Speed profiles and ONU types

Speed profiles and ONU types are two lists under Settings. You pick from them when you authorize an ONU. A speed profile becomes a real limit on the OLT. An ONU type is a description of a model that the panel uses to fill forms and draw pages.

What a speed profile is

A speed profile is a named pair of limits: Download Mbps and Upload Mbps. Examples are a 20 Mbps plan or a 100 Mbps plan. An ONU with no speed profile is Unlimited: the panel puts no limit on its internet service.

How a speed profile maps to the OLT

On a Huawei OLT, speed limits are traffic tables. The service port of an ONU points to one traffic table for upload and one for download. The panel manages this for you:

• Nothing is created on the OLT when you add a speed profile. The traffic table is created the first time an ONU on that OLT gets the profile.
• The panel stores speeds in kbps: 1 Mbps is 1024 kbps. So a 10 Mbps profile is a traffic table with CIR 10240 and PIR 10240.
• Before it creates a table, the panel looks for one that already has exactly that rate. It reuses the table it made earlier, or another matching table with index 10 or higher.
• If there is none, it creates a new table at the lowest free index from 10 upward. Lower indexes are left alone because they are the OLT's own default tables.
• Upload and download each use a table. If both speeds are the same, one table serves both.
• On the service port, the upload table is applied inbound (from the customer) and the download table outbound (to the customer).

When the panel first sees an ONU that was set up on the OLT without the panel, and its limit matches one of your speed profiles exactly, the ONU is given that profile in the list.

Add or edit a speed profile

1. Open Settings, Speed profiles.
2. Press Add Speed profile.
3. Type a Name, for example Home 20M. Each name can be used once.
4. Type Download Mbps and Upload Mbps. Decimals are allowed. The range is 0.0625 Mbps to 10000 Mbps.
5. Press Save. You should see Speed profile saved.

The list shows Name, Download, Upload and ONUs. Click the number of ONUs to open them in the Configured list. Click a name to edit the profile.

A speed profile cannot be removed while ONUs use it. Move those ONUs to another speed first. Delete unused speed profiles removes every profile that nothing uses.

Put a speed on ONUs

• When you authorize: choose it in Speed profile. A speed profile needs a User VLAN-ID. See Authorize a new ONU.
• On one ONU: on the ONU page click Configure in the Speed profiles table. See The ONU page.
• On many ONUs: use Set speed profile under Tasks, Bulk actions. See Bulk actions.

Each of these changes the service port on the OLT, so the customer drops for a few seconds.

Line profiles and service profiles

Line profiles and service profiles live on the OLT. The panel reads them on every OLT read and lists them on the Authorize form as Line-profile and Service-profile, each with its number and name.

• The panel selects the pair that most ONUs on that OLT already use. On most networks you can keep that choice.
• To see them, open Settings, OLTs, open the OLT and choose the Profiles tab. Scan OLT profiles reads them again after you changed something on the OLT.
• A preset can hold a Line profile ID and a Service profile ID for ONUs that need a different pair.
• The GEM port for the service is set on the Authorize form under Advanced, or in a preset. The default is 1.

The VLANs of the OLT are read the same way. The VLANs tab of the OLT has an Add VLAN button. See OLT tools.

What an ONU type is

An ONU type describes one ONU model: its name and its ports. The panel comes with a list of common Huawei and ZTE models, and you can add your own.

The panel matches a type to an ONU by name. When the OLT reports a model such as EG8145V5, the panel looks for a type whose name is equal to it or is part of it. Upper and lower case do not matter. The type is used in these places:

• The Authorize form selects the type and its usual mode (Bridging or Routing) for you.
• Auto actions can match on the ONU type.
• The ONU page draws one row in Ethernet ports for each Ethernet port of the type, and the traffic monitor offers the same ports.
• The CATV line on the ONU page comes from the type.
• The config mismatch report warns when the model the OLT reports does not fit the saved type.

The ONU type does not choose the line profile or the service profile. You choose those on the Authorize form or in a preset.

Add or edit an ONU type

1. Open Settings, ONU types.
2. Press Add ONU type.
3. In ONU type, type the model name exactly as the OLT reports it. You can see that text in the Type column of the Unconfigured page. The name is saved in capital letters.
4. Fill in the rest:
   • Ethernet ports: number of LAN ports, 0 to 24.
   • WiFi SSIDs: 0 for an ONU without WiFi, up to 8.
   • VoIP ports: number of phone ports, 0 to 8.
   • CATV: tick it if the model has a TV output.
   • Allow custom profiles: a yes or no value shown in the list.
   • Capability: Bridging for a bridge only model, or Bridging/Routing.
   • Usual mode: the mode the Authorize form selects for this model. A model with capability Bridging is always saved with Bridging.
5. Press Save. You should see ONU type saved.

The list shows every type with its ports and the number of ONUs that use it. Click a name to edit it. Export and Import move the list as a CSV file.

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