus2 ACM profiles

Table 2 - Packet Data Radio System header optimization only - (no header compression)

A continuous monitoring on the MSE parameter is performed by the system, thus when MSE goes below a pre-
defined threshold, a modulation switch request is transmitted backward.

Capacity will be automatically adjusted according to the Table 2.

Throughput
Throughput is defined according to paragraph 26.1 of RFC2544.

Throughput depends on configuration, channel bandwidth and packet size.

ALCplus2e
In the table below the maximum Throughput calculated with massive Header compressor working in following
multiprotocol scenario: C-Tag, Multiple s-Tags , MACinMAC , multiple MPLS labels, IP6, UDP, RTP.

Channel Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 128/142 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Width 4QAM
4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
“Strong”

14 MHz 63 75 104 148 184 221 257 301

28 MHz 126 148 220 292 366 439 510 599

40 MHz 179 212 290 416 496 618 722 825

56 MHz 252 293 437 582 710 845 1.000 1.000

Table 3 - Typical Ethernet throughput

For a complete description of the Header compressor please refer to Header Compression paragraph.

Please refer to Appendix 3 for the Header Compression performances working in different scenarios and the net
throughput.

In the table below the throughput in terms of maximum number of E1s available on the radio frame.

Channel Typical Radio Throughput at point X/X' for E1 input traffic [E1]
Width 4QAM
4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
“Strong”

7 MHz 4 5 7 10 12 15 17 20

14 MHz 8 10 14 20 25 30 35 40

28 MHz 17 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

40 MHz 25 30 43 59 70 80 80 80

56 MHz 34 40 60 80 80 80 80 80

Table 4 - Typical E1 transport capability

Nodal Interconnections in ALCplus2e IDUs (N-concept)

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA Implements proprietary IDUs interconnection using standard CAT6 cables with RJ-45
shielded connectors. This serial high speed connection carries proprietary frames in an MSP like protected
configuration and capacity up to 1.3 Gbit/s.

ALCplus2e IDU implements an innovative distributed switch architecture that allows simple node expansion
through shelves stacking, with a dramatic reduction in initial CAPEX.
 Depending on traffic requirements, units can be daisy chained by e CAT6 proprietary expansion bus for TDM
applications (BUS capacity 126E1) and/or by a standard GE connection for Ethernet applications.SIAE
MICROELETTRONICA ring manager SW can manage all units as a single concentrating node with end-to-end
connection provisioning.

Nx2FE/GE + NxSTM-1 + Nx16E1 N=1….8

Figure 8 - ALCplus2e - Nodal configuration

ETHERNET CHARACTERISTICS
ALCplus2e is compliant with MEF9 for service functionality and MEF14 for service performance. Configured in
point-to-point, nodal or ring topology, they can be used to implement standardized Ethernet services such as E-
Line, E-LAN and E-Tree providing quality of service (QoS), scalability and reliability. Each services could be created
in transparent mode or in virtual mode sharing radio link resources between different services managing VLAN
802.1q tags.

Ethernet Frame mapping over Radio Link

When equipped with Ethernet Interfaces, the ALS Series transfers Ethernet packets directly onto the radio link.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA ALS maps Ethernet straight into the radio frames (Native IP), this approach provides a
point-to-point unacknowledged connectionless service over the radio channel. A CRC is added to prevent wrong
packets being forwarded.
Ethernet Throughput
ALCplus2e provides full-duplex Ethernet throughput ranging from 10 up to 500 Mbit/s per radio direction. It is
possible to associate a given bandwidth to a single Ethernet port. It can be assigned in fixed steps up to full wire
speed.

Please refer to Appendix 3 for Throughput and Latency details.

Ethernet Interface characteristics

The ALS Series implements a multi-port store-and-forward Layer 2 Switch. The embedded Switch supports the
following Layer 2 functionalities:

 MAC switching (table of 8192 addresses)

 MAC Address learning and aging
 Auto negotiation
 MDI/MDIX crossover
Automatic MDI/MDIX crossover is supported; it allows NIC-to-SWITCH and SWITCH-to-SWITCH
connection regardless of cable type (straight-through or crossover).
 Layer 2 Flow Control / Back Pressure
SIAE MICROELETTRONICA implements flow control based on IEEE 802.3x (full-duplex operation) and Back
Pressure (half-duplex operation) to prevent packet loss during traffic peak.
 IEEE 802.1q VLANs and VLAN stacking (Q in Q)
 Quality of Service
 ITU-T Y.1731 ETH OAM / IEEE 802.1ag

QoS management
QoS refers to the ability of a network device to provide improved services to selected network traffic over various
underlying technologies, including Ethernet and wireless LANs. In particular, QoS feature provides an improved
and more predictable network services, as follows:

 Improving loss characteristics

 Avoiding and managing network congestion

 Prioritizing services to different kinds of network traffic

 Setting traffic priorities across the network

QoS is implemented in SIAE MICROELETTRONICA products in a multilevel approach:

 VLAN per port

 Level 2 VLAN identifiers (802.1Q)

 Level 2 priority bits (802.1P QoS)

 Level 3 priorities IPv4 (ToS or DSCP) or IPv6 (TC)

 EXP bits MPLS (ALCplus2e)

Ethernet Resiliency
LLF - Link Loss Forwarding -

PIRL - Peak Input Rate Limiting - In order to control the traffic flows incoming the equipment and thus the
network, this access limitation/control policies is introduced with a “leaky bucket architecture”

RSTP - Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol - is a link layer network protocol that ensures a loop-free topology for any
bridged LAN. Thus, the basic function of STP is to prevent bridge loops and ensuing broadcast radiation.

MSTP - Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol - enables VLANs to be grouped into a spanning-tree instance, with each
instance having a spanning-tree topology independent of other spanning-tree instances. This architecture
provides multiple alternate paths enabling a better network load balancing.

ELP - Ethernet Link Protection - ELP is used to protect the network from Ethernet link failures in various network
topologies and application

LAG - Link Aggregation – is a recommendation (802.1AX-2008 or 802.3ad) designed for using multiple media in
parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single medium and increase the redundancy
for higher availability

Level 2 priorities:
Priority queues are introduced on switches output ports. 802.1p describes 8 priority levels, mapped onto 4
output queues.

A typical mapping scheme is shown below.

802.1p priority levels Traffic type Used queue Used queue

ALCplus2e ALCplus2
0 Best Effort 0 0
1 Background 1
2 NOT DEFINED 2 1
3 Excellent Effort 3
4 Controlled Load 4 2
5 Video ( latency  100 mS ) 5
6 Voice ( latency  10 mS ) 6 3
7 Network Control 7

Table 5 - 802.1p priority levels

Two scheduling algorithms are available in SIAE MICROELETTRONICA equipment: strict priority or weighted
scheduling WFQ (SW selectable).

 Strict priority means that Higher priority queues are emptied first

 Weighted scheduling (WFQ) means that queues are served proportionally to their weights (1-2-4-8).

 Mixed Strict priority and WFQ

IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
Virtual LAN (VLAN) support is the ability to logically break a LAN into a few smaller LANs and prevent data from
flowing between the sub-LANs.

This is a key performance used to:

 Share the same physical carrier among different users that require maintaining a complete logical
network independency.

 Micro segment the LAN in a scalable way

 Distribute traffic load

 Relocate servers into secure locations

 Better control the broadcast messages

VLANs can be activated in three different ways:

 Based on Port. A packet belongs to a particular VLAN, depending on the local port ID. This means that
each packet received on a specific port will be forwarded only to the ports belonging to the same VLAN.

 Based on IEEE 802.1Q TAG. A packet belongs to a particular VLAN, depending on its VLAN ID, defined by
the VID (VLAN Identifier) TAG content.

 Hybrid. It is a mix of previous ones. Locally configured tagged frames are managed according IEEE 802.1Q
TAG, all others follow port rules.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA equipment can also be configured to add a VLAN tag (VD and user priority) to
untagged traffic.

VLAN stacking (QinQ)

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA products support VLAN stacking (QinQ). This means that if input traffic is 802.1Q
compliant, i.e. VLANs are implemented, it is possible to create other VLAN inserting 4 additional bytes in Ethernet
header for routing and QoS purposes.

VLAN staking (also named QinQ) is a feature that allows an Ethernet frame to include more than one IEEE 802.1Q
TAG. The scope of VLAN staking is to differentiate the traffic at different levels when the packets must cross
networks managed by different entities.

As an example, it can be considered the case of a WAN connection provided by a Service Provider to a company
to connect some remote offices to a headquarter. The packets on the company LAN can be tagged on the basis of
the rules stated by the Company’s Network Administrator. However, The Service Provider could also need to TAG
the traffic in order to carry it independently from the traffic of other companies. Moreover, when a packet leaves
the remote office to enter the WAN connection, the Service Provider will add a second TAG to the packet with an
ID that identifies the customer. In this way the first TAG (with the company ID) still remain on the packet, but it is
not used to route it on the Service Provider Network. Finally, when this packet has reached the Main Site, the
Service Provider TAG is dropped and the WAN connection can be fully transparent.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA radio systems support the VLAN staking. Once a packet enters into the radio, it is
possible to add a new IEEE 802.1Q TAG with an ID depending from the port.
ALplus2e specific Ethernet characteristics

VLAN rewriting
VLAN rewriting is a feature available on radio side that allows to rewrite the VID of C-TAG of the packets received
(uplink side) or sent (downlink side) by the switch. On uplink side (packets received by the switch) the VID can be
rewritten on the basis of the following criteria:

- LAN port + C-VID: new values of C-VID to be written into the packet can be configured on the basis of its original
C-VID and the LAN port where it has been received.

- LAN port + C-VID + priority: new values of C-VID to be written into the packet can be configured on the basis of
its original C-VID + priority and the LAN port where it has been received.

On uplink side it is possible to configure for all the LAN ports up to 64 LAN port + C-VID or LAN port + C-VID +
priority criteria. On downlink side (packets sent by the switch) the VID can be rewritten on the basis of the C-VID
of the received packet. I.e., new values of C-VID to be written into the packet can be configured on the basis of its
original C-VID. It is possible to configure up to 64 C-VID criteria in downlink, independently by the uplink
configuration.

Ingress Filter Policing (CIR/EIR according to MEF 10.2)

ALCplus2e allows limiting the ingress traffic rate on the basis of:

- LAN port (Bandwidth profile per UNI): a different profile is defined for each LAN port (VLAN ID and priority are
not considered in this case by the rate limiting algorithm)

- VLAN (Bandwidth Profile per EVC): a different profile is defined for different VLANs (priority is not considered in
this case by the rate limiting algorithm). Up to 64 VLAN can be managed with different profiles.

- VLAN + priority (Bandwidth Profile per CoS): a different profile is defined for different couples VLAN+priority
(up to 64 different cases can be managed). In this case the packet priority is always considered by the rate
limiting algorithm. More than one priority can be included in the same bandwidth profile.

In general different criteria can be defined for each port/VLAN/priority. Up to 64 Ingress Filtering Policy resources
can be defined and each bandwidth profile defined on the basis either of LAN port, VLAN or VLAN+priority
consumes 1 of such resources.

In order to define the bandwidth profile, the following parameters must be configured:

- CIR (Committed Information Rate): it is the admitted ingress rate (“green” colored), with values between 0
Kbit/s and 1 Gbit/s.

- CBS (Committed Burst Rate): it is the maximum size of the token bucket of the green packets, with values
between 0 byte and 256 Kbyte.

- EIR (Excess Information Rate): it is maximum ingress rate eventually admitted (“yellow” colored), with values
between 0Kbit/s and 1Gbit/s.

- EBS (Excess Burst Rate): it is the maximum size of the token bucket of the yellow packets, with values between 0
byte and 256 Kbyte.
- CF (Coupling Flag): if enabled, the excess tokens eventually charged into the green bucket are moved into the
yellow packet bucket. Red packets, i.e. the ones exceeding the CIR+EIR rate, are automatically discarded.

Ethernet frame fragmentation

QoS approach preserves High priority traffic, by giving them precedence during traffic congestions.

However, in case of real time traffic also latency and jitter are important factors on a end to end communication:

 Latency is strictly related to the line/servant speed and usually can be managed by designing the
network topology in a proper way (e.g. by limiting the maximum number of hops in link chains).

 Jitter is instead a more sensitive parameter because it depends on congestions.

Figure 9- 8 queues system architecture

Before the high priority packet is sent over the air, it has always to be placed in the common FIFO buffer of the
servant. It could happen that this buffer is occupied by the last best effort (or lower priority) packet; in this case
the high priority packet collects delay due to the process servant time dedicated to the best effort packet.

This delay heavily depends on the processed best effort packet size (from 64bytes to 1518 bytes of even more in
case of jumbo frames).

A technique used to mitigate this phenomenon is the Frame Fragmentation, i.e. at the TX side long frames are
subdivided in smaller fragments and a sequence label is inserted in order to number the fragments.
At RX side the original frame is rebuilt after all the fragments are received. In this way, the maximum waiting time
for a High Priority packet is reduced to the sub-frame size (some hundreds of bytes), providing sensitive benefits
to the packet jitter.

Header compression
SIAE MICROELETTRONICA has developed a two level Header Compression that is able to hash L2, L2.5, L3 and L4
header’s protocols and thus massively increase the available radio throughput.
The packet compression gain provided is from 3% up to 200%, depending on payload, protocols stacks and packet
size.
In the following figure, supported Header Compression protocol and various compression rates are reported, in
relation with packet sizes compressed protocol stacks.

Figure 10 - involved in the Header compression process

Two stages of compression are possible:

 Basic compression (1st stage):

Single layer packet compression, supports header up to 68 bytes (Ethernet + MPLS + IP/UDP + RTP/GTP)

 Deep/IP tunneling compression (1st stage + 2nd stage):

Two levels packet compression, supports header up to 128 bytes (Ethernet + MPLS + IP/UDP + RTP/GTP
with additional IPv4/IPv6 tunneling)

Figure 11 - Relation between packets size and compression ratio

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

TMN Connection
The ALS Series provides several communication ports for TMN connections. These ports can be used for:

 connection to other equipment

 connection to TMN’s DCN

 direct connection to SIAE MICROELETTRONICA’s Element Manager

Depending on equipment configuration, the following TMN ports are available:

 two Ethernet 10 BASE-T

 USB

In addition to the TMN ports listed above, the ALS Series provides other TMN connections depending on IDU
model, with ALCplus2e:

 TMN and main traffic can coexist on same ports (In band management).

Supervisory information can be terminated by other equipment or, thanks to the standard mapping, by an
external router.

TMN Protocols
The ALS Series allows local and remote management thanks to an embedded SNMP agent.
All ports previously described can be logically connected through two protocol stack versions:

 Full IP protocol stack

 OSI+IP protocol stack.

Routing among communication ports can be configured as “static routing” or based on OSPF (Open Shortest Path
First) in case of full-IP stack, and IS-IS in case of OSI+IP option.
When implementing the OSI+IP stack, layers 1 to 3 are compliant with recommendations ITU-T Q.811, Q.812 and
G.784.
The implementation of standard communication protocol stacks in conjunction with industry-standard interfaces
(as depicted in the following figures) enables equipment connection to any IP or OSI based DCN.
 Figure 12 - Full IP Protocol Stack for ALC

Figure 13 - IP Protocol Stack for ALC

Management Functionalities
The management functionalities implemented at NE level are:

 Fault management (alarms, events, date, time, severity, etc.)

 Configuration and test Management (i.e. configuration of ALS parameters, set-up of loop-backs, manual
forcing of 1+1 switches, mapping of relay alarms and user inputs, etc.)

 Software management (i.e. software release management and software download)

 Performance management and monitoring relevant to G.828 parameters.

 Security Management (i.e. Network Element multi-level access according to Operator’s rights)

Management Software
In order to satisfy the requirements of local and centralized management, SIAE MICROELETTRONICA has
developed the following software/platforms/systems:

 LCT (Local Craft Terminal) for maintenance and line-up activities (MS Windows® OS)

 SCT (Subnetwork Craft Terminal) for centralized management of up to 100 Network Elements - NEs (MS
Windows® OS)
  NMS5-LX (Element Manager) for centralized management of medium networks with up to 1000 Network
Elements per server (Linux OS)

 NMS5-UX (Element Manager) for centralized management of large networks with up to 10000 Network
Elements per server (HP Unix OS)

 Web LCT for maintenance and line-up activities (MS Windows® OS & Adobe flash) accessible via Browser

For a more detailed description of SIAE MICROELETTRONICA supervision software platforms, please refer to the
specific product literature.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Physical Dimensions of system components

System Version Width (mm) Height (mm) Depth (mm)

ASN ODU 1+0 254 254 114

ASN ODU 1+1/2+0 278 254 296

Compact IDU 1RU 482 44 223

Weight

System Version Weight(Kg)

ASN ODU (1+0) 4,5

ASN ODU (1+1/2+0) 13,3

Compact IDU 1RU (1+0) 2,3

Compact IDU 1RU (1+1/2+0) 3,4

Power supply

ODU Range
-40.8  -57.6 Vdc
According to ETSI EN300132-2

Power Consumption (W)

Equipment
Configuration

ALCplus2e 1+0 Radio Terminal ≤ 75

1+1/2+0 Radio Terminal ≤ 105
Frequently requested standards compliances (Note1)
EN 300 132-2 Power supply interface at the input to telecommunications equipment
EN 300 019 Environmental conditions and environmental tests for telecommunications equipment
(Operation: class 3.2 for IDU and class 4.1 for ODU; storage: class 1.2; transport: class
2.3)
EN 301 390 Fixed Radio Systems; Point-to-point and Point-to-Multipoint Systems; Spurious
emissions and receiver immunity at equipment/antenna port of Digital Fixed Radio
System
EN 302 217 Characteristics and requirements for point-to-point equipment and antenna
EN 301 489 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard for radio equipment and services
EN 60950 Information Technology Equipment – Safety
ITU-R ITU Recommendations for all frequency bands
ITU-R F.1191 Bandwidths and unwanted emissions of digital fixed service systems
CEPT CEPT Recommendations for all frequency bands
IEE 802 802.1ag (Connectivity Fault Management), 802.1p (QoS), 802.1Q (VLAN), 802.1W
(RSTP), 802.3ad-2008 (link aggregation), 802.3i (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX/FX),
802.3x (Flow control), 802.3ab (1000 BASE-T), 802.3z (1000BASE LX/SX)
IEE 1588-2008 Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement
and Control Systems
ITU-T 1731 Ethernet OAM fault management
ITU-T G.703 Physical/electrical characteristics of hierarchical levels
ITU-T G704 Characteristics of 1544 and 2048 Kbit/s hierarchical levels
ITU-T G.742 Second order digital multiplex equipment operating at 8449 Kbit/s and using positive
justification
ITU-T G.783 Characteristics of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) equipment digital block
ITU-T G.823 The control of jitter and wander within digital networks which are based on the 2048
Kbit/s hierarchy
ITU-T G.825 The control of jitter and wander within digital networks which are based on the
synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
ITU-T G.957 Optical Interfaces for equipment and system relating to the synchronous digital
hierarchy

ITU-T G.8261 Timing and Synchronization Aspects in Packet Networks

ITU-T G.8262 Characteristics of synchronous Ethernet Equipment slave Clock
ITU-T G.8264 Distribution of timing through packet networks

Note1: where applicable

APPENDIX 1: Radio Performances
Output Power (dBm) at point C’ 1

4 GHz 6L/6U GHz 7/8 GHz 10/11 GHz 13 GHz 15 GHz 18 GHz 23 GHz 25 GHz 28 GHz 32 GHz 38 GHz 42 GHz

4 QAM +28 +29 +29 +28 +28 +28 +23 +23 +22 +21 +20 +19 +17

8 QAM +28 +29 +29 +28 +28 +28 +23 +23 +22 +21 +20 +19 +17

16 QAM +25 +26 +26 +25 +25 +25 +21 +21 +20 +19 +18 +17 +15

32 QAM +25 +26 +26 +25 +25 +25 +21 +21 +20 +19 +18 +17 +15

64 QAM +24 +25 +25 +24 +24 +24 +19 +19 +18 +17 +16 +15 +13

128 QAM +24 +25 +25 +24 +24 +24 +19 +19 +18 +17 +16 +15 +13

256 QAM +23 +24 +24 +23 +23 +23 +18 +18 +17 +16 +15 +14 +12

Receiver Sensitivity (dBm) at BER 10-6 at point C

(1+0 conf., 28 MHz BW, FR filter losses included)

4 GHz 6L/6U GHz 7/8 GHz 10/11 GHz 13 GHz 15 GHz 18 GHz 23 GHz 25 GHz 28 GHz 32 GHz 38 GHz 42 GHz

4 QAM -89,5 -89,5 -89,5 -89 -89 -89 -88,5 -88,5 -88 -81 -86 -86,5 -85,5

8 QAM -82,5 -82,5 -82,5 -82 -82 -82 -81,5 -81,5 -81 -80,5 -79 -79,5 -78,5

16 QAM -81 -81 -81 -80,5 -80,5 -80.5 -80 -80 -79,5 -79 -77,5 -78 -77

32 QAM -77,5 -77,5 -77,5 -77 -77 -77 -76,5 -76,5 -76 -75,5 -74 -74,5 -73,5

64 QAM -75,5 -75,5 -75,5 -75 -75 -75 -74,5 -74,5 -74 -73,5 -72 -72 -71,5

128 QAM -73,5 -73,5 -73,5 -73 -73 -73 -72,5 -72,5 -72 -71,5 -70 -70,5 -69

256 QAM -70,5 -70,5 -70,5 -70 -70 -70 -69,5 -69,5 -69 -68,5 -67 -67,5 -66,5

1
Typical values
APPENDIX 2: Adaptive Modulation details
In order to better understand how Adaptive Modulation operates, we should recall some information from
signals theory:

 Eb 
Ps10 3  114  10  LOG10 ( Br )  NF   
 N 0 103
Ps10 3  Received field at BER  10 - 3
Br  Bit rate
NF  Receiver noise figure
 Eb 
   Energy per bit/Noise spectral density (at specified BER)
 N 0 103

We can discover that minimum received signal, able to guarantee certain performances (BER), depends on some
fixed figures, such as required bit rate (Br) and demodulator implementation

If a receiver is working at such a level that cannot allow the required quality, alternative methods can be
implemented.

 Increasing TX power on remote terminal. This can obviously be done, if transmitter is not jet emitting its
maximum power.

 Reducing user bit rate

 Changing modulation scheme and FEC redundancy

In addition, SIAE MICROELETTRONICA maintains channel width constant, with no effect on other links, without
any need to reconfigure the entire network.

APPENDIX 3: Ethernet Benchmark parameters.

All parameters are measured according to RFC2544 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Dev.

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA Native ETH solutions remove ETH packet Header. It makes ETH parameters MTU
dependant.

Latency
According to paragraph 26.2 of RFC2544, objective of this test is:

 To determine the latency as defined in RFC 1242.

Latency is capacity dependent, therefore in the following tables different latency parameters will be specified for
each configuration.
Please note that, according to RFC2544, the latency is measured Last in First out (LIFO). The effective link delay
will be this value plus packet transfer time over physical ETH interfaces.

ALCplus2e implements 8 ACM profiles with all Channel BW. Please refer to “Adaptive Modulation” paragraph for
ACM details.

Typical Latency [ms]

64 bytes MTU Modulation

Channel width (MHz) 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 1.042 0.844 0.627 0.477 0.401 0.477 0.52 0.507
14 0.954 0.8 0.575 0.418 0.345 0.439 0.458 0.444
28 0.475 0.406 0.274 0.214 0.176 0.227 0.237 0.231
56 0.241 0.207 0.14 0.112 0.094 0.125 0.126 0.121

Typical Latency [ms]

512 bytes MTU Modulation

Channel width (MHz) 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 1.522 1.233 0.913 0.67 0.573 0.607 0.642 0.608
14 1.186 0.995 0.719 0.518 0.428 0.51 0.523 0.499
28 0.595 0.508 0.347 0.271 0.224 0.265 0.272 0.265
56 0.304 0.261 0.181 0.144 0.122 0.152 0.147 0.14

Typical Latency [ms]

1024 bytes MTU Modulation

Channel width (MHz) 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 2.09 1.693 1.229 0.895 0.756 0.768 0.774 0.726
14 1.462 1.226 0.882 0.639 0.518 0.59 0.594 0.557
28 0.735 0.628 0.426 0.334 0.276 0.311 0.312 0.298
56 0.377 0.324 0.226 0.179 0.154 0.178 0.172 0.162
Typical Latency [ms]
1518 bytes MTU Modulation

Channel width (MHz) 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 2,609 2,113 1,541 1,115 0,938 0,908 0,914 0,845
14 1,715 1,439 1,044 0,757 0,618 0,669 0,663 0,623
28 0,867 0,74 0,508 0,395 0,326 0,356 0,351 0,333
56 0,447 0,384 0,27 0,214 0,185 0,205 0,196 0,183

Typical Latency [ms]

10000 bytes MTU Modulation

Channel width (MHz) 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 11.684 9.465 6.974 4.755 4.214 3.35 3.222 2.761
14 6.104 5.12 3.557 2.634 2.176 2.02 1.907 1.656
28 3.136 2.677 1.881 1.483 1.235 1.067 1.003 0.982
56 1.651 1.418 1.052 0.83 0.697 0.71 0.601 0.549

Throughput
Throughput is defined according to paragraph 26.1 of RFC2544.

In the following tables is shown the throughput in different scenarios and the related compressor efficiency
according to the different traffic transported protocols.

SCENARIO 1: The tables show the benefit of Header Compression in a scenario where traffic is transported
using the following protocol stack: C-TAG + S-TAGs with IPv4 traffic in UDP sessions.

In this case Header Compressor works as “not fully loaded” or in a “relaxed environment” using only a single layer
compressing process. Please note that effective throughput always depends also on MTU size.

Typical Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 641/76 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 16 20 28 40 47 59 67 78
14 MHz 32 39 55 78 97 117 136 160
28 MHz 66 78 117 155 195 233 272 319
40 MHz 94 113 163 221 265 327 386 449
56 MHz 133 155 23 310 379 451 538 641

1
Typical payload size has been enlarged in order to handle the chosen header protocol stack
 Typical Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 128 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 12 15 21 30 36 45 51 60
14 MHz 25 30 42 60 75 89 104 122
28 MHz 51 60 89 119 149 178 208 244
40 MHz 72 86 125 169 203 250 295 343
56 MHz 102 119 18 237 289 344 411 490

Typical Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 512 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 9 11 16 23 27 34 39 46
14 MHz 19 23 32 45 57 68 79 93
28 MHz 39 45 68 90 113 136 158 186
40 MHz 54 66 95 129 154 190 225 261
56 MHz 78 90 14 180 220 262 313 373

Typical Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 1518 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8 QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 9 11 15 22 26 32 37 43
14 MHz 18 21 30 43 53 64 75 88
28 MHz 36 43 64 85 107 128 149 175
40 MHz 51 62 90 121 146 180 212 246
56 MHz 73 85 13 170 208 247 295 351

SCENARIO 2: The throughput is calculated in a typical VOIP scenario. Traffic is generated in a eNodeB using C-
TAG, S-TAG, MPLS, IPv4, GTP layers and then encapsulating VOIP packets in IPv6(with UDP and RTP with G729).

Max Radio Throughput at point X/X' for Ethernet 1281/136 bytes input traffic [Mbit/s]
Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 22 28 39 56 67 84 94 111
14 MHz 46 55 77 111 138 166 193 227
28 MHz 94 111 165 220 276 331 385 452
40 MHz 133 160 231 314 376 464 547 637
56 MHz 189 220 33 439 537 639 762 908

1
Typical payload size has been enlarged in order to handle the chosen header protocol stack
SCENARIO 3: Throughput with Header compression and optimizations not activated: traffic is considered as a
pure stream of bits.

Pure radio channel Throughput [Mbit/s]

Channel width 4QAM 4QAM 8QAM 16QAM 32QAM 64QAM 128QAM 256QAM
Strong
7 MHz 8 10 15 21 25 32 35 42
14 MHz 17 21 30 42 52 62 72 85
28 MHz 35 42 62 83 104 124 145 170
40 MHz 50 60 87 118 141 174 206 239
56 MHz 71 83 124 165 202 240 286 341

Switching capabilities

IDU type Mac table size

ALCplus2e 8192
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