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Huawei Baseband Cheat Sheet

Quick reference guide for the types and capacities of Huawei BBU 3900 Series cards

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Enable GPS/GLONASS Sync on Huawei BTS3900

Our BTS is going to need an accurate clock source in order to run, so without access to crazy accurate Timing over Packet systems or TDM links to use as reference sources, I’ve opted to use the GPS/GLONASS receiver built into the LMPT card. Add new GPS with ID 0 on LMPT in slot 7 […]

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Huawei BTS 3900 LMPT Basic Config

This post is one in a series documenting my adventures attempting to configure a used BTS 3900 to function as a eNB in my lab. There are 5 network ports on the LMPT card: 2x SFP cages – SFP 0 and SFP 1 1x 10/100 Ethernet port – ETH – Used to access the Local […]

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EUTRAN LTE Mobile Networks RF

Huawei BTS3900 – MML Basics

Learning Huawei’s flavour of MML – Man Machine Language for the BTS 3900 series Macro Base Stations.

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EUTRAN LTE Mobile Networks

Connecting to a Huawei BTS3900

Meta: This post is a series chronicling my adventures with a second hand Huawei BTS3900 I purchased. You can find an index of these posts here. So you purchased a used Macro base station online, good for you. Now you need to know how to configure it. First things first, you’ll need to connect to […]

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My used Huawei BTS3900 LTE RAN Adventure – The Impulse Purchase

How I ended up with a Macro LTE eNodeB (Huawei BBU3900) and getting it running.