PLANET EPL-1000 - Manual (Page 13)

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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 firmware upgrades using the CLI. This has been found to be the
most reliable tool for downloading binary files 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, configure 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.