RELEASE NOTES

PMP/PTP 450 Series

System Release 21.1.0.1

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Contents
Contents 3

PMP 450 Series System Release Information 4

Version information 4

PMP 450 Series System Release 21.1/21.1.0.1 5

Features introduced in System Release 21.1 5

Problems and limitations corrected in System Release 21.1.0.1 8

Additional enhancements in System Release 21.1 9

Problems and limitations corrected in System Release 21.1 10

Release 21.1/21.1.0.1 System documentation 12

Embedded software 12

Upgrading software 12

Network Management 15

cnMaestro 15

Canopy MIB 15

Cambium Networks 16

Contents 3
PMP 450 Series System Release Information
Version information
Document version Date of issue System Release

001v000 June 2022 System Release 21.1

002v000 September 2022 System Release 21.1.0.1

PMP 450 Series System Release Information 4

PMP 450 Series System Release 21.1/21.1.0.1
This document provides information about PMP 450 platform series System Release 21.1/21.1.0.1.

System Release 21.1.0.1 is a maintenance release of System Release 21.1 with primarily bug fixes. It also is
now the minimum version required for operating the new 3 GHz 450m P7 hardware. Several software
bugs are fixed in System Release 21.1.0.1. The primary fix driving the release is CPY-18021, impacting PMP
450m APs. This bug was introduced in System Release 21.1 and is now fixed in System Release 21.1.0.1.
PMP 450m operators are encouraged to avoid System Release 21.1 and move their APs to System Release
21.1.0.1.

System Release 21.1 is primarily a bug fix release. It also includes some CBRS features and support for the
PMP 450m 5 GHz P9 hardware.

Software updates for Cambium Networks products are available at

https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files.

Features introduced in System Release 21.1

System Release 21.1 supports the following new features:

l Channel Change if only SMs are impacted

l Restriction of CBRS channel hunts to the same bandwidth, for PMP 450m operators who prefer to
avoids an AP reboot

l Handling of CBRS SAS channel enforcement

Attention

First upgrade Subscriber Modules (SMs) to System Release 20.0 or later version and then
upgrade the AP. Otherwise, SMs will connect but at a maximum modulation rate of 2X MIMO-
B until both sides are running on System Release 20.0 or later version.

Channel Change if only SMs are impacted

The System Release 21.1 introduces a new feature that allows the AP to automatically find and move to a
new channel or lower the bandwidth, when a significant number of SMs have been affected by
termination or suspension, even though the AP itself has not been impacted.

Three new configuration parameters are added to the Configuration -> CBRS -> Configuration page as
shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: CBRS configuration

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Change Channel if only SMs are impacted: When enabled, this feature allows the AP to automatically find
and move to a new channel or decrease the bandwidth, when more than the SM Percentage Threshold
for Channel Change percentage of SMs has been impacted by termination or suspension, even though
the AP itself has not been impacted.

Note that the Alternate Channel Selection feature must also be enabled for the AP to hunt for a new
channel due to the Change Channel if SMs are Impacted feature. If an operator elects to run with
Alternate Channel Selection enabled but Change Channel if SMs are impacted feature is disabled, the AP
still performs automatic channel selection, but only in cases where the AP is directly impacted by
terminations or suspensions.

If the Alternate Channel Selection feature is disabled, but the Change Channel if Only SMs are Impacted
feature is enabled, if enough SMs are impacted by terminations or suspensions, the AP will still reduce the
Bandwidth if authorized grants are available, but it will not hunt for a new channel.

Original Channel Restore Time: When this feature is triggered via SM suspensions, the AP continues to
heartbeat the original channels for itself and all the SMs, while operating on the temporary channels or
reduced bandwidth for at least this length of a period after moving to these temporary channels or
reducing bandwidth. When this timer expires, the AP can move back to the original channels and/or
bandwidth if enough suspended SMs have become authorized on the original channels.

On the bottom of the HOME -> Session Status page of the AP, a new counter associated with this feature
has been introduced. It is a computation of the number of SMs that need to experience a termination or
suspension before this feature is invoked. For example, if Threshold for Channel Change is left at its
default value of 10%, the 4 shown in Figure 2 indicates that this is a sector with 40 SMs.

Figure 2: Channel Change When SMs are Impacted

System Release 21.1 does not support this feature for PTP BHM/BHS setups. Such support is expected to
be added later in 2022.

Restriction of CBRS channel hunts to the same bandwidth, for PMP 450m
operators who prefer to avoid an AP reboot
The PMP 450m APs require a reboot when the channel bandwidth is changed. For PMP 450m, operators
who use the CBRS Alternate Channel Selection feature, but prefer to avoid the outage caused when the
bandwidth is automatically adjusted, they can now leave the Alternate Channel Selection feature
enabled, while disabling the Reboot for Channel Bandwidth Change feature. When a channel hunt is
automatically invoked due to terminations or suspensions, the AP will only hunt for channels with the
same total bandwidth currently in use.

Handling of CBRS SAS channel enforcement

Both Google and Federated Wireless have plans to implement a feature that can enforce a pre-
determined frequency plan. They will do the calculations at CPAS using the new frequencies, and right
after CPAS, they will terminate the old frequencies. When such a SAS-initiated channel termination is
sent to an AP/BHM, pre-System Release 21.1 software handles this without any issue if the channel the
SAS is intending to move the sector to does not overlap in frequency with the current operating channel.
If, however, the new target channel overlaps with the existing operating channel, pre-System Release 21.1
software shrinks the bandwidth rather than moving the sector to the entire new channel made available
by the SAS. This System Release 21.1 AP/BHM CBRS feature is introduced to handle the SAS channel

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enforcement more optimally, by triggering a channel hunt even if the AP/BHM still has unterminated
grants.

SAS support is expected likely sometime late in the 2nd quarter of 2022, although exact dates are not yet
finalized.

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Problems and limitations corrected in System Release
21.1.0.1
Problems and limitations, that are corrected in System Release 21.1.0.1 are listed below:

Table 1: Problems and Limitations corrected in System Release 21.1.0.1

Products Tracking Description

Affected

450 SM CPY-18040 450 SMs, running System Release 21.1, randomly lose some saved
parameters due to flash backup failure. These could be configuration items
that resulted in the SM no longer being able to be in session with the AP.

AP CPY-18103 Fixed rare invalid character in GPS table that resulted in an error when
parsing engineering dump.

450m CPY-18079 Various parameter edits caused unexpected bandwidth changes on 450m.

All CPY-18038 Fixed for Indonesia regulatory limits in 2.4 GHz band.

AP CPY-18035 Fixed reset due to memory leak when NTP servers are unreachable in
System Release 21.0 and System Release 21.1.

AP CPY-18027 Downlink Modulation was not updating on cnMaestro in System Release

21.1, change AP OID name back to rateAdapt.

All CPY-18023 Fixed for Indonesia regulatory limits in 5.8 GHz band.

450m CPY-18021 TXFB tracking outside of tolerance after upgrading to System Release 21.1.

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Additional enhancements in System Release 21.1
Additional enhancements in system release 21.1 are listed in below table:

Table 2: Additional enhancements in System Release 21.1

Products Tracking Description

Affected

All CPY-17968 Do not show the Reboot button after the reboot has been initiated.

All CPY-17963 Automatically Reboot upon out of memory failure.

AP CPY-17928 New OID for connected SMs Color Code Priority.

450m CPY-17872 Support for new Ethernet PHY device on 450m. The newer PHY chip 450m
devices can be recognized by checking the Statistics -> Ethernet entry for
PHY ID on the AP GUI. The older devices shows Atheros 8033 while the new
450m devices shows Qualcomm 8081. These newer devices require a
minimum software revision of System Release 21.1.

450m CPY-17870 Slight packet per second and throughput improvement.

All CPY-17855 Automatically reboot Radio with Bandwidth Phase Lock Loop (PLL) Lock
lost to attempt recovery.

CBRS CPY-17231 Improvements to Follow-Me feature, to work with CBRS multi-grant

CBRS CPY-16631 Move CBRS heartbeat timing to relative time instead of absolute time.

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Problems and limitations corrected in System Release 21.1
Problems and limitations, that are corrected in System Release 21.1 are listed below:

Table 3: Problems and Limitations corrected in System Release 21.1

Products Tracking Description

Affected

CBRS CPY-18004 CBRS AP, running System Release 21.0, reset due to SAS empty
responseData.

SM CPY-17996 The Reboot Required message was not displayed when a certificate was
uploaded successfully.

CBRS CPY-17983 In termination case, no longer restricting Bandwidth in channel hunting

algorithm as a function of the number of available channels.

Note:This is needed to support the SAS channel enforcement feature.

450m CPY-17971 Watchdog Reset due to buffer gather error.

AP CPY-17951 Rename the AP MIB OIDs, that had the same name in SM MIB:
spatialFrequency, adaptRate, platformVer.

CBRS CPY-17940 AP does not send Spectrum Inquiry request and grant request for target
frequency when relinquished AP is operating in the temporary channel.

450m CPY-17896 Uplink sounding reassessments more frequent with over 128 slots in the
uplink.

CBRS CPY-17947 Do not relinquish the original channel in SM while operating on a temporary
channel.

All CPY-17922 In some instances, SM sends PPPoE PADI as a unicast packet instead of
sending it as a broadcast packet.

CBRS CPY-17920 calloc1 failed: out of heap and Internal error due to memory leak with CBRS
when changing the configuration or exporting configuration.

All CPY-17908 Removed SM and PTP EIRP limits in 900 MHz bands for Brazil.

450m CPY-17897 40 MHz 5 ms Downlink Data percentage 33% or lower results in 1X

modulation.

All CPY-17892 Updated Vietnam regulatory requirements for PMP products.

SM CPY-17887 NAT DNS Server Relay stopped working.

SM CPY-17881 Maximum Receive Power was incorrect on UI.

All CPY-17869 After every 17 days of uptime on System Release 21.0, uptime reads 1 year
and SYSUPTIME OID was not correct.

PTP BHM CPY-17862 Receive Target Level configuration parameter was missing in the
configuration file.

450m CPY-17854 Added more detail logging for 450m Watchdog resets due to canopy
abort.

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Products Tracking Description
Affected

450m CPY-17842 Occasional invalid Ethernet TX frame, CRC mismatch.

PMP 450 CPY-17823 Follow-Me feature was not following hardware frequency limits.

CBRS CPY-17819 Channel hunt algorithm should consider SI response sorted, if any 5 MHz
slices were present.

All CPY-17817 IPv6 configurations were missing from the configuration file.

AP CPY-17792 AP LAN2 Private Radio Network Interface must end in .1.

All CPY-17586 FatalError reset due to Invalid NiBuff error when processing DHCP Relay
packet with no DHCP End Option (Code 255).

All CPY-17341 Memory leak when exporting user certificates when exporting the
configuration file that can lead to calloc1 failed and Internal Error.

CBRS CPY-17172 Device Agent socket connection goes down on CBRS sync from cnMaestro.

450m CPY-17060 450m crashed due to GPS buffer overrun with bad serial input.

All CPY-17016 No HTTP access and/or occasional reset with security scans.

All CPY-16965 SM NAT mode with VPN on its LAN stops passing traffic when NAT table
entries are greater than 1500.

450m CPY-16487 Downlink beamformed powers require a reboot to update correctly.

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Release 21.1/21.1.0.1 System documentation
In this release, the following documents are provided:

l PMP 450 Series Specification Sheets: Includes latest specifications for the 450 Series product line.

l PMP 450i Series Specification Sheets: Includes latest specifications for the 450i Series product
line.

l PMP 450b Specification Sheets: Includes latest specifications for the 450b.

l PMP 450m Series Specification Sheets: Includes latest specifications for the 450m Series product
line.

l PMP 450 MicroPoP Specification Sheets: Includes latest specifications for the 450 MicroPoP Series
product line.

l LINKPlanner: Includes the latest information about Cambium products performance.

Embedded software
Before upgrading to System Release 21.1.0.1, read the Upgrading Software section. System Release 21.10.1
may be installed via CNUT (Canopy Network Updater Tool) using the following software packages:

l CANOPY21_1_0_1BUILDOFFICIAL_PXP45x_S.pkg3

l Or via cnMaestro: CANOPY_21.1.0.1.tar.gz

Upgrading software
Use version 4.13.3 of the Canopy Network Updater Tool (CNUT) to upgrade to Release 21.1.0.1.

CNUT 4.13.3 supports legacy Cambium products.

CNUT and its release notes can be downloaded from the Cambium Networks support website:
https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/cnut/

Note

As of Software Release 16.2 and later, CNUT AutoUpdate using PMP 450 AP as the File
Server no longer supports update of 450b and 450i SMs. Use cnMaestro or CNUT HTTP
File Server option to upgrade these SMs.

System Release 20.0 introduces support for TLS v1.2 and v1.3. TLS v1.1 is no longer
supported. CNUT 4.13.3 supports TLS v1.1 only and cannot upgrade PMP/PTP devices
running 20.0 or later, that are configured for HTTPS only web access.

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The below three tables describes the compatibility between AP and SM versions.

PMP 450/450b/450i/450m Compatibility

AP Version SM Version

21+ 20.0 - 20.3.1.2 16.2.X - 15.2 15.1.5 & earlier

20.0+ Y Y 2X MIMO-B N

16.2.X - 16.1 Y Y Y N

16.0.1.1 - 16.0 Y Y Y Y

15.2.1 & earlier N Y Y Y

PMP 430 SM Compatibility

AP Version 430 SM Version

16.0.1.1 - 14.2 14.1.2 - 14.0 13.4.1 - 12.2 12.1.3 & earlier

16.1+ N N N N

16.0.1.1 - 14.2 450 mode 450 mode 450 mode N

14.1.2 - 14.0 450 mode 450 mode 450 mode N

13.4.1 & earlier 430/450 mode 430/450 mode 430/450 mode 430 mode

CBRS 450/450b/450i/450m Compatibility

AP Version SM Version

20.0+ 16.2.X - 16.2 16.1.1.1 - 15.2 15.1.5 & earlier

20.0+ Y 2X MIMO-B 2X MIMO-B* N

16.2.X - 16.2 Y Y N* N

16.1.1.1 & earlier N* N* N* N*

*Y if CBRS Disabled on AP

N* indicates compatibility for non-CBRS sectors.`

The below table describes the release version and feature or hardware first supported.

Table 4: Release version and feature or hardware first supported

Release Feature or Hardware Supported

For new hardware support, the first available software release supported will be lowest that hardware
can run. Downgrade attempts to a prior release will be prevented.

21.1.0.1 Support for PMP 450m 3 GHz P7 hardware.

21.1 Support for PMP 450m 5 GHz P9 hardware.

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Release Feature or Hardware Supported

20.3.1.2 Support for new ADI based Ethernet PHY on 450 product family.

20.2 CBRS Multigrant Support.

20.1 Connectorized PMP 450 MicroPoP 5 GHz and Connectorized PMP 450b 5 GHz SM.
Addition of Intermediate Modulation Modes (3X/5X/7X MIMO-B) for PMP 450m AP, in
the downlink direction only.

20.0 Addition of Intermediate Modulation Modes (3X/5X/7X MIMO-B). Upgrade SM first

when upgrading to 20.0or above releases. Otherwise, the link will connect at 2X MIMO-
B until the SM is upgraded to 20.0.

16.2.3 PMP 450m 3 GHz P4.4

16.2.1 PMP 450 MicroPoP 5 GHz, PMP 450b 3 GHz High Gain, PMP 450b 5 GHz Retro.

16.2 CBRS

16.2 BETA CBRS -If running pre 16.2 BETA-5: Upgrade both SM and AP from the older software
first to 16.2 BETA-5; After reconnect, upgrade the AP to 16.2 official or later; Upgrade
the SMs to 16.2 official or later.

16.1 PTP 450b

16.1 PMP 430 SM is no longer supported. Also if AP is on 16.1, SMs need to be on 15.2 or later
to connect to AP on 16.1 or later.

16.0.1.1 Last PMP 430 SM release load; Recommended upgrade release stepping stone from
earlier releases.

16.0 PMP 450m 3 GHz, Uplink MU-MIMO

15.2.1 PMP 450i 5 GHz P6 SMs previously configured for DES will register to APs configured to
AES (assuming correct encryption key config) and also to APs with encryption disabled.

15.2 AES-256 was added and DES is no longer supported. SMs configured for DES will not
register to AP with encryption enabled. AP will need to disable encryption for SMs
configured to DES to register.

15.1.5 PMP 450b High Gain 5 GHz

15.1.2 PMP 450b Mid-Gain 5 GHz

15.1 40 MHz and PMP 450i 3 GHz

15.0 PMP 450m 5 GHz

14.2 cnMaestro, 15 and 30 MHz Channel Bandwidths.

14.1.2 PMP 430 SM last release line in with support for the ability to reboot and switch to/from
"PMP 430 mode" / "PMP 450 mode". All PMP 430 radios first need to be upgraded to
this release, "450 mode" selected and rebooted before being able to be upgraded to a
later release.

14.1 PMP 450i 5.1 and 5.2 GHz band support

14.0 PMP 450i 5 GHz

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 Release Feature or Hardware Supported

13.4.1 Last release line for PMP 100, PMP 430 AP

13.3 5 ms frame, 7 MHz Channel Bandwidth

13.0 PMP 450 3 GHz

12.1.1 5 MHz Channel Bandwidth

12.1 PMP 450 2.4 GHz

12.0 PMP 450 5 GHz

Network Management
Wireless Manager v4.5.6 may be used to manage Cambium PMP networks, including managing the
RADIUS features. For additional information, see the Wireless Manager website at:

http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/products/management-tools/wireless-manager

A RADIUS dictionary file is available from the software site:

https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/pmp450/

cnMaestro
cnMaestro may also be used to manage Cambium devices. Additionally, cnMaestro is required if using the
CBRS feature. See the cnMaestro release notes for more information. For additional information, see the
cnMaestro website at:

http://www.cambiumnetworks.com/products/software-tools/cnmaestro

Canopy MIB
The Cambium Enterprise MIB (Management Information Base) consists of 7 MIB definition files and
supports SNMP access to Canopy modules. The MIB files are available for download from:

https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/pmp450/

MIB files are used by Network Management Systems and Element Management Systems, such as the
Wireless Manager system to support a host of surveillance, monitoring, control, and operational tasks.

If you are using an SNMP network management system (NMS) or element management system (EMS)
other than Wireless Manager: Load the MIBs per the instructions for your NMS or EMS.

Note

When loading the MIB files:    

1. First, load the standard MIB files

2. Then, load the radio specific MIB files

Some NMSs are not sensitive to order, but some require a specific loading order to build a MIB tree.
Loading in the recommended order avoids these issues.

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