DragonWave Horizon COMPACT User manual

HorizonCOMPACTTM
Wireless Ethernet
Release 1.01.00
Product Manual – Volume 2
Version 1.2

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Table of Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................9
2.0 ALIGNING THE HORIZON COMPACT SYSTEM...............................................................11
2.1 .......VISUAL ALIGNMENT OF THE HORIZON COMPACT ANTENNAS ......................................................11
2.2 .......DETAILED ALIGNMENT OF THE HORIZON COMPACT ANTENNAS..................................................13
2.2.1 RADIATION PATTERN OF DISH ANTENNAS................................................................................14
2.2.2 AVOID THE FRESNEL ZONE.......................................................................................................17
2.2.3 ALIGNMENT ADJUSTMENT SENSITIVITY ...................................................................................18
2.3 .......LOCATING HORIZON COMPACT ANTENNAS..................................................................................18
3.0 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION FEATURES.....................................................................21
3.1 .......RADIUS SERVER USER AUTHENTICATION ..................................................................................21
3.2 .......MANAGEMENT VLAN TAGGING..................................................................................................25
3.2.1 VLAN TAGGING OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................25
3.2.2 802.1Q TAGGING......................................................................................................................25
3.2.3 VLAN TAGGING IMPLEMENTATION IN HORIZON......................................................................25
3.2.4 HORIZON COMPACT VLAN SETTINGS......................................................................................27
3.3 .......COS/QOS802.1P PRIORITY TAGGING ........................................................................................31
3.3.1 CLASS OF SERVICE TYPES.........................................................................................................32
3.3.2 COSCOMMITTED INFORMATION RATE (CIR)...........................................................................33
3.3.3 COSQUEUE COMMITTED BURST SIZE ......................................................................................33
3.3.4 EXPEDITE QUEUING..................................................................................................................34
3.3.5 OPERATION OF QOSUSING MULTIPLE EXPEDITE QUEUES.........................................................34
3.3.6 OPERATION WITH 802.1P PRIORITY QUEUING DISABLED .........................................................36
3.3.7 OPERATION WITH 802.1P PRIORITY QUEUING ENABLED ..........................................................36
3.3.8 MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC............................................................................................................36
3.4 .......PAUSE FRAMES.............................................................................................................................42
3.5 .......HORIZON COMPACT THROUGHPUT SPEED....................................................................................43
3.5.1 MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT SPEED...............................................................................................43
3.5.2 ASYMMETRIC THROUGHPUT SPEED..........................................................................................48
3.5.3 UPGRADING SYSTEM LICENSE SPEED .......................................................................................50
3.6 .......ADAPTIVE TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL (ATPC).........................................................................55
3.7 .......HORIZON COMPACT AUTHENTICATION ........................................................................................56
3.7.1 NO AUTHENTICATION...............................................................................................................56
3.7.2 UNIQUE AUTHENTICATION .......................................................................................................56
3.7.3 GROUP AUTHENTICATION.........................................................................................................57
3.7.4 AUTHENTICATION POLLING ......................................................................................................57

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3.7.5 AUTHENTICATION FAILURE ACTION.........................................................................................57
3.7.6 CONFIGURE AUTHENTICATION .................................................................................................58
3.8 .......THRESHOLD ALARMS ...................................................................................................................63
3.9 .......RAPID LINK SHUTDOWN (RLS)....................................................................................................67
3.9.1 SETTINGS FOR BASIC MODE......................................................................................................69
3.9.2 SETTINGS FOR ADVANCED MODE .............................................................................................71
3.9.3 RLS LINK CONTROL SETTINGS.................................................................................................71
3.10......CONFIGURING THE TIME SOURCE (SNTP)....................................................................................79
3.11......AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE MODULATION .........................................................................................83
3.12......HORIZON REDUNDANCY...............................................................................................................85
3.12.1 BNC CONNECTOR.....................................................................................................................85
3.12.2 HOW AND WHEN PROTECTION SWITCHING OCCURS ................................................................85
3.12.3 RECOVERY TO PRIMARY LINK AFTER PROTECTION SWITCHING HAS OCCURRED ....................86
3.12.4 FORCING THE DATA PATH TO A PARTICULAR LINK ..................................................................86
3.12.5 REDUNDANCY CLI COMMANDS................................................................................................86
3.12.6 TWO WIRE OPTION EXAMPLE...................................................................................................88
3.12.7 SINGLE WIRE OPTION EXAMPLE...............................................................................................94
4.0 HORIZON COMPACT MANAGEMENT ............................................................................102
4.1 .......MANAGEMENT THROUGH PORT 1(IN-BAND)..............................................................................103
4.2 .......MANAGEMENT THROUGH PORT 2(OUT-OF-BAND) .....................................................................103
4.3 .......TELNET ACCESS .........................................................................................................................104
4.4 .......SECURE SHELL ACCESS SECURITY .............................................................................................105
4.4.1 CONFIGURING SECURE SHELL (SSH)......................................................................................105
4.5 .......HORIZON COMPACT WEB INTERFACE ........................................................................................106
4.5.1 FEATURES...............................................................................................................................106
4.5.2 CONNECTING TO THE HORIZON COMPACT WEB INTERFACE...................................................107
4.5.3 EXITING THE APPLICATION.....................................................................................................108
4.5.4 LOGIN .....................................................................................................................................108
4.5.5 HOME SCREEN ........................................................................................................................110
4.5.6 WEB PAGE TREE DIAGRAM ....................................................................................................111
4.6 .......HORIZON SSL WEB SERVER.......................................................................................................112
4.6.1 WHAT IS SSL? ........................................................................................................................112
4.6.2 GENERATING A CERTIFICATE ON THE HORIZON COMPACT .....................................................113
4.6.3 INSTALLING CERTIFICATES ON YOUR WEB BROWSER............................................................114
4.6.4 ENABLING SSL PER USER GROUP...........................................................................................119
4.7 .......EVENT AND PERFORMANCE LOGS ..............................................................................................120
4.8 .......RADIO LOOPBACK ......................................................................................................................123

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5.0 NETWORK MANAGEMENT OF HORIZON COMPACT ..................................................125
5.1 .......SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP) .............................................................125
5.1.1 SUPPORTED SNMP VERSIONS ................................................................................................125
5.1.2 HORIZON COMPACT ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASE (MIB)........................133
5.1.3 SNMP TRAPS..........................................................................................................................133
APPENDIX A – CLI COMMAND LIST.....................................................................................139
APPENDIX B – SITE SURVEY INFORMATION .....................................................................141
PLANNING.................................................................................................................................................141
SITE SURVEY ............................................................................................................................................141
SITE PREPARATION ...................................................................................................................................142
APPENDIX C - 802.1P PRIORITY TAGGING OVERVIEW.....................................................143
COSVS QOS.............................................................................................................................................143

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List of Figures
Figure 2-1 Aligning Antennas Using Local Landmarks........................................................................12
Figure 2-2 Using GPS and Compass Bearings to Align Antennas......................................................12
Figure 2-3 Main and Side Lobes..............................................................................................................14
Figure 2-4 Typical main lobe coverage using 23 GHz Radio with 24” antenna..................................15
Figure 2-5 Main lobe and side lobes (distance of approximately 4 km)..............................................16
Figure 2-6 WRONG! Obstruction of the Fresnel Zone...........................................................................17
Figure 2-7 WRONG! Trees within the Fresnel Zone Obstruct the Signal............................................17
Figure 2-8 Correct & Incorrect Antenna location...................................................................................19
Figure 3-1 802.1P Enabled on Horizon Compact with Example CoS Allocations..............................31
Figure 3-2 CoS Queues can be allocated a CIR and a Committed Burst Size....................................32
Figure 3-3 Redundancy Connections – 2 wire option – copper interface...........................................88
Figure 3-4 Redundancy Connections – 2 wire option – optical interface ...........................................89
Figure 3-5 Power Switch Radio Mount....................................................................................................94
Figure 3-6 Redundancy Connections – single wire option – copper interface ..................................95
Figure 3-7 Redundancy Connections – single wire option – optical interface...................................96
Figure 4-1 Web Interface - Login Screen..............................................................................................109
Figure 4-2 Web Interface - Home Screen..............................................................................................110
Figure 4-3 Web Interface – Tree Diagram.............................................................................................111

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List of Tables
Table 2-1 Torque Specifications for Antennas.......................................................................................11
Table 2-2 Approximate size of beam at destination ..............................................................................15
Table 2-3 Degrees per Revolution of Adjustment..................................................................................18
Table 2-4 Antenna Specifications – Selected radios.............................................................................18
Table 2-5 Antenna Height vs Obstacle Distance for 24 GHz Unlicensed............................................19
Table 3-1 VLAN Configuration: Network Protocol Strict is OFF. VLAN tagging is OFF...................27
Table 3-2 VLAN Configuration: Network Protocol Strict is OFF. VLAN tagging is ON, VLAN tag has
been programmed into Horizon Compact......................................................................................27
Table 3-3 VLAN Configuration Network Protocol Strict is ON. VLAN tagging is OFF......................28
Table 3-4 VLAN Configuration Network Protocol Strict is ON. VLAN tagging is ON........................28
Table 3-5 System Mode and Modulation Scheme..................................................................................45
Table 3-6 Time Sources............................................................................................................................79
Table 4-1 Simultaneous logins for Web interface...............................................................................109
Table 4-2 Performance Log Durations..................................................................................................123

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1.0 Introduction
Horizon Compact Manual Volume 1 describes the basic requirements for configuring, installing and
aligning a Horizon Compact Ethernet link. Volume 2 (this Volume) provides more in-depth descriptions of
the alignment procedure and explanations as to how the advanced configuration features, noted in
Volume 1, are implemented. Detailed configuration examples are included.

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