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570NAT-HW-X19  

High Density Network Address Translator 

User Manual 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© Copyright 2020 

 

EVERTZ MICROSYSTEMS LTD. 

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Version 1.0, August 2020 

 

 

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purchasers of the 570NAT-HW-X19 series product. Evertz Microsystems expressly prohibits the use of this manual for any purpose other than the 

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Page 1: ...he property of Evertz Microsystems and is intended solely for the use of purchasers of the 570NAT HW X19 series product Evertz Microsystems expressly prohibits the use of this manual for any purpose other than the operation of the 570NAT HW X19 series product Due to on going research and development features and specifications in this manual are subject to change without notice All rights reserved...

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Page 3: ...ird grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong is provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs convenience receptacles and the point where they exit from the apparatus Only use attachments accessories specified by the manuf...

Page 4: ... Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This 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 communicati...

Page 5: ...e only warranty offered by Evertz in relation to this product is the Evertz standard limited warranty stated in the sales contract or order confirmation form Although every attempt has been made to accurately describe the features installation and operation of this product in this manual no warranty is granted nor liability assumed in relation to any errors or omissions unless specifically underta...

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Page 7: ... 1 5 Global Traffic Monitoring 16 4 1 6 Temperature Monitoring 16 4 1 7 TTL 16 4 1 8 Global Data Port SFP Alarm Threshold 16 4 1 9 System 16 4 2 DATA PORT CONFIGURATIONS 17 4 2 1 Data Ports 17 4 2 2 Port Interfaces 18 4 3 PORT BASED NAT 19 4 3 1 LAN to WAN Encapsulation Header Configuration 20 4 3 2 LAN to WAN Output Bandwidth Configuration 21 4 3 3 WAN to LAN De Encapsulation Configuration 22 4 4...

Page 8: ...nfiguration 32 4 6 4 WAN to LAN Input Flow Configuration 33 4 7 LINK AGGREGATION 33 4 7 1 Link Aggregation Grid 35 4 7 2 Link Aggregation Directed 37 4 7 3 Link Aggregation Tiled 38 4 8 REDUNDANCY 40 4 8 1 Flow Redundancy Between Cores 40 4 8 2 Flow Redundancy Configuration 41 4 9 SFP NOTIFY 41 4 9 1 Notify 41 4 9 2 Port 41 4 10 NOTIFY CORE 42 4 11 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TAB 44 5 UPGRADE PROCEDU...

Page 9: ...regation 33 Figure 4 15 WebEASY Link Aggregation Import Route 34 Figure 4 16 WebEASY Link Aggregation Export Route 35 Figure 4 17 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View 35 Figure 4 18 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View Linking in Grid 36 Figure 4 19 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View To Perform in Grid 36 Figure 4 20 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View Removing Links in Grid 36 Figure 4 21 WebEASY Link...

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Page 11: ... 570NAT X19 10G provides four modes of operation 1 The One to One NAT Mode allows unicast multicast IP streams from one network to be translated to different unicast multicast IP addresses on a flow by flow basis up to 256 unique flows per processing core Address translation is available in both directions while an optional packet replication feature is provided in the WAN to LAN direction 2 The t...

Page 12: ...ection Port Redundancy on both WAN and LAN side network path failure protection Virtual interfaces for Unicast flows mapping or VLAN ID change IGMPv3 with SSM support Point to point and multi point signal intra inter facility distribution contribution Operates over a Dark fiber Ethernet IP MPLS VPLS core network In band Management Management Traffic transport over Multicast Support for FEC Pro MPE...

Page 13: ...570NAT HW X19 High Density Network Address Translator Revision 1 0 Page 3 Figure 1 1 Single NAT Core Block Diagram Figure 1 2 570NAT HW X19 Core Mapping Block Diagram ...

Page 14: ...570NAT HW X19 High Density Network Address Translator Page 4 Revision 1 0 Figure 1 3 WAN Side Port Aggregation and Demux available in all modes ...

Page 15: ...R PLATE DESCRIPTION The 570NAT HW X19 comes standard with a companion rear plate Figure 2 1 provides an illustration of the 570NAT HW X19 rear plate Figure 2 1 570NAT X19 10G Rear Plate 1GigE or 10GigE Input Output There are 12 SFP bi directional connections used for the 1GE or 10GE input and output ...

Page 16: ...characteristics of the fiber are dependent on the shape of the optical core and therefore care must be taken to prevent fiber damage due to heavy objects or abrupt fiber bending Evertz recommends that the user maintains a minimum bending radius of 5 cm to avoid fiber bending loss that will decrease the maximum attainable distance of the fiber cable The Evertz fiber optic modules come with cable lo...

Page 17: ...Y Frame Controller Login The default login password combination is admin admin After successfully logging into the frame controller you will be presented with the FC Menu If not you can access the FC menu by selecting Frame from the side menu highlighted below in Figure 2 3 Figure 2 3 WebEASY Frame Controller FC Menu Once in the FC Menu take note of which slot the 570NAT X19 card you are looking t...

Page 18: ...y configuration page will load Figure 2 5 WebEASY Frame Controller Proxy Configuration Once in the proxy configuration select the slot number for your 570NAT X19 card in the frame controller Slot selection is displayed just below Network here slot 4 has been selected Enable proxy mode and set an IP netmask and gateway for the 570NAT X19 card ...

Page 19: ...x datagram flow mapping from 12x 10GbE 3 5 VIRTUAL INTERFACES 15x interfaces per data port both WAN and LAN side VLAN ID change One to One NAT mode 3 6 SFP MODULES 12x SFP Modules 100GbE optical 850nm MMF SFP10G TR85 A 10GbE optical 1310nm SMF 2Km SFP10G TR13S 10GbE optical 1310nm SMF 10Km SFP10G TR13 A 10GbE optical 1550nm SMF 40Km SFP10G TR15S 10GbE optical 1550nm SMF 80Km SFP10G TR15H 10GbE opt...

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Page 21: ...ing the IP address of the control port of the 570NAT HW X19 into the address bar of an Internet web browser Refer to section Error Reference source not found for setting the network configurations When first visiting the 570NAT HW X19 web interface the user will be asked to enter a Login and Password Enter root for Password and evertz for Login to get administrator privileges When viewing only the...

Page 22: ...ange a variety of device settings and monitor the device status Top Menu Bar The top menu bar allows the user to refresh the page apply settings and upgrade the firmware of the 570NAT HW X19 Note that applying some settings requires a system reset for changes to take place Bottom Menu Tab The bottom menu tab allows the user to view the event log view WebEASY and device build information About view...

Page 23: ...MAC Address of the 570NAT HW X19 IP Address This field allows the user to enter the IP address to be assigned to control port of the 570NAT HW X19 Netmask Address This field allows the user to enter the netmask address for the device control port 4 1 2 Processing Cores The 570NAT X19 allows for customizing mode of operation for each core Mode of operation is set through the dropdown available in t...

Page 24: ...meters can be monitored Port are selected as WAN LAN pairs Link Speed This monitor will automatically detect the link speed of the SFP module installed Link Status This field displays the physical link status of the associated data port as either Up or Down Received Bandwidth kbps This field displays the bit rate received by the associated data port in kbps Transmit Bandwidth kbps This field retur...

Page 25: ... SFP Monitoring For Ports 1 to 12 SFP Part Number This field displays the SFP part number detected SFP Type This field displays the part number detected for the SFP SFP Rx Power Level dbm This field displays the receiving power level on the SFP SFP TX Power Level dbm This field displays the transmitting power level for the SFP ...

Page 26: ...h the documentation for their SFPs and use their operational specifications as a guideline for setting the SFP alarms SFP Rx Power High Alarm Threshold dBm Alarm will trigger if SFP Rx exceeds this threshold SFP Tx Power Low Alarm Threshold dBm Alarm will trigger if SFP Rx falls below this threshold SFP Rx Power High Alarm Threshold dBm Alarm will trigger if SFP Tx exceeds this threshold SFP Tx Po...

Page 27: ...ports are set in WAN LAN pairs port numbers WAN odd LAN even the dataports menu allows users to set the following MAC Address MAC set by hardware displayed here IP Address This allows user to set the IP Address to be assigned to this port Netmask Address This allows the user to enter the netmask for this port Gateway Address This allows the user to enter the gateway address of this port Auto ARP E...

Page 28: ...assigned to this port through the LAN Netmask Address WAN This allows the user to enter the netmask this port pair will use to communicate to the WAN Netmask Address LAN This allows the user to enter the netmask this port will use over the LAN Gateway Address WAN This allows the user to enter the address of the gateway used to communicate to the WAN Gateway Address LAN This allows the user to ente...

Page 29: ...rt on a port by port basis There is no multicast or VLAN Tag filtering All traffic on that physical LAN port is encapsulated out to the WAN and de encapsulated in the reverse direction This mode provides a Bandwidth Capping feature such that network operators can ensure that links do not over subscribe their contribution limits to a WAN Figure 4 6 Port Based NAT Mode Block Diagram ...

Page 30: ...ontrol allows the user to set the physical source IP address of the incoming traffic Source UDP Port This control allows the user to set the physical source UDP port of the incoming IP traffic Destination IP Address This control is used to configure the output header on encapsulation with the desired Destination IP Address Destination MAC for Unicast IP This control is used to configure the output...

Page 31: ...o Note 1 MTU is a hard limit while MAX LATENCY is a soft limit 2 If LATENCY is set too low output packets will be much smaller than MTU But if LATENCY is set very high there is no danger of output packets exceeding MTU Packets will always be less than MTU Deciding Values 1 Set MTU to whatever max packet length or slightly less that your network can tolerate for example 5000 bytes 2 How long does i...

Page 32: ...r to enable or disable the input stream which is going to be decapsulated Input Destination IP Address This control allows the user to set the IP address of the packet to be received Input Destination UDP Port This control allows the user to set the UDP Port number to be received Input Bit rate This monitor will display the bit rate coming in on the port ...

Page 33: ...flows are based on VLAN Tags rather than unicasts multicasts alone Up to 256 unique flows can be configured per processing core with independent encapsulation headers Figure 4 8 VLAN Based NAT Mode Block Diagram Each VLAN flow must have a unique Tag value Two or more flows cannot share the same VLAN Tag because there is no Packet Replication in VLAN Mode VLAN Mode does not support nested VLAN Tags...

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Page 35: ... This control allows the user to set the physical source UDP port of the incoming streams Destination IP Address This control is used to configure the output header encapsulation with the desired destination IP address Destination UDP Port This control is used to configure the output header encapsulation with the desired destination UDP Port number 4 4 3 WAN to LAN De Encapsulation Configuration F...

Page 36: ...e 4 10 WebEASY Core Configured as IP NAT Part 1 LAN to WAN There is up to 256 transport streams that can be specified to be configured based on its multicast address and is sectioned into flow groups Each flow group will display eight flows for configuration There are 32 flow groups in total ...

Page 37: ...ap on the bitrate for each flow in Kbps 4 5 2 LAN to WAN Address Translation Configuration Flows 1 to 256 Output Mode This control is used to set the output mode on the flow stream Options are Pass Through or Modify Pass Through will enable the stream to pass through without making any changes to the headers while Modify enables changes to the headers Source IP Address This control is used in NAT ...

Page 38: ...disable WAN to LAN for this flow Input Destination IP Address This control allows the user to set the Input Destination IP address of the packets to be received Input Destination UDP Port This control allows the user to set the Destination UDP Port number to be received VLAN This control allows the user to assign this flow to a VLAN SSM Filter This control allows the user to enable Source Specific...

Page 39: ... while Modify enables changes to the headers Source IP Address This control is used in NAT mode to configure the output header with the desired source IP address Source UDP Port This control is used in NAT mode to configure the output header with the desired source UDP Port Destination IP Address This control is used in NAT mode to configure the output header with the desired destination IP addres...

Page 40: ...AT IP NAT Figure 4 12 WebEASY MC in MC NAT IP NAT Part 1 There are up to 256 transport streams that can be specified to be configured based on its multicast address and is sectioned into flow groups Each flow group will display eight flows for configuration There are 32 flow groups in total ...

Page 41: ...bitrate for each flow in Kbps 4 6 2 LAN to WAN Address Translation Configuration NAT Cores 1 6 and Flows 1 to 256 Output Mode This control is used to set the output mode on the flow stream Options are Pass Through or Modify Pass Through will enable the stream to pass through without making any changes to the headers while Modify enables changes to the headers Source IP Address This control is used...

Page 42: ...ation Header Configuration Flows 1 256 Source IP Address Allows user to designate source IP for encapsulation header Source UDP Port Allows user to designate source UDP Port for encapsulation Destination IP Address Allows user to designate the destination IP for encap Destination UDP Port Allows user to designate the destination UDP port for encap ...

Page 43: ...o assign this flow to a VLAN SSM Filter This control allows the user to enable Source Specific Multicast SSM channel based filtering Input Source IP Address This control is used in NAT mode to configure the output header with the desired source IP address Input Bitrate This monitor will display the bit rate of the streams that are being received in kbps Input Bitrate Cap This control allows the us...

Page 44: ...To Perform menu for the changes to be applied To import a route from compatible router settings file in json format select Import from the To Perform menu Figure 4 15 WebEASY Link Aggregation Import Route Selecting Import will open an options menu prompting the user to select how existing routes are handled Merge will add imported routes but will not un route current routes in cases of conflicting...

Page 45: ...and Un Route menus See Figure 4 14 pull up the que of routes the user has selected to be added and the que of routes to be un routed respectively This allows the user to track the routes that are being added or removed before selecting Apply and changes take effect 4 7 1 Link Aggregation Grid Figure 4 17 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View The grid view allows users to set routes for both LAN side ...

Page 46: ...e green on the grid and the new route to be routed will appear in the route menu selection Multiple route changes can be qued into the To Perform menu To apply the changes shown in the To Perform que select Apply Figure 4 19 WebEASY Link Aggregation Grid View To Perform in Grid To Un Route without creating any new route to override simply select the assigned core port pair grid space and click on ...

Page 47: ...ow to map Core 1 to Port 9 using drag and drop in directed view Figure 4 22 WebEASY Link Aggregation Directed View Linking in Directed When the new link is created the old route to be unrouted will appear as a line in red and the old route will appear in the Un Route table of the To Perform menu as shown below in Figure 4 23 The new link will appear in green and will be displayed in the Route tabl...

Page 48: ...nu to apply changes 4 Figure 4 24 WebEASY Link Aggregation Directed View Removing Links in Directed 4 7 3 Link Aggregation Tiled Figure 4 25 WebEASY Link Aggregation Tiled View The tiled view allows users to set routes by selecting a tile for a core and matching it to a tile for a port To create a route select a core 1 and then select the port you d like to link it to 2 shown below in Figure 4 26 ...

Page 49: ...rently linked to that core will become highlighted in beige green the same color the core is highlighted Next with the core tile selected select the highlighted port tile If it is qued to be un routed it will appear red 2 and appear in the Un Route table in the To Perform menu Figure 4 28 WebEASY Link Aggregation Directed View Removing Links in Tiled This feature allows multiple processing cores t...

Page 50: ...rately for each individual flow separate from each other flow on that core Note that flow redundancy must be enabled for the core in order for it to be enabled on the flow within that core Figure 4 29 WebEASY Redundancy 4 8 1 Flow Redundancy Between Cores Cores act as backup for for eachother in pairs 1 2 3 4 and 5 6 Redundancy is enabled for each set of pairs Flow redundancy between cores must be...

Page 51: ...backup path fails the unit will switch back to the main path 3 Force to Main In this mode when the flow fails over it is forced to main and will remain 4 Force to Backup In this mode when the flow fails over it is forced to backup and will remain 4 9 SFP NOTIFY Figure 4 30 WebEASY SFP Notify 4 9 1 Notify For Destination 1 to 5 Trap Destination This control is used to specify the trap address for s...

Page 52: ...y Core allows for the user to set traps based on flow absence and on bandwidth over limit Traps are set individually for each flow assigned to a core and are assigned separate on the WAN and LAN ports Traps are activated by selecting True under the Send Trap dropdown The fault present monitor will display red if a fault is present on the flow and green if no fault is detected Figure 4 31 WebEASY N...

Page 53: ...sity Network Address Translator Revision 1 0 Page 43 Like the Flow Absent notify menu shown above in Figure 4 31 the Bandwidth Over Limit menu shown beloe in Figure 4 32 Figure 4 32 WebEASY Notify Core 2 Bandwidth Over Limit ...

Page 54: ...pload buttons Figure 4 33 WebEASY Configuration Management Tab The current configuration for each currently used NAT type can also be exported from the 570NAT X19 10G by selecting Download beside the respective NAT configuration you wish to download Doing so will load a progress bar that upon export will read File Export Success at which time your browser s file download window will pop up From he...

Page 55: ...a tab labeled Upgrade The Upgrade tab is used to check current firmware version and upload the latest firmware Figure 5 1 WebEASY Upgrade Button on Top Menu Bar Selecting the Upgrade tab will take you to Figure 5 2 where the current firmware version is shown Should the firmware version be outdated you will need to download the firmware image file NOTE Contact Evertz to get the latest firmware imag...

Page 56: ...570NAT HW X19 High Density Network Address Translator Page 46 Revision 1 0 Figure 5 3 WebEASY Firmware Upgrade Menu ...

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