Interesting to hear about an LMT not being present, because all Huawei products I encountered provided a usable WebUI via a local ethernet port. Of course I must disclose these were a lot newer products, mainly supporting LTE and NR, sometimes UMTS. MML scripting is also present on those for quicker configuration.
Oh well, it wasn’t like that in the old days I guess :-). Kind regards, Domi > 12.02.2021 dátummal, 19:40 időpontban Harald Welte <[email protected]> > írta: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Saturn Rocket wrote: >> Seems they've been experimenting with an larger sibling of this Picocell. > > Well, the fact that Huawei calls their Macro BTS 3900 and the Pico 3900B > doesn't really mean they have anything in common, except the branding. I > would > typically be very surprised if a lot of similarity in terms of code / system > architecture is found between femto/picocells and the large macro cells. > > However, the Abis protocol dialect will more likely be the same, as a vendor > doesn't > want to rewrite the BSC just because a new BTS model is released. > > Based on what I read about the 3900B, I think it will be very hard to support > it. > > Contrary to all the other vendors / BTSs we've worked with, there doesn't > really > seem to be a real LMT for it (LMT means Local Maintenance Terminal). That > LMT is > what you connect via UART or Ethernet to the BTS in order to configure it. > Ericsson > calls it OMT. > > For Huawei, there's also a "LMT", but it actually connects over IP to the BSC > (!) > and then accesses the BTS over the Backhaul from the BSC side. I guess they > didn't really understand the "Local" part? > > The actual BTS software is then also installed from the BSC. > > So without having the BSC, It will definitely be much harder to even > configure such a BTS. Nokia/Siemens/Ericsson/ip.access are definitely > simpler that way (not listing osmobts based BTSs here, as they obviously > are easiest to set up). > > -- > - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ > ============================================================================ > "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." > (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
