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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1-1

Overview VSAT Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 1-2

Overview Design and Engineering Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 2-1

Carrier Design Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 2-2

Sky

WAN

Networking at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Figure 2-3

Voice over

Sky

WAN

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Figure 2-4

Network Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Figure 2-5

Data Reception Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 2-6

Master - Slave Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 2-7

Active and Backup Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Figure 2-8

TDMA Frame Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 2-9

Tx Frequency Hopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 2-10

Data Slot Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure 2-11

TDMA Superframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 2-12

Two Uplink Populations with Cross-Strapped Transponder . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 2-13

MRB-DUB Frame of a 3 Carrier Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2-14

NFB-DUB Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2-15

Capacity Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 2-16

Free Slot Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 2-17

Slot Assignment with Ranging Subframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 2-18

Slot Assignment Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 2-19

TDMA Structure of Throughput Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 2-20

Throughput Scenario 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 2-21

Throughput Scenario 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Figure 2-22

Throughput Scenario 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Figure 2-23

Throughput Scenario 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 2-24

Traffic Estimation Scenario IP Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 2-25

Traffic Estimation Scenario Fame RelayTraffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 2-26

Traffic Calculation Example - Capacity Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 2-27

Per Network Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 2-28

Traffic Calculation Example - Erlang B Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 2-29

Traffic Calculation Example - Voice Traffic Flow Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 2-30

Traffic Calculation Example - Carrier Configuration Worksheet . . . . . . . . 48

Figure 2-31

Traffic Calculation Example - Carrier Config. with Network Traffic . . . . . . 49

Figure 2-32

SLL Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 2-33

Gross Container Information Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 2-34

Add Turbo-Phi Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 2-35

Modulated Gross Container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Figure 2-36

Signalling Time Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Summary of Contents for SKYWAN IDU 7000

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Page 3: ...ngineering Guide SkyWAN Indoor Unit IDU 7000 Software Rel 7 11 IDU 2570 Software Rel 7 11 IDU 2070 Software Rel 7 11 Document Number OM2044E_9400711 Document Revision B Revision Date 2010 10 26 IDU 10...

Page 4: ...D SatCom Product GmbH hereafter referred to as ND SatCom which reserves all rights This document or parts of it may not be reproduced duplicated or distributed to third parties Nor may their content b...

Page 5: ...2 Action objective after finish ing action steps Action Items are used to direct the user to execute the steps in the giv en order for a successful completion of the action fulfilled precondition for...

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Page 7: ...Networking Overview 20 Voice connections 21 Voice Codecs 22 2 3 Essential SkyWAN Satellite Link Layer Features 23 2 3 1 SkyWAN Network Topologies 23 Reception Modes 24 2 3 2 Master and Slave Function...

Page 8: ...l Data Input 57 2 6 1 1 Parameter Summary 58 2 6 2 Section Data Input per Frequency Channel 59 2 6 2 1 Parameter Summary 60 2 6 3 Area General Data Output 62 2 6 3 1 Parameter Summary 62 2 6 4 Area Da...

Page 9: ...ta 88 Specify Network Data 88 Output Back Off 89 Stations with 2 Demodulator Boards 90 3 5 4 Tx Amplifier Worksheet 91 3 5 5 Summary Worksheet 92 Input 92 Output 93 Optional Link Filter for Complex To...

Page 10: ...4 2 9 Robust Header Compression 122 4 2 10 Transmission Control Protocol Acceleration TCP A 123 4 3 SkyWAN Frame Relay Networking Features 125 4 3 1 Serial port properties 125 4 3 2 Basic Frame Relay...

Page 11: ...between Modulation Coding and Carrier PEB 79 Table 3 4 Output Back Off SSPA 90 Table 3 5 Scenarion 1 2 Carrier Solution Requirements 101 Table 3 6 Scenario 1 Carrier Coding and Bandwidth 102 Table 3 7...

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Page 13: ...lot Assignment with Ranging Subframe 34 Figure 2 18 Slot Assignment Differences 35 Figure 2 19 TDMA Structure of Throughput Example 36 Figure 2 20 Throughput Scenario 1 37 Figure 2 21 Throughput Scena...

Page 14: ...ons 83 Figure 3 10 Uplink Considerations 84 Figure 3 11 Link Budget Tool Satellite Data Worksheet s 86 Figure 3 12 Link Budget Tool Antenna Data Worksheet s 87 Figure 3 13 Link Budget Tool C Band Ante...

Page 15: ...col Stack IDU 7000 series 109 Figure 4 2 SkyWAN IP Protocol Stack IDU 1070 110 Figure 4 3 SkyWAN Meshed IP Data and Management Network 111 Figure 4 4 SkyWAN Hybrid IP Data and Management Network 112 F...

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Page 17: ...neered for customer premisses Figure 1 1 Overview VSAT Station 1 2 Manual Content This SkyWAN Network Design and Engineering Guide provides information about how to de sign and engineer a SkyWAN Satel...

Page 18: ...es A detailed description of the SkyWAN support of Data Networking Protocols TCP IP and Frame Relay will be given Implication for typical applications and services will be dis cussed Information for i...

Page 19: ...n via Frame Relay and or IP GSM backhaul solutions SNMP based network management system L Band transmit and receive interface between indoor unit IDU and outdoor unit ODU SkyWAN Technology offers the...

Page 20: ...ions a new design phase is required Customer Input which is required as a starting point for the design typically consists of the fol lowing information Description of applications and utilisation sce...

Page 21: ...effi cient setup of configuration to install and commission a SkyWAN IDU station SkyWAN IDU 7000 1070 Series Station Com missioning Manual Describes how to assemble in stall and commission a Sky WAN...

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Page 23: ...help of the ND SatCom TDMA Calculator tool Consider the resulting effects of the design approach to network efficiency network behavior and future expansions The original plain requirements refer to s...

Page 24: ...ethernet port interface 1 SkyWAN supports the Internet Protocol IP routing functionality On the serial ports 2 5 interfaces 2 5 the Frame Relay FR switch ing functionality is supported a Both types o...

Page 25: ...of the used voice codec typically in the range 6 64 kbps and the additional overhead due to the applied network protocol In SkyWAN networks two different network technologies are used Voice over IP u...

Page 26: ...e 2 1 IP Voice Call Data Rates Table 2 2 Frame Relay Voice Call Data Rates Codec Codec Bit Rate bps Voice Payload byte Bit Rate Ethernet bps IP Bit Rate w o RoHC bps IP Bit Rate incl SLL encaps bps Ro...

Page 27: ...brid topologies In a hy brid topology a part of the network may be fully meshed while some stations may only have star connectivity Or a multi star topology may be configured where the star terminals...

Page 28: ...sented in the figure would need an RDR license whereas the star terminals could run with the default Limited Data Re ception LDR license The LDR license would still be sufficient if the star terminals...

Page 29: ...enerator FPG board Satellite link requirement The master station must be able to reach each other station in the network over a satellite link with sufficient quality In a star or hybrid network this...

Page 30: ...mended to configure two stations to be potential master stations Both sta tions have to fulfil the master station requirements mentioned before The station which enters the network first will become a...

Page 31: ...rrier channel 1 The TDMA frame starts with a time slot furthermore notated as slot which is allocated to the active mas ter to transmit the reference burst The following slot is assigned to slave stat...

Page 32: ...nfiguration and are referred to as Home Channel One and Home Channel Two SkyWAN stations can transmit data on any active carrier in the network frequency or carrier hopping By configuration the possib...

Page 33: ...equest capacity on the home channel s of the receiving station if it is not already allocat ed Use the allocated time slot to transfer the data to the destination Data Slot Time Factors Base time slot...

Page 34: ...eded for the request bursts 2 3 4 Downlink and Uplink Populations SkyWAN stations within a network can be grouped according to the carrier on which they re ceive the reference burst from the master an...

Page 35: ...n carrier 1 only Symbolrate mod ulation and coding may be set differently on each carrier A graphical representation of the frame structure has been given in the section MF TDMA Functionality refer to...

Page 36: ...r 2 for ranging and request bursts If only one uplink population exists in the network carrier 2 will not be defined The following restrictions apply Only one master station is possible no backup mast...

Page 37: ...ovides transmit queues With these queues data to be send via satellite is treated differently regarding priority measures 1 Highest priority Real Time RT user data 2 Less priority Control data interna...

Page 38: ...ned for this purpose If there are no unregistered stations in the network ranging slots can be allocated as dynamic data slots The size of the ranging section depends on the timeslot duration typicall...

Page 39: ...on This makes sense if one wants to avoid the situation that high priority real time traffic is occupying 100 of the available slots on a carrier thus disrupting non real time application for an indef...

Page 40: ...g slots from the common pool if its private pool is already exhausted Oversubscription with guaranteed throughput definitions is not allowed That means that for every carrier the sum of guaranteed slo...

Page 41: ...yWAN FAD real time service should be ac tive between the stations Figure 2 20 Throughput Scenario 1 Effect Due to the defined guarantee for both stations the 6 dynamic slots needed for the PC applica...

Page 42: ...used for the PC application 10 out of 12 available stream slots are already consumed by this application If there are in addition two parallel voice calls between IDU1 and IDU2 all available stream s...

Page 43: ...cause the required 5 slots for each station are still available in the private pool If how ever an additional voice call is set up between the stations the additional streaming slot again must be take...

Page 44: ...y additional streaming slot request from these stations would be rejected by the master even if there are still available slots in the common streaming pool Other stations could use this capacity for...

Page 45: ...raffic IP or Frame Relay Voice traffic served by analog or digital SkyWAN FAD interfaces or VoIP systems For the purpose of traffic estimation it makes no difference if the traffic is based on the IP...

Page 46: ...consisting of 50 stations Four different station groups station types are defined head offices big sites medium sites and small sites In figure 2 24 the non real time traffic flow between stations of...

Page 47: ...mple account for only a small fraction of the network traffic they can be neglected in the estimation of the network traffic The next step is to summarize the traffic requirements to derive the user t...

Page 48: ...lds in this spreadsheet are indicated by a grey background The following picture presents a work sheet filled with data from the example presented in this section Figure 2 26 Traffic Calculation Examp...

Page 49: ...real time capacity for the type 4 stations not to individual stations but to the whole network as it is displayed in the following picture Figure 2 27 Per Network Traffic Erlang B Calculation Workshee...

Page 50: ...ut header compression are already predefined in the sheet If an other codec should be used the data rate for a Custom Codec may be defined in the lookup table Note that the data rate must include the...

Page 51: ...tations of a specific type The following picture represents that sheet filled with data from our network example Figure 2 29 Traffic Calculation Example Voice Traffic Flow Worksheet The input values i...

Page 52: ...ative reasons the master stations must be located at the head offices There fore both stations of type 1 must be assigned to carrier 1 To create a 2 carrier solution with almost equally sized carriers...

Page 53: ...y 256 kbps In that situation it may be more optimal to leave all small sites on one common carrier even if this leads to larger differences in data rates The last worksheet TDMA Calc Input is used to...

Page 54: ...s If the hub station could not support the additional bandwidth due to power limitations one might be tempted to increase the network capacity by adding an additional carrier instead i e having a carr...

Page 55: ...g a LAN packet over satellite 1 On reception of an Ethernet packet on the LAN port the SkyWAN IDU will first strip the Ethernet header The SkyWAN IDU operates as an IP router therefore Ethernet infor...

Page 56: ...uirement for the carrier Figure 2 34 Add Turbo Phi Coding 4 The result of step 3 is a coded gross container which includes the error correction bits This information is transported over the satellite...

Page 57: ...a brief period after a network restart once all stations are registered again at the active master these slots may be allocated as user traffic slots Figure 2 36 Signalling Time Slots 7 At this point...

Page 58: ...For each step the additional overhead is specified explicitly Note the two different defini tions of data rates User data rate The data rate of user traffic received on the terrestrial interfaces LAN...

Page 59: ...e exported and copied into the relevant configuration profile parameter A menu bar is available for exiting the application export and import to from a file and to show via and About entry the toolrel...

Page 60: ...nd on the right the section Data Input per Frequency Channel Detailed descriptions for the particular fields are given in chapter 2 6 1 and chapter 2 6 2 For each channel input data can be specified s...

Page 61: ...s selected to 2 a DUB mode is specified In this case additional input fields will appear refer to figure 2 40 The input field Size of UL population 1 defines the number of stations in the network Figu...

Page 62: ...t 2 if a cross strapped satellite transponder is used Dual Uplink Mode DUB a second ULP has to be defined using carrier 2 Masterstation with self recep tion MRB and MRB DUB mode both require a master...

Page 63: ...specified There are 6 different traffic types possible 1 FR Voice Frame Relay Voice Voice over SkyWAN FAD Select the appropiate Codec or protocol used 2 FR Realtime Frame Relay Real time 3 FR Non Rea...

Page 64: ...ot sizes In combo box Time slot sizing ruled by choose 1 for slot size optimization depending on Frame Relay Voice traffic type 1 FR Voice If this option is selected the TDMA calculator defines the ba...

Page 65: ...ype in the average packet size in byte of Real time Frame Relay traffic 2 FR Realtime of user data rate Type in the fraction of the user data traffic used for Frame Relay Real time traffic 3 FR Non Re...

Page 66: ...ulting data rate per slot assignment will support the transport of one or multiple Frame Relay voice calls per slot Select 2 3 5 or 6 The base gross container size and slot time factor is defined in t...

Page 67: ...length 1 optimized for the specified traffic Traffic is sent over satellite in coded gross container packages A base gross container holds the traffic data plus some overhead e g TDMA header SLL heade...

Page 68: ...lculator For the definition of the user data refer to chapter 2 5 The spectral efficiency is represented by two definitions Efficiency per symbol user data rate symbol rate Efficiency per Hz user data...

Page 69: ...ow many base slots are contained in one data slot for this channel Time slots per TDMA frame Displays how many time slots are contained in one TDMA frame for this channel Attention If the given number...

Page 70: ...values manually Saved customer sheets can be imported in the TDMA Calculator using the Import function of the menu SkyNMS integrated TDMA Calculator after calculation click the button Apply to Configu...

Page 71: ...lculation Tool The following results are important for the TDMA calculation The composition of the user traffic according to the different traffic types These numbers are used to define the correspond...

Page 72: ...nt and Optimization Considerations 1 Evaluating the channel data output one notices that the number of time slots per TDMA frame larger than the maximum supported by SkyWAN networks Adjusting the time...

Page 73: ...estimated by the Capacity Calculation presented at the beginning of this section All the assumptions made so far are still valid however we must now find a solution which provides sufficient user dat...

Page 74: ...eded in the case of big time slots If this extra capacity cannot be used for additional traffic on this carrier it will be wasted 3 Since the same optimization criterion 2 voice calls per slot has bee...

Page 75: ...hich will be explained in the following section of this guide Only after that calculation the proper value for Eb No can be inserted for each channel leading to a new selection of modulation and error...

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Page 77: ...h stations The next steps in the engineering process are the choice of a suitable satellite rsp satellite transponder s and an optimized outdoor unit design 3 1 Introduction The general principle of t...

Page 78: ...the area where the earth stations are located Typically two types of beams are available Wide beams global or hemispherical which cover a wide geographical area potentially including multiple contine...

Page 79: ...a and Africa The NSS 7 global beam would cover the entire area If the stations would be located in Europe and Africa the east hemisphere beam would be more suitable because the beam intensity is typ i...

Page 80: ...ection represents the signal propagation from the transmitting earth station to the satellite whereas the downlink part represents the signal path from the sat ellite to the receiving earth station Eq...

Page 81: ...ture which is defined by the formula where kB is Boltzmann s constant and B the signal bandwidth The noise production by both the satellite and the earth station is usually combined with the antenna g...

Page 82: ...s to use the highest possible value for modulation and FEC to save bandwidth costs without exceeding the maximum power available on both the satellite transponder and the earth stations Power Equivale...

Page 83: ...PEB are identical Any further increase in modulation and coding will increase again the space segment cost as the PEB increases even though the carrier bandwidth would still decrease So the optimal m...

Page 84: ...ain fade in the link budget calculation increases the power requirements on the earth stations and on the satellite transponder As an example we assume a situation where according to the required avai...

Page 85: ...rain fade has disappeared refer to figure 3 7 Figure 3 7 Power Conditions with constant Power Level At clear sky condition the satellite transponder would operate at a power level which is 5 dB higher...

Page 86: ...ut is always given by EIRPT EIRPT clear Sky Downlink rain fade Uplink rain fade 3 4 Considerations for SkyWAN Link Budget Calcu lations 3 4 1 Network Topology So far we have considered satellite links...

Page 87: ...s used 3 4 2 Downlink Optimization Figure 3 9 Downlink Considerations The performance of the satellite downlink is given by the maximum available EIRP of the sat ellite the earth stations figure of me...

Page 88: ...ownlink optimization discussion it was assumed that the satellite transmits with the max imum available EIRP to the earth stations This is however only true if the signal intensity re ceived from the...

Page 89: ...for each network Result Power requirement for every SkyWAN earth station in the network The link budget tool is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which consists of the following work sheets Summary Input...

Page 90: ...ow to specify signal degradation due to intermodulation on the up and downlink The default settings 300 200 dBW Hz describe a situation without intermodulation effects If no detailed information about...

Page 91: ...angles 0 90 have to be inserted refer to figure 3 12 The antenna name for each data set has to be unique This name is used to link earth station properties to the antenna data In the case of C Band an...

Page 92: ...splayed in the Active Calculation box blue background Specify Network Data Step 1 Specify each network by a Calculation Name Goto lower section Stored Calcu lations and enter network identifier headin...

Page 93: ...ave a disadvantage of 0 dB for other sta tions the difference between maximum and actual G T or EIRP has to be entered Antenna type according to the defined frequency band of the network the pull down...

Page 94: ...n additional back off has to be added which is defined on the summary work sheet refer to figure 3 18 If more than one IDU is connected to the same ODU besides an additional back off the power require...

Page 95: ...specify the maximum power class available for SSPA amplifier types for Ku and C Band input field markde in figure 3 18 If the power requirement is higher than the available SSPA power class the additi...

Page 96: ...bol rate have to be taken from the TDMA Calculator Additionally the following link quality parameters must be defined Maximum Bit Error Rate Two Way Rain Availability Step 2 For each carrier the netwo...

Page 97: ...tion input box No input means that the power require ment for a station loop is calculated The last line states the required amplifier power including the station output back off Figure 3 20 Link Budg...

Page 98: ...on with and without UPC are stated in terms of a power equivalent bandwidth and are compared to the carrier bandwidth of the station s home channel If the PEB with UPC is higher than the carrier bandw...

Page 99: ...inks between stations located in these areas carriers on up to four different transponders may be required Carrier 1 must be located on a looped transponder for ULA1 This carrier is used by the master...

Page 100: ...rope and Africa ULA1 and America ULA2 is presented The transponders used for this network are served by the hemispherical beams on the SES World Skies Satellite NSS 7 cf chapter 3 2 for foot print dia...

Page 101: ...Network Hub Stations UpLink Area 1 ULA1 The slave stations of ULA1 use carrier 1 for the primary demodulator Any ULA1 station which should be able to communicate directly with a station in ULA2 must...

Page 102: ...s mesh com munication within ULA2 Figure 3 28 MRB DUB Network ULA2 Stations Carrier Topology The definition of the carrier parameter topology in the summary sheet has to be done in the following way C...

Page 103: ...A2 links to the master stations and to stations in ULA1 with a sec ond reception channel on carrier 2 will be calculated Additionally for slave stations in ULA2 with a second reception channel on carr...

Page 104: ...os and typ ical optimization steps 3 6 1 Scenario 1 Ku Band 5 Stations Fully Meshed The first scenario is a fully meshed 5 station network located in a Ku Band spot beam over Eu rope and North Africa...

Page 105: ...requirement of 8625 kbps Preliminary link calculation showed that a single carrier solution would lead to a very high power requirement for the earth stations Therefore it was decided to split the cap...

Page 106: ...lting bandwidths Table 3 6 Scenario 1 Carrier Coding and Bandwidth The power requirements for the individual earth stations can be summarized in following table Table 3 7 Scenario 1 Summarized Power R...

Page 107: ...station power requirement would be to split the network capacity into more than 2 carriers For small networks this may however cause inefficiencies if too few stations are sharing a carrier leading to...

Page 108: ...hat there is really only negligible communica tion need between the remote stations Optimization There is still potential room for optimization Whereas on carrier 2 PEB and carrier bandwidth is almost...

Page 109: ...ted for both carriers The bandwidth saving should again compensate the higher antenna and installation cost in Casablanca within a short time provided that the site in Casablanca allows the installati...

Page 110: ...ilter matrix is used Network topology on carrier 2 is set to Meshed in ULA1 but the calculation of the satellite link loops for Casablanca and Tunis as well as the links between these two stations are...

Page 111: ...one for user data one dedicated for man agement data The access to this interfaces is provided by 4 LAN ports refer to tables below 4 logical IP over Satellite interfaces for user traffic 1 IP over S...

Page 112: ...face Sat UT1 SatOne is used data on this interface may be received by the primary or the secondary demodulator IP based management functions are e g uploading configuration files via FTP or querying s...

Page 113: ...ure 4 1 SkyWAN IP Protocol Stack IDU 7000 series Table 4 1 IP Interface Usage of IDU 7000 series Interface Number Interface Name User or Management Plane 1 LAN User Management 8 Sat UT1 SatOne User Ma...

Page 114: ...ter face Number Port Number Interface Name User or Management Plane 5 1 LAN1 User Traffic 5 2 LAN2 User Traffic 5 3 LAN2 User Traffic 5 4 LAN4 Management 9 Sat UT1 SatOne User Management 10 Sat UT2 Sa...

Page 115: ...ed via its Sat MT interface to a common Manage ment IP network This management network is used to perform remote management of the en tire network via satellite using a SkyNMS PC which can be connecte...

Page 116: ...to the same satellite management network like the meshed stations To ensure network management connectivity the station to which the SkyNMS PC is connected must have direct satellite link connectivity...

Page 117: ...a star network may be enabled by defining static routes via the hub station Typical configuration is to define a default route on each star terminal with the hub station as a next hop and to define ex...

Page 118: ...phic router identification is not supported Satellite interfaces may not belong to different OSPF areas The following OSPF features are available on SkyWAN stations Ethernet and satellite IP interface...

Page 119: ...cal minimal path costs This mode works for both static routing and OSPF Non Equal Cost Multi Path Load balancing will be performed over all paths to a destina tion irrespective of the path cost This m...

Page 120: ...s has a summary cost metric of 2 compared to a cost metric summary of 3 for the path R 2 via IDU 5 As long as IDU 4 and its Ethernet interface is up all IP unicast traffic will be routed via IDU 4 usi...

Page 121: ...llocate sufficient capacity on all channels to perform the packet forwarding on eve ry channel IGMP Querier Role SkyWAN IDU supports the Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP version 2 This al lows...

Page 122: ...SkyWAN IDU If enabled each IP microflow which should be forwarded to the satellite interface may be classified using protocol header information and rules defined in the station s for ward aggregate t...

Page 123: ...d Silver Bronze and Default normal priority non real time traffic The high priority traffic is mapped to the IP Control 2 queue the normal priority traffic to the IP Non Real Time queue Capacity for t...

Page 124: ...a maximum data rate for each Titanium aggregate Traffic ex ceeding this limit will be discarded Platinum Platinum forwarding aggregates define a permanent real time traffic flow When the aggregate is...

Page 125: ...eways in our network multiple calls between these gateways would use IP flows with iden tical source and destination addresses Setting the flow detection parameter to flow would consider the streams g...

Page 126: ...to compression will be released This capacity reduction works only for the audio codecs not for video codecs For data rate requirement for the above mentioned voice codecs with and without header com...

Page 127: ...ed at each station 4 2 10 Transmission Control Protocol Acceleration TCP A The throughput of an individual TCP connection over long delay links is limited by the fact that the sender has to wait a lon...

Page 128: ...ing system or applications are necessary The TCP acknowledgments will be sent by the local IDU with low delay thus the satellite delay has no impact on the TCP throughput Up to 32 TCP connections can...

Page 129: ...the software license The following table 4 5 displays the possible port types Table 4 5 UIM Board FR Serial Port Types The interface standard is defined by the selected cable type Note that there are...

Page 130: ...a direct single hop connection be tween the IDUs Double hop connectivity via an intermediate IDU is not supported for Frame Relay services Besides connections across the satellite network SkyWAN IDUs...

Page 131: ...ed on the individual PVCs are forward ed to the satellite link The following figure 4 10 describes the mapping of communication serv ice to Frame Relay transmit queue on the IDU Figure 4 10 Mapping of...

Page 132: ...he same PVC If a voice call setup is signaled by a FAD the SkyWAN IDU will automatically request suf ficient streaming slot bandwidth for the signaled voice codec If a call disconnect is signaled the...

Page 133: ...rvice for Isochronous FRAD Ports An exception to these rules is the realtime service for isochronous FRAD ports Here the con figured serial port speed defines the required amount of streaming bandwidt...

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Page 135: ...ration SkyWAN satellite link master and network parameters according to TDMA calcu lation result SkyWAN home channel settings SkyWAN satellite link station parameters according to used ODU hardware Tx...

Page 136: ...y device Permanent virtual circuits PVCs have to be defined with a DLCI numbering scheme which may have to be adjusted to the customer s PVC topology The final result of the engineering process should...

Page 137: ...bout new features in this release Table 6 1 What s new in the Engineering Manual Table 6 2 What s new in Rev B Number Item Description 1 TDMA calculation New TDMA Calculator introduced Number Item Des...

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Page 139: ...t Error Rate Test CCR Convolutional Code Rate C N Signal to Noise Ration CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CW Continuous Wave DC Direct Current DCE Data Communication Equipment DIAG Diagnostic DL Downlink D...

Page 140: ...Frame Relay Access Devcice FRF Frame Relay Forum FTP File Transfer Protocol GSM Global System for Mobile communications GUI Graphical User Interface G T Gain to Noise Temperature HU Height Unit IBO In...

Page 141: ...MIB Management Information Base MOD Modulator MRB Multiple Reference Burst MRB DUB Multiple Reference Burst Dual Uplink Beam NFB DUB No direct Feedback for Active Master Dual Uplink Beam NMS Network M...

Page 142: ...eal Time Transport Protocol RTT Round Trip Time Rx Receive SAS Satellite Access Subsystem Sat MT Satellite Port Management Traffic Sat UT 1 4 Satellite Port User Traffic 1 to 4 synonym to SatOne SatTw...

Page 143: ...er Control TOS Type of Service TTL Time to Live Tx Transmit TWTA Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier UDP User Datagram Protocol UFC Uplink Frequency Control UIM User Interface Module UL Uplink ULA Uplink A...

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Page 145: ...using a fixed os cillator frequency Burst A short transmission over the satellite link The burst time is smaller than the time slot Carrier to Noise Ratio C N The ratio of the received carrier power a...

Page 146: ...bit GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit satellites orbit at 35 786 km 22 282 mi above the equator in the same direction and speed as the earth rotates on its axis making them appear as fixed in the sky G T...

Page 147: ...mbination of propagation queuing and processing delays is usually named network latency profile See also Propagation Delay and Processing Delay Low Noise Block Down Converter LNB Combination of Low No...

Page 148: ...ons Cent er NOC Centralized location where control over operation of a network is managed and monitored remotely Network Management System NMS Hardware and software used for monitoring and controlling...

Page 149: ...rainfall Reference Burst Burst sent from the SkyWAN master IDU containing TDMA network management information like the frame plan Request Burst Burst sent from the SkyWAN slave stations to the master...

Page 150: ...by routing through a hub Symbol Rate Also known as baud or modulation rate is the number of sym bol changes signalling events made to the transmission me dium per second using a digitally modulated s...

Page 151: ...igher 250 MByte of available hard disk space XGA 1024 x 768 or higher resolution video adapter and monitor CD ROM or DVD drive Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device Ethernet netwo...

Page 152: ...on the installation CD A wizard will guide you through the installation process 4 If the correct Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE is not available on the PC hardware plat form it can be installed duri...

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