Page 3 - Contents; Introduction to the Frame Generator
Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 3 Contents Introduction to the Frame Generator 5 What the Frame Generator Does 5 Installing the Software 5 Using the Frame Generator 7 Generating Frame Files 8 Importing Frames into ParBERT 9 Editing Frame Files 9 Selecting the Files to ...
Page 5 - What the Frame Generator Does; Installing the Software
Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 5 Introduction to the Frame Generator The SONET/SDH Frame Generator (referred to as the Frame Generator) is a software application for generating SONET and SDH frames for ParBERT. What the Frame Generator Does The Frame Generator allows ...
Page 7 - Using the Frame Generator
Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 7 Using the Frame Generator This topic provides a short overview of what you have to do to generate frames for use in ParBERT. The following figure provides an overview of the workf low. Figure 1 SONET Workflow The following steps have t...
Page 8 - Generating Frame Files
Using the Frame Generator Generating Frame Files 8 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 2. The settings for the frames to be generated are made on the GUI. See “How Frames are Generated” on page 13 for information about the Frame Generator. 3. The selected files are generat...
Page 9 - Importing Frames into ParBERT; Editing Frame Files
Importing Frames into ParBERT Using the Frame Generator Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 9 Importing Frames into ParBERT When the frames have been generated, they have to be imported to ParBERT, where SONET tests can then be carried out. Editing Frame Files The Frame Ge...
Page 12 - Converting Frame Files
Using the Frame Generator Converting Frame Files 12 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 Converting Frame Files Once the frame files have been generated (and edited), they must be converted to segment files for use by ParBERT. This is done by the following: • Selecting File...
Page 13 - How the Frame Generator Works; How Frames are Generated
Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 13 How the Frame Generator Works The following sections provide detailed specifications of the following: • How the Frame Generator generates frames This is described in the following section. • Coded Mark Inversion (CMI) coding See “CMI...
Page 14 - BIP Coding
How the Frame Generator Works How Frames are Generated 14 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 See the following sections for more information: • “SONET Section Overhead and SDH RS Overhead Details” on page 18 This section describes how the section overhead is generated. • ...
Page 15 - Payload Details
How Frames are Generated How the Frame Generator Works Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 15 Payload Details The payload choices are: All 1s, all 0s, alternate 1s and 0s, various PRBS options, a binary file and a pattern editor. It is important to consider the possible le...
Page 16 - B3 Byte
How the Frame Generator Works How Frames are Generated 16 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 N O T E Please pay attention to the following when defining the payload fill. • This is a bulk fill of the payload space, not a fill of each individual payload channel. • Since th...
Page 17 - G1 Path Status Byte; K2 Byte
How Frames are Generated How the Frame Generator Works Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 17 G1 Path Status Byte The G1 path status byte is affected by the following alarms: • L -AIS / MS-AIS • HP-REI • L -RDI / MS-RDI Depending on which alarm is selected, the G1 path sta...
Page 18 - B2 Bytes; All Other Line Overhead
How the Frame Generator Works How Frames are Generated 18 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 Depending on which alarm is selected, the K2 byte is set as follows: • No errors: 0000 0000 • AIS on: 0000 0111 • RDI on: 0000 0110 For the alarm condition, no other action is tak...
Page 19 - Framing; All Other Section Overhead
How Frames are Generated How the Frame Generator Works Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 19 Single B1 Error The user can specify a single B1 error per frame. To generate a B1 error (for channel 1 only), one 1 of a selected byte is complimented (the byte is XORed with 000...
Page 20 - CMI Coding; Synchronizing Pattern
How the Frame Generator Works CMI Coding 20 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 CMI Coding CMI coding is a method of converting binary data into an electrical signal. Bits with the value 1 are given bipolar levels (alternating positive/negative voltages). Bits with the val...
Page 23 - Graphical User Interface Reference
Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 23 Graphical User Interface Reference The Frame Generator’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) is relatively simple; the following is a short description of the GUI elements, tool bar and menus. Figure 6 SONET GUI Menus Tool bar Settings are...
Page 24 - Settings Area
Graphical User Interface Reference Settings Area 24 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 Settings Area N O T E Some elements of the setting area are invisible if you select CID for Mode . The invisible elements are not available for CID. The following is a list of the eleme...
Page 27 - File Menu
Menus Graphical User Interface Reference Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 27 Menus The Frame Generator contains the following menus, which enable you to save files and change appearances of the application: • File menu • View menu • Help menu These are described in the ...
Page 28 - View Menu; Tool Bar
Graphical User Interface Reference Tool Bar 28 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 View Menu The View menu contains the following elements: • Tool Bar Shows/hides the tool bar. • Status Bar Shows/hides the status bar. Help Menu The Help menu contains the following elements...
Page 29 - Status Bar
Status Bar Graphical User Interface Reference Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 29 Status Bar The status bar at the bottom of the GUI provides information about the status of the application. It also provides “pop-up” type tips for the menus and tools (when the mouse mov...
Page 31 - Index
Index Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002 31 Index B B1 byte 18 error 19 B2 byte 18 error 18 B3 byte 16 error 16 BIP coding 14 C CMI coding 20 F File generation 11 Files, overview 11 Frame generation 13 Frame Generator functionality 5 introduction 5 using 7 workflow 7 Fram...
