User Manual

MDR2400/5800-SR, Orion2410/5810-SRi and Orion 5825-SR
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MDR / ORION DIGITAL INDOOR UNIT FIRMWARE
UPGRADE NOTICE
MDR Version 2 hardware Digital Indoor Units are identified as having 200+ serial
numbers, RF Units have 250+ serial numbers.
If upgrading Digital Indoor Units to use V2.02+ DIU firmware, upgrade the DIU
firmware on BOTH sides of the RF Link.
Note that firmware upgrades of Version 1 MDR Digital Indoor Unit hardware do not
require setting up of the PCB Issue in the MIB i.e. mdrmteIndoorUnitPCBrevision
element. Upgrade to DIU firmware Version 2+ of Version 1 hardware will NOT give
improved RSSI functionality. This is only achieved with Version 2 hardware or
modified version 1 hardware.
Full Duplex Ethernet Capability on MDR DIUs
As a standard setting for mdrmteIndoorUnitPCBrevision, use MIB selection Issue_2.
HOWEVER, if an appropriate Indoor PCB modification (made at the factory) has been
made to allow Full Duplex Ethernet operation, the Issue_2_Mod_A selection option in
the MIB MUST be used.
Per trib line code selectivity on MDR DIUs
MDR Digital Indoor Units that are modified to allow T1 line codes to be selected
uniquely on a per trib basis are identified by a hardware version number of 2.1AT.
These Digital Indoor Units must only be operated with firmware version 4.09 and
higher. The PCB revision of these units should also be set to 5.
Table 13 indicates the compatibility between different indoor and RF Unit types. The
DIU firmware types required to provide the compatibility between different hardware
types are listed in.
NOTE Different Digital Indoor Unit firmware versions may be required to provide
compatibility between different indoor and RF Unit types.
Table 13 Indoor - RF Unit compatibility matrix.
Hardware Type MDR DIU ORION 10 DIU ORION 25 DIU
MDR2400 RFU
Orion2410i RFU
X X X
MDR5800 RFU
Orion5810i RFU
X X X
MDR5850 RFU
X X
Older versions (up to version 3.08) of the firmware are only suitable for MDR Digital
Indoor Units and are identified by the following filename:
IDU_X_XX.CVF, WHERE THE X_XX IS THE NUMERIC VERSION NUMBER.
Newer firmware versions (version 4 upwards) are identified by the following filename:
abcddeeefghI_x_xx.cvf, where x_xx is the numeric version number of the firmware.
The other fields in the name has the following meaning:
a: M or O = Digital Indoor Unit PCB (MDR or Orion)
b: C=100 X=10 Ethernet to RFU (or - if both are supported)