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XC- RP3 0 0

VDSL Repeater

Ow ner’s Manual

GDI COMMUNICATIONS LLC.

PO Box 130 Verdi, NV 89439

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Page 1: ...XC RP300 VDSL Repeater Owner s Manual GDI COMMUNICATIONS LLC PO Box 130 Verdi NV 89439 ...

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Page 3: ...ions LLC computer product or component thereof resulting from accident abuse or misapplication of the product and GDI Communications LLC assumes no liability as a consequence of such events under the terms of this Warranty GDI Communications LLC does not warrant the merchantability or fitness of this product for any particular purpose This limited warranty is in lieu of any and all other warrantie...

Page 4: ... CONNECTING POWER 6 CONNECTING TO MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 7 OPERATION 8 POWER UP 8 FRONT PANEL LED STATUS MONITORS 8 LED Description 9 CONFIGURING THE XC RP300 10 MANAGEMENT INTERFACE 12 MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION 14 CUSTOMER SERVICE 29 SERVICE AND UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS 29 APPENDIX A 30 SPECIFICATIONS 30 APPENDIX B 32 FACTORY REPLACEMENT PARTS AND ACCESSORIES 32 APPENDIX C 33 INTERFACE PIN ASSIGNMEN...

Page 5: ...RP300 can be installed at altitudes of up to 10 000 feet An XC RP300 repeater working together with an XC SLT1000 switch or XC LT300 and XC NT 300 point to point link can extend high speed communications by multiple links of over 12 000 feet POTS ISDN calls can be made over the VDSL link without data disturbance This manual has been designed to help you to install your XC RP300 repeater Just follo...

Page 6: ...ices to be attached as drop offs at the midpoint of the link By adding another XC RP300 the distance between the end points can be extended an additional 4 000 feet Figure 1 shows a typical application Figure 1 Typical application The XC NT300 is well suited to surveillance applications where cameras with digital output capability are placed in strategic locations for observation The information f...

Page 7: ...s 2 Connect the Ethernet interface refer to section titled Connecting the Switch Ethernet Interface on page 5 3 Connect the POTS Plain Old Telephone System interface to a telephone or telephone line refer to the section titled Connecting the POTS ISDN line on page 6 4 Connect the power plug refer to section titled Connecting Power on page 6 Figure 3 XC RP300 rear panel 3 Primary VDSLLine Console C...

Page 8: ...to a LT or VDSL Switch The secondary connection forwards the high speed connection to a NT type connection that can be an NT 300 or the Primary on another XC RP300 To function properly the units must be connected together using twisted pair unconditioned metal wire between 19 0 9mm and 26 AWG 0 4mm Leased circuits that run through signal equalization equipment are not acceptable The interface is b...

Page 9: ... configure the interface to support the connected equipment This automatic process is known as MDI MDX detection Typical connections are depicted in figures 5 and 6 below You may connect these ports to other Ethernet devices via a Cat 5 cable that is up to 150m 328ft long Figure 5 Typical LAN 10 100BaseT TX RJ 45 Connector Pin configuration for DTE Figure 6 Typical LAN 10 100BaseT TX RJ 45 Connect...

Page 10: ...e for the XC RP300 The XC RP300 is equipped with a power jack to accept external power The XC RP300 is supplied with an external AC cube style power supply Power to the XC RP300 is connected using the barrel jack on the rear panel No configuration is necessary at the power supply DC power must be regulated 5VDC 5 1 0A minimum The jack on the rear panel is center pin 5V outer ring Ground See figure...

Page 11: ...ure 10 Contact GDI Communications for availability The small switch located next to the console connector allows the user to connect to either the Primary PRI or the Secondary SEC management port Figure 9 Console connector CONSOLE ADAPTER CABLE Generic FM DA 9 Backshell 1 AMP TYCO 1445642 1 with 1604111 1 Strain Relief 1 N C 2 __________________________ 2 3 __________________________ 3 4 N C 5 ___...

Page 12: ...o an appropriate power source FRONT PANEL LED STATUS MONITORS The XC RP300 features front panel LEDs that monitor the power Ethernet signals and the VDSL Connection Figure 11 shows the panel locations of each LED Table 1 describes the LED functions Ethernet Switch Port Activity LEDs XC RP300 Figure 11 RP 330 Front panel LED location Ethernet Switch Access Ports Primary Activity ACT Secondary Activ...

Page 13: ...that the end to end VDSL link between the XC RP300 Secondary VDSL modem and an NT 300 or XC RP300 Primary port is established The VDSL LED is OFF when the link is down LAN Pri Active Green Solid Green indicates that Ethernet link has been established with the internal Ethernet Switch The LAN LED is OFF when the link is down LAN Sec Active Green Solid Green indicates that Ethernet link has been est...

Page 14: ...luminate Open the GUI by double clicking on the 10BaseS icon The Startup dialogue box will appear Select the COM port for your PC After the GUI comes up it will show the General Settings screen Select the Link Configuration tab It will show the present configuration in the selected modem From the Rate table select the new rate you want to configure From the table determine the Downstream DS Interp...

Page 15: ...12 5 14 128 1 79 12 5 12 64 1 94 12 5 10 32 2 15 16 67 12 256 1 94 Table 2 Downstream Rates Line Rate Mbps Interpolation QAM Center Frequency 0 78 64 4 4 20 1 04 48 4 4 26 1 17 64 8 4 20 1 56 64 16 4 20 1 56 48 8 4 26 1 56 32 4 4 39 2 08 24 4 4 52 2 08 48 16 4 26 2 34 64 64 4 20 2 34 32 8 4 39 3 13 64 256 4 20 3 13 48 64 4 26 3 13 32 16 4 39 3 13 24 8 4 52 3 13 16 4 4 78 4 17 48 256 4 26 4 17 24 1...

Page 16: ...refore a simple ASCII protocol has been implemented to access the internal control unit Please note that use of this programming protocol is completely optional and is by no means required for robust configuration and operation Table 4 shows the supported commands Opcode Field 1 Field 2 Notes WR Address Data Write data to address RD Address Data Read data from address OR Address Data OR data with ...

Page 17: ...contain the address of the remote register data to write to the remote register if required number of bytes to transfer and the message ID 3 The VOC operation has to be started by loading the MS_TXCMD register with the appropriate command e g read or write Once the internal processor sees a change in the MS_TXCMD register it sends the message over the VDSL link via the VOC 4 Poll MS_RXSTAT registe...

Page 18: ...oft reset of the modem After a soft reset the VDSL is held in reset state for 256 clocks Local Loop back Returns data from the TX port of the VDSL to the RX port of the VDSL The transmitted data to the line is not guaranteed when the local loop back is activated This feature is not supported on the far end modem since this would bring down the link Line Loop back Connects the output port of the VD...

Page 19: ...full duplex mode Note This setting is only valid in MII PHY mode In MII MAC mode the duplex mode is automatically set during auto negotiation or by activating the FORCE procedure described in the section in MAC Command Trigger FORCE MII Data Path Machine enabled The data path must always be enabled otherwise no payload data can be transmitted CRC Check enabled Enable or disable the CRC check Back ...

Page 20: ...hernet interface block in the VDSL Modem MAC Command Note These settings are only available in MII MAC mode Trigger Auto Negotiation Triggers Auto Negotiation with the advertising arguments given Note Depending on the Ethernet configuration of the system this procedure changes the Ethernet configuration registers adjusted in the General Settings page see the section General Settings Trigger FORCE ...

Page 21: ... disabled Back Pressure and Flow Control must be manually set Back pressure Method Select the back pressure method Figure 19 Ethernet Configuration Back pressure Control Append Append packet coming from the 10BaseS link into the transmit FIFO to the continuous preamble of any length IPG Insertion Insert IPG before generating a legal preamble for the packet that enters the transmit FIFO during back...

Page 22: ...set Pause Packet Handling discard PAUSE packets are discarded forward PAUSE packets are forwarded to the 10BaseS link Flow Control Start Level PAUSE packets are generated if less than the adjusted amount of free space is left in the receive FIFO Flow Control Stop Level Generation of PAUSE packets is stopped if more than the adjusted amount of free space is left in the receive FIFO Figure 20 Ethern...

Page 23: ...an address Age out all Age out all 32 addresses stored in the address table i e clear address table Source Address Control Fetch first Address Fetch first address from address table Fetch next Address Fetch next address from address table Automatic Aging Trigger If automatic address aging is selected the address t a b l e i s s c a n n e d a n d a g e d o u t automatically after every adjusted bit...

Page 24: ... The Ethernet PHY samples its address upon entry On the VDSL Modem the Ethernet PHY has the address 1 assignment SMI Register The SMI register of the Ethernet PHY must be specified in this register SMI Data The data in the 16bit SMI register is displayed or can be changed via these check boxes Read Access Read data from Ethernet PHY Write Access Write data to Ethernet PHY Figure 22 Ethernet Config...

Page 25: ...tellation and interpolation Figure 23 Link Configuration Page Line Rate is calculated as follows Line Rate Baud Rate N Mbps with Baud Rate fsample interpolation Symbols per second N log2 QAM size Bits per symbol Example Fcrystal 19 44 MHz QAM64 Interpolation 12 Baud Rate 19 44 MHz 12 1 62 Symbols per second N log2 64 6 Line Rate 1 62 Symbols per second 6 9 72 Mbps Note see Line Rate tables 2 and 3...

Page 26: ...d of the PBO process the NT transmits the minimum power required by the LT plus a 6 dB margin Power Spectral Density PSD With PBO disabled this field holds the transmit PSD level On an NT with PBO enabled a second field appears One field holds the maximum transmit PSD level the second field holds the minimum transmit PSD level Notch Filter In order to avoid interference with other systems RF amate...

Page 27: ...ation Page see Link Configuration section Full Constellation Link Indicates that the full constellation link is working and the modem can transmit and receive data Reduced Constellation Link The modem has synchronized in reduced constellation mode QAM4 only In this state the VDSL Operating Channel VOC is working and the VOC channel can be used to re configure the link TC Synchronized Indicates tha...

Page 28: ...ts the VDSL link failures since the first synchronization Constellation Display Page The constellation display page shown in Figure 25 displays the QAM constellation of the received signal in the complex domain Registers are read at one second intervals Figure 25 Constellation Display Page 24 ...

Page 29: ...hibited by exactly one collision Multiple Collisions Counts successfully transmitted frames for which transmission was inhibited by more than one collision Late Collisions The number of times that a collision was detected on a particular interface later than 512 bit times into the transmission of a packet Excessive Collisions Number of frames for which transmission failed due to excessive collisio...

Page 30: ...supports the following commands also in lower case For some examples please refer to the Protocol on the Serial Host Interface RD 8 C RD 8 C WR 8C OR 8C ND 8C Clear Clears the terminal display buffer Start Logging Saves the current terminal session to file Close Closes Terminal Window Figure 28 Terminal Window Figure 29 Bottom Tool Bar Set to Default Dialog The set to default dialog resets the loc...

Page 31: ...VOC and then the registers in the local modem If no VDSL link is established the changes are only applied to the local modem Pressing CANCEL closes the box without changes Error Hardware does not respond If on startup an error is reported by the pop up box shown in Figure 31 please proceed as follows 1 Make sure that the serial connection between the modem and PC is OK 2 Make sure that the modem i...

Page 32: ...Default Dialog section 4 Connect the other VDSL Modem to the PC restart the VDSL Bridge Manager and press the SET TO DEFAULT button 5 A VDSL link will be re established Figure 32 Error Message No Answer from Remote Modem Error COM port not accessible If the Bridge Manager indicates that the selected COM port is not accessible see Figure 33 please make sure that no other application e g HyperTermin...

Page 33: ...special instructions During the first year after the date of purchase all labor and materials will be provided without charge There shall be no warranty for either parts or labor after the expiration of one year from the date of purchase or if in GDI Communications s sole discretion the product has been deemed to be modified or abused Units must be returned postage prepaid CODs cannot be accepted ...

Page 34: ...Green Primary and Secondary Modem VDSL Sync Green Primary and Secondary Modem Ethernet Good Link Green Primary and Secondary Modem Activity Yellow Switch Ethernet Good Link and Activity Green POWER SUPPLY AC Power Internal AC power 100 240 VAC 47 63Hz 150 mA DC Power External AC power cube 90 to 240 VAC 47 to 63Hz 2 Watt OPERATING ENVIRONMENT TEMPERATURE RANGE 40 C to 74 C HUMIDITY Up to 95 non co...

Page 35: ...ation Technology Equipment Safety Part 1 General Requirements CAN CSA C22 2 No 601 1 M90 Medical Electrical Equipment Part 1 General Requirements for Safety and Collateral Standard Safety Requirements for Medical Electrical Systems CAN CSA C22 2 No 60950 1 03 Information Technology Equipment Safety Part 1 General Requirements EN 55011 Conducted and Radiated Emissions EN 61000 3 Harmonics and Flick...

Page 36: ...VDSL Modem voice data XC NT300 Hardened VDSL Modem voice data XC300 Hardened VDSL MODEM SET Kit includes one LT 300 and one NT 300 voice data RPPS 90 240VAC 5V reg DC 6A power cube NTPS 90 240VAC 5V reg DC 1A power cube Console Adapter 12 Adapter cable from Tyco 7 pin to 9 pin D Sub connector IFC VDSL ATT 100 telephone line simulator Table 4 Replacement parts and accessories 32 ...

Page 37: ...o connection PHONE POTS ISDN INTERFACE RJ 11 Pin 2 2 wire RING Pin 3 2 wire TIP Pins 1 4 no connection POWER JACK AC power 3 pin IEC DC power Center pin regulated 5VDC 5 1 0A minimum Outer ring Common or Ground CONSOLE PLUG REAR PANEL Pin 2 TX Pin 3 RX Pin 4 GND Pins 1 5 7 no connection ADAPTER CABLE FOR CONSOLE WITH DB 9 PLUG DB9 Connector Console connector Pin 1 no connection Pin 2 TX Pin 2 TX P...

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