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
Chapter 4 l RN commissioning
Establishing a console connection
Airvana ipBTS C30 Installation and Commissioning, Release 4.0 4-5
Configuration parameters
This section describes the configuration information you must have to commission the
ipBTS C30. To commission the ipBTS C30, you must know the following:
• ipBTS C30’s node IP address
• ipBTS C30’s Ethernet port IP address
• Laptop’s Ethernet port IP address
Table 4-2. Required software
Component Function
Terminal emulation program, such as
HyperTerminal which comes standard
with Microsoft Windows
The terminal emulation program allows you to download and
upload software, as well as access the CLI (command line
interface).
An open-source client like WinSCP,
PuTTY, or PSFTP, or any other third
party application that supports these
protocols.
Required to connect to modules using SFTP and SSH
protocols.
Version of software that should be on
the ipBTS C30
Enables you to determine if the version of software currently
on the ipBTS C30 needs to be upgraded.
Note: For more information, contact your network planner.
Commissioning script Configures the ipBTS C30 with necessary attributes to
commission the device.
Note: The configuration script is necessary only if you are
using a script to commission the device. In this guide, the
Commissioning script is referred to as <script_filename>.
For more information about the Commissioning script,
contact your network planner.
ipBTS C30 software release Enables you to download the most recent version of software
to the ipBTS C30.
Note: The software release is necessary only if you need to
upgrade the version of software currently on the ipBTS C30.
In this guide, the software release image file is referred to as
<software_image >.tar. For more information about the
software image, contact your network planner.