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AP User Manual
January 2004
Software Release 4.1
5.3 CANOPY COMPONENT PROLIFERATION
The network planner must account for the coordination of both initial and future Canopy modules.
5.3.1 Subscriber Modules
The planner must always consider the distribution of SMs as relative to the distribution of APs and
clusters.
5.3.2 Access Point Modules
The number of APs deployed can vary from site to site, based on the locations of SMs that these
modules must reach. The mounting scheme can also vary from site to site. The APs need not be
mounted adjacent to each other. For example, on a three-legged tower, two APs can be mounted
to each tower leg.
5.3.3 Access Point Clusters
Each AP cluster requires a CMM for seamless operation within the entire Canopy system. Thus the
network planner should consider the number and locations of CMMs that will be deployed as the
Canopy network grows.
5.4 AP UPDATE OF SM SOFTWARE RELEASE
In Release 4.1 and later releases, the operator can upgrade to a later release any SM that
operates on Release 4.0 or later. To do so, the operator uses the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and
telnet utilities. The interval required for each SM update is approximately four minutes.
Procedure 5: Auto-updating SMs
To upgrade SMs to a later release, the operator performs the following steps:
1. FTP the file SMboot.bin, FPGA, and the action list to AP, as shown in Figure 19.
< ls
062403_D40.jbc APASboot.bin BH10boot.bin
SMboot.bin
41actionlist.txt APboot.bin BH20boot.bin
> ftp 172.16.1.1
Connected to 172.16.1.1.
220 FTP server ready
Name (172.16.1.1:user):
331 Guest login ok
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is Type:.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put SMboot.bin
local: SMboot.bin remote: SMboot.bin
500 'EPSV': command not understood.
227 Entering Passive Mode (172,16,1,1,4,1)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for SMboot.bin
100% |*************************************| 712 KB 229.55
KB/s 00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
729668 bytes sent in 00:03 (209.57 KB/s)
ftp> put 062403_D40.jbc
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