Chapter 12: Basic Bring-up Procedure for a C4c CMTS
STANDARD Revision 1.0 C4® CMTS Release 8.3 User Guide
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The C4c CMTS is shipped with a black roll-over cable that has a 9-pin connector on one end and an RJ-45 connector on the
other. The RJ-45 end plugs into the front of the SCM card into the RS-232 port. The other end plugs into a computer or
terminal server.
The default connection settings for the computer COM port are:
9600 Baud rate
8 data bits
No parity
1-stop bit
Flow control Xon/Xoff
Once a successful connection is made, you should get a login prompt.
Power Up the Chassis
At this point, power on the chassis.
The SCM and RCM are configured automatically and come into service. As the CMTS is coming up, you can observe output
being sent to the console to provide a status of the activity.
Basic Bring-up Procedure
Configure Slots
This section provides steps to configure and provision the slots with the different CAM card types.
Enter the following commands:
configure slot 15 type 16DCAM
configure slot 10 type 12UCAM
configure slot 15 no shutdown
configure slot 10 no shutdown
Configure RCM Ethernet Connections
This section configures the RCM Ethernet port.
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