Probably unrelated, but I have a second ticket in with Cambium because we are 
unable to import CBRS sectors or SMs into cnMaestro since they went to v14 of 
the spreadsheet template which must have happened yesterday or today, since I 
imported a sector on Saturday using v13.

 

Several nonsensical error messages that prevent the import from succeeding.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of David Coudron
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 3:50 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

 

We ran into this issue two weeks ago with Google as our SAS.   Google had an 
outage, and cnMaestro lost connectivity.   We had a bunch of radios get 
Suspended, it was a mess.     Cambium verified it was the Google outage that 
caused the issue, but what is interesting about this, is that Evan at Cambium 
thought the folks on Federated wouldn’t see this behavior if Federated had an 
outage.   There were some complicating factors we didn’t follow up on, like SMs 
hopping to a secondary color code AP as part of it.   This factored into the 
suspended grant, but Evan thought Federated held the grant for 24 hours so that 
wouldn’t happen.    Looks like the behavior is the same.   

 

We upgraded to 16.2 (From 16.2 Beta 5) as there were some fixes for SMs 
reconnecting to APs in there, but we still experience a handful of SMs that 
have to physically be power cycled if they lose connection to the AP in order 
to reconnect.   This never happened before the CBRS firmware versions.    We 
aren’t sure if this problem is related to the way grants are managed between 
cnMaestro and the SAS or just some other bug in the firmware and is an 
unrelated problem.

 

Regards,

 

David Coudron

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf 
Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 3:33 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com 
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

 

I got a response on my ticket with Cambium that Federated had a problem:

 

“Federated Wireless has reported an issue with their SAS connectivity around 
13:15 ETD.
Federated Wireless has resolved the connectivity issue and is currently 
investigating the cause of the outage.”

 

Somehow I thought that in the event cnMaestro lost communication with the SAS, 
it wouldn’t terminate the grants.

 

Yes, the 5 minute heartbeat timeout is a pain.  Especially since the SAS only 
protects incumbents, there is no protection of GAA vs GAA.  So until the PAL 
auction, in areas with no incumbents (we have no coastal radar in Illinois) the 
SAS basically just approves all grants.  It is an extremely complicated system 
that currently isn’t doing much other than giving us some additional clean 
spectrum.  Which ain’t nuthin’.

 

The heartbeat thing seems aimed at letting PAL owners (read: mobile carriers) 
kick us off our channels.  And I’m not really clear on how that happens.  We 
request a 20 MHz channel at 3560 but now a bunch of PAL sites start operating 
and we can’t have that frequency or that channel width any more, do we get a 
new grant that automatically gets pushed out to the radios, or do our grants 
just get terminated and we need to take manual action to get the customers back 
online.  I guess that’s a battle to fight another day.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf 
Of Matt Hoppes
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 2:24 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] anybody else having Cambium CBRS issues this afternoon?

 

Didn’t I say this would happen?

 

And I was a shored by the vendors, the SAS providers, and everyone else that 
this wouldn’t happen.

Here we are not even really into full production and a provider is down and 
people have customers down because the grounds don’t last more than five 
minutes.

 

These grants need to at least last 24 hours if not longer, for this type of 
situation.


On Apr 6, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com 
<mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > wrote:

Mark @ Amplex said he has problems with CNM + Federated.


 

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

 

 

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com 
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote:

I have multiple sectors apparently having SAS heartbeat timeouts and getting 
their grants terminated.  Which is bad, bad, bad, because customers go down 
when that happens.

 

Separate but unrelated, I am having problems with v14 of the import spreadsheet 
template they just released, two error messages, can’t import to add SMs or 
sectors.

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