User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- BreezeMAX Extreme System Manual
- About This Manual
- Contents
- System Description
- 1.1 About WiMAX
- 1.2 WiMAX Network Architecture
- 1.3 BreezeMAX Extreme
- 1.4 Specifications
- Installation
- 2.1 BTS Installation
- 2.2 GPS Installation
- 2.3 Indoor Power Supply Installation
- 2.4 Cable Connections
- 2.5 External Antennas Connection
- Commissioning
- Operation and Administration
- 4.1 BreezeMAX Extreme System Management
- 4.2 The Monitor Program
- 4.3 IP Addresses Configuration
- 4.4 The Main Menu
- 4.5 BTS Menu
- 4.5.1 Show Summary
- 4.5.2 Show Properties
- 4.5.3 Configuration
- 4.5.4 Unit Control
- 4.5.5 Fault Management
- 4.5.6 Performance Counters
- 4.6 ASN-GW Menu
- 4.7 Sector Menu
- 4.8 BS Menu
- 4.9 Radio Channel Menu
- 4.10 Antenna Menu
- 4.11 GPS Menu
- 4.12 MS Menu
- 4.13 Parameters Summary
- Glossary
Chapter 4 - Operation and Administration ASN-GW Menu
BreezeMAX Extreme 95 System Manual
4.6 ASN-GW Menu
The ASN-GW menu includes the following options:
AAA
Services Menu
4.6.1 AAA
4.6.1.1 Working with RADIUS Servers
Managing a large number of users creates the need for significant administrative
support together with careful attention to security, authorization and accounting.
The use of RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) enables
operators to manage a single database of users, supporting authentication
(verifying user name and password) as well as configuration information detailing
the type of service to deliver to the user and the traffic that the user transmitted
and received, for billing proposes.
RADIUS is a protocol for carrying authentication, authorization, and configuration
information between a Network Access Server (NAS), which desires to
authenticate its links, and a shared Authentication server. A Network Access
Server operates as a client of RADIUS. The client is responsible for passing user
information to designated RADIUS server(s), and then acting on the response.
RADIUS servers are responsible for receiving user connection requests,
authenticating the user, and then returning all configuration information
necessary for the client to deliver service to the user.
In BreezeMAX Extreme systems, a RADIUS NAS is implemented in each BTS. MS
authentication and service provisioning are managed by a RADIUS Authentication
server if the BTS working mode is Embedded Distributed ASN-GW Authenticated
(If the BTS working mode is Embedded Distributed ASN-GW Not Authenticated
MS authentication and service provisioning are managed by the embedded
ASN-GW using local configuration. In External ASN-GW working mode the entire
ASN-GW functionality resides outside the BTS).
Transactions between the client and RADIUS server are authenticated using
Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) through encryption based on RSA
Message Digest Algorithm MD5 and a Shared Secret, which is never sent over the
network.