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

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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 in Radio
(allocated E1s)

TDM
(16 E1s)

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
Radio 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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PM – TDM Trails – In Detail
The number of trails in the list is derived from
Report Interval: radio link capacity (default license = 10Mbps)

Display 15 minutes intervals or single Daily interval (24 hours)

Information can be displayed as a graph

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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

Total frames received with a length of more than 1632 bytes,
Jabber frames received
but with an invalid FCS
Total frames received with a length of less than 64
Fragments frames received
bytes, and an invalid FCS
Rx error frames received Total frames received with Phy-error
Total frames received with CRC error, not countered in
FCS frames received
"Fragments", "Jabber" or "Rx error" counters
Counts good frames that cannot be forwarded due to
In Discard Frames
lack of buffer memory
Counts good frames that were filtered due to egress
In Filtered Frames
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 Radio port is a
Site A member of VID 100 member of VID 100 Site B

A Tagging No membership
T T A

Untagged Frames Access port with

Tagged with default default VID = 300
VID 100

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 Site B

T T T A

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 Site B

T T T A

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
T T

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 – 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 – E1 / DS-1 (Radio PM)

This PM data relates to the TDM Line Interfaces.

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PM – E1 / DS-1 (Radio PM)

Here we can analyze TDM PM through the radio link

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PM – STM-1 Interface

This PM data relates to the STM-1 Line Interface.

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PM – Radio

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

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PM – Radio – Signal Level - Example

- 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 - Example

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 T [sec]
10 5 10

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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 - 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 – Ethernet
ETH Traffic + Threshold settings:

Frame Error Rate –

Frame error rate (%) measured on radio-Ethernet
interface

Throughput – data bits measured on radio-

Ethernet interface

Capacity - overall Ethernet bits rate, data &

overhead, measured on radio-Ethernet interface

Utilization - (Actual Ethernet throughput, relative

to the potential Ethernet throughput of the radio,
excluding TDM channels).

Utilization (%) is displayed as one of five bins:

0-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, 60-80%, 80-100%
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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.

ETH Payload + Interframe

Pre. SFD DA SA VLAN Type /
CRC Gap
Padding
Length

7 octets 1 octet 6 octets 6 octets 4 octets 2 octets 46-1500 4 octets 12 octets

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
ETH Payload + Interframe
Pre. SFD DA SA VLAN Type /
CRC Gap
Padding
Length

7 octets 1 octet 6 octets 6 octets 4 octets 2 octets 46-1500 4 octets 12 octets

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 (64/84=0.77)

Stripped bits = ~ 23% of physical transmitted rate (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 = Capacity = Received frame rate

100 Mbps = 100 Mbps

Utilization = Throughput = 77 = 20 %
Radio Capacity 400

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PM – Ethernet

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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