User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Scope of This Manual
- Conventions Used in This Manual
- Intended Audience for this Manual
- General Cautions and Warnings
- What is new?
- Overview Of Base Station
- 1.1 Conceptual Overview of the PacketMax System
- 1.1.1 Cell Size, Capacity, and Scalability
- 1.1.2 Frequency Bands
- 1.1.3 PacketMax Network Connectivity
- 1.2 Bridge Mode and VLAN Mode of Base Station
- 1.2.1 Bridge Mode
- 1.2.2 VLAN Mode
- 1.2.3 Point-to-Point Mode
- 1.3 Features of PacketMax System
- 1.3.1 The PacketMax System’s IP Network
- 1.3.2 Services
- 1.3.3 MIBs
- 1.3.4 Service Offerings and QoS
- 1.3.5 ARQ Feature
- 1.3.6 3 DES Encryption
- 1.3.7 Certificates and Management
- 1.3.8 Upgrades
- Base Station Components
- 2.1 PacketMAX Base Station
- 2.2 5-Slot ATCA Chassis
- 2.3 Wireless System Controllers
- 2.3.1 Major Differences Between WSC-S-24 and WSC-48
- 2.3.2 One Port WSC-S-24
- 2.3.3 QUAD Wireless Controller (QWC) Card - WSC-48
- 2.3.4 Compatibility matrix with radio
- 2.4 Main System Controller Card
- 2.5 MSC Redundancy
- 2.5.1 Redundancy support
- 2.6 AC Supply
- 2.7 Power LEDs and ESD connector
- 2.8 Hot Swap
- 2.8.1 WSC-48 Hot Swap
- 2.8.2 WSC-S-24 Hot Swap
- 2.8.3 MSC Hot Swap
- 2.9 Maintaining Proper Chassis Air FLow
- 2.10 Fan Unit
- 2.11 Serial Cable Pinout
- 2.11.1 Serial Connection Instructions
- 2.12 PacketMax 5000 Rear Panel
- 2.12.1 Grounding
- 2.12.2 DC Power Connection
- 2.13 AC Power Connection
- 2.13.1 Fuse
- 2.14 Base Station Radio
- Installing the Base Station IDU
- Installing the Base Station ODU Radio and Antenna
- 4.1 Radio Compatibility
- 4.2 Installing the Antenna
- 4.3 Installing the Base Station Radio ODU
- 4.3.1 3.3 and 3.5 GHz BSR Package Contents
- 4.3.2 5.8 GHz BSR Package Contents
- 4.3.3 Preparing and Mounting the 3.3 and 3.5 GHz BSR
- 4.3.4 Preparing and Mounting the 5.8 GHz BSR
- 4.3.5 Using the BSR with the Antenna and IDU
- Commissioning the Base Station
- 5.1 Summary of Configuration of Base Station
- 5.2 Establishing an Ethernet Connection with Cat-5 Cable
- 5.3 Establishing a Serial Connection to the Base Station
- 5.4 Configuring DHCP
- 5.5 Obtaining the MAC Address of the Base Station
- 5.6 Selecting Management or Data Traffic
- 5.7 Provisioning the Base Station with WaveCenter EMS
- 5.8 Rebooting the Base Station
- 5.9 Verifying Operations
- 5.10 Ensuring Encryption
- 5.11 Upgrading Base Station Manually
- 5.11.1 WSC upgrade
- 5.11.2 MSC Upgrade
- Event Reporting
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Cables, Spares and Accessories
- System Specifications
- D.1 Physical interfaces of PM 5000 - 12 sector
- D.2 Physical interfaces of PM 5000 - 4 sector
- D.3 QoS and Networking Parameters
- D.4 Dimensions and Weight
- D.5 Environmental
- D.6 Radio Specifications
- 4.6.1 PM-BSR-33 and PM-BSR-35 Radio Specifications
- 4.6.2 PM-BSR-58 Radio Specifications
- 4.6.3 Antenna Specifications
- D.7 Antenna Types, Maximum Gains and Maximum Output Power Point to Multipoint Operation
- D.8 Transmit Output Power Regulations
- Certifications
- Troubleshooting
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Chapter 1. Overview Of Base Station
1.3.1.1 DHCP Server and IP Address Assignment
The PacketMax System supports Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),
which manages IP address assignment for most interfaces in the PacketMax devices.
NOTE: In the configuration of the DHCP server, the PacketMax System IP
addresses must be fixed—i.e., reserved for the specific units; they cannot
currently be dynamically assigned, but this planned for a future software
release.
Specifically, PacketMax System IP addresses are assigned as follows:
The BS receives the IP address of its backhaul interface from the DHCP server
for its subnet.
The BS’s wireless interfaces (WSC) are assigned IP addresses as part of the
BS configuration (using the WaveCenter Configuration Manager).
SS receive the IP addresses of their wireless interfaces from the DHCP server.
Computers, PCs and other hosts that WaveCenter EMS configures for its
DHCP server, connected to he SS receive IP addresses in a variety of ways:
- From ISP’s DHCP server, via DHCP relay agents in the SS.
- By manual assignment by the ISP.
1.3.2 Services
Each Base Station Unit requires access to DHCP and TFTP servers to boot up prop-
erly. Access to additional servers is required for the support of specific features.
1.3.2.2 TFTP Server
For the PacketMax System, the main function of the TFTP server is to store the
system configuration files, and download them on request. Each Base Station Unit
and Subscriber Unit requests its configuration file on hardware or software reboot
(cold or warm start). A TFTP Server is included in EMS.
NOTE: Whenever a Base Station Unit or Subscriber Unit boots up, the con-
figuration file must be successfully downloaded from the TFTP server for the
unit to become operational. If the configuration file is not successfully down
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loaded, the BS or SS will come up in standby mode.
1.3.2.3 SNTP Server
The Base Station Unit typically derives the time and date from an SNTP (Simple
Network Time Protocol) server identified by the DHCP server. The BS includes time
zone and daylight savings time parameters which it applies to the received time and
date as appropriate. A SNTP Server is not included in EMS.
NOTE: Alternatively, date and time can be set via the Web and SNMP inter-
faces.
Subscriber Units use the BS as their time server.