User's Manual

ARCXTEND 5.8 GHZ USER MANUAL – R1.0, ISSUE 1

The Cable Status page is the default web page and contains information on the status of the

ECM. Figure 5-2 shows the results for a normal ECM connection to the cable network. If the

ECM has failed to connect properly to the cable network, fewer of the tasks will be registered as

Success. The first one not showing as Success will be the task that is failing.

Initialize Hardware The embedded modem check its hardware

Find Downstream The embedded modem find the available downstream

frequency

Ranging After the embedded modem locks onto the available

downstream. It will get the upstream information from

CMTS and try to find the available upstream channel. It will

adjust the upstream tranmist power such that the CMTS

receives the signal at the desired power level.

DHCP Bound The embedded modem is getting IP address from DHCP

server

Set Time-of-Day The embedded modem is trying to synchronize the device

time with TOD (time of day) server. The modem still can get

registered even it fails in getting TOD response.

Download CM Config file The embedded modem is getting configuration file from

TFTP server. And the IP address of TFTP server should be

specified in DHCP options

Registration The embedded modem use the configuration parameters

inside Cable Modem config file and request service from

CMTS

Pause Searching Downstream Stop all the tasks from downstream searching. Thus the

embedded modem will not try to register with CMTS