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MODULE 6

SYSTEM ALARMS

PLC
DE VENEZUELA S.A.
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86431 POWER UNIT ALARMS

„ Red LED (On)

ªInput power is removed (station battery)
ªFuse is removed or blown
ªInternal DC-DC converter failed

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86432-51 STM-1 AGGREGATE and 86417-21

STM-4 AGGREGATE UNIT ALARMS
„ STM-N Red LED (On)
ªLoss of signal
ªBad Line Frequency
ªLoss of Frame (6 bad frames while in OOF state –
back to normal after 6 good frames)
ªOut of Frame (four consecutive frames with bad A1
& A2 bytes - restored with two consecutive good
frames)
ªLine-AIS received
ªSection-BER exceeding threshold (B1 BIP-8 byte)
ªOptic receive level below Fail threshold
ªOptic receive level below Alarm threshold

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86432-51 STM-1 AGGREGATE and 86417-21 STM-

4 AGGREGATE UNIT ALARMS
„ STM-N Green LED (Off)
ªIndicates a bad received signal causing MS-AIS to be
asserted
ªMS-AIS asserted if
„ LOS / OOF / LOF
„ Bad Line Frequency detected
„ MS-AIS received
„ Optic level is below fail threshold
„ Regenerator Section BER exceeding threshold (B1 BIP-8 byte)

„ Yellow LED (On)

ªMS-RDI is being received (bad received STM-N signal
at far end) and MS-AIS not asserted locally

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86432-51 STM-1 AGGREGATE and 86417-21

STM-4 AGGREGATE UNIT ALARMS
„ ALARM LED (On)
ª FPGA did not boot correctly
ª SFP transceiver is missing, failed or supports no DMI (OC-3 only)
ª 2 kHz Sync-Tie clock is missing (SLAVE nodes only)
ª VCXO control voltage out of range
„ PLL Output
„ PWM Output
ª Laser current is too high
ª Section trace mismatch (if enabled)
ª Main-board temperature is too high (>100ºC) or too low (<-20ºC)
ª Sub-board module temperature is too high (>100ºC) (OC-12 only)
ª Bypass Alarm (if enabled; OC-12 only)
„ ALARM LED (Flashing)
ª CBW Port Alarm
„ No signal received on at least one of the provisioned CBW ports
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86432-51 STM-1 AGGREGATE and 86417-21 STM-

4 AGGREGATE UNIT ALARMS
„ VC-4 Red LED (On)
ª At least one of the received (and terminated) VC-4s is abnormal.*
„ Loss of VC-4 pointer
„ Received AU-AIS pattern
„ VC-4 Path BER exceeding threshold (B3 BIP-8 byte)

„ VC-4 Yellow LED (On)

ª VC-4 RDI on at least one of the received (and terminated) VC-4s*
ª Denotes abnormal condition on the far-end received VC-4
„ VC-4 Green LED (On)
ª All received (and terminated) VC-4s are good*
„ All VC-4 LEDs are OFF
ª All VC-4s received are bypassed

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86490 TUG-3 UNIT ALARMS

„ Green LED Off, Red LED On

ªUnit Internal Failure
ªWrong TUG-3 Port configuration (on STM-1 unit)

„ Green LED Off, Red LED Off

ªCheck Shelf Power

„ Red LED and Yellow LED Flashing

ªAbsence of Sync signal from STM-1 unit's TUG-3
port

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86480 EXTERNAL SYNC UNIT ALARMS

„ A, B/C, LINE-L, LINE-R (Red)
ª Steady: The respective port’s input is enabled and the received
signal is invalid (e.g. LOS, phase loss, frequency alarm etc. ).
ª Flashing: The respective port’s input is enabled and the received
signal is being validated.
„ HOLDOVER LED Flashing
ª The unit is in Holdover mode. All provisioned sync inputs are
bad. The unit tries to preserve the last received clock and times
the node with it.
„ ALARM (Red)
ª Steady: The unit is in alarm (e.g. paddleboard missing, high
temperature, Xilinx failed to load, etc. ).
ª Flashing: The unit is in Standby mode and it validates the timing
signal provided by the companion unit.
„ All LEDs flashing at 2 Hz rate
ª The unit is in SLEEP mode and is forced to Standby operation.
The unit can be forced to enter or leave the sleep mode using
VistaNET software.
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86485 CMUX UNIT ALARMS

„ CBUS Red LED (On)
ª Received TU-11 abnormal condition
„ Bad V1 Byte (not ‘6C’)
„ Bad pointer (Byte V2 not in range)
„ Bad V5 label (Byte V5 not XXX0001X)
„ AIS (Byte V5 = 11111111)
„ High BER (Path BIP-2 bits)

„ CBUS Yellow LED (On)

ª Receiving VC-11 Path-Yellow (remote end is in alarm)
„ Yellow LEDs and Red LEDs Flashing
ª no TIFport receive clock
„ Green LED On and Red LED Flashing
ª 64kb/s channel unit problem

„ All LEDs flashing randomly

ª TIFport is not configured properly (not in TU-11 mode)

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86435 TIE UNIT ALARMS

„ Red LED (On)
ª Received TU-12 abnormal condition
„ Bad V1 Byte (not ‘68’)
„ Bad pointer (Byte V2 not in range)
„ Bad V5 label (Byte V5 not XXX0001X or XXX0010X)
„ AIS (Byte V5 = 11111111)
„ High BER (Path BIP-2 bits)

„ Yellow LED (On)

ª Receiving VC-12 Path-Yellow (remote end is in alarm)
„ Yellow LEDs and Red LEDs Flashing
ª no TIFport receive clock, or
ª TIFport is not configured properly (not in TU-12 mode)
„ Green LED On and Red LED Flashing
ª Bad tie-cable connection

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86439 E1 UNIT ALARMS

„ Green LED Off and Red LED On
ª Received TU-12 abnormal condition
„ Bad V1 Byte (not ‘68’)
„ Bad pointer (Byte V2 not in range)
„ Bad V5 label (Byte V5 not XXX0010X)
„ AIS (Byte V5 = 11111111)
„ High BER (Path BIP-2 bits)

„ Green LED On and Yellow LED On

ª Receiving VC-12 Path Yellow. Far-end E1 port is receiving abnormal TU-12.
„ Red LEDs and Yellow LEDs Flashing
ª No TIF Receive Clock, or
ª TIFport is not configured properly (not in TU-12 mode)
„ Green LED On and Red LED Flashing
ª Abnormal condition of the incoming E1 signal (if enabled)
„ Green LED Off and Red LED Off
ª Port is not configured

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86438 ETHER-10 ALARMS (I)

„ Green LED Off and ALM LED On
ª Received TU-11 abnormal condition
„ Bad V1 Byte (not ‘6C’)
„ Bad pointer (Byte V2 not in range)
„ Bad V5 label (Byte V5 not XXX0001X)
„ AIS (Byte V5 = 11111111)
„ High BER (Path BIP-2 bits)

„ Green LED On and Yellow LED On

ª Receiving VC-11 Path Yellow (RDI). Remote ETHER-10 is receiving
an abnormal TU-11.
„ ALM LED and Yellow LED Flashing
ª No TIF Receive Clock
„ Green LED Off and ALM LED Off
ª TIFport slot is not assigned

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86438 ETHER-10 ALARMS (II)

„ ALARM LED On
ª Xilinx FPGA did not boot
ª Unit temperature is high (>93ºC)
ª Paddleboard is missing
„ ALARM LED Flashing
ª Ether Module malfunction
ª Bad companion unit configuration (different LAN ID, different Site
ID)
ª Bridging Alarm, which is present when any of the following is true:
ª LAN Errors (Bad input from LAN, Bad output to LAN, Link
Integrity Pulse Errors)
ª TIF Errors (TIF Transmit, TIF Receive, Bad SONET Receive, TIF
Receive CRC-8 Errors)
ª Duplicate Site ID (Local Site ID observed elsewhere on the
ring).

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86418 ETHER-100 ALARMS (I)

„ Line Port Red LED On
ª Received TU-3 abnormal condition
„ Path AIS
„ High BER
„ Frame sync check has failed
ª TU-3 mismatch alarm
„ At least one of the TU-3s received is not from an ETHER-100 unit, or
„ The far-end unit is not set for the same number of slots, or
„ The order of TU-3s received has been changed with respect to their order at the far
end

„ Line Port Yellow LED On

ª Receiving VC-3 Path Yellow (RDI). Remote ETHER-100 is receiving an
abnormal TU-3.
„ Line Port Yellow and Red LEDs Flashing
ª No clock received on the Line port
„ All Line Port LEDs Off (for one Line Port)
ª The line port is not provisioned

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86418 ETHER-100 ALARMS (II)

„ ALARM LED On
ª Xilinx FPGA did not boot
ª Unit temperature is high (>93ºC)
ª Paddleboard is missing
ª 1.5 VDC from internal voltage converter is out of limits
„ ALARM LED Flashing
ª A failure in the network’s connectivity around the ring, i.e. the left-to-right
and/or the right-to-left path around the ring is affected;
ª An atypical behavior has been detected on one or more of the enabled
Ethernet drop ports, such as
„ Link Integrity Pulses are missing on RJ-45 ports
„ Fiber ports are not receiving a good optic power level
„ Reception of errored frame (FCS/CRC error)
„ Excessive collisions event (declared after 16 unsuccessful attempts to retransmit a
frame)
„ Late collision
„ Reception of an “illegal-length” frame (>1536 bytes, or with an "alignment" error)

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86441 and 86442 DTT UNIT ALARMS

„ DTT-XMT Red LED (On)
ªLoss of clock from CBUS
ªFailure of opto's self-test on keying loop
ªWrong configuration (Main/Aux)
ªUnit temperature is high
„ DTT-RCV Red LED (On)
ªLoss of clock from CBUS
ªWrong channel setting (No Green LED - No data
received)
ªWrong BC96 address
ªOpen loop on the Main Trip Output (can be disabled
through software)
ªUnit temperature is high

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86443 CDR UNIT ALARMS

„ Red LED (On)

ªLoss of clock from CBUS
ªIncorrect channel or BC96 address assignment
ªFailure of opto's self-test on keying loops
ªOpen loop on DTT output
ªAbsence of associated Interface unit (must be
installed immediately to the right)
ªInternal self-check of voltages
ªUnit temperature is high

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4W VF and 1-Channel 2W VF Unit Alarms

„ Red LED (On)

ª+5V to -5V & -8.5V converter (CODEC)
ª+5V to -48V DC-DC converter (FXS unit only)
ªUnit temperature is high

„ Busy (yellow) LED (On)

ªBusy/On-hook state

„ Busy (yellow) LED (Flashing)

ªRinging state (FXO & FXS units only)

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4-Ch 2W VF FXO and 2-Ch 2W VF FXS

Unit Alarms
„ Red LED (On)
ª Absence of clock from CBUS
ª Unit temperature is high (>93C)
ª FPGA did not boot properly
ª Bad DAA chipset (4-Ch FXO only)
ª Bad SLIC (2-Ch FXS unit only)

„ Busy (yellow) LED (On)

ª On-hook state

„ Busy (yellow) LED (Flashing)

ª Ringing state

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HS DATA and DATA-LS UNIT ALARMS

„ Red LED (On)

ªAbsence of clock from CBUS
ªLoss of Data Framing (not applicable to HS Data
unit configured for 64 kb/s data transmission)
ªUnit temperature is high

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DATA-G703 and DATA-NX64(F) UNIT ALARMS

„ Alarm (Red) LED ON
ª Absence of clock from CBUS
ª Circuit address mismatch
ª (DATA-NX64/64F only) Data rate mismatch
ª (DATA-NX64/64F only) Channel allocation mismatch
ª (DATA-NX64 only) V.35 paddleboard DCE/DTE jumper on paddleboard
does not match the software setting
ª Unit temperature is high (>93C)
ª FPGA did not boot properly
„ Yellow LED ON
ª Loss of signal at the far-end unit (red LED steady on at far-end unit)
„ Alarm (Red) LED Flashing (DATA-NX64F only)
ª Incoming fibre signal alarm (bad data framing or channel mismatch)
„ Yellow LED Flashing (DATA-NX64F only)
ª Drop equipment is not receiving valid data

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DATA-PTM UNIT ALARMS

„ Alarm (Red) LED ON
ª Absence of clock from CBUS
ª Loss of data framing in both channels A and B
ª Unit temperature is high (>93C)
ª FPGA did not boot properly

Other LED indications

„ XMT, RCV
ª Flashing when data transitions are detected on respective local terminal
(otherwise steady on)
„ RTS
ª MTU: Continually ON
ª RTU: ON when local drop equipment sets RTS=High i.e. data is being
sent to the loop (otherwise OFF)
„ RLSD
ª ON when unit is receiving data from the loop (through either channel)
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86463 CONTACT I/O UNIT ALARMS

„ Red LED (On)
ªIncorrect channel or BC96 address assignment
ªI/O board is missing
ªNear-end and far-end I/O board orientations are
mismatched
ªHigh CRC error rate
ªADC alarm (high unit temperature, FPGA did not
boot correctly). Use Z3 to determine the source.
„ Yellow LED (On)
ªFar-end unit is in alarm
„ Red LED (Flashing)
ªInput changed to active state (if “alert” is enabled)
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