Omnitron Systems Technology iConverter GX-TM2 User Manual

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GX/TM2

10/100/1000BASE-T UTP to 1000BASE-X Media Converter and Network Interface Device

The iConverter GX/TM2 conforms to the Ethernet in the

First Mile (EFM) ber standards to support Fiber-to-the-X

Metropolitan and Enterprise LAN networks. The GX/TM2
provides intelligent, securely managed service demarcation
at the customer premises, offering Quality of Service and
enhanced Bandwidth Control (rate-limiting) capabilities.
The GX/TM2 features built-in Operations, Administration
and Maintenance (OAM) with comprehensive performance
monitoring, fault detection and provisioning.

The GX/TM2 is available as a compact standalone unit or as
a chassis plug-in module. The hot-swappable GX/TM2 plug-in

module can be mounted in a 19 or 5-Module chassis with any

combination of redundant AC and DC power supplies. It can
also be mounted in a 2-Module AC or DC powered chassis, or
in a 1-Module chassis with AC or DC power input.

The plug-in module can manage other modules in the same
chassis and operate as a managed 10/100/1000 media
converter. It features two Gigabit Ethernet backplane ports
for connectivity to adjacent modules in a chassis for multi-port

and multi-service congurations.

The standalone GX/TM2 is available as a tabletop or wall­mount unit. The tabletop model can be DIN-rail mounted using
an optional DIN-rail mounting kit. Both the tabletop and the
wall-mount models are DC powered and are available with an

external AC/DC power adapter or a terminal connector for DC

power. The GX/TM2 standalone unit combines management
capability with a compact chassis for deployment at the
demarcation point.

CARRIER-GRADE OPTICAL ETHERNET

iConverter fiber access Network Interface

Devices and media converters are MEF
9 and 14 certified compliant and NEBS

Level 3 compliant. iConverter NIDs enable
Carrier-Grade Optical Ethernet with reliability
and performance monitoring to support Service
Level Agreements (SLAs).

The modular design of iConverter ber access
equipment future-proofs Metro Ethernet
services with scalability of network services
and lowers operating costs with comprehensive
OAM management and provisioning.

KEY FEATURES

■ Carrier-Grade optical Ethernet Network Interface Device

■ Integrated SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3 and IP-less

802.3ah management

■ 802.3ah Link OAM for early fault detection and
performance monitoring

■ VLAN with 802.1ad Q-in-Q for E-Line and E-LAN
services

■ Quality of Service for Voice/Data/Video over Ethernet

■ Bandwidth control (rate limiting) with 64Kb increments

■ Port MIB statistics and optical performance statistics to
support Service Level Agreements

■ Port Access Control for enhanced security

■ 10,240 byte Jumbo frames

■ Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP) Policy Control

■ Congurable Link Fault Propagation modes

■ Small Form Pluggable (SFP) transceivers with Optical
Statistics for standard or CWDM applications

■ Fixed-ber connectors available for multimode and

single-mode dual ber and single-mode single-ber

■ UTP auto-crossover and auto-negotiation of data
rate, duplex modes and pause capabilities

■ Commercial (0 to 50OC), wide (-40O to 60OC) and
extended (-40O to 75OC) temperature ranges

■ MEF 9 and 14 Certied Compliant

■ NEBS Level 3 Compliant

■ Lifetime Warranty and free 24/7 Technical Support

ADVANCED FEATURES

Fiber Port Options

GX/TM2 models with xed-ber connectors are available with
multimode (MM) dual ber, single-mode (SM) dual ber and
single-mode single-ber (SF) options. They support ST, SC
and LC connectors with distances up to 550m over MM ber,
140km over SM ber and 40km over SF. The GX/TM2 Small
Form Pluggable (SFP) model supports a wide variety of SFP

transceivers available in 20nm increments from 1270nm to

1610nm to support FTTX and CWDM applications.

Link Modes

The GX/TM2 features multiple, user-selectable link fault

detection modes, including Link Fault Propagation, Remote
Fault Detection and Asymmetrical Fault Detection. These Link

Modes provide rapid fault detection and isolation by monitoring
the state of the cabling hardware, and operate independently
of the network management.

Tag VLAN, Port VLAN and QoS

The iConverter GX/TM2 supports the IEEE 802.1Q tag Virtual
Local Area Network (VLAN) packet tagging and untagging
(including Q-in-Q) and the 802.1p Quality of Service priority
standards.

GX/TM2 VLAN 802.1ad tunneling technology enables service
providers to offer their customers E-Line and E-LAN services
(via Ethernet Virtual Circuit or EVC), which connect multiple
business LANs at different locations and make their networks
appear to be on the same local network. Q-in-Q Service tags

transparently transport customer network trafc across the

service provider network, isolating it from other customer and

service provider management trafc.

GX/TM2 Port VLAN enables the ability to specify and restrict

trafc ow between the ber, UTP, backplane and management

ports.
The 802.1p prioritization standard enables delivery of Quality

of Service (QoS) to high-priority, real-time applications such
as voice and video over Ethernet.

Port and optical performance statistics reporting provides
the ability to monitor customer bandwidth utilization, network
performance and the link signal quality for each individual port.

IEEE 802.3ah Operations, Administration and Maintenance

The GX/TM2 supports the IEEE 802.3ah OAM standard,

including Fault Detection, Performance Monitoring and Remote

Loopback.

Fault Detection

The GX/TM2 detects and indicates link failures, dying gasp and
other critical events. The GX/TM2 also supports Unidirectional

Link Fault Detection that indicates faults in either direction of
the ber link.

Performance Monitoring

802.3ah Performance Monitoring tools are used for the

detection and notication of link performance (quality) faults.

Ethernet data performance can deteriorate slowly before
disrupting service, and the GX/TM2 allows the setting of error­per-second thresholds. Once the pre-set error threshold is

exceeded, an event notication is generated that provides

early indication of a problem that may be resolved prior to
loss of service.

Remote Loopback

Remote Loopback is used for fault localization and link

performance testing. When a GX/TM2 port is in loopback

mode, all received service trafc is looped and transmitted

back unaltered. The statistics from the GX/TM2 port and the
remote link partner can be compared for consistency.

METRO ETHERNET ACCESS

Port Bandwidth Control and Port Access Control

The enhanced Bandwidth Control feature supports levels of

bandwidth limiting between the ber and UTP ports in 64Kbps
increments from 64K to Full Line Speed.

The GX/TM2 features Port Access Control which blocks user
service while maintaining the network link. Port Access Control
enables the service provider to control user access while

maintaining port conguration for easy disabling or enabling

of customer service. Port Access Control provides enterprise
administrators the capability to improve network security by
controlling port access when the port is not in use.

Port Statistics and Optical Performance Statistics

The GX/TM2 supports reporting of utilization, port and optical
performance statistics. Port statistics are available for 38

different variables for the UTP and ber ports. Additionally,
full optical performance statistics are available on SFP ber

transceivers with a digital diagnostic bus.

iConverter GX/TM2

At the Central Ofce, the GX/TM2 plug-in module is installed
in a managed iConverter 19-Module chassis for high-density
ber distribution from an UTP switch equipment. At Customer
Premises 1 and 2, GX/TM2 standalone NIDs provide a ber

uplink to a single copper port for intelligent demarcation of
Ethernet services.

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