VeEX VePAL TX300 User manual

TX300/e_e-manual_D07-00-033P_RevG00

Table of Contents
1.0 About This User Manual
2.0 Introduction
3.0 Safety Information
4.0 Basic Operations
4.1 Compact Platform Overview
4.2 Keypad
4.3 Touch Screen Display
4.4 Battery
4.5 Connectors and Panels
4.5.1 Test Ports - Electrical and Optical
4.5.2 RJ-45 Interface (TX300e only)
4.5.3 Bantam Interface (TX300 only)
4.5.4 BNC Interface
4.5.5 XFP/SFP Transceiver Interface
4.5.6 SMA Interface
4.5.7 Utility Ports
4.6 LEDs
4.7 Software Upgrade
5.0 Home Menu and Switch Test Mode
6.0 Setup
6.1 Signal Overview
6.2 Setup: PDH
6.2.1 Transmitter Setup
6.2.2 Receiver Setup
6.3 Setup: SDH
6.3.1 Transmitter Setup
6.3.2 Receiver Setup
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6.4 Setup: SONET
6.4.1 Transmitter Setup
6.4.2 Receiver Setup
6.5 Setup: OTN/SDH
6.5.1 Transmitter Setup
6.5.2 Receiver Setup
6.6 Setup: OTN/SONET
6.6.1 Transmitter Setup
6.6.2 Receiver Setup
6.7 Measurement Configuration
6.7.1 Timer Setup
6.7.2 Performance Analysis
6.7.3 General
6.7.4 Auto-Config
7.0 Results
7.1 Results: PDH
7.1.1 Summary
7.1.2 Errors and Alarms
7.1.3 Event Log
7.1.4 Signal
7.1.5 Histogram
7.1.6 Graph
7.1.7 Performance Analysis
7.2 Results: SDH
7.2.1 Summary
7.2.2 Errors and Alarms
7.2.3 Event Log
7.2.4 Signal
7.2.5 Histogram
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7.2.6 Graph
7.2.7 Performance Analysis
7.3 Results: SONET
7.3.1 Summary
7.3.2 Errors and Alarms
7.3.3 Event Log
7.3.4 Signal
7.3.5 Histogram
7.3.6 Graph
7.3.7 Performance Analysis
7.4 Results: OTN
7.4.1 Summary
7.4.2 Errors and Alarms
8.0 Alarms/Errors
8.1 Alarm Generation
8.1.1 PDH Alarms
8.1.2 SDH Alarms
8.1.3 OTN Alarms
8.2 Error Insertion
8.2.1 PDH & T-Carrier Errors
8.2.2 SDH Errors
8.2.3 OTN Errors
9.0 OTN Tools
9.1 Shortcuts
9.2 Overhead Analyzer & Generator
9.2.1 OTN Frame Analysis
9.2.2 Optical Transport Unit (OTU) Analysis
9.2.3 Optical Data Unit (ODU) Analysis
9.2.4 Optical Payload Unit (OPU) Analysis
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9.3 Payload Label
9.4 Trace Identifier
9.5 TCM Tasks
10.0 SDH/SONET Tools
10.1 SDH/SONET Tools
10.1.1 Shortcuts
10.1.2 Overhead Analyzer
10.1.3 Overhead Generator
10.1.4 Pointer Tasks
10.1.4.1 Pointer Analysis
10.1.4.2 Pointer Generation
10.1.4.3 Pointer Sequences
10.1.5 Trace Identifier
10.1.5.1 Transmitted Traces (TX)
10.1.5.2 Received Traces (RX)
10.1.6 Payload Labels
10.1.7 APS Tasks
10.1.7.1 APS Timing
10.1.7.2 APS Sequence
10.1.8 Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM)
10.1.9 Tributary Scan
10.1.10 Round Trip Delay
10.1.11 Jitter and Wander
10.1.12 V-SCAN
10.2 SONET Tools
10.2.1 Shortcuts
10.2.2 Overhead Analyzer
10.2.3 Overhead Generator
10.2.4 Pointer Tasks
10.2.4.1 Pointer Analysis
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10.2.4.2 Point Generator
10.2.4.3 Pointer Sequences
10.2.5 Trace Identifier
10.2.5.1 Transmitted Traces (TX)
10.2.5.2 Received Traces (RX)
10.2.6 Payload Labels
10.2.7 APS Tasks
10.2.7.1 APS Timing
10.2.7.2 APS Sequence
10.2.8 Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM)
10.2.9 Tributary Scan
10.2.10 Round Trip Delay
10.2.11 Jitter and Wander
10.2.12 V-SCAN
11.0 PDH Tools
11.1 E1 Pulse Mask
11.2 E3 Pulse Mask
11.3 E1 APS Testing
11.4 E1 Frame Words
11.5 Round Trip Delay
11.6 E1 RX Data
11.7 E1 ISDN PRI
11.7.1 ISDN PRI Call
11.7.1.1 Setup (PRI Call Setup)
11.7.1.2 Signal
11.7.1.3 Call - Voice and 3.1K Audio Setup
11.7.1.4 Call - Data Setup
11.7.1.5 Data Call BERT Results (Result tab)
11.7.1.6 Supplementary Service Scan
11.7.1.7 Multi Call
11.7.1.8 DTMF
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11.7.1.9 Dbackup
11.7.2 ISDN PRI Monitor
11.8 E1 VF
11.9 Jitter & Wander
12.0 DS1/3 Tools
12.1 DS1 Pulse Mask
12.2 DS1 Loop
12.3 Round Trip Delay
12.4 DS1 RX Data
12.5 DS3 Pulse Mask
12.6 DS3 FEAC
12.7 DS1 ISDN PRI
12.8 DS1 VF Tasks
12.9 Jitter & Wander
12.10 CSU/NIU Emulation
13.0 Jitter and Wander Application
13.1 Jitter Measurement & Generation (Jitter icon)
13.2 Max Jitter Tolerance
13.3 Jitter Transfer Function
13.4 Wander Measurement
13.4.1 Setup
13.4.2 Wander Result
13.4.3 Wander Analysis PC Software
14.0 OTU-Xe
14.1 OTU-Xe Overview
14.2 Home Menu and Switch Test Mode
14.3 OTN Setup
14.3.1 Signal Setup
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14.3.1.1 Hierarchy
14.3.1.2 Interface
14.3.1.3 Pattern
14.3.2 Measurements
14.3.3 General
14.4 OTN Results
14.4.1 Summary
14.4.2 Errors/Alarms
14.4.3 Event Log
14.4.4 Signal
14.5 OTU-Xe Ethernet Applications
14.5.1 OTU-Xe with 10GE BERT
14.5.2 OTN/10GE RFC 2544 Conformance Testing
14.5.3 OTN/10GE Throughput Testing (Multiple Streams)
15.0 Ethernet
15.1 Ethernet Setup
15.1.1 Test Port Selection
15.1.2 Port Setup
15.1.3 Measurement Settings
15.1.3.1 Clock Synchronization Process
15.1.4 MX Discover and Control
15.1.5 ViPAG Router Test
15.2 BERT
15.2.1 BERT Setup
15.2.1.1 Header Settings
15.2.1.2 Traffic Settings
15.2.1.3 Error Injection
15.2.1.4 Starting/Stopping a BERT
15.2.2 Results
15.2.2.1 Summary
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15.2.2.2 Errors
15.2.2.3 Events
15.2.2.4 Traffic
15.2.2.5 Rates
15.2.2.6 Delay
15.2.2.7 Alarms
15.2.2.8 Signal
15.3 RFC 2544 Conformance Testing
15.3.1 Setup - Standard Mode
15.3.1.1 Header Settings
15.3.1.2 Frame Settings
15.3.1.3 Threshold Settings
15.3.1.4 Peer-to-Peer and Asymmetric Testing
15.3.1.5 Throughput, Latency, Frame Loss, and Burst Settings
15.3.1.6 Starting/Stopping a RFC 2544 Measurement
15.3.2 Results - Standard Mode
15.3.3 Saving RFC 2544 Results
15.3.4 Advanced SLA Mode
15.3.5 Background Results - Advanced SLA Mode
15.4 V-SAM
15.4.1 V-SAM Setup
15.4.1.1 Header Settings
15.4.1.2 Service Attributes
15.4.2 Results
15.5 Throughput Testing (Multiple Streams)
15.5.1 Setup
15.5.1.1 General Throughput Settings (Global Configuration)
15.5.1.2 MX Discover and Control Settings
15.5.1.3 Per Stream Configurations
15.5.1.4 Traffic Settings (Per Stream Configuration)
15.5.1.5 Error Injection Settings per Stream
15.5.1.6 Summary
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15.5.1.7 Starting/Stopping a Throughput (Multiple Streams) Test
15.5.2 Throughput Results
15.5.2.1 Viewing Throughput (Multiple Streams) Test Results
15.5.2.2 Global/Aggregate Results
15.5.2.3 Per Stream Results
15.5.2.4 Saving Throughput (Multiple Streams) Results
15.6 Ethernet OAM Testing
15.6.1 OAM Setup
15.6.1.1 Link Level 802.3ah OAM Setup
15.6.1.2 Service Level OAM: 802.1ag/Y.1731 Setup
15.6.2 OAM Results
15.6.2.1 Link OAM Results
15.6.2.2 OAM Service Results
15.7 Monitor (Pass Through) Mode
15.7.1 Setup
15.7.2 Results
15.8 Loopback Mode
15.9 Advanced Tools (TX300 only)
16.0 Fiber Channel
16.1 Setup
16.1.1 Test Interfaces
16.1.2 Test Applications
16.1.3 Port Configuration
16.2 BERT/Throughput
16.2.1 Overview
16.2.2 Setup
16.2.3 Traffic Generation and Error Injection
16.2.4 Starting Measurements
16.2.5 Results
16.3 RFC 2544
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