Trango Broadband M5580M-FSU user manual Deployment & Installation, Site Selection, Site survey

Deployment & Installation

Chapter 5 Deployment & Installation

Once you are familiar with the basic operations of the M5580M-FSU, you are ready for deployment in the field. The deployment process consists of the following steps:

•Site Selection

•Site survey at AP and SU sites

•AP installation

•SU installation and antenna alignment

•Link test

Site Selection

Proper site selection for your AP will help ensure a successful deployment. Site selection will depend on a wide variety of factors, but from the radio’s performance standpoint, please consider the following:

•Path from AP to SU should provide unobstructed line-of-sight (LOS), thus it is advisable to place AP as high as possible on a tall building or tower.

•Ethernet cable limit is 100 meters from Ethernet device (router, switch) to radio.

•Radios should never be deployed without proper grounding.

•Consider nearby sources of interference that could degrade the performance of the radio. Mount radios as far from sources of interference as possible.

Site survey

The radios provide an on-board site survey tool to measure the average and peak noise levels on any given channel.

To use the survey tool, the radio must be in Opmode “OFF.” The survey can be performed for any specified amount of time (in seconds), and for either the horizontal or vertical polarization.

Prior to performing the site survey, place the radio in the installation spot, and aim the radio in the desired direction.

After the specified period, the results of this command will provide you with a listing of each channel in the band, the average signal received, and the maximum signal received during the survey period.

Example:
#> survey 10 h
Press 'q' to stop.	noise floor	rssi by pkt
Freq 5724 MHz	(peak / avg dBm)	(peak / avg dBm)
	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5728 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5732 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5736 MHz Ch 1	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5740 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5744 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5748 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5752 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5756 MHz Ch 2	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5760 MHz	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5764 MHz	-81 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5768 MHz	-90 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5772 MHz	-89 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5776 MHz Ch 3	-98 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5780 MHz	-81 / -98	-99 / -99
Freq 5784 MHz	-97 / -98	-99 / -99
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