1.2.0 release out with advanced VLAN service profile configurations, remote ONT upgrade, new Web GUI and many more features. For more details please visit https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/olt/
New Features
Status
The Status page has been enhanced to include detailed information on the following features:
- Equipment: Displays detailed information about connected devices, helping users monitor hardware status.
- Interfaces: Shows the status of network interfaces, providing insights into connectivity and performance.
- Throughput: Visualizes real-time data transfer rates, enabling users to track network usage efficiently.
- ONU Outages: Real-time status now includes daily and weekly counts of online and offline ONUs.
System
The System page has been enhanced with the following new features:
- General: Enhanced to include options for Share Anonymous Crash Reports, Max System Users, and Enforce
SSH Security. - Date and Time: Added the capability to manually configure the date and time directly on OLT devices.
- Syslog Remote: Added support for Syslog to capture detailed system logs, improving network diagnostics and
monitoring capabilities.
These updates provide greater control and flexibility in system management.
Network
The Network page has been enhanced with the following features:
- Advanced: Added LLDP support for discovering neighboring network devices.
- General: Introduced IPv6 support for OLT Out-band management, improving compatibility with modern IP addressing standards and IPv6-enabled network.
- Uplink Ports: An orange icon has been introduced to notify users that changing the FEC, FIR, DAC, or Speed field values requires a reboot.
Provisioning in OLT configuration
The Provisioning feature allows users to manage various configuration pages, enabling administrators to streamline the setup process, ensuring faster and more accurate device deployments.
Settings
The newly added Settings feature allows you to perform various tasks such as:
- Onboarding: Add and register new devices to the system.
- ONT Onboarding Time Optimization: Reduced onboarding time to integrate 500 ONTs in about 15 minutes, with faster performance for smaller batches.
- Default Uplink: Allows to configure the primary connection path for devices.
- Interface to Profile: Allows a user to monitor an uplink interface mapped to which service profile.
Services
The newly added Services Profiles page has been enhanced to support various VLAN configurations such as:
- Access VLAN
- Mapped VLAN
- VLAN Passthrough
- Q-in-Q Tunnel
- Q-in-Q Trunk
- Custom
These options provide flexibility, enabling the creation of service profiles based on the requirements.
Profiles
The newly added Profile Page allows users to configure one or more Service Profiles for individual or multiple ONTs with inherited settings.
Profile page also includes several configuration options, such as:
- Copy/Remove ONU Profile: Allows user to copy and delete the ONU profile.
- TX enable: Allows a user to enable or disable traffic for a profile.
- Max Frame Size: Allows to configure the maximum frame size within the ONU profile settings.
- Max DL/UL: Allows a user to limit DL and UL rates.
Devices
The newly added Devices page includes various configuration features such as:
- Configure: Provides greater flexibility and control to configure the inherited and non-inherited service profile application methods for both bulk and individual ONU.
- Selected: The Single/Bulk Edit option allows users to configure ONTs individually with Single Edit or apply changes to multiple ONTs simultaneously with Bulk Edit, streamlining profile management.
- Software update: Support for remote software upgrades to GONT/XGONT devices in bulk or individually.
- Reboot: Added functionality for rebooting ONTs remotely, either individually or in bulk.
- Quarantine: Isolate malfunctioning ONTs to maintain the overall network.
- Statistics: Provides detailed insights into fiber performance and health monitoring.
Physical reset
Perform a reset by creating a file named RESET (without extension) on a USB stick and connecting it to the OLT’s USB port.
Persistent logging
Improved logging with persistent storage now retains previous logs across reboots, aiding in debugging and maintaining logs even after an OLT reboot.
Trial configuration mode
Trial configuration mode allows temporary testing of settings without affecting the production environment. Any changes made via the trial configuration button will automatically revert after 10 minutes if not applied permanently.
ONU list
The ONU List page has been enhanced to display the Distance, Software Version Active Bank and Software Version
InActive Bank.
For more information about the new features and UI enhancements in version 1.2.0, refer to the Fiber OLT and ONT User
Guide.
Problems Corrected
GPON-1565, GPON-1780, GPON-1883: Resolved the Device Agent crash (cnMaestro connectivity) issues that occurred when a large number of ONTs were connected to the OLT.
Known Issues
| Tracking ID | Description |
|---|---|
| GPON-1563 | Support for 3rd party GPON ONTs is not available in this release. |
| GPON-2129 | BO cable is not supported. |
| GPON-2150 | The GPON-only downlink transceiver will not be supported. |
Limitations
Limitations in Release 1.2.0 are listed below:
-
The remote ONT software upgrade may fail for few ONTs.
Workaround: Retry the software upgrade process for failed ONTs. -
Downgrading from version 1.2.0 to 1.1.1 will reset the OLT uplink port to NNI-3 and the uplink VLAN to 100.
Software Downloads
Download the following software image files from the Cambium Networks Support Site:
- For Fiber OLT: https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/olt/
- For Fiber GPON ONT: https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/gpon_ont/
- For Fiber XGS-PON ONT: https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/xgs-pon_ont/