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Customer Software Release NotesSoftware Version 06.00.53

RELEASE DATE 22nd June 2011

P/N 260-668060-001, Rev. 042

DocReg Ref 5693


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Table of Contents

Eclipse ............................................................................................................................................. 1

Customer Software Release Notes ................................................................................................. 1

Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3

Scope and Purpose ......................................................................................................................... 4

New Features .................................................................................................................................. 4

Hardware/features not supported or validated in this release ..................................................... 4

Features Included from Previous LA Releases .............................................................................. 4

RAC 60/6X ETSI Modem Profiles Supported ................................................................................. 8

RAC 60/6X ANSI Modem Profiles Supported ............................................................................... 10

Important Software Upgrade Considerations ................................................................................ 12

Window 7 Support and Driver Installation ..................................................................................... 13

Known Issues ................................................................................................................................ 14

Closed Field Issues ....................................................................................................................... 16

Closed Significant Issues .............................................................................................................. 18

Eclipse Hardware Supported ........................................................................................................ 21

List 1.1 Modules Supported in this release ............................................................................... 21

Operating Systems Supported ...................................................................................................... 22

Computer Hardware Supported .................................................................................................... 22

Regional Settings Supported ........................................................................................................ 23

Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Servers Supported ..................................................................... 23

Important Notes ............................................................................................................................. 23

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Scope and PurposeThis document provides software release information on supported functionality, compatibility,and known customer affecting issues, relating to the released software versions.

The intended users of this document are:

Aviat Networks Customers

Aviat Networks Product Support staff

Aviat Networks Field Service staff

The primary purpose of this “General Availability” (GA) software release is to roll up all the newfeatures included in the Limited Availability (LA) releases since the last GA Release (05.01.44).

Additional new feature are also included as listed below.

The GA 06.00.50 software release will now become the default software loaded in the factory.

New Features

New features in 06.00.53

New modem profiles as highlighted in the table below

RAC60/6X Frequency Diversity support (no ACM support with FD)

Auxiliary card diagnostics page improvements in Portal

Secure Management Warning Banners

DAC GEv2 Broadcast storm protection

DAC GE3 802.1p QoS remarking

FCC compliant ATPC algorithm

IDU GE3 16x to RAC 60 over the air support (non-protected links only) – Refer to profilessupported in the table below

IDU GE3 16x support for ODU 300SP+ at 7 & 14MHz QPSK/16QAM and 28MHzQPSK/16QAM/32QAM as per profiles supported in the below table.

NTU support for the DAC GE3 Ethernet over TDM on DAC 155oM, DAC 3xDS3M andDAC 16xV2

Hardware/features not supported or validated in this release

NCM

Layer One Link Aggregation ( L1LA) for DAC GEv2 on DPP or E1/DS1 backplane

Features Included from Previous LA Releases

As contained in 05.01.71

IDU GE 20x Modem Profiles

10MHz 16QAM 16xDS1 (to deliver approx 25Mbps)

10MHz 64QAM 28xDS1 (to delivery approx 50Mbps)

Additional Features:

Expanded payload buffers on IDU GE 20x. This is supported by the following

functionality:


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Normal port ingress/egress (transport channel) buffer capacity is 16 Kbytes.

An Extended Packet Buffer option enables 56 Kbytes when both transport

channels are used (C1 and C2), 56 Kbytes if just C2 is used, or 122 Kbytes if

just C1 is used:

Extended buffer disabled = 16k

Extended buffer enabled C1 only = 112k

Extended buffer enabled C2 only = 56k

Extended buffer enabled C1 + C2 = 56k each

The Extended Packet Buffer option is enabled by a tickbox in the DAC GE plug-

ins screen.

Extended Packet Buffer operation will impact traffic latency; latency will be

increased.

As contained in 5.03.54/64

Secure Terminal Management

Secure (SSL/TLS) element management access via Portal application

AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, 3DES encryption algorithms

SHA1, MD5, hashing algorithms

4 levels of access control

RADIUS centralized AAA domain controller user authentication

Secure software download

Secure configuration storage

Event logging including syslog remote collection via UDP

RAC 60/6X

Over the Air, Payload Encryption Engine

Supports 128-bit AES-CCM encryption

Supports protected RAC configuration Updated all ETSI modem profiles to support Payload Encryption:

ETSI 75xE1 128QAM 28MHz

ETSI 51xE1 32QAM 28MHz

7MHz ETSI Modulation (8.5 – 44.2 Mbps)

4/5/8/10/14/15/20/21xE1 (Static profile)



28MHz ETSI Adaptive Modulation (36.0 – 181.3 Mbps)

17/21/35/43/58//64/82/88xE1 (Static profile)



Secure Management and Payload Encryption are only supported by NCCv2controller card.


Most new feature have been added in the 05.03.54/64 LA

Secure Management – Provides secure management access to Eclipse over unsecured network Protects Eclipse from accidental or intentional modification by unauthorizedpersonnel Keeps track of all events for accountability Based on FIPS 140-2 validated algorithms

Payload Encryption

CLEI codes for selected modules


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PCR function

Portal improvements inc Win 7 support

DAC16xV2 improved protection


The DAC GE3 Phase 1 software features and hardware attributes supported by the softwareincluded in this release are:

Five front panel ports

Three 10/100/1000Base-T ports

Two multi-purpose SFP ports with SFP plug-ins for:

Optical 1000Base-LX 1310 nm single-mode

Electrical 1000Base-T with RJ-45 connector

Proprietary SFP cable assembly for 1+1 protection

Up to six transport channel (TC) ports

Six TCs in Transparent switch mode

Two TCs in Mixed and VLAN switch modes

PDH only on transport channels (multiples of E1/DS-1)

Quality of Service (QoS)

Eight transmission queues

Strict Priority, Deficit Weighted Round Robin, hybrid SP-with-DRR scheduler

Prioritization

Port based

IEEE 802.1p QoS/CoS bits

DSCP IPv4 and IPv6 (RFC 2474)

MPLS EXP bits

VLAN support

IEEE 802.1q tagging, removal, filtering

IEEE 802.1ad QinQ

Frame and burst handling

136 kBytes memory for each ingress/egress port buffer pairing

Jumbo frames of up to 10 kBytes bi-directionally

Redundancy

1+1 card protection with optical Y-cable connection

1+1 card protection with dual-feed (bidirectional end-to-end switching)

Synchronization

ITU-T G.8262 Synchronous Ethernet at the card level (one input and one ormultiple outputs)

Eclipse Distributed Synchronization (EDS) in accordance with ITU-T G.823 clock

Integrated timing subsystem with Stratum 3 hold-over performance

Monitoring and diagnostics Status per port

Resolved speed per port

Resolved duplexing per port

Performance graphs

RMON-1 statistics per port and channel

Port mirroring

Portal improvements including Windows 7 support (see Driver note below)


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o DAC 155eM support including KLM mapping

o Code required to support fitting of the NCM in a non-operational state withoutraising alarms

o ETSI 40 MHz ACM profiles as listed in the table below

o ANSI 50 MHz ACM profiles as listed in the table below

o RAC 6X XPIC profiles as listed in the table below (includes those released in5.01.85)

o RAC 60 STM-1 non-XPIC profiles

1xSTM-1+E1 - ETSI 28 MHz/128 QAM (157 Mbps) 2xSTM-1+E1 - ETSI 56 MHz/128 QAM (312 Mbps)

o Secure Management support for legacy RAC 30/3X/40/4X based networks

o DAC 155 OC3 LOF 1+1 Switching

o IDU GE Additional Buffer and Flow Control


IDU GE3 16x

Six front panel Ethernet ports (4 electrical, 2 SFP)

Supported SFPs

1000Base-T

1000Base-SX

1000Base-LX

16 x E1 software configurable 75Ω / 120Ω ports

Requires TDM license (see below)

Auxiliary and Alarm IO ports

ETSI Profile support

7/14/28/56 MHz ACM (also available as static at eachmodulation)

51E1 32QAM fixed

75E1 128QAM fixed

IDU Protection

IDU 1+1 Protection, MHSB and Space Diversity

IDU Single Ethernet Feed Protection

IDU Optical Y-cable protection

IDU Dual Ethernet Feed Protection (as per DAC GE3, not

LACP) Synchronous Ethernet

Eclipse Distributed Sync

Airlink Recovered Timing (ART)

Feature Licensing

ACM

Synchronous Ethernet

TDM Ports

Advanced QOS


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RAC 60/6X ETSI Modem Profiles Supported

Channel

Bandwidth

(MHz)

Capacity

(Mbit/s)

Max E1s Modulation Optimized For ACM / XPIC Payload

Encryption

(No ACM/ XPIC)

IDU GE3 16x

Compatible

(1+0 non XPIC)

7 8 4xE1 QPSK System Gain ACM Yes Yes

18 8xE1 16QAM System Gain ACM Yes Yes

29 14xE1 64QAM System Gain ACM or FixedXPIC

Yes Yes


10 5xE1 QPSK Throughput ACM Yes Yes

21 10xE1 16QAM Throughput ACM Yes Yes

31 15xE1 64QAM Throughput ACM or Fixed

XPIC

Yes Yes


13.75/14 17 8xE1 QPSK System Gain ACM Yes Yes


58 28xE1 64QAM System Gain ACM or FixedXPIC

Yes Yes


21 10xE1 QPSK Throughput ACM Yes Yes


64 31xE1 64QAM Throughput ACM or FixedXPIC

Yes Yes


50 27xE1 32QAM - Fixed only - -

27.5/28 36 17xE1 QPSK System Gain ACM + XPIC Yes Yes

73 35xE1 16QAM System Gain ACM + XPIC Yes Yes



44 21xE1 QPSK Throughput ACM + XPIC Yes Yes

89 43xE1 16QAM Throughput ACM + XPIC Yes Yes



105 51xE1 32QAM - Fixed only Yes Yes

155 75xE1 128QAM - Fixed / XPIC Yes Yes

155 1xSTM-1+ 1xE1

128QAM - Fixed / XPIC - -


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RAC 60/6X ANSI Modem Profiles Supported

Channel

Bandwidth

(MHz)

Capacity

(Mbit/s)

Max DS1s Modulation Optimized For ACM / XPIC Payload

Encryption

(No ACM/ XPIC)

IDU GE3 16x

Compatible

(1+0 non XPIC)

3.75 12 8xDS1 32QAM Throughput Fixed only - -

5 25 16xDS1 128QAM Throughput Fixed only - -

10 11 7xDS1 QPSK System Gain ACM - -

23 14xDS1 16QAM System Gain ACM - -



13 8xDS1 QPSK Throughput ACM - -

27 17xDS1 16QAM Throughput ACM - -



45 29xDS1 64QAM Throughput Fixed only Yes -

50 32xDS1 128QAM Throughput Fixed only Yes -

56 36xDS1 256QAM System Gain Fixed only Yes -

45 DS3 64QAM Throughput Fixed only - -

















135 87xDS1 64QAM System Gain Fixed / XPIC Yes -



157 1xOC3 128QAM System Gain Fixed only - -

135 3xDS3 64QAM System Gain Fixed only - -



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Channel

Bandwidth

(MHz)

Capacity

(Mbit/s)

Max DS1s Modulation Optimized For ACM / XPIC Payload

Encryption

(No ACM/ XPIC)

IDU GE3 16x

Compatible

(1+0 non XPIC)











178 115xDS1 64QAM Throughput Fixed / XPIC Yes -

255 127xDS1 256QAM Throughput Fixed / XPIC Yes -

157 1xOC3 64QAM System Gain Fixed only - -


178 4xDS3 64QAM Throughput Fixed only - -


















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Important Software Upgrade Considerations

In this release there are several software upgrade and compatibility considerations that should benoted and procedures followed to ensure a reliable upgrade with minimum traffic interruption as

follows:

Traffic interruption during SW upgrade: With this release a typical traffic interruption of upto two minutes can be expected (see note below for DAC GE3 also). It is recommendedthat the software updates be activated during a maintenance window when a trafficoutage can be managed.

DAC GE3: Extended software loading times with traffic interruption when upgrading from5.05.xx or 5.08.xx to this release. Systems fitted with DAC GE3 that are being upgradedfrom 5.05/5.08 will experience an extended traffic outage of typically up to 12 minutesdue to the significant enhancements being introduced in this release. Under somecircumstances this may be extended up to 20 minutes for complex configurations.

RAC 60/6X : The ETSI 28MHz and 56MHz ACM profiles from software releases 5.1.xx,5.2.xx and 5.3.xx are not over-the-air compatible with this release. Traffic will beimpacted until both ends of the link are upgraded. When upgrading to this release from5.1/5.2/5.3 ensure that the remote end of the link is upgraded first prior to the local end(Ref ES-18336)

If the software is rolled back or downgraded from this release to 05.05.40 there may beseveral non traffic affecting alarms displayed incorrectly due to feature incompatibilities.These alarms can be cleared with a software reset.

If the software is rolled back or downgraded from this release to 5.08.15 AND RapidFailure detection is selected ON the Ethernet transport channel (TC) traffic is disrupted

until the RFD is toggled to NFD and back.

The NCCv1 is not supported in this release and will not be supported in any futuresoftware updates. The latest release to support this early version of NCC card is05.01.44.

Software Version Upgrade Compatibility

The following previous software versions have been validated as supporting direct upgrade tothis new release:

v05.01.44 v05.02.48 v05.02.60 v05.03.45

v05.03.64 v05.04.57 v05.05.40 v05.08.10

v05.08.15 v05.09.30 v05.09.32 v05.10.14

v05.10.24

Please contact Aviat Technical Support if validation is required for direct upgrade from earliersoftware versions to this release.


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Part Numbers

Product Part Number Version Build Aviat Reference #

Eclipse EmbeddedSoftware

n/a 6.0 53 1341 and 5693

Eclipse Portal Software n/a 6.0. 53

This release is supported by ProVision Element Manager System software version 6.7.0 .

Window 7 Support and Driver Installation

Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows 7 are only supported by 05.04 release onwards.

Note: 32-bit versions of both XP and Vista are supported. All other Windows versions areuntested and therefore unsupported.


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Known Issues

The following table lists known issues that have not been fixed in this release:

Ref # Issue Description

ES-11578RAC 30A: Extended demodulator not locked events may affect AM operation On AM links, resumptionof normal modulator operation after a long demodulator outage can be delayed.

ES-12052

RAC: During a SW upgrade load or if a refresh is requested after a configuration change, there may bea delay of up to several minutes before Portal acknowledges completion of the processes. During thistime Portal will indicate a busy/pending status (spin-wheel).

ES-12650RAC 60/6X: RAC 60 operation with DAC 16x v2 manual (SW initiated) tributary switching times exceedan average of 50ms (all


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error". These do not always show up and usually cleared on the next circuit change.

ES-14885HTTPD: The new WebCIT screen has functional and display issues, "The "Status" fields do not changeto show the plug-ins' alarm severity

ES-14901

Traffic hits can occur when the secondary RAC 60 card is online for RX, or online for TX and Rx, and

you enable DPP. To avoid a traffic hit, have the primary RAC 60 online for TX and RX before enablingDPP.

ES-15029

ODU 300 SP: Tx Fail alarm comes up and RAC front panel LEDs go red when placed in IF Loopbackwith SP ODUs EQS-XX-XXXX-XXX identified by the serial number starting BLBxxxxxxxx . Alarm onlyseen during IF Loopback.

ES-15324

DAC 16xV2 Trib Protection: If a diagnostic Tx/Rx manual lock has been set, a Tx/Rx manual lockwarning alarm is activated in the Portal alarms screen. If one of the DAC 16xV2 cards is physicallyremoved while the Tx/Rx lock is active, the Tx/Rx manual lock alarm cannot subsequently be cleared.Prior to removing the card, ensure the diagnostic Tx/Rx manual lock is disabled. Otherwise, to clear thealarm, either physically withdraw the remaining card, pause, then reinsert, or power cycle the INU.

ES-15526Portal: Portal now allows illegal values & colors them red, but provides no alarms/warnings about theillegal settings.

ES-16183

RAC 60/6X: ANSI ACM - User can enter ACM ATPC settings that will inhibit ACM from stepping up tothe maximum modulation. If the max TX power setting specified is higher than the max TX powerallowed at 256QAM, and the "Target Remote Fade Margin" is greater than 10db, then a significantlygreater RSL will be required before the modulation will step up. Although the SNR is high enough tostep-up, the system tries to maintain the requested target fade margin at the expense of stepping up themodulation. The consequence is that the link to never reach 256QAM. Solution is to configure the ATPCsettings for maximum Tx power at 256QAM and not the lower modulations.

ES-16607DAC GE3: ACM on TC5 & TC6. Adaptive modulation cannot be used on backplane transport channelsTC 5 or 6, unless a transport channel from 1-4 is also enabled.

ES-17236 DAC 155oM: Ring wrapping takes up to a minute to complete after disconnecting the fiber cable

ES-17454 IDU GE3 16x: Protection - TDM Tx switch exceeds 50ms on manual Tx and partner failed (average90ms). Tx direction: Average: 90ms, Min 19ms, Max 153ms. Rx direction: Average: 94ms, Min 23ms,Max 134ms.

ES-17547 IDU GE3 16x: The DAC 16xV2 is not transferring a trib clock to the DAC GE3 for SyncE purposes.

ES-17671 IDU GE3 16x: Protection - TDM switch times on LOS exceed 50ms (Tx average 54ms, Rx average86ms).

ES-17725On all RAC products that have DPP capability (RAC60/6X and IDU GE3), adding a circuit while in IFloopback will not result in traffic on that circuit until IF loopback mode is exited.

ES-17773 IDU GE3 16x: On 55MHz/256QAM a small number of CRC errors are recorded when Ethernet trafficsteps from zero to maximum.

ES-17770 IDU GE3 16x: Protection - 7/14MHz Tx Ethernet and TDM switches exceed 50ms (average 120ms, upto 350-400ms).

ES-17790 IDU GE3 16x: Protection - Tx and Rx, Ethernet and TDM switch on ODU cable removal exceed 50ms

(average 90ms, max 150ms)

ES-17933

RAC 60/6X: 1+1 ACM mode: If the Online RX is faded to DNL, (& the Offline Demod is locked), thenremoving the Offline RX source (ODU cable or RAC removal) results in a traffic outage until the OnlineRX unfades enough to lock up at its current RX modulation, or the connection to the Offline radio isrestored

ES-17974IDU GE 20x: DS1 highest throughput profile 80MHz,256QAM,357Mhz, unable to lock up (or take morethan 10 minutes to lock up) Do not use this profile with 6.0 release. Use LA release 05.08.10

ES-18089

RAC 60/6X: Frequency Diversity: Performing Tx Online switch on 7MHz ETSI could take more than2sec outage due to a long Demod Not Locked time. This issue was observed in a Frequency Diversityprotected link (7MHz ETSI profile) while performing manual Tx Online switches. This causes long trafficoutages during a Tx Online switch.

ES-18102

RAC 60/6X: Protection, Offline RAC removal is not errorless with several capacities. TDM traffic is hit

when removing the off-line RAC with the following ETSI profiles : 7MHz,13.75MHz and 27.5MHz

ES-18116 IRU600 / RAC 60/6X / 10MHz QPSK, 14Mbps Profile: Plugging in an off-line RAC can cause a 30

http://jira/browse/ES-14885http://jira/browse/ES-14901http://jira/browse/ES-15029http://jira/browse/ES-15324http://jira/browse/ES-15526http://jira/browse/ES-16183http://jira/browse/ES-17454http://jira/browse/ES-17547http://jira/browse/ES-17671http://jira/browse/ES-17725http://jira/browse/ES-17773http://jira/browse/ES-17770http://jira/browse/ES-17790http://jira/browse/ES-17933http://jira/browse/ES-17974http://jira/browse/ES-18089http://jira/browse/ES-18102http://jira/browse/ES-18116http://jira/browse/ES-18116http://jira/browse/ES-18102http://jira/browse/ES-18089http://jira/browse/ES-17974http://jira/browse/ES-17933http://jira/browse/ES-17790http://jira/browse/ES-17770http://jira/browse/ES-17773http://jira/browse/ES-17725http://jira/browse/ES-17671http://jira/browse/ES-17547http://jira/browse/ES-17454http://jira/browse/ES-16183http://jira/browse/ES-15526http://jira/browse/ES-15324http://jira/browse/ES-15029http://jira/browse/ES-14901http://jira/browse/ES-14885


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second Rx outage of TDM data 10-20% of the time.

ES-18126 Warning Banners: banner objects are not restored via the Portal/PTI backup/restore mechanism

ES-18336RAC 60/6X: ETSI ACM profiles at 28MHz and 56MHz are not backwards compatible between05.01.xx/05.2.xx/05.3.xx and 06.00.xx (GCAS 52382)

ES-18343RAC 60/6X: Protection Switch from RAC60-Primary to RAC6X-Secondary Raises "Silent Tx" and"Remote Comm" Failure Alarms for 5 minutes

ES-18459

DAC GE3: 1+1 Protected - Missing all of the manual lock alarms & diagnostic indicators

When configured with 2 DAC GE3s in a 1+1 Protected setup, the user has the ability to lock either thePrimary or Secondary GE3 Online via Portal's "Diagnostics->System/Controls" screen. When the userhas either the Primary or Secondary GE3 locked Online there are indications alerting the user of thislocked condition. The terminal remains in an "all GREEN" no alarm state.

ES-18551

RAC 6X: 55MHz XPIC+ACM 256QAM Max System Gain profile (344Mbps) may experience errorswhen ACM switching from 64QAM back up to 256QAM. Select the alternate 256QAM MaximumThroughput profile (366Mbps) to overcome this issue if it causes significant traffic impact.

ES-18555DAC GE3/RAC 4X/INU: Ethernet traffic passes in only 1 direction when using a RAC4X in an INUchassis. DAC GE3 & RAC 4X operate normally when using an INUe chassis.

Closed Field Issues

The following table lists field issues that have been resolved since the 05.01.44 release.

Ref # Issue Description Eng Ref

24815

Portal: Ring circuit configurations are deleted during an upgrade from non-protected toprotected operation. Circuit configurations can be lost when Super PDH ring network

paths are upgraded from non-protected to protected. This requires reconfiguration of allcircuits to restore traffic.

ES-12063

30162DAC GEv2 : port resolved indicator is never set for port 4 using SFP, port is workingcorrectly, indicator issue only.

ES-12394

36333

Circuits: Existing Super PDH ring circuits can be corrupted when new point-to-point circuits are added. This issue appears to be more likely experiencedwhen using release 5.0 or 5.1 given the greater flexibility on circuitconfiguration and added complexity in circuit re-assignments.

ES-14626

51823 RAC 60/6X: Frames Delayed through DAC GE2/3 DPP Connection. ES-12928

34580 AUX card: When an AUX card is first configured it default to 6 Alarms and 0 Relays.The labeling is wrong and displays Alarms 3-6 as Relays 1-4 .

ES-13061

22802RIP: Add option for RIPv2 Broadcast. There is a problem with building networks thathave TRuepoint, Constellation and Eclipse nodes. The older radios use RIPv2broadcasts while Eclipse uses Multicasts. The older radios do not support OSPF.

ES-13533

34580When more than 1 AUX is in the same INUe, Portal will no longer show the correct TTLinput settings & status & also the AUX icon status is incorrect.

ES-13613

34580

Portal: Aux card not showing correct alarm name in alarm tree .If there are two Auxcards installed in slot6 and slot9 of an INUe.The portal alarms page for Aux card installed in slot 6 was pulling its alarm name andseverity from the Aux card installed in slot9.

ES-13861

37187IDU GE 20x: Incorrect pause frame operation on frame sizes larger than 500 bytes.With 'Enable Flow Control' selected, pause frame control is not effective on frame sizesgreater than 500 bytes, resulting in buffer overload and frame loss on affected ports.

ES-14173

37100 NCCv2: NMS Ethernet ports can fail to Auto Negotiate with certain types of third partyequipment. NMS ports on the NCCv2 are fixed to Auto negotiate for speed and duplex.

ES-14212

http://jira/browse/ES-18126http://jira/browse/ES-18343http://jira/browse/ES-18343http://jira/browse/ES-18343http://jira/browse/ES-18343http://jira/browse/ES-18126


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It was observed that Auto negotiation failed with certain types of third party equipmentconnected to an NMS port.

39879RAC 60/6X: Reseating NCC can cause a 20-50 second outage ~1 minute afterreseating.

ES-14875

39470 Licensing screen only shows RAC based licensed capacities for slots which containRACS. Nodal licenses were not affected. ES-14880

39973IDU 300 SPE: Refreshing the [Priority Mapping] tab after setting the Priority Modeshows an "Invalid" message

ES-14953

49491DAC GEv2: In DAC GE's performance data, counters were showing alignment & FCSerrors, in bad packets & CRC alignment when Ethernet traffic was monitored for longperiods. This was an internal DPP error, and did not affect customer traffic.

ES-14955

45267

Licensing: Update license calculations to enable full utilization of license bandwidth.With the current values, the full license bandwidth cannot be utilized.e.g. 100Mbps license allows (100/2.048) = 48xE1 which is actually only 98.3Mbps.Change to make this now 50E1 or 102 Mbps. Now resolved.

ES-16309

44862DAC GE3: Optical SFP shows as 'UNKNOWN' for SFP type LS38-C3S-TC-N (079-

422656-001) .

ES-16408

44248RAC 10: Enables a scrambler for 20E1. A modulator not locked alarm was reportedwhen upgrading a link from 10E1 to 20E1.

ES-16419

45300 IDU 300 20X: Link not coming up on protected links after a power cycle at one end. ES-16424

41770 Add a calibrated grid to the RSL history graphs. ES-16481

43248 4699641378 4538545426 46826

46908

IDU 300 ES: Fading activity causes Transport Channel to stay down in mixed or VLANmode .

ES-16809 /17089

44395 IDU GE 20x: SFP configuration on an IDU GE is lost after power cycle. ES-16877

43336DAC GE : LSP Ports will not come back up after shutdown using L2LA (GEv2). Whenusing L2LA and shutting down C1, the physical ports will shutdown. However when C1is enabled again the port will not come back up.

ES-17243

43129 DAC 155oM: make low Order Path alarms all critical. ES-17284

48928 Security : User can be permanently locked out of eclipse (In Basic Security) ES-17233

50245DAC 3xDS3/E3M: The DS3 DAC switches about 30% of the time when an LOS alarm isgenerated on a single trib causing an unnecessary outage on the other 2 tribs.

ES-17310

49363

IDU SPE: Will not accept VLAN Mode. When switching from Transparent to VLANmode and clicking SEND, the radio will not accept the change .Refreshing the Portalscreen shows transparent mode is still active. Log shows that VLANs are mis-configured.

ES-17353

50322Circuits: Provision allowed adding circuits in excess of the backplane capacity of 100E1this brings down traffic on all existing circuits.

ES-17664

50623License: Upgrading 64E1 link with 05.08.10 shows incorrect license (10E1). Does notaffect traffic.

ES-17824

50512IRU 600: Maximum Output power of Primary Reduced ~6dB when using unequalcombiners . Allow the user to individually set the max/min power on both if an ACU ispresent.

ES-17825

46953Event Browser: Configuration not supported alarm with every circuit change.Configuration not supported alarms are showing up in Provision every time a circuitchange is made. Alarm shows for 0.5 seconds.

ES-17979

51679 DAC GEv2 : 083-845434-001 The Finisar 8520 Electrical SFP option on this part doesnot work with Port 4 in DPP mode due to auto negotiation not being supported.

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52050RAC 60 Protected : If the primary DAC GE3 and is replaced with a DAC GE2. Portalshows up as a blank screen and cannot easily be recovered. Portal should break theprotection when replacing a protected DAC GE3 with a DAC GE2.

ES-18220

52085 RAC 60 : Unable to set up RAC 60 in protected links in rings. ES-18413

Closed Significant Issues

The following table lists significant issues that were discovered during development/testing sincethe version 05.01.44 general release. These issues have been fixed by this release.

Ref # Issue Description

ES-13156

Max DS1 backplane capacity can be reduced based on AUX circuit connections. When thebackplane bus is set to the DS1 rate (1.544Mbps), the max NxDS1 backplane capacity of 128xDS1can be reduced to 123xDS1, depending on the number of AUX circuits configured and the order inwhich they are configured. This has been resolved in 6.0

ES-13992 Payload Encryption: Errored Seconds reported during long counts with automatic key changeenabled. Automatic key change may cause a traffic hit. 8 errored seconds have been reported overa 72 hour count with automatic key change after every hour.

ES-14238 DAC GE: Pause frames may not be generated on the physical ports when the DPP port isoverloaded and there are 2 physical ports in use. The issue occurs when a DAC GE is DPPconnected to a RAC60 and has two customer facing ports enabled with Flow Control On.

ES-14430

RAC 60/6X: Traffic hit upon re-insertion of the primary RAC after a power cycle with the primaryRAC removed. Impacts Ethernet traffic minimally; typically one or two dropped frames (applies toDPP and backplane Ethernet traffic). PDH traffic can be disrupted for up to one second. This hasbeen resolved in 6.0

ES-14545/14559

RAC 60/6X: Extended outage times may occur on a DPP 1+1 HS/SD ACM link when the online RAC

is removed. Traffic may be disrupted for about 2 seconds if the online RAC 60/6X is withdrawn on aDPP 1+1 link (hot-standby / space diversity) when configured for adaptive modulation. This hasbeen resolved in 6.0

ES-14575

RAC 60/6X: Extended Rx outages may occur on IRU600 1+1 protected links (DS1 rates) when anoff-line RAC 60 is re-inserted. While instances are infrequent, outages up to 59 seconds have beenrecorded. Ensure new RAC 60‟s are fitted during a maintenance window. This has been resolved in6.0

ES-14617

IDU GE 20x: Some types of SFP do not work with LSP when Speed - Duplex is set to Fixed 1Gbps. A far-end port shutdown may not occur with some SFP modules when set for Fixed Speed-Duplex,with LSP and RFD. The solution is to set Auto for Speed-Duplex. This has been resolved in 6.0

ES-14623

RAC 60/6X: High-Priority backplane Ethernet traffic can be corrupted (frame drops) during a step-upfrom QPSK to 16QAM on 7MHz adaptive modulation profiles. Applies only to: a) Backplane-

connected Ethernet traffic where the traffic assigned to the backplane exceeds the capacity that canbe supported at QPSK. DPP Ethernet, PDH, and AUX traffic is not affected. b) 7 GHz adaptivemodulation profiles. The interim solution is to use the DPP for Ethernet traffic - avoid use ofbackplane-connected Ethernet for this 7MHz profile when using adaptive modulation. This has beenresolved in 6.0

ES-14632

RAC 60/6X: The BBER Performance counter does not freeze when the Stop button is clicked. Onlythe BBER Performance counter is affected. All other G.826 counters operate correctly i.e. theyfreeze when the Stop button is clicked. This has been resolved in 6.0

ES-14647

RAC 60/6X: 1+1 Adaptive Modulation Links with Ethernet traffic on the backplane only (not DPP)may experience degraded Ethernet throughputs. When the DPP is not enabled on 1+1 ACM linksoperating Ethernet over the backplane it is possible for Ethernet traffic in one direction to bedegraded due to the Tx and Rx functions on separate RACs (Primary and Secondary) being indifferent ACM modulation states with different capacities. This situation may occur from power-on, orfrom a fade/unfade, where the Offline Tx is not stepped up in modulation to match the Online Tx.When DPP is enabled this issue is not present. Interim solutions are: a) Enable the DPP for Ethernettraffic. b) Use the DPP for Ethernet and the backplane for Ethernet and/or PDH. This has been


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resolved in 6.0

ES-14735 When switching to one of the two modem profiles:

- 56Mhz 256 QAM Hi Gain 168E1 343Mbps

- 56Mhz 256 QAM 184E1 366Mbps

With payload encryption enabled, a key suspended alarm may occur and traffic will be interrupted.

ES-14799 Auto capacity allocation does not work correctly when capacity usage exceeds the licensed amount.Instead of auto-allocating based on the licensed amount, traffic is dropped 5 minutes after exceedingthe amount.

ES-14821 Portal allows "Alarm Actions" configuration when security mode is set to Strong.

ES-14822 Running a RAC 60 at 28MHz 64QAM Normal Profile can create unexpected air link errors and traffichits when used with 15GHz ODU.

ES-14887 If two Portal applications are managing the same radio, and two users with admin access rights areadding new users, then the last added user account will overwrite the user account previouslyadded.

ES-14911 Portal allows a user to set frequency diversity protection when payload encryption is enabled.

ES-14983 Portal incorrectly shows an entry for Adaptive Modulation under "Transport Channel Mode" for aDAC GE card.

ES-15090 With payload encryption on and using one of the following profiles:

- 56Mhz 256 QAM Hi Gain 168E1 343Mbps

- 56Mhz 256 QAM 184E1 366Mbps

In approximately 15% of cases Traffic does not recover when the Rx signal faded below thresholdlevels and then normalized.

ES-15166IDU GE 20x: When changing from 40MHz/32QAM 100 DS1 to 40 MHz/128QAM 127 DS1 it ispossible neither end of the link may lock.

ES-15722DAC 155eM: Shows incorrect transceiver type. Shows optical type , not electrical. This has beenresolved in 6.0

ES-16191 DAC GE3: Ethernet Traffic is not delivered when a DAC GE3 circuit is mapped to a DAC E3DS3M(Ethernet NTU Mode).

ES-16571 RAC 60/6X: Trib traffic hit of 20 to 40 seconds during a soft reset. With a RAC 60 or 6X is installed,a soft reset of the terminal causes a traffic hit of 20-40 seconds duration.

ES-16640ES-16297

DAC GE3: Errors observed when using ACM over the backplane transport channel.When configured for ACM operation over a backplane circuit, frame errors (approximately 1 perminute) are periodically seen.

It is recommended that if ACM is in use to transport all Ethernet traffic across the DPP.

ES-16304 DAC GE3: Frames are dropped when a single transport channel is configured to operate over

multiple radio paths, using 'RFD + Protection' mode.Ethernet traffic does not run error-free if one of the RF paths has a uni-directional failure, i.e. oneend is still transmitting.If the RF path is completely removed then error-free traffic is restored.

ES-16390 RAC 60/6X: When the secondary RAC is re-inserted, a traffic hit of approximately 12 seconds canoccur.

ES-16534 DAC GE3: Removing an SFP or cable does not make the DPLL lose lock - Synchronous Ethernetdoes not operate reliably on the SFP ports.Removing the SFP transceiver or cable does not comply with G.8262 as the DPLL switches toanother local clock source rather than going into holdover.

Recommend to ports 1-3 for Synchronous Ethernet.

ES-16635 DAC GE3: Traffic does not pass between a DAC GE and DAC GE3 over the backplane, if AM is

enabled.If the terminal uses the backplane transport channel to configure Ethernet traffic from a DAC GE3 toa DAC GE2 using the Adaptive Modulation mode the system will report a persistent TC channel link

http://jira/browse/ES-14735http://jira/browse/ES-14799http://jira/browse/ES-14821http://jira/browse/ES-14822http://jira/browse/ES-14887http://jira/browse/ES-14911http://jira/browse/ES-14983http://jira/browse/ES-15090http://jira/browse/ES-16191http://jira/browse/ES-16571http://jira/browse/ES-16640http://jira/browse/ES-16297http://jira/browse/ES-16304http://jira/browse/ES-16390http://jira/browse/ES-16534http://jira/browse/ES-16635http://jira/browse/ES-16635http://jira/browse/ES-16534http://jira/browse/ES-16390http://jira/browse/ES-16304http://jira/browse/ES-16297http://jira/browse/ES-16640http://jira/browse/ES-16571http://jira/browse/ES-16191http://jira/browse/ES-15090http://jira/browse/ES-14983http://jira/browse/ES-14911http://jira/browse/ES-14887http://jira/browse/ES-14822http://jira/browse/ES-14821http://jira/browse/ES-14799http://jira/browse/ES-14735


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down alarm and traffic will not be established.

ES-16641 DAC GE3: The software reset feature (via Portal's "Advanced Management" screen) for the DACGE3 fails. Portal shows a "Reset failed" message.

ES-16645 DAC GE3: In a 1+1 hot standby protected link, ACM will stop functioning after a protection switch

has occurred, on the backplane connected traffic.When the link is set to ACM 1+1 hot standby, the transport channel shaping will initially operatecorrectly, but after 1-10 protection switches ACM shaping will cease to function. This causes a "TCChannel link down" alarm and impacts traffic across the transport channel.

It is recommended that if ACM is in use to transport all Ethernet traffic across the DPP in 1+1protected systems.

ES-16652 DAC GE3: Errors when running jumbo frame traffic over multiple front ports. Occasional CRC errorshave been observed when bursting a full load of jumbo frames into all the front panel ports P1, P2and P3 simultaneously. No errors are seen with a full load of jumbo Frame traffic on a single port.

ES-16661 DAC GE3: Data does not pass reliably through the DAC 155oM when operating in the NTU modewith Ethernet traffic sourced/sunk from a DAC GE3. CRC errors are frequently observed on thetransport channel.

ES-16664 DAC GE3: DPP traffic can show high-priority frame drops during AM step-downs (less than 1% ofthe time).When stepping down modulation in an AM link, there is a 1% chance of a single highpriority frame drop during the transition. No errors have been observed during AM step-up inmodulation.

ES-16671 DAC GE3: CRC Errors observed if TC is configured to 197Mbps (128xDS1) between two DACGE3's over the backplane. Portal allows 128 TC connections to a DAC GE3 TC; it should only allow127 circuits to the DAC GE3.

ES-16711 RAC 60/6X: Changing profiles occasionally results in a Remote Communications Failure alarm. Thisalarm can be cleared by toggling the digital loopback on and off.

ES-16877 IDU GE 20x: The electrical SFP interface is down after a power cycle even though the port isenabled. The workaround is to send an Ethernet configuration to the radio.

ES-17005 License: On the RAC 60, when set to highest capacity 100xE1/127xDS1, a Slot N License Violationalarm is raised after loading the RAC mode license file.

When transitioning from nodal license to non-nodal license, the Configuration Not Supported andSlot N License Violation alarms are raised. The workaround is to reload the nodal mode license file.

ES-17214 NCCv2: The Revertive Switching Wait Duration parameter will not hold its setting after being settwice.

ES-17220 Portal: After Portal software load / activation, Portal software can appear frozen although thesoftware has been activated. The workaround is to restart Portal.

ES-17255 RAC 60/6X: A 1xSTM1+1xE1 RX protected link will result in a brief sync-loss / error burst when theoffline Rx is faded to demod not locked.

ES-17643 IDU GE3 16x: 1% frame drop observed on jumbo frames over 9985 bytes, but no dropped frameswere recorded in RMON stats.

ES-17763 IDU GE3 16x: AIS is not inserted on tribs dropped under adaptive modulation.

ES-17789 IDU GE3 16x/RAC 60: When operation with the ODU 300SP+ only the 7MHz QPSK and 16QAMprofile selections are available. The 14 & 28MHz profiles are not selectable. This issue is nowresolved and the IDU GE3 and ODU 300SP+ can now support operation at 7 & 14MHz with theQPSK & 16QAM profiles and at 28MHz with the QPSK, 16QAM and 32 QAM profiles.

ES-18538 DAC GE3: After upgrading the software from 5.05.42 to any release prior to 6.00.50 the DAC GE3can take up to 20minutes to boot and be displayed correctly in portal. This issue is solved in the6.00.50 release.

http://jira/browse/ES-16641http://jira/browse/ES-16645http://jira/browse/ES-16652http://jira/browse/ES-16661http://jira/browse/ES-16664http://jira/browse/ES-16671http://jira/browse/ES-17643http://jira/browse/ES-17763http://jira/browse/ES-17763http://jira/browse/ES-17643http://jira/browse/ES-16671http://jira/browse/ES-16664http://jira/browse/ES-16661http://jira/browse/ES-16652http://jira/browse/ES-16645http://jira/browse/ES-16641


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Eclipse Hardware Supported

The following table details the hardware that is supported by this software and correspondingpart numbers. It is still possible to software load to a terminal with a non supported INU or ODU

attached, but the software in the module will not be updated.

List 1.1 Modules Supported in this release

Module Supported

ODU HP

ODU EP

IRU 600

RAC 30v3

RAC 60

RAC 6X

DAC 4xDAC 16x

DAC 16x v2

DAC 3xE3/DS3

DAC 3xE3/DS3M

DAC 1x155o

DAC 2x155e

DAC 155oM

DAC 155eM

DAC GE

DAC GE3AUX - auxiliary & alarm I/O module

Eclipse Software Product Part Number Version Notes

ODU 300 (ODU 300 EP) EDH-xx-xxxx-xxx 06.00.53

ODU 500 (ODU 300 HP) EAH-xx-xxxx-xxx 06.00.53

ODU 50 (ODU 300 SP – Starwave)

EFS / EQS-xx-xxxx-xxx 06.00.53

ODU 50 (ODU 300 SP – MTI) EFS / EQS / EKS-xx-xxxx-xxx

06.00.53

ODU SPE 06.00.53

IRU 600 ERC-0xx-001 06.00.53IDU GE3 16x EXG-601-001 06.00.53

IDU 300 8/20xE1 EXB-201-001 04.03.35

IDU 300 20xE1 v2 EXG-231-001 04.06.44

IDU 300 ES + 8xE1 EXG-211-001 04.06.68

IDU 300 SP EXG-xxx-001 04.06.44

IDU 300 155o EXG-999-001 04.06.44

IDU 300 GE 20x EXG-261-001 06.00.53

IDU 300 SPE EXG-300-001 06.00.53

INU and INUe, (NCCV2 only ) EXX-000-xxx 06.00.53 Only supporting the list1.1 below


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FAN, 1U

FAN, 2U

NCCv1

Not SupportedUse 5.1.44

NCCv2

NPC – node protection card & TDM protection

Protection support

ODU 1+1 equipment protection

ODU hitless space diversity path protection

DAC GE3 1+1 card protection

Operating Systems SupportedThe following table details the supported Operating Systems.

OperatingSystem

Notes

Windows XP Pro(SP1, SP2)

Refer to Eclipse User Manual for XP support information

Windows Vista New Portal Installer with Microsoft Vista Support

Windows 7 New Portal Installer with Microsoft 7 Support

Computer Hardware Supported

The following table details the minimum hardware specifications required to operate Portal.

Attributes Minimum Specifications

Processor Pentium 4 or later

RAM 2 GB

HD space (install and operate) 300 MB

Monitor display resolution 1024 x 768 XGA

Note: ATI video cards installed with a „Catalyst driver‟ set earlier than 4.9 will cause the Portalperformance page to stop working if the screen-saver activates. The workaround is to install thelatest video drivers from the video card manufacturer.


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Regional Settings Supported

Portal supports the following locales and there are no known limitations:

Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian.

Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Servers Supported

Eclipse software has been successfully tested with the following SNTP time servers.

NetTime

Important Notes

1. Traffic may be affected when upgrading software between two specific versions ofsoftware. Modules that have updated FPGA software will suffer a momentary lossof traffic. The use of Provision feature ‘Scheduled Activation’ to preload software,and schedule upgrades at low traffic times of the day will help minimizedisruption. Contact an Aviat Networks Technical Help Desk for details, contactdetails are on page 2 of these release notes.

2. When upgrading software ensure the remote end of a link is upgraded before the localend.

3. Care should be taken not to run OSPF and Static routing within the same internal OSPFrouting domain.

4. If Portal loses communication with an IDU 300 SP radio when changing the IP address,restart Portal to restore communication.

5. Disable any PC firewalls before performing a software download.

6. Eclipse Portal Software version 5.0 includes an upgrade to Java version 6.0. This laterversion of Java provides improved memory management and operational performance. Itprovides a fix for occasional low memory issues that have been reported on heavilyloaded systems. It is recommended that users install Eclipse Portal 5.0 or later from theEclipse SW Setup CD or from the Aviat Networks Customer Online Support site atwww.support.aviatnetworks.com.

The note below, seen on Portal screens, relates to this issue.

7. Note that this software includes open source items and as such users have a right toaccess source code. Contact [email protected] for details.

Aviat Networks encourages its customers to report problems so we can resolve them asquickly as possible. If you encounter a technical issue, please contact us using the

information on page 2 of these Release Notes.
http://www.support.aviatnetworks.com/http://www.support.aviatnetworks.com/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.support.aviatnetworks.com/