AZALEA WIRELESS MESH ROUTER MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE v2.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Copyright 2008 Azalea Networks All rights reserved. Printed in China. 2008. Azalea Networks reserves the right to change, modify, revise this publication without notices. Trademarks Copyright 2008 by Azalea Networks, Inc. All right reserved. Azalea, the Azalea logo, and MSR1000/MSR2000/MSR4000 are trademarks of Azalea Networks, Inc. All other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
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AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Safety Warnings MSR4000 must be installed by trained professional installation technician. All below warning information must be read before installation. General Safety Warnings You can be killed or injured if performing antenna installation near electrical power lines. Carefully read and follow all instructions in this guide. Please be sure there are no high voltage and electronic field.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Grounding Warning Please always remember to protect your MSR4000 system by installation of grounding lines. The ground connection must be complete before connecting power to the MSR4000 enclosure. The requirement of grounding is to make sure the resistance must be less than 0.1 ohm between the ground termination point to grounding tier. Power Installation Warning The installation of power switch must be performed by a trained professional technician.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE CONTENTS 1 MSR4000 Quick Installation Guide .........................................................................................6 1.1 Further Reading ............................................................................................................................ 6 2 Abstract.....................................................................................................................................7 2.1 Function Introduction ......................
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 1 MSR4000 Quick Installation Guide This Quick Installation Guide provides step by step instructions for installing and setting up the MSR4000. Content includes methods to access the MSR4000. For configuration, please refer to manuals in the attached CD ROM. 1.1 Further Reading More detailed configuration instructions can be found in the CD-ROM.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Abstract 2 2.1 Function Introduction MSR 4000 is a multi-functional wireless mesh router, which can be connected with end user equipment directly or other MSR routers and wire networks to set up wireless network. The basic functions are listed below: • Can work as a Wi-Fi AP, can servie end user equipment, such as notebook, PDA and Wi-Fi phone • Can work with other MSR4000 to setup backbone mesh network.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 2.3 Operating Range Operating Temperature Range Storage Temperature Range Non-Condensing Humidity Range Wind Survivability Rating Power input (VAC) AC Power Consumption 2.4 2.5 -40°C ~ +55°C -40°C ~ +80°C 10% ~ 90% 165mph 100/240 (50/60 Hz) 5W (typical) Environmental Rating Ingress Protection (IP) Ratings 66 Shock and Vibration Rating ETSI 300-19-2-4 class 4M3 spec T41.E LED Panel LED Panel 2.6 Eth0: Green. Blinking for data traffic on Eth0. Eth1: Green.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Cable Color Pin Mapping White/green Pin 1 Green Pin 7 White/orange Pin 5 Orange Pin 4 White/blue Pin 2 Blue Pin 3 White/brown Pin 6 Brown Pin 8 Ground Pin 9 2.7 Console Cable The weather insulated console cable plug and pin mapping are shown in the figure below. The other end of the console cable which connecting to the laptop is a standard DB9 connector. Azalea adopts generally applied Ethernet cable to build the Console Cable.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Connection guide for power cable: Phase（Live Line） – 2nd pin of 3 pin power cable with water protection Neutral（Zero Line） – 3rd pin of 3 pin power cable with water protection Grounding– 1st pin of 3 pin power cable with water protection z Power Plug The other side of power cable is a standard connection according to local regulation 2.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 3 3.1 Installation Preparation Site Survey site surveyis is the key step in wireless network project, which is decisive to the reasonablity of system design and the smooth implementation of deployment. 3.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 3.3 The principle of site survey 1) The principles of site survey of MESH networks are as: Mesh No obstacle in 60% of the 1st fresnel zone. It will secure LOS in most areas and the coverage capability is secured and the number of sites could be saved. 2) If no LOS secured, area in NLOS area could be covered as well, but the distance of coverage and area of coverage are decreased, more sites are needed to provide coverage for same area than LOS scenario.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE ¾ Site investgation: the availabity of power, installation of antenna and MSR4000. 3.5 Tools D Safety tape, safety cap D Insulation tool D Installation Tool D Measurement Tool D Power Panel D Template of Installation 3.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Antenna Installation 4 4.1 z Principles Height of antenna installation: ¾ The antennas height can be different even for antennas connected to same MSR4000. It would be determined by the space of installation, or by design requirement; ¾ The antenna height for access could be 20 meters in open and flat area of city.
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AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE z Antenna Installation Tools: Spanners size 10 1． The height of antenna must follow the requirement in desgin documentation ( enough isolation should be secured between antennas, vertical isolution is much better than horizental isolation); 2． Put antenna to pole by U-bolt, start from upper U-bolt then down one; 3． Fix antenna on bracket, don’t strengthen the nut too tight because the antenna azimuth will be adjusted.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 4.3 Omni Antenna Installation Tools: Adjustable Spanner Installation material package of omni antenna includes: D Omni antenna: D Installation bracket of omni antenna( 2 sets of fasten nuts included) The procedure of omni antenna installation is: 1． Mount the bracket to pole by one set of nuts, fasten the nuts by Spanner; 2． Mount the omni antenna to the bracket by another set of nuts; 3． Adjust antenna to secure it installed vertically; 4． Fasten the nuts by Spanner.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 5 MSR4000 Installation Installation kit D 1 Solar shield D 4 shield fastening bolts D 1 Installation Bracket D 2 pipe holders (mounted on pole) D 4 long bolts for pipe holder D 4 expansion bolts ( mounted on wall) D 2 MSR4000 Fastening bolts 5.1 Install MSR4000 on Mast Tools: Spanners size 10 and 14. Installation Procedure 1. use long bolts to fasten the pipe holder and bracket to the mast 2. use 2 MSR4000 fastening bolts to mount the MSR box to the bracket 3.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE The process of installing MSR4000 on a wall is as: 1． Put the MSR4000 bracket against the wall and mark the 4 position of nut holes; 2． Drilling on the 4 mark positions; 3． Hit expansion bolts into wall; 4． Put MSR4000 bracket on the expansion bolts; 5． Use the 2 MSR fastening bolt to fix MSR onto the bracket 6． Use shield fastening bolts to install the solar shield onto MSR4000 5.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 6 Lightning Protection Installation The lightning protector is to protect MSR4000 to avoid damage by burst high current from lightning. Lightning protector should be installed between radio port and antenna feeder, and the lightning protector should be connected with lightning system of the building . Tools needed: Paper knife, Pliers, Crimping Pliers, Cross Screwdriver, and Spanners.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 7 Feeder Installation Feeder is used to connect antenna with MSR4000. Due to the high propagation loss for high frequency waves , the feeder must be as short as possible to get minimum loss of signal strength. If long feeder must to be used, higher diameter feeder is recommended. The typical propagation loss of 100 meters is listed in the table below: Feeder type Cable loss for Cable loss for 5.8GHz 2.4GHz (dB/100m) (dB/dB/100m) 1/2” 12.8 21.4 7D 25.7 42.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 8 Ethernet Cable Installation Ethernet cable connects MSR4000 mesh network to wire network. Ethernet cable is needed, only when MSR4000 used as gateway. The performance of network cable will degrade seriously with length longer than 100 meters. So in MSR nodes planning, it is better to choose access point to wire network within 100 meters. The process of Ethernet cable installation 1． Unscrew the protective cap on the Ethernet enclosure.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 10 Completed Installation Picture of site with completed installation: COPYRIGHT 2008 AZALEA NETWORKS 23
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE 11 Administrating the MSR4000 There are two methods of performing the quick start configuration: using the Quick Setup Wizard provided by MSR series’ Web-based Management Interface (WMI), or using the setup command of the router’s Command Line Interface (CLI). Azalea recommends using the Quick Setup Wizard which is accessible from most modern internet browsers such as Internet Explorer.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Unlike node 1, node 2 does not serve any client devices but only forwards traffic to and from other nodes. As such, both of its radios are configured in backhaul mode. Such a relay-only node is known as a point node. Node 3 is similar to node 1 in that it has one backhaul radio and one access radio, which means it is also capable of connecting to other MSR series routers and servicing client devices.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Accessing the Quick Setup Wizard To log in the web interface of a MSR series router, input the router IP address and the port address, such as 111.168.15.229 for router IP, and then input http://111.168.15.229:9080 in the web browser address. A pop-up dialog box would appear and request a username and password (see Figure 2). On an un-configured MSR series router, it can connect a client PC to the router’s Ethernet 0 port and the port’s default IP address is 192.168.0.1.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Figure 3 Web Management Interface Home Page To open the Quick Setup Wizard, click the “Quick Setup” link in the left-side menu tree. 1 of the Quick Setup Wizard appears at the right side of the web page (see Figure ) The Step Figure 4 Web Management Interface Home Page Using the Quick Setup Wizard To configure a node with the Quick Setup Wizard, answer the questions asked during each step of the wizard.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Figure 5 Configuring the portal node, step 1 Figure 6 Configuring the portal node, step 2 Figure 7 Configuring the portal node, step 3 COPYRIGHT 2008 AZALEA NETWORKS 28
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Figure 8 Configuring the portal node, step 4 After the last step of confirming the reboot is performed, the web interface would stop responding for a few seconds while the router reboots itself. Note that since the quick setup changes the IP address of the Ethernet 0 port on the router, you may need to re-open the web interface using the new IP address if you were using Ethernet 0 to connect to the router.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Figure 10 Configuring the point node, step 2 Figure 11 Configuring the point node, step 3 Example Configuration 3: AP node The following figures show how the example AP node can be configured by answering the questions on each screen.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Figure 13 Configuring the AP node, step 2 Figure 14 Configuring the AP node, step 3 Note: The scope of this document does not cover tuning the mesh network for total coverage. For more detailed configuration instructions, please refer to the respective guides available in the CD-ROM. Appendix z MSR4000 basic specifications 802.11a/b/g and 4.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE z MSR4000 physical information Length: 325mm Width: 290mm Height: 135mm Weight: 7kg (w/o mounting bracket and solar shield) Chassis material : Aluminum Chassis color : white FCC Warning: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
AZALEA MSR4000 INSTALLATION GUIDE Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
