Oh, bother. Somehow I didn't manage to finish my sentence/thought at the end of the 5th paragraph. Should have read:
Similarly, some CPEs also have a home WiFi gateway that can be configured by the CPE itself (has no independent management interface), and you can push out configuration changes to the WiFi gateway via TR-069 as well. If you decide to use those in your installs, you could thus have one standard way of configuring both the CPEs and the home gateways of your users. --Nathan From: telrad-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:telrad-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Anderson Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 6:21 PM To: telrad@wispa.org Subject: Re: [Telrad] TR069 BreezeView does have TR-069 server (ACS) built-in as of version 6.8 which just came out. It's called CPEView and it is very much a 1.0 product, and Telrad acknowledges this. Many features and improvements are allegedly on the docket for 6.9. One's use-case for TR-069 is going to vary depending on your particular requirements. What may be of value to some, others may not care about. At the very least, it can give you a handy central list of all on-line CPEs, what eNB they are attached to, as well as the ability to push out firmware upgrades en-masse, and to do so with a consistent interface (upgrade procedure and experience will be the same across all CPE models and vendors that support TR-069: just use the interface that your ACS provides to you). You can also push out configuration changes in bulk as well, either to all CPEs or using whatever criteria you wish (only CPEs on a certain eNB, or only CPEs of a certain model or running a certain firmware version, or ones which already have some other part of their configuration set to X, etc.). If your CPE has an analog voice adapter built-in that you wish to take advantage of, you could use TR-069 to automate provisioning of the voice component, which cannot be configured through the HSS (at least for now; perhaps if VoLTE is supported on the EPC in the future and CPEs implement that instead of straight SIP, then maybe this can change). Similarly, some CPEs also have a home WiFi gateway that can To employ certain kinds of automation (e.g. the aforementioned VoIP provisioning) may require you to programmatically interact with the ACS using APIs that the ACS provides to you. You can certainly still do manual provisioning with the ACS's GUI and at the very least just abstract away the CPE's unique configuration interface that way, which may have some value for you (again, if you have a diversity of CPE models, esp. from different vendors), but anything more complicated than that (for example, tying a particular IMSI/SIM to a particular SIP account using a database, and then expecting the right credentials to get pushed out to the right CPE automagically) would require you to implement that "glue code" yourself. Having an API to call into is one of the features that CPEView is still missing but which is promised in a future release. What we primarily use TR-069 for is collecting statistics from our CPEs, like current and historical RSRPs, SINRs, and link utilization (end-user throughput averaged over 5 minute polling intervals). This is also something that I understand CPEView will eventually support; for now, I believe you can only watch these KPIs in real time for one given CPE at a time, with no option for storage. The ACS product we are using (StarACS, which is a Telrad-branded version of Friendly Tech's ACS) doesn't itself really support more than storage of the raw KPI data into a database table, so using the StarACS APIs, we feed that to Cacti and have it maintain separate RRDTool graphs for all of our CPEs. You COULD do the same thing using SNMP, of course, but only on CPEs that actually support SNMP, and not all of them do (TR-069 support seems more likely to be a given on LTE fixed-install UEs). -- Nathan From: telrad-boun...@wispa.org<mailto:telrad-boun...@wispa.org> [mailto:telrad-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Lauer Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 5:27 PM To: telrad@wispa.org<mailto:telrad@wispa.org> Subject: [Telrad] TR069 I am new to TR069. For the Cambium portion of our network, we are able to make configuration file JSON templates and upload those in plain-text to configure SMs. I understand the basic concept of "zero-configuration" for the Telrad UE. But aside from the fact the iHSS database keeps track of the IP assignment and the UL/DL bit rates, there must be some other compelling reason to use TR069? Does Breezeview have a TR069 server built-in somewhere? -- Matt Lauer Solvaris, Inc. 586.453.0440 p 248.495.3977 c 586.453.0805 f mla...@solvaris.com<mailto:mla...@solvaris.com> www.solvaris.com<http://www.solvaris.com/>
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