User's Manual

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Horizon Compact Release 1.01.01 Wireless Ethernet Product User Manual – Volume 1
6.5.2 ADDING OR CHANGING NOC USER ACCOUNTS.....................................................................24
6.5.3 ADDING OR CHANGING ADMIN USER ACCOUNTS..................................................................26
6.6 LOGGING OUT........................................................................................................................27
6.6.1 SESSION TIME OUT.........................................................................................................27
7.0 ANTENNA MOUNTING AND TOWER SPECIFICATIONS ............................................29
7.1 POLARITY ..............................................................................................................................29
7.1.1 LICENSED RADIO BANDS..................................................................................................29
7.1.2 UNLICENSED RADIO BANDS (UL24) ...................................................................................30
7.2 ANTENNA LOCATION ................................................................................................................31
7.3 POLE AND TOWER SPECIFICATIONS...........................................................................................32
8.0 GROUNDING, POWER AND SURGE ARRESTORS .................................................33
8.1 POWER ON ETHERNET (PONE) .................................................................................................34
9.0 PREPARING FOR ALIGNMENT.........................................................................37
9.1 RECEIVED SIGNAL LEVEL (RSL) MEASUREMENTS........................................................................38
9.2 THREE IMPORTANT FACTORS....................................................................................................39
9.2.1 ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS.......................................................................................39
9.2.2 CLEAR LINE OF SIGHT (LOS) ............................................................................................39
9.2.3 ALIGNMENT ADJUSTMENT SENSITIVITY ...............................................................................39
10.0 ALIGNING THE ANTENNAS.............................................................................41
10.1 SIGNS OF A HEALTHY LINK...................................................................................................42
11.0 ADVANCED CONFIGURATION FEATURES ..........................................................43
11.1 RADIUS SERVER USER AUTHENTICATION..............................................................................43
11.2 MANAGEMENT VLAN TAGGING.............................................................................................44
11.3 802.1P PRIORITY QUEUING IMPLEMENTATION IN HORIZON COMPACT.........................................44
11.3.1 OPERATION WITH 802.1P PRIORITY QUEUING DISABLED .......................................................45
11.3.2 OPERATION WITH 802.1P PRIORITY QUEUING ENABLED .......................................................45
11.3.3 EXPEDITE QUEUES.........................................................................................................45
11.3.4 MANAGEM ENT TRAFFIC....................................................................................................45
11.4 PAUSE FRAMES..................................................................................................................46
11.5 HORIZON COMPACT THROUGHPUT SPEED ..............................................................................46
11.5.1 MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT SPEED ........................................................................................46
11.6 ADAPTIVE TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL (ATPC) ......................................................................47
11.7 HORIZON COMPACT AUTHENTICATION ....................................................................................48
11.8 THRESHOLD ALARMS...........................................................................................................49
11.9 RAPID LINK SHUTDOWN .......................................................................................................49
11.10 CONFIGURING THE TIME SOURCE (SNTP) ..............................................................................49
11.11 AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE MODULATION (AAM) ............................................................................50
11.12 HORIZON COMPACT THROUGHPUT DOUBLING.........................................................................51
11.13 HORIZON REDUNDANCY .......................................................................................................51