DN Site with 2 x V5000 and 1 x V3000

[Antony]

Some information on wired links and relay ports:

cnWave Wired links and Relay ports

In a Terragraph mesh network, nodes can be connected together with wired Ethernet links as well as wirelessly. For the purpose of this article, the word “Site” will refer to a defined location in the mesh topology. There are two ways to create a wired link: Multiple modes defined at the SAME site will automatically be assigned a wired link from a topology perspective. This is not the same as from a configuration perspective. A customer might wish to do this when co-located nodes are used …

Please watch the following video which covers relay configuration:

https://learning.cambiumnetworks.com/learn/course/993/play/3410/60ghz-cnwave-installing-a-relay-topology

Things to Consider:

1. A port configured for relay cannot be used to bridge customer data. Therefore, if customer data is required at this site, an additional port must be used. For example use a POE to the V3000 above, this is a 10Gbps connection.
2. A port configured for relay cannot be used for local IPv4 management of the node.
3. Relay port configuration must be set in both the E2E and the local node. A node downstream of the relay connection must first be configured before it can connect to the mesh. Once it connects to the E2E, if the relay port is not already configured there, the relay port will be disabled again. This is best explained in the relay video provided above.
4. By default, all ports are added to a bridge inside the node, therefore, do not plug two ports from the same node into the same switch. Additionally, do not plug multiple ports configured for customer traffic from different nodes into the same switch, as it will create a loop.
5. The Aux port has a maximum Ethernet negotiation of 1 Gbps, therefore it is best to choose the SFP+ or Main port for relay.

Frequency planning for this:

If you take a look at the deployment guide you can see there’s various option to collocate the V5000’s if you need to, I’ll be interesting in the installation details, but you could get away with two frequencies.

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The V3000 being a narrow beam may only require just >3deg elevation offset if you had to share frequency, but we can work through that if you have details.

Antony