Owner's manual
© SAF Tehnika JSC
CFIP Marathon series
Ver. 1.10, 2014
Microwave Radio System
GENERAL
Frequency range Reference Tx-Rx Offset
Frequency range¹ 1350 – 1517 MHz
CEPT T/R 13-01 A 142. MHz
ITU-R F.1242 p1
1375 – 1452
MHz
CEPT T/R 13-01 B 52. MHz
1427 – 1517 MHz
ITU-R F.1242 p2 65. MHz
1427 – 1518 MHz
IC SRSP-301.4 66.5 MHz
1427 – 1535 MHz Australia FX3 60.5 MHz
1427 – 1525 MHz India, Plan No-7 49. MHz
300 – 400 MHz Custom design
1
Custom design
1
Channel bandwidth Capacity range
2
Channel bandwidth
2
Narrow bandwidths 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.75, 2, 3.5, 4 MHz 0.1 – 20 Mbps
Wide bandwidths 1, 1.75, 2, 3.5, 4, 5, 7, 8 MHz 0.8 – 43 Mbps
Modulation 4QAM / 16QAM / 32QAM / 64QAM / 128QAM
Guaranteed max power Marathon II Marathon II HP
4QAM +30 dBm
+36 dBm
16QAM +29 dBm
+35 dBm
32QAM +28 dBm
+34 dBm
64QAM +26 dBm
+32 dBm
128QAM +26 dBm
+32 dBm
PERFORMANCE
Configuration 1+0, 1+1 (HSB, SD, FD)
Ring/Mesh (with RSTP)
2+0, 3+0, 4+0 (built-in Ethernet aggregation)
ACM and ATPC Hitless
Protection switching Hot Stand-by (<50ms), Space/Frequency diversity (hitless, errorless)
ETHERNET
Switch type Managed Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2
Max frame size 1536 bytes
MAC table 4K entries; automatic learning and aging
Packet buffer 128KB; non-blocking store & forward
Flow Control 802.3x
VLAN support 802.1Q (up to 4K VLAN entries)
QinQ (Double Tagging) Yes
QoS
64 level DiffServ (DSCP) or 8 level 802.1p mapped in 4 prioritization
queues with VLAN support
QoS queuing Fixed or weighted (configurable ratio)
Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1D-2004 RSTP, 802.1Q-2005 MSTP
1
CFIP Marathon supports various channel plan arrangements in the frequency range from 1350MHz to 1535MHz, from 300MHz to
400MHz and other bands. Please contact SAF Tehnika to verify specific channel plan
2
Total capacity is shared between Ethernet traffic, E1, service channels and other software configurable options




