User Manual In:xtnd™ | Control | MA2.5 | 4 Copyright © 2019 InCoax Networks AB. All rights reserved. Confidential under NDA.
Document History Date Rev Originator Description 2018-12-03 V1.4 Johan Bodin Thomas Svensson Jesper Cederholm Initial version converted from former system. 2019-02-18 V1.4_b3 Thomas Svensson Inx:tnd system release Version 1.0NC 2019-03-18 V1.4.2 Carl Elofsson Inx:tnd system release Version 1.0NC Approval 2019-06-07 V1.5 Jesper Cederholm Inx:tnd system release Version 1.1 2019-06-18 V1.4_b16 Johan Sandström Additions and corrections 2019-06-25 V1.
Contents Read This First ............................................................................................................................... 1 When Using the Controller ...................................................................................................................... 1 Network Requirements ........................................................................................................................... 1 Installation Environment ......................................
3.5.1 Support - Ping.................................................................................................................. 27 3.5.2 Support - Hardware......................................................................................................... 28 3.6 Statistics ................................................................................................................................... 28 3.7 Settings........................................................................
Read This First Always make sure to connect all coaxial cables and network cables before connecting the power cable. This must be done to avoid electrical shock and to avoid damage to the unit. Ground loops might build up enough electrical charge to give an electrical shock if not properly connected before connecting the power cord.
Installation Environment Install the Controller in a site free from strong electromagnetic field generators (such as motors), vibration, dust, and direct exposure to sunlight. Install the Controller in a fairly cool and dry place for the acceptable temperature and humidity operating ranges. See section 4 for the actual temperature ranges. Install the Controller on a sturdy, level surface that can support at least 5 kg (11 lbs) of weight.
Definitions and Abbreviations The following definitions are used in this document: Definition Description Access Modem In:xtnd™ | Access | MA2.5 | 2Eth – is a coax to Ethernet network terminal providing 2×1 Gbps Ethernet interfaces. In:xtnd Access 2 Ethernet communicates with the In:xtnd Controller 4-port and is based on the MoCA Access™ 2.5 standard. The In:xtnd Access Modem is installed in the subscribers’ premises. This device will be referred to as the Access Modem or just the Modem in the document.
4 Abbreviation Description RX Receive signal. SaaS Software as a Service – a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SFP/SFP+ Small Form factor Pluggable transceiver. SFP ≤ 1 Gbps and SFP+/Enhanced ≤ 10 Gbps. SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol – protocol for exchanging structured information.
Package Content Check that you have the accessories and items as shown in Table 1. (The images are illustrations and may differ from the real items.) Table 1 - Contents of the package. Product Item Description Controller Broadband over coax access node, capable of 2.5 Gbps per RF-port, a total of 10 Gbps. Mounting handles Mounting handles for wall mount (4 pcs). Quick Guide Quick Guide Item picture Copyright © 2018 InCoax Networks AB. All rights reserved.
1 Introduction 1.1 The In:xtnd™ System InCoax™ is a provider of broadband access solutions leveraging existing in-building coaxial cable networks. The In:xtnd System consists of a Management System (In:xtnd™ | Manage) which manages Controllers (In:xtnd™ | Control) installed in, or near, buildings and Modems (In:xtnd™ | Access ) installed in customers’ homes. An illustration of the management system can be seen in Figure 1.
1.5 The In:xtnd™ Quality of Service The In:xtnd Controller support up to four queues, broadcast, and multicast Quality of Service (QoS), prioritization between unicast and broadcast/multicast and classification. Unicast QoS can be set individually for each Modem. 1.6 The In:xtnd™ | Basic Product Connection Figure 2 shows an example of the in-building connections for the basic products. Figure 2 — Overview of the in-building connections. Copyright © 2018 InCoax Networks AB. All rights reserved.
2 Getting Started – Controller Web Interface The Controller can be managed via the management port the Controller can be seen. 2.1 MGT. Please refer to Figure 3 where the front of Accessing the Controller Web Interface 1. Connect a computer with an Ethernet cable to the Management port on the Controller, marked MGT. (InCoax recommends using the cable type CAT5e as a minimum for best performance.) 2. Set a static IP for your computer connection, for example 192.168.144.100 (or any IP between 192.168.
Table 2 — User level permissions.
3 Web Interface This section gives a detailed description on how to use the Controller Web Interface. 3.1 Overview The web interface provides the possibility to configure and manage settings, and inspect performance and statistics. Each of the tabs HOME, MODEMS, MANAGEMENT, SUPPORT, STATISTICS, SETTINGS, and LOGOUT are described below in the following sections. All web pages have their name displayed just below the menu bar. This is to make it easier to locate where you are in the web interface. 3.
Chassis: This gives an indication of the temperature inside the chassis. There are four possible colors: Good (green) - Status OK. Warning (yellow) - Status warning. Small margin to Critical status. Critical (orange) - Maintenance might be required. Contact your local sales representative. Failure (red) - Maintenance or replacement might be required. Contact your local sales representative. 3.3 Modems 3.3.
3.3.3.1 Adding Modems Manually 1. Make sure that the Modem is switched off. 2. In the main menu, hover over MODEMS and click on OVERVIEW. 3. Click on ADD MODEM in the Options menu to the right. (See Figure 7.) 4. Enter the MAC address of the Modem in the field MAC. The MAC address can be found on the product label placed on the Modem. 5. In the Service & QoS, as seen in Figure 8, set the MoCA band and frequency to the same values as the coax port.
Table 3 — Description of the Add Modem parameters. Term Value [Default Setting] Definition Basic Settings MAC MAC MAC address for the Modem. Location User defined location Text string describing the location of the Modem. Set to Auto discover when the Modem has been automatically detected and added by the Controller. This can be changed when the Modem has been added.
Term Value [Default Setting] Definition Burst guaranteed 0 - 131071 bytes [4096] Burst traffic guaranteed value, also called committed burst size, CBS. VLAN passthrough [On] If it is marked it means that each port allows packets with tagged VLAN (defined in each Modem) to pass through the Modem switch. If it is not marked, then packets with VLAN tag (other than defined in native) are dropped. Enable port On/Off [On] Activate/disable switchport.
Figure 10 — Add Service - Basic Settings. Figure 11 — Add Service - Service and QoS; Switch Configuration. 3.3.3.4 Modem Details To get access to more details about the Modem go to the main menu, hover over MODEMS and click on DETAILS. A web page as shown in Figure 12 will be displayed. This contains some statistical data from the Modems. See Table 5 for more details. Sorting of the listed Modems can be done for the headers MAC, COAX, LOCATION, S, CAM UPTIME, and VERSION. Figure 12 — Modem - Details.
Table 4 — Description of the Add Service parameters. Term Value [Default Setting] Definition Basic Settings Name User defined Name [Blank] Text string describing the Service. This can be changed when the Modem has been added. Service active On/Off [Off] Defines which service that is active via SET function in the MODEM OVERVIEW tab. (See Figure 6.) Service VLAN n id n= 1 - 4 User added VLAN Defines which of the VLANs are available on the Controller that could be available for the Modem.
Table 5 — Description of parameters for Modem - Details. Term Value Definition MAC Displays the Modem’s MAC address. COAX 1 to 4 Displays which coax port the Modem is connected to. Displays the text (string) entered under Location earlier. See Table 3 and Figure 7. LOCATION VLAN 1 - 4095 Displays which VLAN the Modem is connected to. S Green/Red S = Status. Green means that there is a coax link connection. Red means no coax link connection.
Figure 14 — Modem statistics graph and csv file download page. 3.4 Management The MANAGEMENT tab contains all MoCA Access 2.5 based Network Controller parameters, i.e. RF signal and MAC configuration, and Ethernet Access Node parameters (i.e. the VLAN and QoS) that can be configured. 3.4.1 Overview In the main menu, hover over MANAGEMENT and click on OVERVIEW. The parameters Multicast groups and Service VLAN are displayed, as is seen in Figure 15. Figure 15 — Management - Overview. 3.4.
3.4.2.1 Add Multicast Click on the ADD MC GROUP to add a new multicast group. 1. Configure the relevant parameters Multicast group IP, Name, Source VLAN, and Reserved bandwidth, as seen in Figure 17 and Table 6. 2. Click on Add multicast group to save the settings and add the new Multicast Group. Figure 17 — Add Multicast. Table 6 — Description of the Multicast parameters. Term Value Definition Multicast group IP Multicast IP address. Name User defined name.
Figure 19 — Trunk and Coax ports. Figure 20 — The default settings for the Trunk port. Term Table 7 — Description of the Trunk port parameters. Value Definition [Default Value] TRUNK 10G, COAX 4×2.5G / Port Speed TRUNK 1G, COAX 4×1G [TRUNK 10G, COAX 4×2.5G] ”TRUNK 10G, COAX 4×2.5G” sets the Trunk port to work in 10 Gbps mode and the Coax ports to run in 2.5 Gbps mode. The setting is intended to be used with 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP+ modules and 10 Gbps XG(S) - PON ONT/ONU that support 10 Gbps Ethernet.
Table 8 — Description of the Coax ports parameters. Term Value [Default Value] On/Off On/Off [On] Power 0 - 10 [10] PA/Attenuation [Off/Off] [A - D, 1125 1625 MHz] Amplified output and/or attenuated input. [5] 500 - 1600 MHz depending on MoCA band [1150] Define the number of 100 MHz Channels to be used for each port.
Figure 23 — The Add VLAN page. Table 9 — Description of the Add VLAN parameters. Term Value [Default Setting] Definition S-VLAN 1 - 4095 802.1q VLAN ID. C-VLAN 1 - 4095 C-VLAN is the VLAN tag the customer is using on their own devices. Prio [0] - 7 The VLAN priority between 0 and 7. OPT82 ID 1 - 4095 If the DHCP snooping is activated the VLAN ID information uses the value in this field. DHCP Snooping [Inactive] Active untrusted Active trusted - DHCP Snooping is inactive.
Figure 24 — The VLAN Multicast Group configuration page. Table 10 — Description of the Add Multicast Group parameters. Value [Default Setting] Term Definition S-VLAN 10 / C-VLAN 100 Filter mode Including/Excluding Including/Excluding [Excluding] IGMP report timeout If Including, the configured Multicast Groups for this VLAN will only allow multicast traffic for the configured multicast groups.
Figure 25 — Service and QoS settings, DHCP snooping and Access Modem default. Figure 26 — Service and QoS settings, Broadcast / Multicast traffic per Link. Table 11 — Service and QoS settings.
3.4.6 Priority Settings The In:xtnd System can handle up to four queues; Q0 to Q3. They are intended for different types of traffic with different priorities. Traffic from the queues is dispatched with frames from the Q3 queue first, then from the Q2 queue, and so on with the Q0 queue last. If a VLAN-tagged frame has the P-bits set, the frame can be mapped against one of the queues depending on the P-bits. This mapping can be done in any way under the Inbound Traffic Class Mapping.
Table 12 — Description of the Priority parameters. Value [Default Setting] Term Definition Type of Service Settings Enable ToS Enable/Disable if the Type of Service (ToS) field in IPheader shall be used to control priority of the traffic. If ToS is activated the priority of VLAN Pri-field (802.1p) is overridden by the ToS settings. On/Off [Off] Prio n / Min / Max.
It is possible to define reserved bandwidth for multicast groups. If a multicast group is joined on one Modem the unicast peak bandwidth can be limited with a value on that Modem to avoid unicast traffic to disturb the multicast stream. This setting is “global” for the Controller, i.e. the value is valid for all multicast groups. When a new multicast group is joined the bandwidth will be limited with the value that is input in the field UC Adjustment.
3.5.2 Support - Hardware To view the hardware information hover over SUPPORT and click on HARDWARE. The displayed information will be similar to the one shown in Figure 31. Figure 31 — Hardware information. 3.6 Statistics The Controller maintains a database for various key data regarding link quality and error indications. The data is presented in different graphs to show changes over time, which is useful for troubleshooting and quality supervision.
Figure 33 — Modem Statistics - RX/TX traffic per Modem port, number of packets, and packets per second. Figure 34 — Modem statistics graph - RX/TX packets per second. Figure 35 — Controller Status - Live statistics from the chipsets in the Controller. Figure 36 — Port spectrum analysis for a coax port. Copyright © 2018 InCoax Networks AB. All rights reserved.
3.7 Settings In the SETTINGS menu you can change the general settings, edit the account, manage users, and edit the time settings. 3.7.1 My Account In the main menu hover over SETTINGS and click on MY ACCOUNT -side. The web page is shown in Figure 37. Figure 37 — My Account. 3.7.2 Users On this page it is possible to manage the users that will have the login access to the Controller. Log in as an Admin to be able to add or edit accounts. 3.7.2.
3.7.3 Network The settings for the Network are one of the most important settings that allow management of the Controller. The Controller can be managed by using a Management System via SOAP or simply to log in to the web managing interface IP defined in the LAN settings. To enter this configuration: In the main menu, hover over MANAGEMENT and click on NETWORK. The web page is shown in Figure 39 and the parameters are described in Table 15. In the LAN settings there are the IP address and Subnet mask.
Figure 40 shows the Date and Time web page. Select Manual time (radio button) to set the time manually. Enter the Date and Time and then click on the button Update. Click on NTP Server (radio button) if you prefer that the time shall be set automatically and updated regularly. Enter an NTP address for a server that you prefer to use. Use the parameters UTC Sign and UTC Offset to compensate for an eventual time difference between the NTP server and the local time where the Controller is located.
In the main menu click on SETTINGS and then click on MANAGEMENT SYSTEM in the menu to the right. See Figure 42 and Table 17. Figure 42 — Settings for the Management System. Table 17 — Description of the parameters for the Management system. Term Value Definition Instant CAM reporting Report new CAM to CLM On/Off Controller reports new Modem immediately to Management System. CLM config IP address IP address IP address of Management System. Username Text string Management System SOAP username.
Figure 43 — Basic settings. Table 18 — Description of the parameters of the Basic settings. Term Value Definition Link Controller ID Text string ID of the Controller. This is a mandatory field for the Management System Location Text string Physical location of the Controller Apply Click to apply the new settings. Reset Click to revert back to the previously saved configuration. 3.7.
3.7.9 Import/Export This section is used to import and export Controller settings from local saved files, and to reset the Controller to the factory defaults. To show the web page hover over SETTINGS and click on IMPORT/EXPORT. The web page in Figure 45 will be shown and the description of the parameters is found in Table 20. Figure 45 – Import/Export Table 20 — Description of the parameters of the Import/Export settings.
4 Specifications The electrical, physical and functional specifications for the In:xtnd Control | MA2.5 | 4. Please note that the specifications will be subjected to changes. Performance • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Physical: • 4× MoCA Access ports, individually enabled/disabled. • 1× SFP+ port: Multi Source Agreement (MSA) compliant, SERDES – 10 Gbps data rate, Based on MoCA Access 2.5 Profile D. 10 Gbps WAN interface. 2.5 Gbps throughput per MoCA port. 31 Modems per port.
Technical Specifications IEEE Standards • IEEE 802.1p - QoS. • IEEE 802.1q - with full VLAN-ID range up to 200 VLAN. Configurable internal VLAN for policing, shaping, and prioritization for ingress untagged frames. • IEEE 802.3ac - Q-tag. • IEEE 802.3u - Fast Ethernet. Approvals • CE (see section 5.1.3) • ETSI EN 300386 V2.1.1, EN 55032:2015, EN 55035:2017, EN 60950-1:2006/A11/A1/A12/A2, EN 50581:2012. • FCC Class A (see section 5.1.1).
5 Legal Information 5.1 Regulatory Notice and Statement (Class A) Model List: In:xtnd™ | Control | MA2.5 | 4 5.1.1 United States of America The following information applies if you use the product within the USA area. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a 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.
6 Disposal of Equipment The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) is the European Community Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment which, together with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS Directive) 2002/95/EC (also known as RoHS 1) became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive was amended into the Directive 2012/19/EU and the RoHS 1 has been evolved into the RoHS 2 Directive 2011/65/EU.
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