User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About this document
- ipBTS system overview
- Planning
- ipBTS C30 installation
- RN commissioning
- Requirements
- CLI connection
- Establishing a console connection
- Connecting the laptop to the ipBTS C30
- Downloading and activating new software
- Verifying SNTP time
- Commissioning the ipBTS C30
- Performing Loopback tests
- The loopback test process
- Backhaul loopback testing
- Ethernet loopbacks
- Looping back Ethernet backhaul links
- Looping back at the Ethernet port
- Entering diagnostic mode and configuring test parameters
- Performing external loopback tests on backhaul links
- Troubleshooting failed backhaul links
- Removing physical loopbacks
- Configuring IP on the Ethernet port and laptop
- Establishing the CLI/SSH/Ethernet connection
- Updating node software
- RN hardware components
- RN Specifications
- Hot-swapping ipBTS hardware
- Index
Airvana ipBTS C30 Installation and Commissioning, Release 4.0 2
About this document
The ipBTS C30™, or Base Transceiver System is a 1xEV-DO Radio Access Node (RAN) that
is quickly deployable to provide temporary wireless coverage to a geographic area.
This chapter describes in general how you use the customer documentation supplied by
Airvana to install, configure, and maintain a ipBTS base station.
Audience
This guide is intended for use by equipment operators, system planners, and related personnel
responsible for installing and managing the ipBTS C30 and its network elements.
Purpose
This guide provides a functional description of the hardware components provided by Airvana
that supports the ipBTS communications system and the specifications and procedures needed
to install and configure a 1xEV-DO base station. An ipBTS C30 consists of a 1xEV-DO
Channel Card and a single-sector Radio Module plus interfaces, cables, and connectors
installed in a rack-mountable chassis 2U high.
What you need to know
As a reader of this guide, you should be familiar with 1xEV-DO specifications, the UNIX®
operating system and CLI conventions.