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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

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Maintenance Guidelines on WEBFIL PDMUX

Prepared by: Mohan Chaurasiya SSE(Telecom), CAMTECH

केमटे क/एस/प्रोज/2022-23/एसपी 5A अप्रैल 2022

CAMTECH/S/PROJ/2022-23/SP 5A April 2022

भारतीय रे ल उच्च अनुरक्षण प्रोद्योगिकी केंद्र,

महराजपुर , ग्वाललयर (म. प्र.) 474005
Indian Railways Centre for Advanced Maintenance Technology
Maharajpur, Gwalior (M.P.) - 474 005
Guidelines for General Safety during Maintenance

 To Prevent personal injury, equipment damage and service

interruptions, only trained authorized and qualified personnel
should be working directly on equipment.
 Avoid wearing loose clothing.
 Wear Anti static bands/shoes/cloths while working on system
to avoid damage to equipment due to static discharge of body.
 Ensure to avoid moist floors, undergrounded power extension
cables, frayed power cords on the site.
 Never assume power is disconnected from a circuit.
Disconnect all power by turning off the power and unplugging
the power cord before:
• Installing or removing a chassis
• Working near power supplies
 While handling cards ensure not to touch solder side of
module, pin connector or the components.
 Card to be placed in the antistatic bag and then only to be
placed in box for packing.
 Do not stack cards on or against each other.
 Do not Force cards into their packaging material.
 Allow each module to reach room temperature before you
insert module into the shelf.
 Leave spare cards in the original shielded containers until you
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 Maintenance Guidelines

In the design of FlexiMUX modular construction scheme has been

followed. This results in simplified trouble-shooting and reduced
downtime Adequate alarms and monitoring points have also been
provided on the system so that faulty cards can be identified.
As far as the maintenance of the system is concerned the concept
of 1st and 2nd line of maintenance has been followed. The 1st line
maintenance staff shall identify the faulty cards and replace them.
The main task of 1st line maintenance staff is as follows:
1) To carry out periodical check of various system parameters
to ensure satisfactory performance of the equipment.
2) To restore the communication link at the earliest, in case of
failure.
The 2nd line maintenance staff will undertake the repair of faulty
cards, assembly adjustments, testing, debugging etc.
The main purpose of routine maintenance is to perform periodic
checks on the links and to verify any possible degradation in the
overall quality. Quick restoration of a faulty link is extremely
important. This is achieved by replacing the faulty card. The routine
test may be carried out weekly, monthly or yearly depending upon
the importance of parameters and strength of manpower. Use of on
line network monitoring system “Super-Net” greatly amplifies the
maintenance of the link.
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Diagnostic Aids:
Various types of diagnostic aids have been provided to simplify the
maintenance of the system.
These are as follows:
a) Alarms & Indication
b) Test & Measurement points
c) Maintenance & diagnostics through NMS

Maintenance & Diagnostics through NMS:

User of Super-Net can observe the current status of any terminal
connected to the Net. Upto 99 equipment are possible to connect in
a single network. If the site of any equipment is activated, scanning
continues and data is updated at a certain interval. Any change in
current status from previous one is displayed on the screen. The
supervisory input, output status and performance data like error
second, severed error second, degraded minutes etc. of a
particular terminal being selected by user can be observed. In case
of any problem in any terminal, “Super-Net” can find out the faulty
area very intelligently. All alarms status can be saved with
occurrence time in a history file in computer and the details of
alarms can be retrieved from the logged file on the basis of query
afterwards. Apart from this, an alarm history of 32 events are stored
in the system and can be retrieved in situation when central
monitoring is not present.
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Routine Maintenance Philosophy
Routine maintenance is carried out while the system is in
operation and consists of checking the important and critical
parameters at the monitoring sockets provided. This will help in
forecasting, to some extent a failure in a unit so that adequate
steps can be taken accordingly.
Under normal operating conditions of the equipment, the
following schedule is suggested for better utilization of the link.

Weekly check
• Whether ‘PSU OK’ LED glows.
• Whether all electrical cables and connections are properly
secured and the cables are not stretched.
• To record occurrence of any type of alarm with time in a
Register Book.
• Check -48V supply point of battery.
• Check alarm history and status of all stations in the network
from central monitoring station.

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The list of Instruments required for testing and measurement are
as follows:

Sr.No Name Qty

1. Bench Regulated Power Supply (0-80V) 1

2. Digital Multimeter 1

3. Oscilloscope 400 MHz 1

4. Frequency Counter 10 MHz 1

5. Digital Transmission Analyser 1

6. PCM Terminal Test Set 1

7. Data Tester 1

Fault Locating and Repair Instructions

The system features comprehensive visual alarm indicators on
the front panel of every card to assist with troubleshooting and
fault isolation in the event of an equipment failure in the unit. All
of the circuitry is arranged in replaceable modules which have
individual alarms. Built-in diagnostics circuitry isolates the failure
to the specific module which requires replacement. In addition to
the individual module alarms, there are a number of alarms that
assist with troubleshooting problems that occur at the remote
terminals or as a result of an equipment or power failure external
to the system. The cause and recommended corrective action
for each alarm are explained in this section.
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Transmission is not disrupted to replace the faulty channel module.
For the replacement of faulty modules of the basic Mux, system
has to be bypassed to avoid disruption.

This section deals with problem determination and fault isolation by

using the local and remote diagnostics displayed on the front panel
of the unit.
Fault Isolation and Corrective Action
The following pages discuss specific problems, possible causes,
troubleshooting guidelines, and corrective actions.
The list of various fault conditions and probable fault area is
furnished below:
a) Power Supply card

Indication Diagnosis Remarks

PSU OK – green Input and output

steady voltages are OK.

PSU ERR – yellow Any of the output Power supply card

steady voltages has under may be faulty.
voltage.

Shutdown – red Power supply is Line over-voltage or

steady shutdown due to under voltage
input under voltage condition may have
or over voltage or occurred. Otherwise,
output over-voltage. any short circuit on
the output side.

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b) NIM & Tributary card

Indication Diagnosis Remarks

NIM Tributary

Sys OK – green Sys OK – Indicates

steady green that there is
steady no alarm in
the link

RXF- TAF – red 2 Mb loss in If the alarm RXF goes

red steady A-port off on loopback, it
steady indicates a failure in
the transmission side.
Otherwise if the cable
connection is OK, the
problem may be with
Tributary card.

AIS- red All ones in Transmission link

steady A-port failure.

LOS– LOS If the alarm RXF goes

red indicates a off on loopback, it
A steady frame or indicates a failure in
Port
multiframe the transmission side,
loss. otherwise if the cable
connection is OK, the
problem may be with
tributary card.

BER – Steady glow Probable cause lies

red of BER with link performance.
steady alarm If link is OK, then
indicates bit problem may be with
error of tributary card.
more than 1
error in 1000
bits i.e. 1E-3
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 BER- Blinking BER Probable cause
red indicates bit error lies with link
blinking greater than 1E-6 but performance. If
less than 1E-3. link is OK, then
problem may be
with tributary card.
A RA – Remote Alarm Far end problems.
Port amber
steady

RMA Remote Multiframe Far end multiframe

amber Alarm indicates a MF loss. If RMA
steady loss comes with RA
then adjacent
station problem.
Same alarm
B indication and
Port diagnosis as
A- Port

CNFG alarm blinks Card parameter

when there is not properly
mismatch between configured or
the types of cards downloaded.
CNFG- red blinking
actually plugged in
our Mux and
configuration
programmed from
NMS.

DIG BYP LED glows

DIG BYP – amber when DIG BYP
steady command is executed
from NMS.

LPBK A glows
steadily when local
loopback A command
LPBK A- amber steady
is executed from
NMS and blinks when
remote loopback A
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command is given.
 LPBK B-amber LPBK B glows steadily
steady when local loopback B
command is executed
from NMS and blinks
when remote loopback B
command is given.

c) Status and alarm of Interface Module

Module Indication Diagnosis Remarks

E1 SYS OK – It indicates no
Branching green alarm
steady condition in
the branching
link

RXF – red 2 Mb loss in If the alarm RXF goes

steady A- port off on loopback, it
indicates a failure in
the transmission side.
Otherwise if the cable
connection is OK, the
problem may be with
Branching module.

LOS-red LOS indicates - do -

steady a frame or
multiframe
loss.

AIS – red All ones in A – Transmission link

steady port failure
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Voice E – amber Indicates E-lead
Module ON

M- green Indicates M-
lead ON or Off-
hook condition

G.703 LOS-red No input in the If cable and data

receive port. termination and
link is ok then
problem may be
with the card.

SYNC- amber Sync loss in the - do -

input.

OVF / UVF – Violation of - do -

amber pattern

V.35 DCH Error – Off indicates the On condition

red link is OK indicates a cross-
connect failure

RXD-green Receive data a

DCE

TXD – green Transmit data of

DCE

CONF OK – Steady glow

green indicates that
configuration is
OK.

V.24 CNF OK – Steady glow

green indicates that
the channel
configuration is
OK.

RXD – green Receive data of

DCE

TXD – green Transmit data of

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 DCH Error – OFF indicates ON indicates a
red the link is OK cross connect
failure.

Nx64 TXD – green Transmit data

of DCE

RXD – green Receive data

of DCE

LLB – amber Local loopback

(LLB) glows
when LLB
command is
given from
NMS

RLB – amber Glows when

RLB command
is given from
NMS

DISCLAIMER: The information given in this pamphlet does not

supersede any existing provisions laid down in IR Telecom
Manual, Railway Board and RDSO publications. This document is
not statutory and instructions given in it are for the purpose of
guidance only. If at any point contradiction is observed, then IR
Telecom Manual, Rly. Board/RDSO guidelines or Zonal Rly.
instructions may be followed.

References:
 IRISET /SC Literature
 M/s Webfil Pvt Ltd. Kolkata
 Information available online

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