Televes CoaxManager, User Manual

Page 1: ...CoaxManager User Guide ...

Page 2: ...Transmission Mask 11 Writing Device Settings 12 Checking Devices Network 13 Device Info 13 CCO Info 14 Network Topology 15 Generating traffic to verify network links 16 Generating Reports for Checking Network State 16 Setting QoS parameters Advanced User 18 Default Priorities 18 Priority Levels Assignment 19 TTL Time to Live 19 Buffer Allocation Priority Thresholds 20 Bandwidth Limit 21 Bandwidth ...

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Page 4: ...ly moisture conditions Do not place the equipment where it may be affected by strong vibrations or knocks How to use the equipment safely The powering supply of this product is 100 264 Vac 50 60 Hz If any liquid or object falls inside the equipment please contact a specialized technician To disconnect the equipment from the mains pull from the connector and never pull from the cable Do not connect...

Page 5: ...r priority levels based on IEEE 802 1Q VLAN tags or IPv4 ToS Type of Service Supports Advanced Features to configure IGMP number of users or Low Power Mode System Requirements Application works with Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 8 Application works on Mac OS X and Linux Operating systems with virtualization based on Oracle VM VirtualBox software for Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 8 Application requires install...

Page 6: ...e the user through the installation process Language selection This option selects setup language Follow installer instructions to complete applcation installation Read carefully license before use program and approval before continue Once installed application will appear on your desktop the icon below ENGLISH www televes es ...

Page 7: ...h device you want to configure Different operations are available Read Config Reads connected device configuration This operation is performed automatically when connected to a device Write Config Write configuration on connected device Configuration is changed through tab GUIs Factory Defaults Sets device to factory settings Be careful with this option since restore to factory configuration cause...

Page 8: ...E 7C hexadecimal values and are registered on IEEE DAK key Device Access key Key established in the manufacturing process and determines access to devices when it occurs remotely via coaxial Knowledge of this key is essential for updating configuring devices remotely although default DAK key value is always the same on manufacturing proccess simplifying devices configuration NMK key Network Manage...

Page 9: ...communication between all devices Disable Device Transmissions This options allows disable device transmissions and avoids data transmission on network Coaxmanager application still connect to device for management but device cannot transmit data avoiding bandwith consumption MDU Configuration Sets operating mode of the device Home Networking This is default mode setting at the factory and allows ...

Page 10: ...g medium is avaliable Devices access to medium when no one else is transmitting This mechanism however requires that all of the devices can listen all transmissions of other devices connected to the network Depending on the coaxial network in which the system is implemented there may not listen slaves of other slaves transmissions due to a high isolation of distribution outlets 100dB and CSMA acce...

Page 11: ...xDATA 1Gpbs devices like refs 769201 769202 and 769203 Frequencies Range used by different transmission masks depend on the product being used Mask 0 Hybrid Mask 1 Only Coax Mask 3 Only Coax CoaxDATA 200Mbps Ref 7689 768973 2 30Mhz 7 5 30Mhz 7 5 30Mhz CoaxDATA 1Gbps Ref 769201 769202 769203 2 67 5Mhz 7 5 67 5Mhz 7 5 67 5Mhz Network Password Create an AVLN Network This option allows you to set the ...

Page 12: ...figuration on device Configuration is stored in a memory area dedicated to user settings If you have issues about setting up or want to delete Press Factory Default Button to restore the device to the factory eliminating user settings When writing the configuration to a remote device connected through the coaxial be careful if you change the network key Network Password since when change key chang...

Page 13: ...ork It can accommodate values from 1 master to 253 slaves MxU mode and up to 64 slaves on HomeNetworking mode Hosts Info List of different users who have connected to the device from its Ethernet interface Ethernet Link Indicates if any of the two Ethernet interfaces of the device is connected If is On this field indicates that the device has someone connected via Ethernet Get Counters This button...

Page 14: ... Is an unique identifier of a device on a network It is always 1 NID Network identifier When a master proceeds to create new networks on coaxial data generated Network identifiers value by a hash algorithm In same network can coexists up to 4 masters with same Netwok Password creating same AVLN but with a different NID Identifier A slave may choose to connect to a master NID or with other dependin...

Page 15: ...n the application has chosen a range of colors to indicate the status of the channel Indicates that the link operates at maximum rate coaxDATA 200Mbps HDTV 120Mbps throughput 150Mps coaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV 300Mbps throughput 450Mps Indicates that the link operates at medium rate coaxDATA 200Mbps HDTV 70Mbps throughput 120Mps coaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV 170Mbps throughput 300Mps Indicates that the link operate...

Page 16: ...t of the network This feature is only available when connected locally to a device through an Ethernet cable but is not available when CoaxManager connect to a remote device Once the traffic generated between all links the application displays a message indicating packet generation is over With this option we can get an estimate of channel between devices without any active hosts on devices this i...

Page 17: ...Televes 17 Once generated PDF report you can save a compressed tgz that contains all the information captured from the network and can be analyzed later www televes es ...

Page 18: ...0 lowest priority Packets belonging to higher priority are transmitted first There are three mechanisms for priority setting Are shown in order of preference in the firmware Default Priorities Mapping as 802 1p and or cough QoS Rules CoaxManagerPro Only Default Priorities This section allows the assignment of priority levels based on packets by type This assignment overrides VLAN tag 802 1p or IPv...

Page 19: ... packets RFC 1349 describes this field and values like delay rate optimization or reliability You can assign one of four priority levels CAP0 3 device according to the first 3 bits of the ToS field ToS Precedence TTL Time to Live CoaxDATA devices allow you to specify a parameter called TTL Time to Live for each priority level CAP This parameter indicates how long a packet can stay in the buffers S...

Page 20: ...o each CAP When the percentage of allocated buffers exceeded lower priority packets are discarded but higher priority is still admitted By enabling this option the packages are stored waiting to be transmitted but if at any time it exceeds a certain percentage of occupancy the packet is discarded leaving room for higher priority packets example Suppose you have the following prioritization Assigne...

Page 21: ... to set a limit on the bandwidth used by users programming limit on slave modems This option is ignored on Home Networking mode Bandwidth limit overrides QoS priority all packets are dropped if exceed limit regardless of its priority Bandwidth Limit with QoS Bandwidth Limit allows operators installers configure CoaxDATA products so that users can only use a certain bandwidth that have hired Howeve...

Page 22: ... CoaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV Ref 769202 CoaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV with SFP Following CoaxDATA devices do not support QoS For Bandwidth Limit Bandwidth Limit is applied to all flows regardless their QoS Ref 768973 CoaxDATA 200Mbps HDTV 1xEth Ref 769203 CoaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV 1XEth Ref 769301 CoaxDATA 1Gbps HDTV 3XEth Wifi ENGLISH www televes es ...

Page 23: ... the application for advanced parameters IGMP options IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol is a protocol for managing multicast flows and define the devices to receive multicast data stream video audio etc IGMP may save bandwidth indicating devices want to receive a given flow preventing traffic reaches the devices are not interested in the data stream CoaxManager provides options to define the...

Page 24: ...t Only IGMPv3 This timer expires after 260 seconds where no IGMP Queries sent to a specific group that has been registered in the device A registered group is one in which there are set top boxes that indicate their membership of a particular group responding to IGMP queries that are sent periodically by the Multicast Router If the timer is disabled once registered multicast flow will not be remov...

Page 25: ...f 5Mbps to all devices on netwok It is not recommended to use this option unless you really know what you are doing IGMP Reports to Non Querier Hosts By default IGMP reports only are sent to Ethernet ports if IGMP Querier exists on network ie IGMP reports are sent to querier When this option is enabled allows resend all IGMP join leaves to Ethernet ports even if IGMP Queriers are not present ie Mu...

Page 26: ...be registered either as hosts of the slaves coaxdata or well as hosts of the master and therefore it is necessary to activate this option to avoid that these users can be blocked by the system Typical case installation are those where coaxdata slaves are connected to Wifi AP and in addition there are other Wifi AP connected to other networks out of coaxial network for example Wifi AP providing ser...

Page 27: ...aster hosts table causing a malfunction of the system In these cases it is recommended to implement the isolation on switch ports in such a way that broadcasts received on master port on the switch are not retransmitted on switch ports connected to other masters If the switch does not have this option is recommended to disable the learning of MACs on the master to avoid collapse of hosts tables on...

Page 28: ...arby networks The mitigation Network provides an alternative to the diplexer filter installation for the isolation of data networks We recommend installation of those filters diplexers so as to isolate the different networks in the coaxial data see the product manual for more information If it is not possible to isolate the networks with filters diplexers Mitigation Network option allow masters fr...

Page 29: ...d by the client when press the button This option increases product security when disable factory button it is impossible to use it to delete user settings when press Although button is disabled the Factory Default option on CoaxManager through GUI interface is still running and you can set the factory settings by cliking button on application Advanced Power Management This option enables the low ...

Page 30: ...nagement VLAN ID used in responses MME Response is the same as that used in the requests Requests MME VLAN used on indication messages messages that emits an informative request MME Indication is set on VLAN ID field on GUI Block Slave MME This feature prevents slave sent management requests MME to master through coaxial network It can be activated on slave or master This option prevents it from t...

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