Functional Description

700-701-100-02

 

 

PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND HISTORY

The UTU and ETU units provide extensive real time, non-disruptive monitoring of HDSL transmission performance parameters for all units in a circuit. Performance of the user interface ports is also monitored. Current cumulative counts of the past 24 hours and historical data in the form of 24-hour history (in 15-minute increments) and a 7-day history (in 24-hour increments) are available to assist in identifying problem sources during troubleshooting. See “Viewing Status” on page 46 for information on performance screens.

The monitored parameters are described in Table 10.

Table 10. Monitored HDSL Transmission and Interface Performance Parameters

Monitored Parameter

Description

 

 

HDSL Noise Margin

A measure of the ratio of signal power to noise power, in decibels (dB), at a receiver point. A value

 

of 0 dB means that the predicted transmission BER is equal to 10–7. A value of 6 dB means the

 

predicted transmission BER is equal to 10–10. The Main menu status display continuously updates the

 

margin value.

HDSL CRC-6

A six-bit word in every HDSL frame, representing a calculation based on all the bits in that frame. Any

 

mismatch at the receiver, between the received CRC-6 and the one calculated, based on the received

 

data in the frame, indicates that one or more bits were received in error. The units use this parameter

 

to derive HDSL Errored Seconds (ES).

HDSL Loss of Sync Word (LOSW)

The unit has detected an error in one or more bits in six consecutive HDSL sync words. TS 101 135 requires two consecutive sync words to be received without error to clear this condition. A LOSW condition generally indicates the loop is down, thus data cannot be transmitted.

Based on the monitored parameters, the LTU and NTU units derive the following performance parameters:

HDSL Errored Second (ES)

An interval of one second during which at least one CRC-6 error is detected at the incoming HDSL

 

port or there is an LOSW condition.

HDSL Unavailable Second

A second during which a loop is down.

(UAS)

 

ALARMS

The UTU and ETU units generate alarms for problem conditions on the HDSL transmission facility and at the local application interface. Alarms can be individually enabled or disabled as well as configured as a Major or Minor alarms. See “System Configuration” on page 25 to configure alarms. See “Viewing Status” on page 46 to view alarm conditions.

The HDSL transmission and application interface alarms are described in Table 11 on page 19.

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UTU-701 and ETU-751 List 1