Planet EPL-1000 [13/20] Software setup

4.2 Software Setup

This section illustrates how to establish basic connectivity on the PON. After

completing this section the user will be able to transport packets across the

system, and will be ready to start advanced testing. The Software Setup consists

of installing a Terminal utility to access the Evaluation Kit CLIs and a sophisticated

GUI to manage the system.

4.2.1 Console Port Command Line Interface

The EPL-1000 has a 10/100 Mb MGMT port in for the connection of a management

GUI. It also has Command Line Interface (CLI) access through a Console port

on each board (ONU and OLT). By connecting a straight-through serial cable to

any board to a serial COM port on a PC, the user can access each chip for low

level diagnostics and debugging. Although there are many commercial available

Terminal Utilities such as MS Windows HyperTerminal, Tera Term is used in this

User’s manual as the Terminal Utility of choice. Tera Term is recommended if you

wish to perform rmware upgrades using the CLI. This has been found to be the

most reliable tool for downloading binary les to the ONU and OLT. It can be

downloaded for free from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html.

Please download and install on each PC being used to connect to EPL-1000. Once

installed, congure the Transmit settings as follows.

1) Setup the serial port by selecting “Serial Port” from the Tera Term “Setup”

menu.

Tera Term Serial Port Settings

2) Set up the Serial port with the settings shown in 0 and click OK.