Basically we want to know what configuration is required to build a provisioning server that will communicate with our CMTS device model Prevail WCM-2086 (DOCSIS 1.1).
There is someone who do this kind of setup?
Thanks
Pedro
Basically we want to know what configuration is required to build a provisioning server that will communicate with our CMTS device model Prevail WCM-2086 (DOCSIS 1.1).
There is someone who do this kind of setup?
Thanks
Pedro
The only thing required to provision modems is a DHCP server, TOD Server, and TFTP server they can all be on a single linux box (or other os). You will need a modem configuration file. I am not familiar with your CMTS device but they are either a bridge or a router, you just need to relay dhcp to the "configuration" server it hands out the IP, and modem filename to download. Thats it.
You need TOD, TFTP, DHCP
If you had a very small Cisco system, you can have the Cisco CMTS do all these jobs for you. Not sure if your Prevail CMTS can do similar.
If you had a very large system, there are commercial systems you can buy like Cisco BAC or Incognito BCC. These are very nice but of course they are not cheap
But for most operators, the popular solution is to run linux servers and use open source apps like ISC DHCPd. Requires some skills to setup, but plenty of config examples can be found on these forums.
There are also some pre-made bundles you can get like http://users.accesscomm.ca/docsis_server/. Cant vouch for how good these are though.