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Copyright © 2018 InCoax Networks AB. All rights reserved. 

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Confidential under NDA 

Table 5

 — Description of parameters for Modem - Details. 

Term 

Value

 

Definition 

MAC 

 

Displays the 

Modem’s

 MAC address. 

COAX 

1 to 4 

Displays which coax port the 

Modem

 is connected to. 

LOCATION 

 

Displays the text (string) entered under Location earlier.  
See 

Table 3

 and 

Figure 7

. 

VLAN 

1 - 4095 

Displays which VLAN the 

Modem

 is connected to. 

S 

Green/Red 

S = Status.  

Green

 means that there is a coax link connection.  

Red

 means no coax link connection. 

LQ 

0 - 100%/0 - 100% 

Link quality (RX at 

Modem

 / RX at 

Controller

) shows how much of the 

optimal link symbol encoding that can be achieved between the 

Modem

 and the 

Controller

. 

RX PWR 

 

RX Power dBm (RX PWR at 

Controller

 / RX PWR at 

Modem

). 

CAM UPTIME 

 

Coax Access Modem

 (CAM) uptime in days:hours:minutes. 

LINK UPTIME 

 

Link uptime in days:hours:minutes. 

RX ERR 

 

Share of erroneous Ethernet frames that has been dropped in percent. 

MHz 

 

The centre frequency the 

Access

 

Modem

 is to operate on. 

VERSION 

 

Software version. 

3.3.3.5

 

Firmware 

The 

Modems

 can be upgraded with the firmware that is included in the 

Controller

 software package. In the 

main menu, hover over 

MODEMS

 and click on 

FIRMWARE

. The displayed web page is shown in 

Figure 13

. 

Choose the firmware version to upgrade to, then choose any online 

Modem

(s) that shall be upgraded and click 

on the button 

Apply

. The symbol 

 under 

PENDING

 will appear as long as the update is progressing. It 

will disappear when the update has finished for each 

Modem

. 

 

 

Figure 13

 — Modem firmware. 

3.3.3.6

 

Modem Statistics 

Modem

 statistics will show the number of packets per second (RX/TX) on both ethernet ports and the coax 

port. Data can also be downloaded in 

csv

 format by clicking on the “csv-link” just above the first diagram. See 

Figure 14

. 

–

 

Hover over 

MODEMS

 in the main menu and click on 

OVERVIEW.

 Then click on the 

STAT

 symbol 

 for the 

Modem

 that is of interest. 

–

 

Or, hover over 

STATISTICS

 in the main menu and click on 

CAM STATISTICS

 or click on the 

CAM MAC

 

(address). See 

Figure 33

. (Please note that CAM is an abbreviation of 

Coax Access Modem

.) 

3.3.4

 

Edit the Configuration of a Modem 

If you click on the MAC address for one of the 

Modems

 on the web page 

MODEMS - OVERVIEW

 (see 

Figure 6

) 

you will be redirected to the web page 

MODEMS - EDIT MODEM

. All of the settings in 

section

 3.3.2 

and its 

subsections, can be edited, except for the MAC address. 

 

Summary of Contents for In:xtnd

Page 1: ...Copyright 2019 InCoax Networks AB All rights reserved Confidential under NDA User Manual In xtnd Control MA2 5 4 ...

Page 2: ...2 Carl Elofsson Inx tnd system release Version 1 0NC Approval 2019 06 07 V1 5 Jesper Cederholm Inx tnd system release Version 1 1 2019 06 18 V1 4_b16 Johan Sandström Additions and corrections 2019 06 25 V1 4_b17 Claes Levinsson Additions and corrections 2019 06 26 V1 4_b18 Mikael Ovesson Additions and corrections 2019 06 27 V1 4_b19 Claes Levinsson Additions and corrections 2019 06 27 Rev A Claes ...

Page 3: ...s and Permissions 8 3 Web Interface 10 3 1 Overview 10 3 2 Home 10 3 3 Modems 11 3 3 1 Overview 11 3 3 2 General Data Protection Regulation 11 3 3 3 Adding and Configuring Modems 11 3 3 3 1 Adding Modems Manually 12 3 3 3 2 Adding Modems Automatically 14 3 3 3 3 Service 14 3 3 3 3 1 Adding a New Service to a Modem 14 3 3 3 4 Modem Details 15 3 3 3 5 Firmware 17 3 3 3 6 Modem Statistics 17 3 3 4 Ed...

Page 4: ...ettings 31 3 7 5 DNS Settings 32 3 7 6 Management System Settings 32 3 7 7 Basic 33 3 7 8 SSL 34 3 7 9 Import Export 35 3 7 10 Firmware 35 4 Specifications 36 5 Legal Information 38 5 1 Regulatory Notice and Statement Class A 38 5 1 1 United States of America 38 5 1 2 Canada 38 5 1 3 European Union 38 6 Disposal of Equipment 39 6 1 For Business Users in the European Union 39 6 2 Disposal in Countr...

Page 5: ... locations subject to high humidity or dust levels as this may cause damage to the equipment or start a fire Do not do anything that may damage the power cable When disconnecting the power cable pull on the plug body not the cable Do not damage a power cable make any modifications to it place heavy objects on top of it heat it place it near any hot objects twist it bend it excessively or pull it T...

Page 6: ... operating ranges See section 4 for the actual temperature ranges Install the Controller on a sturdy level surface that can support at least 5 kg 11 lbs of weight Leave at least 10 cm 4 inches of space at the front for the coax cables Connect a 75 ohm terminator F connector in all coax ports that are not used on the Controller Storage Environment The ideal storage location is a dry and well ventil...

Page 7: ...ax Access Modem This device will be referred to as the Access Modem or just the Modem in this document CATV Cable TV CLC Coax Link Controller It will be referred to as the Controller in this document C VLAN Customer VLAN is the VLAN that the customer uses or sees the inner tag CVLAN is the VLAN tag the customer is using on their own devices See QinQ DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol an auto...

Page 8: ...t is being sent between two systems including potential personal details S VLAN Service VLAN is the VLAN that the service provider network sees the outer Q tag SVLAN is the VLAN the service provider puts all the customer traffic in See QinQ TCP IP Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol architecture for data communication over networks ToS Type of Service Trunk The Trunk is the uplink port...

Page 9: ...d items as shown in Table 1 The images are illustrations and may differ from the real items Table 1 Contents of the package Product Item Description Item picture Controller Broadband over coax access node capable of 2 5 Gbps per RF port a total of 10 Gbps Mounting handles Mounting handles for wall mount 4 pcs Quick Guide Quick Guide ...

Page 10: ...ed by the Management System can be accessed by any other provisioning system or Operating Support System through a SOAP XML interface Figure 1 Overview of the Management System 1 2 The In xtnd Manage MA2 5 The Management System is a software package installed in a Linux environment It manages the Controllers and Modems The Management System automatically detects new Modems and manages the mapping ...

Page 11: ...four queues broadcast and multicast Quality of Service QoS prioritization between unicast and broadcast multicast and classification Unicast QoS can be set individually for each Modem 1 6 The In xtnd Basic Product Connection Figure 2 shows an example of the in building connections for the basic products Figure 2 Overview of the in building connections ...

Page 12: ...68 144 254 but not the same as the default IP address and Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 3 Open your web browser and go to the URL https 192 168 144 20 The web page in Figure 4 will be displayed Input the following to log in a Default Username incoax b Default Password incoax Figure 3 The front of the Controller Figure 4 The login page 2 2 User Levels and Permissions There are two different user levels...

Page 13: ...ons View Users View SOAP Configurations Add edit delete Modem Add edit delete Service Upgrade Modem Firmware Add edit delete Multicast Groups Edit Coax Ports Add edit delete Service VLAN Edit Service and QoS Edit Priorities Edit Advance Settings Use Ping and Traceroute Tools View Hardware Download Logs View Settings Add edit delete Settings Add edit delete Network Settings Modify Users Modify Own ...

Page 14: ... see the Home tab 2 To edit the Basic Settings click on the symbol in the same box 3 To edit the LAN Settings click on the symbol in the same box 4 To edit the Management VLAN Settings click on the symbol in the same box The following information can be found on the HOME tab The box InCoax CLC contains information about the hardware type software version and MAC address that are valid for the spec...

Page 15: ...er STATUS the Modems will be sorted according to their status green red If you click once more the sorting will be reversed If the status is green you can click on the status indicator and some useful information will be displayed e g configuration parameters and uptime MHz displays the frequency set during the configuration of the Modem See Figure 8 and Table 3 for more information SET please not...

Page 16: ... The MAC address can be found on the product label placed on the Modem 5 In the Service QoS as seen in Figure 8 set the MoCA band and frequency to the same values as the coax port This is to ensure that the Modem can establish a link to the intended coax port 6 Configure other relevant parameters like VLAN priorities etc 7 Click on the button Add modem to add this Modem 8 Connect the Modem to the ...

Page 17: ...evel when automatic power control is enabled Each reduction in the index is a 3dB reduction in the transmit power level When using the Power Amplifier PA PA On in the Controller the MoCA chip needs to back off to avoid saturation of the PA so the max TX Power should be set to 8 or less to avoid saturation of the PA When NOT using the Power Amplifier PA PA Off in the Controller max TX Power should ...

Page 18: ...o be true if the default settings for the Modems are wrong 1 Set Service default in the Controller 2 In the main menu hover over MODEMS and click on SERVICES 3 Click on the name default in the column SERVICE in the displayed table See Figure 9 4 Set the desired default settings 5 Connect the power to the Modem s 6 The Modem s will soon be found by the Controller and will be correctly associated Fi...

Page 19: ...3 3 4 Modem Details To get access to more details about the Modem go to the main menu hover over MODEMS and click on DETAILS A web page as shown in Figure 12 will be displayed This contains some statistical data from the Modems See Table 5 for more details Sorting of the listed Modems can be done for the headers MAC COAX LOCATION S CAM UPTIME and VERSION Figure 12 Modem Details ...

Page 20: ...Each reduction in the index is a 3 dB reduction in the transmit power level Power Control Rate 0 2048 Mbps 680 This parameter is the required physical bit rate that will be targeted in the automatic power control mode PA Attenuation Off Off Amplified output and or attenuated input Default Off Off US Speed limit 0 Max upstream traffic from Modem MoCA Band A D Choose frequency range Options A A A B ...

Page 21: ...ncluded in the Controller software package In the main menu hover over MODEMS and click on FIRMWARE The displayed web page is shown in Figure 13 Choose the firmware version to upgrade to then choose any online Modem s that shall be upgraded and click on the button Apply The symbol under PENDING will appear as long as the update is progressing It will disappear when the update has finished for each...

Page 22: ...verview 3 4 2 Multicast Each multicast group that is distributed to one or more Modems over the coaxial network will consume an amount of traffic equal to sending the traffic to a single Modem Each multicast group can also be configured to reserve bandwidth In the main menu hover over MANAGEMENT and click on MULTICAST The web page is shown in Figure 16 On this web page you can delete an IP address...

Page 23: ...ew multicast group Reset Click to discard the settings 3 4 2 2 Edit a Multicast Group To edit one of the Multicast groups you can click on the IP address and you will be redirected to a page similar to the one in Figure 18 Here you can edit all of the parameters found in Table 6 except the IP address Click on the button Apply to save the settings Figure 18 Edit Multicast Group 3 4 3 Port Settings ...

Page 24: ... 2 5 Gbps mode The setting is intended to be used with 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP modules and 10 Gbps XG S PON ONT ONU that support 10 Gbps Ethernet TRUNK 1G COAX 4 1G sets the Trunk port to work in 1 Gbps mode and the Coax ports to run in 1 Gbps mode The setting is intended to be used with 1 Gbps Ethernet SFP modules and 1 Gbps GPON ONT ONU that support 1 Gbps Ethernet The reason for setting the Coax p...

Page 25: ...interfering with other analogue devices is reduced due to overall lower transmit power levels Power control is enabled when the checkbox is checked Power Control Rate 0 2048 Mbps 680 This parameter is the required physical bit rate that will be targeted in the automatic power control mode The max output power is still regulated by the Power parameter The default value is 680 Apply Click to apply t...

Page 26: ...RID field in DHCP option 82 PPPoE Enabled Yes No If PPPoE is enabled all upstream PPPoE frames will have the Vendor specific option 0x105 added with Remote ID set to the value that is configured in the field DHCP OPT82 PPPoE ID of the Access Modem configuration Multicast VLAN Yes No Broadcasts the IGMP queries to all configured VLANS i e Multicast VLAN Registration MVR MVLAN is configured on this ...

Page 27: ...ard the settings 3 4 5 Service QoS Every Modem can have up to four queues for unicast traffic The Controller has a bit rate up to 2 5 Gbps per coaxial port 500 Mbps per 100 MHz channel The sum of the guaranteed bit rate for all queues and all Modems on one channel cannot exceed the link s bit rate One Modem can have a higher guaranteed bit rate in one or more queues than other Modems on the same l...

Page 28: ...id Blank Same as for the OPT82 Circuit ID above Only allow DHCP clients On Off Allow only clients with DHCP obtained IP addresses Clients with fixed IP addresses will be blocked Arp limit time 0 The time limit in seconds for ARP DHCP and IGMP packets In conjunction with the Number parameter below The default is 0 and it means unlimited Number 0 Number of ARP DHCP and IGMP packets allowed during th...

Page 29: ... Traffic Class Mapping VLAN Priority in VLAN tagged frames can be remarked with a new priority under the Inbound P bit mapping heading IP packets with ToS field value can be mapped and remarked with a VLAN Priority according to the settings under Enable ToS Priority 0 to 7 In the main menu hover over MANAGEMENT and click on PRIORITY More information can be found in Figure 27 and Table 12 Click on ...

Page 30: ...the column to the left Priority n max n 0 7 0x0 0xff The higher limit of the ToS field see above for Priority n Inbound Priority Mapping Inbound Traffic class mapping Internal P bit N 0 7 Traffic class Q0 Q3 The VLAN Prio value is mapped to the queue to which the packet shall be transferred Inbound P bit mapping External P bit N 0 7 Internal P bit 0 7 Remarking of incoming packets VLAN Prio value ...

Page 31: ...city for that Modem will be 1000 20 20 960 Mbps No other Modems are affected only the ones that have clients that have joined multicast groups This configuration operation will require a reboot of the Controller 3 4 8 Reboot Controller In the menu bar on the right hand side click on the symbol to Reboot Click on the button Reboot on the displayed web page as shown in Figure 29 only if you are abso...

Page 32: ...re any data will be shown 1 In the main menu hover over STATISTICS and click on a CLC STATISTICS for the Controller see Figure 32 i Displays the traffic per coax port as RX TX in Mbps ii Hover over graph click hold drag release to zoom in on a selected area iii The Guaranteed Rate Down Up is total guaranteed speed for the Modem b CAM STATISTICS for the Modem see Figure 33 i RX TX traffic per Modem...

Page 33: ...igure 33 Modem Statistics RX TX traffic per Modem port number of packets and packets per second Figure 34 Modem statistics graph RX TX packets per second Figure 35 Controller Status Live statistics from the chipsets in the Controller Figure 36 Port spectrum analysis for a coax port ...

Page 34: ...RS in the drop down list Click on ADD USER at the right side in the Options menu See Figure 38 and the description of the parameters is found in Table 14 Fill in the Username and Password which is mandatory and select the correct User level for the user The Company field is optional Click on the button Add user to add the user Figure 38 Add user Table 14 Description of the parameters for Add User ...

Page 35: ...de if static Used in conjunction with the network mask and gateway fields as described below Subnet mask User defined network mask The network mask used in conjunction with the node s IP address Management VLAN Settings SOAP Server Management VLAN On Off Enable or disable access to the Controller through a tagged VLAN Check the checkbox to enable VLAN ID 1 4095 VLAN ID used in combination with Man...

Page 36: ...selected offset is zero 0 then it does not matter if the sign is or Click on the button Update to save the settings The time is displayed in the footer of every page of the web GUI Figure 40 Date and Time settings 3 7 5 DNS Settings Go to the DNS settings by hover over SETTINGS and click on DNS Figure 41 shows the web page and the descriptions of the parameters are found in Table 16 Figure 41 DNS ...

Page 37: ...IP address of Management System Username Text string Management System SOAP username Password Text string Management System SOAP password CLM SSL Mark to enable SSL Port Specify the port on the computer Update Click to save the new configuration Cancel Click to cancel the changes and revert back to the previously saved configuration Write CLC config to CLM Write config Click to send the new Contro...

Page 38: ...d technology for keeping an internet connection secure and safeguarding any sensitive data that is being sent between two systems including potential personal details Hover over SETTINGS and click on SSL to show the web page in Figure 44 The description of the parameters is found in Table 19 Figure 44 Settings SSL Table 19 Description of the parameters of the SSL settings Term Value Definition Ena...

Page 39: ...ontroller settings to a backup file Import settings Select file Select the file containing the desired information Upload file Click to confirm 3 7 10 Firmware This is used to roll back to a previous firmware version or to upload a new firmware To show the web page hover over SETTINGS and click on IMPORT EXPORT The web page in Figure 46 will be shown and the description of the parameters is found ...

Page 40: ...port Multi Source Agreement MSA compliant SERDES 10 Gbps data rate SFF8472 Diagnostics interface a 1 Management Ethernet port 10 100 Mbps configuration and statistics port RJ 45 connector supports type CAT5 UTP as a minimum F female connector 3 8 UNEF32 75 Ω Indicators Power on Management Trunk Coax Link traffic and alerts Dimensions 278 61 224 mm W H D Prepared for 19 rack chassis installation Ha...

Page 41: ...e options per VLAN Blocking of unknown CPE Broadcast storm protection from clients Support for PPPoE IA option 0x105 Remote ID Multicast IGMP snooping v1 v2 and v3 partially IGMP filtering per VLAN Configurable IGMP timeout Multicast VLAN Registration Bandwidth reservation per multicast group QoS Traffic classification Mapping and remarking Congestion management Strict priority four separate queue...

Page 42: ...equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at the user s own expense 5 1 2 Canada The followin...

Page 43: ... with general household waste but taken to a designated collection site as indicated by the local authorities In accordance with national legislation and the WEEE Directives 2002 96 EC and 2012 19 EU and the Battery Directive 2006 66 EC amended by 2013 56 EU For more information about collection and recycling of old products and batteries please contact your local municipality your waste disposal ...

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