User's Manual

Initial FlexWave Prism System Setup

FlexWave Prism Element Management System 7.1 User Manual Page 71

CONFIGURE DART LINKS

“Linking” establishes an association in software between a particular Host DART

and a particular Remote DART, enabling the two DARTs to act as an operational

unit in providing one RF band. There are four pre-requisites to this procedure:

• The Host DART and Remote DART must be connected through the optical fiber

and be communicating with each other.

• To link the Remote Unit DARTs to the DARTs in a Host Unit, the DARTs must

be the same type e (such as, Cellular to Cellular).

• SuperDARTs and Classic DARTS do not operate with each other. Link a

SuperDART to a SuperDART and a Classic DART to a Classic DART.

• There must be a sufficient number of fiber timeslots available in order to

accommodate the requested passband (for example, PCS A band requires 3

timeslots).

In the Configure DART Links page, all Remote DARTs are listed that have the same

band as the selected Host DART. A link is established by selecting a Remote DART

to be paired with the Host DART, and then clicking the Linked box. To provide for

an RF Simulcast, a Single Host DART can be linked to up to eight Remote DARTs.

Do the following to establish DART links:

1 To access the Configure DART Links page, in the System Menu bar, click System

Configuration > Configure DART Links.

NOTE: For information on the Linked DARTs table at the bottom of the Configure DART Links

page, see “Viewing the Linked DARTs Report” on page 105.

You use the Configure Bands panel to configure the Host for DART linking, and the

Remote Parameters panel to configure the Remote Unit.