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3.6 Base Station Software Upgrade
One of the Base Stations’ key features is that it has been designed to support a “Software Defined Radio”
(SDR) architecture. The distinct advantage is that a Base Station can be remotely upgraded with additional
features and capabilities as these are developed. The Base Station maintains two software
versions/images that may be selectively enabled, thus providing a fail-safe software upgrade procedure.
The software upgrade process may be performed from the CLI, the Web Interface, as well as from the
PureView EMS. In this section, the software upgrade procedures using the Web Interface is detailed.
The first step in the process is to copy the software to a directory on the PC which is running the FTP
server. Please ensure the Mercury directory structure is kept intact. Copy the software image, as provided
by Mercury, to the assigned home directory of the FTP server (Figure 129).
Figure 129 Software Components
The next step is to confirm and setup the FTP Server. There are several free commercially available FTP
Servers that can be used (Figure 130) such as 3CDaemon. Ensure that the FTP Server is running.
Figure 130 FTP Server Configuration