Re: (PM) Static on Lines

Eric J. Merkel (merkel@defnet.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:40:49 -0400

At 09:08 PM 11/19/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>If you have static problems, please respond to me so we can pool our
knowlege (i.e. gang up on USWest/Livingston) and get a quicker answer. This
is CRITICAL!
>

Kevin,

How far away from their CO are you? The receive level on line0 below
looks like it is on a repeatered span. The other 3 have "low" levels
compared to what I have typically seen on a repeated span. Now I am
making the assumption these are all in the same location? If that
is true, I would think they would all be the same level.

At one of our locations we are right across the street from the CO and
are on a non-repeated span and our receive level is -7.5dB to -15dB.
Perhaps your low receive level is causing you to go in and out of
spec on what the PM3 needs to operate properly.

The number of errors on each line doesn't look out of the ordinary.
Have you thought of something close by, which might be causing electrical
intereference on your lines? You might also try changing the cable from
the smart jack to the pm3's csu and shorten it bit if you don't need
that big honkin' cable LE sends you.

If none of that helps, have the telco monitor the line for errors
for an extended period of time and see if anything strange turns up.

Those are just a few things I can think of.

>PORTMASTER 3 STATS
>
>pm3> sh line0
>---------------------- line0 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Signaling: Trunk E&M wink start
>
> Receive Level: +2dB to -7.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 0 Bipolar 0
> Yellow 0 CRC Errors 0
> Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 44
> Loss of Sync 4
>
>pm3> sh line1
>---------------------- line1 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Signaling: Trunk E&M wink start
>
> Receive Level: -15dB to -22.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 0 Bipolar 15
> Yellow 0 CRC Errors 5
> Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 0
> Loss of Sync 0
>
>
>
>PORTMASTER 4 STATS
>
>pm4> sh line0
>---------------------- line0 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Signaling: Trunk E&M wink start
>
> Receive Level: -15dB to -22.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 0 Bipolar 0
> Yellow 0 CRC Errors 0
> Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 0
> Loss of Sync 0
>
>pm4> sh line1
>---------------------- line1 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Signaling: Trunk E&M wink start
>
> Receive Level: -15dB to -22.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 0 Bipolar 0
> Yellow 0 CRC Errors 0
> Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 0
> Loss of Sync 0
>
>pm4>
>
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