MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 ETSI
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Table of contents 1
Introduction ............................................................................................4
2 2.1 2.2
New features ...........................................................................................4 New features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 .................................4 New features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP ....................................4
3 3.1 3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 3.3.5 3.3.6
Corrections .............................................................................................8 Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 ......................................................8 General ....................................................................................................8 NPU .........................................................................................................9 MMU ........................................................................................................9 RAU .......................................................................................................10 MINI-LINK Craft .....................................................................................10 Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.1 ....................................................10 General ..................................................................................................10 NPU .......................................................................................................11 MMU ......................................................................................................12 RAU .......................................................................................................12 Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP .......................................................12 NPU .......................................................................................................12 AAU ........................................................................................................15 ETU ........................................................................................................15 SFP ........................................................................................................15 MMU ......................................................................................................15 MINI-LINK Craft .....................................................................................16
4 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.2 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.3 4.3.1 4.4 4.5 4.5.1
New Deliverables .................................................................................17 New Hardware .......................................................................................17 New Hardware introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2.............................17 New Hardware introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP................................17 New Software introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 ..............................18 Software – MINI-LINK TN ......................................................................18 Radio Software, not included in any SBL ...............................................19 New Optional Features ..........................................................................21 New Optional Features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP...................21 MIB information ......................................................................................21 Customer Product Information (CPI) libraries MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 ..21 CPI library for MINI-LINK TN .................................................................21
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Order and availability Information ......................................................22
6 6.1 6.2
Compatibility ........................................................................................23 Management Systems ...........................................................................23 RAU SW and support for Adaptive Modulation and 256QAM ................24
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RAU SW and support for Adaptive Modulation and 512QAM ................24 RAU SW and support for C-QPSK with MMU2 H ..................................24 RAU HW support; Dual DC, Impr Pwr efficiency & Output Pwr tol. .......25 MMU2 H .................................................................................................25 NPU 8x2 and ATU .................................................................................26
7 7.1 7.1.1 7.1.2 7.1.3 7.1.4 7.1.5 7.1.6 7.2 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.5 7.2.6 7.2.7
System Information .............................................................................27 System behavior ....................................................................................27 Start-up of a new MINI-LINK TN R4 node .............................................27 Software Upgrade of existing MINI-LINK TN .........................................27 MMU2 H and RAU2 X ............................................................................28 MMU2 H and new Adaptive Modulation physical modes .......................29 Problem for small frame sizes when links overloaded ...........................29 Ethernet measurements probes .............................................................30 Known limitations to be corrected in future releases .............................30 Ethernet Performance Monitoring ..........................................................30 Revertive switching with MMU2 E and MMU2 F ....................................30 LLD on Far end WAN if LLF switched off with Near End WAN down ....30 LTU2 155; PDH carried in STM-1 not to be used as sync source .........30 LTU2 155; No performance data for E1 shown in MSP setup ...............31 SFPo; Reserved Position alarm after upgrade ......................................31 Replacement NPU loaded with 4.4FP.2 SW R22M10 ...........................31
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Notice: Ericsson has made every effort to assure that the contents of this document are accurate; however, no liability is accepted for any errors or omissions or for consequences of any use of this document. Furthermore, the contents of this document are subject to revision without notice due to continued progress in methodology, design, and manufacturing
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Introduction This document describes the MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 ETSI product release, with its features, known limitations and new deliverables for SW and HW. This is also a correctional update of MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.1.
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New features
2.1
New features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 The following new features were introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2
2.2
Support of LTU2 155 (ROJR 208 013/1); an SDH STM-1 Terminal Multiplexer similar to LTU 155 but instead using SFP connectors MMU2 E&F support of two additional SFPs; o
SFP L.1.1 1310nm -40/+85C (RDH 901 20/B0228)
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SFP L.1.2 1550nm -40/+85C (RDH 901 20/B1424)
New features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP The following new features were introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.
Ethernet functionality o
Provider Bridging (IEEE 802.1ad-2005) i.e. Support for VLAN transparency and scalability (ref. Metro Ethernet Forum) NPU3 B, NPU3 C and NPU1 C
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Ethernet Performance Measurements (15min/24 hrs) New counters and introduction of interval counters to provide improved Network Performance Monitoring
NPU3 C, new small size node processor with the same functionality as NPU3 B and in addition Synchronous Ethernet over LAN interface, i.e. supporting
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Provider Bridging
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Embedded Ethernet switching and aggregation.
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TDM cross connect
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Synchronous Ethernet over LAN interface
Updated L2 Ethernet wizard with support for Provider bridging Increased Radio Link bonding capacity o
NPU1 C 4 RL-IME groups with 4 Packet Link, increased capacity to 1.6 Gbps for 2 of the groups 4 RL-IME groups with 2 Packet Link 12 RL-IME groups with 1 Packet Link Please note: when RL-IME nr 100-107 are configured for multiple – link bonding, it’s recommended to use only six of the single link RLIMEs. For more information please see, Planning and Dimensioning L1 Radio Link Bonding 6/154 43-CSH 109 32/1-V1 in Customer Product Information.
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NPU3 B & NPU3 C 1 RL-IME group with 4 Packet Link with improved capacity, 1.6 Gbps 1 RL-IME groups with 2 Packet Link 3 RL-IME groups with 1 Packet Link
Maximum WAN buffer sizes have been increased to support the increased Radio Link bonding capacity. Please note; values from previous release are still used as default. SFP Port protection on ETU2 B and ETU3 Configurable forwarding of L2 control protocols Simplified HW handling for LTUs, ETUs, SXU3 B and SAU3 when adding updated HW to existing Software Base Line, SBL Improved power efficiency for MMU2 H, Dual DC The Dual DC function lowers the power consumption with up to 10W/terminal depending on configuration, when an updated MMU2 H is connected to a radio with Dual DC support. Prerequisite: - MMU2 H HW R-state ≥ R3A - RAU2 X/Xu supporting Dual DC. See chapter 6.5 for information about required minimum RAU HW R-state
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MMU2 H supports both +24V and -48V DC Prerequisite: MMU2 H HW R-state ≥ R3A MMU2 H updated with support for coming new high power radios for 5-11 GHz Prerequisites: MMU2 H HW R-state ≥ R3A and SW SBL 4.4FP New Physical modes o
MMU2 H:
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MMU2 D:
7 MHz 4QAM (Packet Link) 14 MHz 4QAM (Packet Link) 28 MHz 4QAM (Packet Link)
MMU2 D R-state R1A supports following Physicals modes o
28 MHz 4QAM (Packet Link)
7 MHz 16QAM (Packet Link) 7 MHz 64QAM (Packet Link)
Improved Power efficiency for RAU2 X/Xu The radio will consume less DC power when the output power is configured to something less than maximum output power for the radio Prerequisite: New updated RAU X/Xu HW, see chapter 6.5 for R-state information. Improved Output Power tolerance for RAU2 X/Xu New tolerance: -1/+2 dB at max output power Prerequisite: New updated RAU2 X/Xu HW, see chapter 6.5 for R-state information Improved RAU2 X SW upgrade Upgrade time is < 10 min Prerequisite: New upgrade time is valid when performing the next RAU SW upgrade when running SBL 4.4FP or higher and RAU SW CXP 901 2878 R-state R3E11 or higher. RAU2 X 15/18/23/26/28/32/38/42 support the following Physical modes Prerequisite: SBL 4.4FP o
7 MHz 128QAM
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14 MHz 256QAM
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28 MHz 512QAM
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40 MHz 512QAM
RAU2 X 18/23 HW updated to support the following Physical modes: Prerequisite: HW R-state R5A o
7 MHz 128QAM
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7 MHz 256QAM
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14 MHz 256QAM
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28 MHz 512QAM
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40 MHz 512QAM
Integrated single polarized 0.3 m Antennas For frequenies:13, 15, 18, 23, 24/26, 28, 32, 38 and 42 GHz Integrated dual polarized 0.3 m Antennas For frequencies: 13, 15, 18, 23, 24/26, 28, 32, 38 and 42 GHz MINI-LINK Craft 2.15, support for new functionality/products in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP
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Corrections
3.1
Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2
3.1.1
General Link Loss Forwarding (LLF) The LLF functionality has been stabilized & improved. Link Aggregated Group (LAG) with RSTP Under certain conditions with LAG & RSTP configured on the same node, but with some LAG port(s) not part of the RSTP, the LAG port(s) could end up in blocking state wrongly. This has now been corrected. Deleting untagged members from a VLAN The removal of an untagged port was not executed until a new setting of the untagged port for any VLAN was done or a node cold restart was performed. This has now been corrected. Node cold restart recovery times Node cold restart recovery times have been improved for nodes with large configuration files, e.g. with several hundreds of VLANs. Resource oversubscription alarm Even after the reason for a resource oversubscription alarm had been removed, the alarm could remain. This has now been corrected. Reassembly Failure alarm False Reassembly Failure alarms could be raised in two situations:
Single links with Radio Link Bonding configured Radio Link Bonding multiple link configurations where the frame rate was lower than ~300 frames/second. Under these conditions a small portion of frames (~10-4) could be dropped.
This has now been corrected. Removal/insertion of APU in AMM 20p (B) There was a small risk that removal/insertion of APU in AMM 20p (B) would cause a cold restart on other APUs in the AMM. This has now been corrected.
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Traffic Class (TC) buffer size default values New optimized TC buffer size default values have been implemented. TN Login authentication message When trying to connect to a traffic node via an HTML web browser with incorrect login details, the reply message provided the user with some user login details. This has now been corrected. Load configuration function with Internet Explorer 9 When starting a download or upload of a configuration file, by pressing the Apply button on the Load Configuration page, MINI-LINK Craft would start to load a page but after some seconds the page sometimes went blank. This has now been corrected. Running configuration not properly saved At rare occasions the running configuration was not properly saved and the node reverted to an older configuration after a node restart. This has now been corrected.
3.1.2
NPU NPU replacement After replacing an NPU, SW upgrading the new NPU from a remote ftp server may fail, if a multi-Service Channel configuration was used. This has now been corrected. NPU1 C TDM bus driver A new NPU1 C TDM bus driver has been implemented to improve signaling robustness & stability. NPU3 B & NPU3 C Improvement of error 191 A contributor for error 191 to occur has been removed for NPU3 B & NPU3 C.
3.1.3
MMU Changing number of E1s When one of the nodes in a hop was not using 4.4FP or later; a request to change the number of E1s on an MMU2 D/H hybrid hop would not be executed until a node warm restart had been done. This has now been corrected. Modulation shifts with Adaptive modulation Under certain conditions bit errors could be observed during modulation shifts with Adaptive modulation, due to an error in the signal processing. This has now been corrected.
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Radio frequency changed spontaneously When changing frequency on a 1+1 hop, this could cause an unwanted change of frequency also on the MMU in neighboring higher AMM slot. This has now been corrected. Upgrading MMU2 D from TN R3 Sometimes when upgrading an MMU2 D from TN R3 to TN 4.4FP the number of configured of E1s could change spontaneously. This has now been corrected.
3.1.4
RAU Traffic disturbance during RAU SW Upgrade Upgrading with RAU2 X SW CXP 901 2878 would cause a short traffic disturbance (<50 ms) at activation of the new SW when running 512 QAM or 256 QAM. This has now been corrected and will not occur when upgrading to CXP 901 2878 R-state R3F07 or later.
3.1.5
MINI-LINK Craft For information about Craft improvements, see “Release Notes for MINI-LINK Craft Upgrade”, 1/109 47-CXP 902 0016/1 Uen. Traffic Routing deleted unintentionally When using Craft 2.16 & 2.17 it could happen that when configuring Traffic routing, other already present traffic routing configurations could unintentionally be deleted. This has now been corrected in Craft 2.17.1. L1 Ethernet connection L2CP Configuration In Craft 2.17 it was not possible to configure L2CP for L1 Ethernet connections. This has now been corrected in Craft 2.17.1.
3.2
Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.1
3.2.1
General Node response & restart times Through improvements of the internal SNMP handling have the node response & restart times been shortened significantly, especially with heavily equipped AMM 20p (B).
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RL CLI commands Four CLI commands related to Radio TX power & RTPC/ATPC were earlier missing. These have now been added.
3.2.2
NPU Loss of PDH & DCN in AMM 20p (B) with NPU1 C When inserting or removing PIUs in an AMM 20p (B) with NPU1 C, there was a small risk that it would cause complete loss of PDH & DCN, due to sync disturbances on the TDM bus. This has now been corrected. DCN over VLAN MINI-LINK TN only supports one VLAN for DCN over VLAN. Earlier it was possible to make an attempt to configure the LAN DCN port to more than one VLAN and a warning message was received. If the warning was disregarded and the configuration was made anyway it could lead to a node restart. This has now been corrected. Warm restart of NPU3 B, NPU3 C and NPU1 C When using L1 Radio Link bonding with MMU2 H, the first warm restart after a cold restart of the node could be service affecting with loss of Ethernet traffic up to 10 ms. This only happened at the first warm restart after a cold restart. This has now been corrected. USB connection caused NPU1 B warm restart Nodes with NPU1 B would warm restart when connecting the USB cable. This has now been corrected. Spontaneous warm restarts on NPU3 C Spontaneous warm restarts could occur on NPU3 C, although with low frequency. This has now been corrected. RSTP and MSTP It has been recommended to set wait-to-restore time to 1s for WAN interfaces in a RSTP/MSTP ring to secure that no traffic is lost at a RSTP/MSTP switch. This has now been corrected and manual action is no longer necessary. NPU3 & NPU1 C Improvement of error 191 A contributor for error 191 to occur has been removed for NPU3 & NPU1 C. UNI & L1 Ethernet ports configured with RSTP/MSTP, Link OAM or Synchronous Ethernet When upgrading to TN 4.4FP, UNI & L1 Ethernet ports configured with RSTP/MSTP, Link OAM or Synchronous Ethernet, lost their peer role, hence blocking the function. This has now been corrected.
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Note: The L2CP filter will still need to be manually set to Peer when initially configuring these functions on UNI & L1 Ethernet ports. False AIS alarm on E1 channel Sometimes an AIS alarm wasn’t ceased properly. This has now been corrected. NPU3 with HW controlled PDH-IME NPU3 with HW controlled PDH-IME could sometimes drop in throughput after Node Cold Restart or Power Off/On. This has now been corrected.
3.2.3
MMU MMU2 H XPIC licenses Earlier an XPIC license was required for each MMU2 H configured with XPIC. This has now been changed so that only the MMU2 H XPIC companion in the lowest slot requires a license. Alarm “RAU power supply changed” The severity of the alarm has been reduced to warning. RAU restart printouts Earlier the log file could contain incorrect information about RAU restarts. This has now been corrected.
3.2.4
RAU RAU inaccessible (marked light blue in MINI-LINK Craft) RAU could wrongly end up in repair mode, due to that the RAU product number was not available when the RAU was detected. This has now been corrected through a more robust detection mechanism.
3.3
Corrections in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP
3.3.1
NPU Slow response from R4 node running towards several R3 nodes If a node using TN R4 SW was running towards several far end nodes using TN R3 SW, the node’s management responses could get slow. This has now been corrected.
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Configuration of switch ports Configuration of switch ports not connected to physical ports via CLI is now blocked. This has already been blocked in MINI-LINK Craft 2.9 and later releases. The main reason for this change is that the previous possibility of doing different settings in the wrong order has resulted in miss-configurations leading to system instability and faulty behavior. Deleting and reconfiguring of VLAN To avoid problems with reconfiguring VLANs after deleting VLANs, our recommendation was to once perform a cold restart of the node or delete the VLANs one by one. Before a cold restart of the node was performed the following would occur: If a group of VLANs are deleted at the same time, there would be problems when reconfiguring them later on. The traffic is not running as expected. To recover a cold restart was needed. This has now been corrected. Minor Alarm: Loss of network reference redundancy Setting up sync in a ring-configuration when two sync sources are configured; one active sync source coming from "up-stream" and one passive sync source coming from "down-stream". The received up-stream sync is passed on to the next downstream network element (NE) including the received Quality Level (QL), normally Primary Reference Clock (PRC). On the sync source coming from the downstream is the QL-value Do Not Use (DNU) received in order to avoid timing loops. This means that the NE has redundant sync sources, one with accurate QL (e.g. PRC) and one with QL DNU. The system interprets this as Loss of Network Reference Redundancy. This information was miss-classified to be a Minor Alarm, it should have been a Warning. A change of classification is to be done. This has now been corrected. Loading a configuration file The use of a configuration file with lines longer than 3000 characters or a file size of nx4kB could cause the node to enter fault mode. The recommendation was to edit the configuration file and secure that there were no lines longer than 3000 characters or that the size was not equal to nx4kB. This has now been corrected and the previous recommendation is no longer needed.
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Reconfiguration of L2 to L1 Ethernet connection When reconfiguring LAN and WAN interface usage from a L2 Ethernet connection to a L1 Ethernet connection, the Priority Code Point (PCP) selection setting was not reset to L1 default value. A new L1 Ethernet connection had 8p0d as the default value for PCP selection. The traffic was not prioritized as expected if the L2 had used another PCP selection. Our recommendation was to set the L2 PCP selection to 8p0d before reconfiguring the interface usage to L1. If needed the recovery was to do a cold restart and reconfigure PCP selection to something else than 8p0d and then back to 8p0d again This has now been corrected and the PCP is reset to L1 default value when reconfiguring from L2 to L1 Ethernet connection. Missing E1 on NPU1 B After a SW upgrade the first E1 (1/11/2A) on NPU1 B was not available. This has now been corrected. Speed option “1000 full” is not available on GE ports The option “1000 full” was not available for Speed on Configure LAN page in MINI-LINK Craft after upgrading to MINI-LINK TN 4.4. If the Speed was configured to “1000 full” before the upgrade it was displayed as “Unkown”. Traffic was not affected. This has now been corrected. NPU1 B Improvement of error 191 One major contributor for error 191 to occur has been removed for NPU1 B. PM starting time not in MINI-LINK TN local time The PM starting time in Basic NE configuration page in MINI-LINK Craft was in UTC and didn’t apply the local time in MINI-LINK TN. This has now been corrected. 24 hour PM data The time interval for 24h PM data could earlier be displayed as invalid due to misalignment of internal clocks. This has now been corrected. Ethernet probe measurements Ethernet probe counters could after some time be incorrect in MINI-LINK TN 4.4. This has now been corrected. Configuration Robustness improvements regarding switch and LAN ports configuration are made.
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Radio Link bonding configuration The limitation, MMU2 D and MMMU2 H boards using RL bounding groups have to be grouped together on the same “half-side “ of the AMM 20p/AMM 20p B rack, is now removed.
3.3.2
AAU AAU configurations experience cyclic restarts Nodes configured with AAU could experience cyclic restarts if they were upgraded to MINI-LINK TN 4.4 or 4.4.1. This has now been corrected. Nodes configured with AAU can use MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.
3.3.3
ETU False alarm: “Ethernet down” on ETU2 B Configurations with an ETU2 B with SFPo LAN port could experience a false alarm, “Ethernet down” on ports. This has now been corrected. Warm restart was service affecting If ports 1/8/1 or 1/8/2 were used on an ETU board and a warm restart was performed it could be service affecting. This has now been corrected.
3.3.4
SFP 3rd party SFPs were earlier presented in configuration pages in MINI-LIK Craft as GE 1000 Mbit/s, 1000BASE-LX (not std) / SFP GB-LX 1310nm regardless of actual wavelength and type. 3rd party SFPs will now be displayed with correct wavelength and speed. The product number will be displayed as “Unverified”.
3.3.5
MMU Number of MMU2 H in an AMM 20p/AMM 20p B with NPU1 C If there were more than 12 MMU2 H in an AMM 20p/AMM20p B with an NPU1 C there could be problems with time out and result in SW upgrade problems when upgrading to SBL 4.4. Market feedback indicates that this also could be experienced with as few as 7 to 8 MMU2 H. This has now been corrected. The correction requires the SBL 4.4FP and the new MINI-LINK Craft 2.15 or later.
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Display of max traffic capacity The max capacity for packet link shown in Configuration page in MINI-LINK Craft could be displayed up to 2 Mbit/s too low compared to actual max capacity. This has now been corrected. MMU2 H and MMU2 F in a mixed XPIC pair Channel spacing 40 MHz and 56 MHz did not work for an XPIC mixed pair consisting of one MMU2 F and one MMU2 H. This has now been corrected. False XPIC LOS alarm There could be a false “XPIC LOS” alarm for some physical modes on MMU2 H. The XPIC LOS Thresholds was set too high for some physical modes. This has now been corrected. 1+1 Switch time 1+1 Configurations with Packet Link could experience long switch times. This has now been corrected. MMU in cold suspend mode after encounter error 155 When a MMU encountered error 155 (Power fail) it could lead the MMU to cold suspend mode. The fault handling has now been improved. The new behavior is that the MMU is cold restarted when encountering error 155. Laser shutdown on MMU2 E/F A node configured with MMU2 E/F could experience problems with the laser being shutdown after a SW upgrade to MINI-LINK TN4.4 due to an error in the configuration file. This has now been corrected. The correction will take care of the error in the existing configuration files when upgrading to MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP. MMU2 D with R-state R3A Under certain conditions a false ‘BR pressed’ may be experienced for MMU2 D R3A. This has been corrected for some conditions and improved for some conditions. Please see EAB-11:032040, Service Advice for MMU2 D with false “BR pressed” for details.
3.3.6
MINI-LINK Craft Long switch times in Working standby In configurations with Link Loss Forwarding (LLF) enabled and using default parameters for Holdover and WaitToRestore the switch time could be long. Our recommendation was to change the parameters to 1s or to disable LLF. The default values are now updated in MINI-LINK Craft 2.15.
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New Deliverables
4.1
New Hardware
4.1.1
New Hardware introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 New Hardware Function Designation LTU2 155
4.1.2
Product Number ROJR 208 013/1
New Hardware introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP New Hardware Function Designation AMM 2p B NPU3 C R4 Kit AMM 6p C NPU3 C R4 Kit AMM 6p D NPU3 C R4 Kit NPU3 C Repl Kit R4 ANT2 0.3 13 HP ANT2 0.3 13 HPX ANT2 0.3 15 HP ANT2 0.3 15 HPX ANT2 0.3 18 HP ANT2 0.3 18 HPX ANT2 0.3 23 HP ANT2 0.3 23 HPX ANT2 0.3 24/26 HP ANT2 0.3 24/26 HPX ANT2 0.3 28 HP ANT2 0.3 28 HPX ANT2 0.3 32 HP ANT2 0.3 32 HPX ANT2 0.3 38 HP ANT2 0.3 38 HPX ANT2 0.3 42 HP ANT2 0.3 42 HPX
Product Number NTM1010292/8 NTM1010158/14 NTM1010158/15 NTM 101 2186/1 UKY 22066/SC15 UKY 22066/DC15 UKY 22067/SC15 UKY 22067/DC15 UKY 22068/SC15 UKY 22068/DC15 UKY 22069/SC15 UKY 22069/DC15 UKY 22070/SC15 UKY 22070/DC15 UKY 22071/SC15 UKY 22071/DC15 UKY 22072/SC15 UKY 22072/DC15 UKY 22073/SC15 UKY 22073/DC15 UKY 22074/SC15 UKY 22074/DC15
Updated HW
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MMU2 H HW has been updated, ROJ 208 1308/1 R3A. RAU2 X/Xu HW has been updated, please see chapter 6.5 for R-state information.
4.2
New Software introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2
4.2.1
Software – MINI-LINK TN The software is released as part of Software Baseline 4.4FP.2, CXP 901 0021/1, R22M10. The software that is updated since the previous release is written in bold text in the table below. Overview of new software load modules and applicable hardware Applicable HW
SW Func.Des.
Prod. Number
R-state
NPU1 B
NPU1 B SW
CXP 901 0618/1
R22M10
NPU1 C
NPU1 C SW
CXP 901 4938/4
R22M10
NPU2
NPU2 SW
CXP 901 0617/1
R22M10
NPU3 with HW R-state < R2J
NPU3 SW
CXP 901 1589/1
NPU3 with HW R-state ≥ R2J
NPU3 SW
CXP 901 1589/2
NPU3 B with HW R-state < R2B
NPU3 B SW
CXP 901 2516/2
NPU3 B with HW R-state ≥ R2B
NPU3 B SW
CXP 901 2516/4
NPU3 C
NPU3 C SW
CXP 901 2516/5
LTU 155 e/o, LTU 155 e, LTU B 155
LTU 155 SW
CXCR 102 004/1
LTU2 155
LTU2 155 ADS
CXC 173 1531/1
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R22M10
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Overview of new software load modules and applicable hardware
4.2.2
Applicable HW
SW Func.Des.
Prod. Number
R-state
MMU2 B, MMU2 B 4, MMU2 B 4-8, MMU2 B 4-16, MMU2 B 4-34 : all with Rstate R1C and lower. MMU2 C, MMU2 C 4-16, MMU2 C 4-34, MMU2 C 4-64
MMU2 B/C SW
CXP 901 1133/1
MMU2 B, MMU2 B 4, MMU2 B 4-8 MMU2 B 4-16, MMU2 B 4-34: all with HW R-state R1D and higher
MMU2 B SW
MMU2 D
MMU2 D SW
CXP 901 1133/4
R9D06
MMU2 E, MMU2 F
MMU2 E/F SW
CXP 901 2118/1
R6F05
MMU2 H
MMU2 H SW
CXP 901 1133/6
R7F08
ETU2
ETU SW
CXCR 102 026/1
R3M04
ETU2 B
ETU2 B SW
CXCR 102 059/1
R4D04
ETU3
ETU3 SW
CXCR 102 051/1
R4D05
AAU
AAU SW
CXC 401 0212
R1G01
SXU3 B
SXU3 B SW
CXC 172 5149/1
R4H03
SAU3
SAU3 SW
CXC 172 5538/1
R1C07
R5D06
CXP 901 1133/2 R4D06
Radio Software, not included in any SBL The software that has been updated since previous MINI-LINK release is written in bold in the table below. Higher R-states of the radio software may be available.
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Overview of new radio software load modules and applicable hardware (not included in the SBL) Applicable HW
SW Func.Des.
Prod. Number
R-state
RAU2 7, RAU2 8, RAU2 13 R-state ≥ R3A, RAU2 15 R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 18 R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 23 R-state ≥ R4A, RAU2 X 5 HP, RAU2 X/Xu 6L [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 6U [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 7 [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 8 [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 10 [HP] R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 X/Xu 11 [HP] R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 X/Xu 13 [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 15 [HP], RAU2 X/Xu 18 [HP] R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 X/Xu 23 [HP] R-state ≥ R2A, RAU2 X/Xu 26, RAU2 X/Xu 28, RAU2 X/Xu 32, RAU2 X/Xu 38, RAU2 X/Xu 42 RAU2 N 11, RAU2 X/Xu 10 R-state R1A RAU2 X/Xu 11 R-state R1A RAU2 X/Xu 18 R-state R1A RAU2 X/Xu 23 R-state R1A
RAU SWFW 2878
CXP 901 2878
R3F07
RAU SW 3500
CXC 113 500
R2D01
RAU1 N 6L, RAU1 N 6U, RAU1 N 7, RAU1 N 8, RAU2 26, RAU2 N 13, RAU2 N 15, RAU2 N 23, RAU2 N 26, RAU2 N 28, RAU2 N 32, RAU2 N 38,
RAU2 M SW
CXC 132 26 23
R4C04
RAU1 N 18
RAU1 L SW
CXC 132 0912
R2C04
RAU2 13 R-state ≤ R2D, RAU2 15 R-state ≤ R1C, RAU2 18 R-state ≤ R1B, RAU2 23 R-state ≤ R3B
RAU2 SW
CXC 113 404
R5G
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4.3
New Optional Features
4.3.1
New Optional Features introduced in MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP Function Designation Ethernet Provider Mode
4.4
Product Number FAL 124 0199
MIB information If the MIB Information has been updated since previous MINI-LINK TN release, the text is written in bold in the table below.
4.5
Function Designation
Product Number
Revision:
MIB Definition Package
190 89-FAL 104 4129/1
AN3
Customer Product Information (CPI) libraries MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 The MINI-LINK CPI libraries are available at:
The eBusiness portal on the Ericsson extranet
CPI on the Extranet (CPIX) is an electronic archive where you as a customer can access and download CPI libraries with descriptions and instructions on Ericsson products. CPIX is accessed through the Ericsson eBusiness portal on the Ericsson Extranet https://ebusiness.ericsson.net. A user id and a password are required to access the CPI Extranet service. Please, contact your Key Account Manager at Ericsson for access.
4.5.1
CPI library for MINI-LINK TN Function Designation
Product number
Availability
MINI-LINK TN 4.4 FP.2 ETSI
EN/LZN 712 0233/9
Browse or download: https://ebusiness.er icsson.net.
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Enhancements and updates A number of updates (including information on LTU2 155) and corrections have been made. For more information on changes compared to the previously released library, see the document Library Changes included in the CPI library (available in the Library Overview folder).
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Order and availability Information MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP.2 has reached GA and is available at SW Gateway from the 31st of January 2012. The SW will also be introduced in production. When ordering TN R4 equipment please use SM Ordering (single items) or the following Product Packages: Indoor Products MINI-LINK TN Config Indoor R4, FAP 130 1030 Outdoor Products MINI-LINK Config Outdoor, FAP 130 0378 For support in ordering see descriptions. Information about SM Ordering is available in the “Product Package Description”. MINI-LINK TN R4 Product Package Description 221 03-FGC 101 0400 Uen rev J MINI-LINK R4 ETSI, Product Catalog, Ordering Information, 3/2135-FGC 101 0400 Uen rev S For ordering, please contact your Ericsson representative.
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Compatibility For further information on compatibility, please refer to the documents
6.1
MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP ETSI Compatibility, 45/221 02-CSH 109 32/1-V1 Uen MINI-LINK Radio Unit Compatibility, 1/221 02-COH 901 536/1 Uen
Management Systems For full functionality in MINI-LINK 4.4FP.2, it is recommended to use the following management systems;
MINI-LINK Service Software 3.13 o
MINI-LINK Craft 2.17.1
o
MINI-LINK CLI Tool 1.2
MINI-LINK E Service Software 3.5 o
MSM 6.8.3
o
Local upgrade 1.19
ServiceOn Element Manager 10.4 or later for element management support. Note: Full support of LTU2 155 requires SO EM 10.4 CU R5D, to be released in April 2012. Ericsson IP Transport NMS 11.2 or later. Please refer to Release notes for ServiceOn products for more information. ServiceOn Microwave does not support MINI-LINK 4.3 and later releases.
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RAU SW and support for Adaptive Modulation and 256QAM For RAU2 X and RAU2 N radios to have support for Adaptive Modulation and 256QAM, the following SW R-states are required:
RAU SWFW 2878, CXP 901 2878 with R-state ≥ R2C RAU SW 3500, CXC 113 500 with R-state ≥ R2B RAU2 M SW, CXC 132 2623 with R-state ≥ R4B RAU1 L SW, CXC 132 0912 with R-state ≥ R2B
To activate new Adaptive Modulation physical modes a cold restart of MMU2 H may be required. See chapter 7.1.4 for more details.
6.3
RAU SW and support for Adaptive Modulation and 512QAM For RAU2 X radios to have support for Adaptive Modulation and 512QAM, the following SW R-states are required:
RAU SWFW 2878, CXP 901 2878 with R-state ≥ R3B RAU SW 3500, CXC 113 500 with R-state ≥ R2C
To activate new Adaptive Modulation physical modes a manual cold restart of MMU2 H may be required. See chapter 7.1.4 for more details.
6.4
RAU SW and support for C-QPSK with MMU2 H To avoid problems with traffic disturbances, the following R-states of radio SW are required when using MMU2 H in C-QPSK physical mode.
RAU2 M SW, CXC 132 2623 with R-state ≥ R4C RAU1 L SW, CXC 132 0912 with R-state ≥ R2C RAU2 SW, CXC 113 404 with R-state ≥ R5G
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6.5
RAU HW support; Dual DC, Impr Pwr efficiency & Output Pwr tol. Support for the features are enabled from the following hardware R-states:
6.6
Name
Dual DC
RAU2 X 5 HP RAU2 X/Xu 6L RAU2 X/Xu 6U RAU2 X/Xu 7 RAU2 X/Xu 8 RAU2 X/Xu 10 RAU2 X/Xu 11 RAU2 X/Xu 13 RAU2 X/Xu 15 RAU2 X/Xu 18 RAU2 X/Xu 23 RAU2 X/Xu 26 RAU2 X/Xu 28 RAU2 X/Xu 32 RAU2 X/Xu 38 RAU2 X/Xu 42 RAU2 7 RAU2 8 RAU2 13 RAU2 15 RAU2 18 RAU2 23 RAU2 26 RAU2 38
≥ R1A ≥ R3A ≥ R2A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R2A ≥ R1A ≥ R1A ≥ R1A ≥ R1A ≥ R2A ≥ R2A ≥ R4A ≥ R3A ≥ R3A ≥ R5A N/A N/A
Improved Power efficiency & Output Power tolerance
≥ R1A ≥ R4A ≥ R3A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R4A ≥ R5A ≥ R5A ≥ R3A ≥ R2A 1 ≥ R3A ≥ R2A ≥ R2A, R3A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
MMU2 H Due to Last Time Buy issues of components the hardware (ROJ 208 1308/1) has been updated to R3A and requires a new minimum board application SW, which is included on the HW from the factory. This new SW is also included in SBL 4.4.1 and later releases. It’s still possible to continue to use SBL 4.1FP or later and have support for this updated HW. In the Inventory the new MMU2 H SW R-state is presented, which is a newer SW than what is included in the active SBL. This new MMU2 H SW is fully backward compatible with these SBLs.
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Improved Power efficiency not supported
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For SBL 4.1FP.1, 4.2FP.2 and 4.2FP.3 a change of preferences is required. This is done via Software Upgrade and choosing “Preferences” and there enable “Accept Failures” and set Auto upgrade to “Off”.
6.7
NPU 8x2 and ATU NPU 8x2 and ATU are not supported in MINI-LINK TN R4 SW.
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System Information
7.1
System behavior
7.1.1
Start-up of a new MINI-LINK TN R4 node Please follow the instruction “RMM Handling Instruction” EN/LZT 712 0244 before first power-on, then the node will come up in R4 SW. The instruction is delivered together with the NPU. In case the plug-in units have SW versions deviating from R4 SW baseline, please perform a software upgrade to the new software baseline according to the MINI-LINK TN ETSI Operating Instruction, chapter “Software Upgrade”. The software baseline must be installed in the FTP server as normal.
7.1.2
Software Upgrade of existing MINI-LINK TN Please see “MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP ETSI Compatibility”, 45/221 02-CSH 109 32/1V1 Uen, for recommendation about Software upgrade path. If radio and node is to be upgraded with new SW we recommend the following order: 1. Perform RAU SW upgrade 2. Perform SBL upgrade Please see chapter 7.1.4 for details about activation of new Adaptive Modulation physical modes.
7.1.2.1
RAU SW upgrade Field recommendation: Radio units shall be upgraded with new SW if support for new functionalities are needed. Note that the already delivered RAU HW must support the new functionality. When upgrading, the recommendation is to upgrade to the latest released RAU SW. Please see “MINI-LINK Radio Unit Compatibility”, 1/221 02-COH 901 536/1 Uen, for information about SW and HW support for functionality. Some information can also be found in chapter 6 in this document.
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7.1.2.2
Traffic information during SW Upgrade The following boards will experience a traffic disturbance when upgrading SW from MINI-LINK TN 4.4FP (previous factory released SW):
7.1.2.3
NPU1 B, NPU1 C, NPU3, NPU3 B, NPU3 C ETU2 B, ETU3 MMU2 E, MMU2 F, MMU2 H
Traffic interruption during Software Upgrade from MINI-LINK TN3.3.x to MINI-LINK TN4.x A traffic interruption may occur without warning when activating the software after upgrading from R3 to R4.
7.1.2.4
Traffic interruption during Software downgrade To improve system robustness when performing a SW downgrade a cold restart will be automatically initiated. The cold restart will cause a traffic disturbance. This is valid when performing a SW downgrade from SBL 4.4FP and higher to any earlier SBL.
7.1.2.5
Downgrade of nodes with LTU2 155 installed Traffic Nodes with LTU2 155 installed should not be downgraded to releases older than 4.4FP.2. First of all LTU2 155 requires 4.4FP.2 or later, but in addition MMU configurations may potentially be lost.
7.1.3
MMU2 H and RAU2 X Limitation in physical modes The following physical modes: 64QAM @ 7 MHz XPIC 256QAM @ 7 MHz 128QAM @ 14 MHz XPIC are only available for the following radios:
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RAU2 X radio 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 RAU2 X 13, 15 with R-state ≥ R3A RAU2 X 18, 23 with R-state ≥ R5A All RAU2 N
The following physical modes: 512QAM @ 28 MHz XPIC 512QAM @ 40 MHz XPIC are only recommended for the following radios: RAU2 X radio 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 RAU2 X 13, 15 with R-state ≥ R3A RAU2 X 18, 23 with R-state ≥ R5A In the future RAU2 X HW will be updated so that also higher frequencies can handle these physical modes.
7.1.4
MMU2 H and new Adaptive Modulation physical modes A manually triggered cold restart is required specifically for MMU2 H with R-state R3A and higher when upgrading from SBL 4.4/4.4.x to SBL 4.4FP or later to activate new Adaptive modulation physical modes. For the next SW upgrade, from SBL 4.4FP or higher to a future release, this activation will be done automatically.
7.1.5
Problem for small frame sizes when links overloaded Bidirectional traffic consisting of different packet sizes and priority classes is applied at a rate higher than the capacity. In the direction from the ETU2 node the strict prioritization works as expected. In the direction from the node with ETU3/ETU2 B board the prioritization fails above a certain frame rate (i.e. small frame sizes). When this occurs packets of all classes are dropped and the overall throughput is much lower than expected. For large frame sizes (i.e. low frame rate) the prioritization works fine. For small frame sizes it’s recommended to apply following workaround to avoid QoS problems. Workaround:
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Via CLI: config <return> controller imgroup r/s/imgNo <return> speedlimitenable (no speedlimitenable to turn off)
7.1.6
Ethernet measurements probes When SW upgrading from SBL ≤ 4.4.2 to SBL ≥ 4.4FP the WAN port definitions for the already configured Ethernet measurements probes are lost. To recover the WAN ports definitions need to be manually reconfigured. The general recommendation is to instead use the new EPM (Ethernet Performance Monitoring) function.
7.2
Known limitations to be corrected in future releases
7.2.1
Ethernet Performance Monitoring Discarded packets are not shown for WAN in "Traffic Performance" but are shown in "Traffic Performance TC Queue".
7.2.2
Revertive switching with MMU2 E and MMU2 F For MMU2 E and MMU2 F Revertive switching requires that preferred RX is set to the same as working RX to work.
7.2.3
LLD on Far end WAN if LLF switched off with Near End WAN down Avoid switching off LLF (Link Loss Forwarding) with WAN port in Admin status Down, since this will give permanent LLD on connected Far End WAN. Instead switch off LLF with WAN port in Admin status Up.
7.2.4
LTU2 155; PDH carried in STM-1 not to be used as sync source With LTU2 155, the PDH channels carried in the STM-1 shall not be used as node sync source due to performance issues. Instead change system setup to distribute the sync via the STM-1.
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LTU2 155; No performance data for E1 shown in MSP setup If the lower-slot board of a MSP pair is not present during a node restart, there will be no PM data shown for the E1 interfaces. It is neither possible to enable the PM view. As a workaround, install the lower slot board and perform a node warm restart
7.2.6
SFPo; Reserved Position alarm after upgrade When SW upgrading from SBL ≤ 4.3.1 to SBL ≥ 4.4FP, optical SFPs (SFPo) may raise a Reserved Position alarm and the SFPo will be crossed over in the Craft Main view. Traffic is not affected. Recovery is to perform a clear reservation of the SFPo and then configure it again.
7.2.7
Replacement NPU loaded with 4.4FP.2 SW R22M10 If the local FTP server not is reachable when replacing an NPU with a different NPU loaded with 4.4FP.2 SW R22M10, and re-using the configuration from present RMM, the upgrade process may stop before finalized. The process normally can be recovered by requesting Refresh in Craft view until the process in finalized.
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Revision history Rev
Information
A
First edition
B
Ch. 3.1.1: Information added about Running configuration not properly saved. Ch. 3.3.1: Information added about Slow response from R4 node running towards several R3 nodes Ch. 6.1: New Craft 2.17.1 recommended. For further information why, see ch. 3.1.5. Ch. 6.1: Note about full support of LTU2 155 in SO EM changed to 10.4 CU R5D Ch. 7.1.3: RAU2 X 5 HP added.
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Add info in ch. 7.1.2.5, 7.2.6 and 7.2.7.
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