WiMAX Access Point

Software Package
WMX-AP_R4.0_BLD-1.69.02
Release Notes



















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Important notice
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elements may be contained in this product as the product goes through a planned transition period.

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WARNING
Important Notice on Product Safety
This product may present safety risks due to laser, electricity, heat, and other sources of
danger. Only trained and qualified personnel may install, operate, maintain or otherwise
handle this product and only after having carefully read the safety information applicable to
this product.
The safety information is provided in the WiMAX Safety and Legal document..
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Table of contents


Table of contents .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Revision history ................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 4
Scope .................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Acronyms and definitions .............................................................................................................................. 4
Version information ........................................................................................................................................ 4
Product overview ............................................................................................................................................. 5
New features ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
WiMAX Forum Wave2 Corrigendum compliance ......................................................................................... 5
Special notes ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Upgrade pre-check .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Alarm card temperature ................................................................................................................................. 6
4x Modem ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Static load management timer for re-directed re-entry .............................................................................. 6
DAP DUO 2Tx/4Rx .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Point of Sale ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
Total maximum bandwidth VSA (VSA 60) at the AAA ............................................................................. 7
Upgrade procedure, Site commissioning, AP diagnostics ......................................................................... 7
Calibration Procedures.................................................................................................................................... 7
Debugging information collection ................................................................................................................. 7
Site Controller Resource Utilization .......................................................................................................... 7
Modem Resource Utilization ..................................................................................................................... 7
APSNAP ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
Limitations ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
Backhaul Configurations ................................................................................................................................ 8


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Revision history

Revision Date Comments
R4.0_BLD-1.69.02 28 May 2012 WMX4 SP5a Initial NewNet release

Introduction
This Release Notes document communicates relevant information about the WiMAX Access Point
software for the System Release WMX4.0.
Scope
This document covers software version is WMX-AP_R4.0_BLD-1.69.02
Acronyms and definitions
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting server
CAPC Carrier Access Point Controller
AP Access Point
CNEOMI Common Network Element Operations and Maintenance Interface
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
DAP Diversity Access Point
EMS Element Management Support
FTP Factory Tunable Parameter
GAP Ground-based Access Point
LMT Local Maintenance Terminal
SAAP Smart Antenna Access Point
HAP High Availability Platform
SW Software
QoS Quality of Service
Version information
Software Bundle Version: WMX-AP_R4.0_BLD-1.69.02
PHYSAP/FW Bundle: 4.0.1-1.0.4
Boot Loader Version Matrix:

Hardware Type Minimum Bootloader Version
2xModem w/G4 flash and old DDR BL02.06.01
2xModem w/H3 Flash and old DDR BL03.02.01
2xModem w/New(Single Rank) DDR BL03.02.02
2xModem w/H3 and New(Single Rank) DDR BL03.02.02
4x Modem BootManager BM00.04.00
4x Modem BootLoader BL00.04.03
Site Controller w/G4 flash BL02.06.01
Site Controller w/H3 Flash BL03.02.01

Note: All newer bootloaders are backward compatible with older HW listed.
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Product overview
The WiMAX Access Point Software provides application level software to the base control unit of the
NewNet WiMAX Access Point. The Access Point is based on the IEEE 802.16e technology standard.

The WMX4.0 access point provides non-line of sight fixed, nomadic, and mobile wireless broadband
connections for supported devices.

New features
This delivery of WiMAX Access Point Software introduces the following new feature set to WMX4.0:

EPP 1816 BBB stats
EPP 1872 OLCC Phase2
EPP 1745 4xModem with PMI
EPP 1883 Multi-Carrier
EPP 1818 Dap Duo
BCCB 3206 Network Entry Failure
BCCB 3204 SSH Login
BCCB 3070 AP inventory
BCCB 3504 Traffic Shaping
BCCB 3503 Traffic Priority
BCCB 3402 10MHz SAAP
BCCB 3498 Rate Measurement Statistics
BCCB 3646 DapDuo 2Tx/4Rx
BCCB 3657 DapDuo 2Tx/4Rx GUI
BCCB 3679 PoS Mid-term Solution
BCCB 3741 Static Load Management Enhancement
BCCB 4167 AusNet NRE Feature:Adding a New TLV Value
BCCB 4090 Must Support Stronger Certificate Algorithms and Deprecate Weaker Algorithms
BCCB 4178 Embedded Broadcast for Ausnet

WiMAX Forum Wave2 Corrigendum compliance
The features delivered in this release are compliant with WiMAX Forum Wave 2 Corrigendum 2 / D3
with the following additions:
comment #1040 in Corr2 / D4
comment #1054 in Corr2 / D4
comment #1060 in Corr2 / D4


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Special notes
This WiMAX Access Point Software release contains the following special notes:
Upgrade pre-check
An upgrade pre-check script and accompanying user guide are available in the WMX4.0 Release
Binder.
Alarm card temperature
The ability to read the temperature on the alarm card from the active controller has been added to
MotShell. This is only available on the BCU1 platform. The command is ac temp.
4x Modem
The 2x modem hardware has two separate processors, each with a single core. The 4x modem
hardware has two newer processors, each with 2 cores, so the 4x Modem has a total of 4 cores. Sector
assignments are spread evenly between the two processors.

Each core (0,1) for each processor (BHP, OHP) has an IP address. The IP address is as follows (where
x is the card slot number 4 or 5):

144.190.x.1 - BHP 0 - MAC1
144.190.x.2 - BHP 1 - SCH1
144.190.x.3 - OHP 0 - MAC2
144.190.x.4 - OHP 1 - SCH2
Static load management timer for re-directed re-entry
The wmanBtsGenConfigParm4 parameter defines the AP internal timer within which if the SLM re-
directed MS returned to the original carrier, the AP will allow the MS to re-enter the network in the
original carrier. The values correspond to:

Integer, Range is 5 60 seconds
Default: 10 seconds

There is no customer procedure for changing this parameter, please contact NewNet for assistance.
DAP DUO 2Tx/4Rx
This feature makes it a configurable option to switch between 2Tx and 4Tx DAP DUO.
The wmanBtsDapDuoNumTx parameter (via EMS) controls the status of the DAP DUO 2Tx/4Rx
feature. The values correspond to:

0 = 4Tx / 4Rx (this is the default value)
1 = 2Tx / 4Rx

NOTE The wmanBtsGenConfigParm3 parameter is no longer used for this feature.
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Point of Sale
Point of Sale (PoS) performance improvements are seen when some capacity optimizing
functionalities are disabled. An optional TAM algorithm is available that moves TAM more slowly to
the desired packet error rate (PER).

The wmanBtsGenConfigParm1 parameter controls the optional TAM algorithm:
0 = No change to TAM scoring (default value)
1 = DL TAM score will move "slowly" resulting in conservative DL MCS selection

There is no customer procedure for changing this parameter, please contact NewNet for assistance.
Total maximum bandwidth VSA (VSA 60) at the AAA
Please refer to Bulletin wimax_g_ap_038 for further details.
Upgrade procedure, Site commissioning, AP diagnostics
Please refer to the AP Site Installation Procedures document for additional details.
Calibration Procedures
Please refer to the AP Site Installation Procedures document for additional details.
Debugging information collection
Site Controller Resource Utilization

CPU Utilization:
vmst at 1 2
The bottom line will show CPU utilization for User Space (us), Kernel Space (sy), and Idle (id)
percentage utilization over the last second.

t op
Will show the same information, but is difficult to use on the console because the refresh rate
over serial is rather slow.

Memory Utilization:
Fr ee or cat / pr oc/ memi nf o
Will display the memory utilization information.

Also, top - p <PI D>will display the memory utilization and CPU utilization for a given task.
Modem Resource Utilization

CPU Utilization (on either BHP OR OHP; both processors are measured individually):
ker n_pr i nt _cpu_ut i l
Memory Utilization (on either BHP OR OHP; both processors are measured individually):
memShow

The command checkStack can also be used to print out the stack utilization of all tasks.
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APSNAP
The apsnap utility is used to collect information during a problem. It currently tars up the debug logs
as well as some system information.

To use it, type /usr/app/bin/apsnap from the site controllers tty.

For example:

r oot @unknown: / > / usr / app/ bi n/ apsnap
apsnap col l ect i ng t o / t mp - Wed J an 26 06: 29: 39 GMT 2000
Phase 1 - Gener al Syst emI nf o . . .
Phase 2 - Syst emLogFi l es . . .
Phase 3 - AP l ogs . . .
apsnap col l ect i on compl et e - Wed J an 26 06: 29: 42 GMT 2000
Phase 4 - Cr eat i ng apsnap t ar f i l e . . .
Phase 5 - Cr eat ed apsnap t ar f i l e / t mp/ apsnap. 0126000629. t gz

NOTE The apsnap.*.tgz file should be removed after the transfer as leaving it on the AP
may lead to memory issues and site resets if apsnap files residing on the AP fill up
available space.

Limitations
This WiMAX Access Point Software release contains the following limitations:
Backhaul Configurations
The supported backhaul configuration for BCUI is: 100MBits (Aggregation)
Configured on both the access point and switch
The switch should be configured with PortFast on
Utilize backhaul port A