Installation manual

Network Management Manual

580-00511, rev B 16 of 34

4.1 AdaptRate (AR products only)

The operation mode of the AR60(X) and AR80 product can be set to automatically

switch between 1000 and 100Mbps depending on the receive level of the radio. This

is the default setting for the radio, but it is also possible to force an AR radio to be

fixed to 1000 or 100Mbps. This field is present only for AR60(X) and AR80 models.

4.2 Installation auto-calibration

Installation auto-calibration is enabled as the factory default. With this setting, the

radio will perform an auto-calibration every time the radio is power cycled with the

fiber connection down, followed by the fiber connection changing from down to up.

After the physical installation and alignment procedure is complete, this should

normally be changed to disabled.

4.3 Fiber Interface (GigE)

The fiber interface for the radio units (whether operating in 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps

mode over the air) is 1000Base-SX (850nm multi-mode). The only setting that can be

changed is to enable or disable auto-negotiation. The units are set with auto-

negotiation enabled as the factory default. It is important that the BridgeWave radio

and the customer network equipment interfaces be configured identically; both

interfaces should be configured to auto-negotiate or else both should be configured to

not auto-negotiate.

Note: When auto-negotiation is disabled on the fiber interface, then flow-control will

also be disabled. If the radio and the network equipment are configured differently, it

is likely that a connection will not be established over the fiber.

4.4 Management Agent

This section provides information about the management agent MAC address and

allows for the configuration of its IP address, subnet mask and default gateway. These

values are normally provided by the network administrator.

IP address: Allows for the configuration of the IP address for the

management agent. The factory default for the high-band

radio is 192.168.0.2 and for the low-band radio is

192.168.0.1.

DHCP: Checking this box enables the unit to receive an IP address,

subnet mask and default gateway from the network’s