WNI Global Challenger L Series User manual

Challenger L Series
User Reference and Installation Manual
WNI Global INC.
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Table of Contents
1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 About This Manual..........................................................................................................................................1-1
1.2 Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................1-1
1.3 System Features...............................................................................................................................................1-4
1.4 Physical Description........................................................................................................................................1-5
1.4.1 Front Panel Indicators................................................................................................................................1-6
1.4.2 Front Panel Connections............................................................................................................................1-6
1.5 System Description........................................................................................................................................1-10
1.6 Consecutive Point Architecture....................................................................................................................1-13
1.7 Power Management.......................................................................................................................................1-15
1.8 Network Management...................................................................................................................................1-16
1.9 ODU data........................................................................................................................................................1-16
1.9.1 Feature Summary.....................................................................................................................................1-16
1.9.2 ODU Specification summary...................................................................................................................1-17
1.9.3 IDU Software Selectable Capacities........................................................................................................1-18
2 INSTALLATION...................................................................................................................................2-19
2.1 Unpacking ......................................................................................................................................................2-19
Challenger L ODU ..................................................................................................................................................2-19
2.2 Notices.............................................................................................................................................................2-20
2.3 PRE-INSTALLATION NOTES...................................................................................................................2-21
2.3.1 Back-to-Back Bench Testing...................................................................................................................2-21
2.4 Overview of Installation and Testing Process.............................................................................................2-22
2.5 Site Evaluation...............................................................................................................................................2-23
2.5.1 Preparing for a Site Evaluation................................................................................................................2-24
2.5.2 Site Evaluation Process............................................................................................................................2-25
2.5.3 Critical System Calculations....................................................................................................................2-27
2.5.4 Documenting a Site Evaluation ...............................................................................................................2-29
2.6 Installation of the Challenger L Digital Radio............................................................................................2-32
2.6.1 Installing the Challenger L IDU ..............................................................................................................2-32
2.6.2 Preparing for ODU Installation................................................................................................................2-33
2.6.3 Routing the ODU/IDU Interconnect Cable..............................................................................................2-35
2.6.4 Connecting the Challenger L IDU to the PC and Power Source .............................................................2-36
3 SUMMARY SPECIFICATION................................................................................................................3-1
4 FRONT PANEL CONNECTORS...........................................................................................................4-1

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4.1 DC Input (Power) Connector .........................................................................................................................4-1
4.2 Challenger L Ethernet 100BaseTX Payload Connector...............................................................................4-1
4.3 Challenger L STM-1 Payload Connector......................................................................................................4-2
4.4 Challenger L E-3 Payload Connector............................................................................................................4-2
4.5 NMS 10/100BaseTX Connector......................................................................................................................4-2
4.6 ODU Connector ...............................................................................................................................................4-5
4.7 E1- Channels 1-2 Connector...........................................................................................................................4-5
4.8 E1- Channels 3-16 Connector.........................................................................................................................4-6
5 SOFTWARE OPERATION ....................................................................................................................5-1
5.1 Interface Mode:................................................................................................................................................5-1
5.2 How to access Challenger L IDU....................................................................................................................5-1
5.2.1 Local Access..............................................................................................................................................5-1
5.2.2 Telnet Access.............................................................................................................................................5-2
5.3 Customer Interface..........................................................................................................................................5-3
5.3.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................5-3
5.3.2 Customer Interface.....................................................................................................................................5-6
6 APPENDIX.............................................................................................................................................6-1
6.1 Abbreviations & Acronyms............................................................................................................................6-1
6.2 Conversion Chart ............................................................................................................................................6-4

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1 System Description
1.1 About This Manual
This manual is written for those who are involved in the “hands-on” installation of the WNI Global
Digital Radio, such as installation technicians, site evaluators, project managers, and network
engineers. It assumes the reader has a basic understanding of how to install hardware, use
Windowsbased software, and operate test equipment.
1.2 Introduction
The Challenger L digital radios provide high capacity transmission, flexibility, features, and
convenience for wireless digital communications networks. The Challenger L series digital point-
to-point radios represent a new microwave architecture that is designed to address universal
applications for both PDH and SDH platforms. This advanced technology platform is designed to
provide the flexibility to customers for their current and future network needs.
The Challenger L series equipment is based upon a common platform to support a wide range of
network interfaces and configurations. It supports links for 16 x E1, E-3, 1/2 x 100BaseTX
Ethernet, and 1 x STM-1. The radio family is spectrum and data rate scalable, enabling service
providers or organizations to trade-off system gain with spectral efficiency and channel availability
for optimal network connectivity. Challenger L series digital radio enables network operators
(mobile and private), government and access service provides to offer a portfolio of secure,
scalable wireless applications for data, video, and Voice over IP (VoIP).
The Challenger L digital radio family is composed of a Challenger L Indoor Unit and Outdoor
Unit (ODU). The Challenger L IDU is designed to be frequency independent, and the ODU is
designed to be capacity independent. The Challenger L IDU allows selection for multiple
capacity options, modulation types, radio frequency channels and transmit output power
levels to accommodate and adhere to world-wide regulatory and spectral efficiency
requirements. The companion ODU, mounted outdoors, can support frequency bands from
7 to 38 GHz.
The Challenger L IDU supports 1+0 and 1+1 protection and ring architectures in a single 1
RU chassis. The modem and power supply functions are supported using easily replacable
plug-in modules. An additional feature of the Challenger L IDU is provision for a second
plug-in modem/IF module to provide repeater or east/west network configurations.
The Challenger L Digital Radio includes integrated Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and
Provisioning (OAM&P) functionality and design features enabling simple commissioning when the
radio network is initially set up in the field at the customer’s premises. Furthermore, a highlight of
Challenger L radio products is scalability and the capability to support a ring-type architecture.

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This ring or consecutive point radio architecture is self-healing in the event of an outage in the link
and automatically re-routes data traffic, thereby ensuring that service to the end user is not
interrupted.
The overall architecture consists of a single 1RU rack mount Challenger L Indoor Unit with a
cable connecting to an Outdoor Unit (ODU) with an external antenna.
Figure 1-1. Challenger L IDU/ODU Architecture
Table 1-1 lists key features that Challenger L technology offers to those involved in the design,
deployment and support of broadband fixed wireless networks.
Table 1-1. Key Benefits and Advantages of Challenger L Digital Radios
Benefits Advantages to Providers/Customers Reference
Challenger L Indoor Unit
Universal signal processing platform
Advanced Single Chip Modem ASIC
Integrated Forward Error Correction (FEC)
Powerful adaptive equalizer
Enables easy network interface options
and network capacity growth in the future.
Cost effective solution; simplifying product
logistics and overall product life cycle
costs. The flexibility reduces capital and
operating expenditures commonly
associated with field installation,
maintenance, training and spares.
Frequency independent and Scalable.
Software defined flexibility enables
selective modulation for spectral efficiency
and adherence to world-wide regulatory
emissions guidelines.
1.2 – 1.5
IDU
ODU
IF cable
Antenna
IDU
ODU
IF cable
Antenna

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Table 1-1. Challenger L Digital Radio Benefits and Advantages to Providers
(continued)
Benefits Advantages to Providers/Customers Reference
Easy to install units
Straightforward modular system enables
fast deployment and activation.
Carrier-class reliability.
Fast return on investment.
No monthly leased line fees.
2.1, 2.4, 2.6
Complete support of payload capacity with additional voice orderwire
Aggregate capacity beyond basic network
payload.
Scalable and spectrally efficient system.
Separate networks for radio
overhead/management and user payload.
Increases available bandwidth of network.
Allows customer full use of revenue-
generating payload channel.
Lowers total cost of ownership.
1.2 – 1.5
Ring Architecture
Supports a ring (consecutive point)
configuration, thus creating a self-healing
redundancy that is more reliable than
traditional point-to-point networks.
In the event of an outage, traffic is
automatically rerouted via another part of
the ring without service interruption.
Ring/consecutive point networks can
overcome line-of-sight issues and reach
more buildings than other traditional
wireless networks.
Networks can be expanded by adding
more Challenger L Digital Radios or more
rings without interruption of service.
A separate management channel allows
for a dedicated maintenance ring with
connections to each Challenger L Digital
Radio on the ring.
Enables network scalability.
Increases deployment scenarios for initial
deployment as well as network expansion
with reduced line-of-sight issues.
Increases network reliability due to self-
healing redundancy of the network.
Minimizes total cost of ownership and
maintenance of the network.
Allows for mass deployment.
1.6

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Table 1-1. Challenger L Digital Radio Benefits and Advantages to Providers
(continued)
Benefits Advantages to Providers/Customers Reference
Adaptive Power Control
Automatically adjusts transmit power in
discrete increments in response to RF
interference.
Enables dense deployment.
Simplifies deployment and network
management.
1.7
Comprehensive Link/Network Management Software
A graphical user interface offers security,
configuration, fault, and performance
management via standard craft interfaces.
Suite of SNMP-compatible network
management tools that provide robust
local and remote management capabilities.
Simplifies management of radio network
and minimizes resources as entire network
can be centrally managed out of any
location.
Simplifies troubleshooting of single radios,
links, or entire networks.
Simplifies network upgrades with remote
software upgrades.
Allows for mass deployment.
1.5, 1.8
1.3 System Features
 Selectable Rates and Interfaces
oPDH Options
Up to 32 x E1
 100BaseTX/Ethernet: Scalable 5-100 Mbps
 E-3
oSDH Options
 1 x SDH STM-1
Support for multiple configurations for both PDH and SDH
o1+0, 1+1 protection
oHot Standby

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oEast/West Repeater
 Selectable Spectral Efficiency of 0.8 to 6.25 bits/Hz (including FEC and spectral shaping
effects)
 QPSK, 16 –256 QAM Modulation
 Powerful Trellis Coded Modulation concatenated with Reed-Solomon Error Correction
 Built-in Adaptive Equalizer
Support of Voice Orderwire Channels
 Peak output power: +24 dBm (will vary with ODU and frequency plan)
 Receive Sensitivity: -70 dBm (or lower, depending on data rate/modulation/FEC/ODU)
Adaptive Power Control
 Built-in Network Management System (NMS)
Consecutive Point ring architecture
 Built-in Bit Error Rate (BER) performance monitoring
1.4 Physical Description
The following section details the physical features of the Challenger L digital radios
•Model Options
•Front and rear panel configurations
•LED descriptions

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1.4.1 Front Panel Indicators
All models of the Challenger L Digital Radios support a variety of front panel configurations that
are dependent on the network interface and capacity configurations.
Figure 1-2 provides an example of the PDH 8/12/16 E1 1+0 configuration and the associated
LEDs displayed on the Challenger L IDU front panel.
Figure 1-2. Challenger L IDU LEDs: Front Panel, 1+0 Configuration
1.4.2 Front Panel Connections
Please refer to the Figure 1-3 for an example of a Challenger L IDU front panel followed by a
descriptive text of the connections.
Figure 1-3. Challenger L IDU, 1+1 Protection: Front Panel Connections
Power/Fault LED
Power Input
Status LED
Status LED
Status LED
Power
Input
Redundant
Power
-
Supply
NMS Ethernet
ALARM/Serial
Interface (Optional)
Voice
Orderwire
Call Button &
Interface
Connection
Ethernet
Data
Connections
2xE1
Connections
8/16x E1
Connections
ODU
Connection
Redundant
MODEM
Power
Input
NMS Ethernet
Voice
Orderwire
Call Button &
Interface
Connection
Ethernet
Data
Connections
Connections
Connections
ODU
Connection
USB
STM-1
Connection
(Optional)