3 • Configuring the Matrix Switch for operation
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Using a browser to complete Model 6511RC configuration
2.
Because path trace is
enabled
in your connected SDH network, in the SDH trace parameters table (see
figure 40
on page 57), for
Path-1 Trace Monitor
, select
pathTraceEnable(1)
from the drop-down menu.
3.
For
Path-1 Trace
message, enter the alphanumeric string your connected SDH network uses for the path-1
trace message in the text box.
Note
The
Path-1 Trace
message parameter only applies with 16-byte and
64-byte section trace messages
.
For 1-byte path trace messages, the
J1
byte
parameter applies. When trace message length is defined to be
one byte, the Matrix Switch will ignore the value of
Path-1 Trace
.
4.
For
Path-1 Trace Msg Len
, select the value corresponding to the trace message length your connected SDH
network uses.
5.
For
Path-1 Trace J1 Byte
, enter the value your connected SDH network uses for the J1 byte in the
SDH frame.
Note
J1 applies only with 1-byte path trace messages. For 16-byte and 64-
byte trace messages, the trace message string is used and the value of
J1 is ignored.
6.
For
Path-1 Signal Label
, enter the value your connected SDH network uses for the path-1 signal label in
the SDH frame.
7.
If you have selected AU-3 mapping, repeat steps 1 through 6 to define values for the path-2 and path-3
trace parameters.
8.
Click the
Modify
button to save your work into operating memory (volatile DRAM) and activate the new
parameter values.
Configuring DS0 idle codes
If you want your Matrix Switch to encode vacant DS0 channels with the standard E1 idle code (the hexadeci-
mal value
7E
), you must follow the procedures below to designate which DS0 channels within the STM-1 sig-
nal stream should be so encoded. Obviously, in order to correctly define the idle code configuration, you must
know which DS0 channels in the SDH frame are expected to be idle. Defining the idle code configuration
involves two steps: you must first access the
DS0 Idle Code Configuration
web management page, then use that
page to select the idle DS0 channels from the STM-1 structure and designate them as idle.
