TCS Release Notes - 2023-05-03

This document is intended for system administrators and engineers interested in the design, daily management, operations, and troubleshooting of Tarana G1 networks including base nodes, remote nodes, and the Tarana Cloud Suite (TCS).

To benefit from this document, the reader must have a good working knowledge of radio frequency (RF), wireless systems, and networking concepts. 

The G1 products are designed to be installed and used by trained professionals and require that such professionals adhere to all relevant regulatory, safety, and telecom industry best practice guidelines for outdoor radios.  This document assumes that the Tarana G1 base node and remote nodes are installed onsite and are connected to the TCS.

This release includes the following new features and product enhancements.

Customer Application

Feature Description

 

You can view the remote note link disconnection table on the single device page.

 

To view the RN Disconnection table, do the following:

1. Log in to TCS.

2. Navigate to Devices > List, and then select the RN button to view a list of remote nodes.

3. Select the remote node you want to view from the list to display the single device page.

4. Select View More at the bottom of the single device page to display addition device information.

 

The RN Disconnects table contains the following fields:

• Time Disconnected: Time at which TCS determined that the remote node became disconnected. TCS determines the connection status using periodic heartbeats. The actual time of disconnection might be as much as a few minutes before TCS determines that the remote node is disconnected.

• Time Connected: Time at which TCS determines that the remote has reconnected. Because this is based on remote nodes sending heartbeats, the actual time of reconnection might be earlier than this time by a few minutes. When correlating the connection time with power interruptions, you must also consider such things as remote node boot time.

• Duration of Disconnect (hh:mm:ss): Time that elapsed between the time the remote node disconnected and the time it reconnected. This is the arithmetic difference of the two times:

  Time Connected - Time Connected = Duration of Disconnection

• Software Version: The version and build number of the software running on the remote node. The software version indicated here is independent of the TCS version.

To clarify the expected behavior, TCS provides a more targeted list of options for the admin to select when choosing how long to wait before seeking an alternate base node. TCS also provides a default selection that matches the recommended setting of 15 minutes.

These wait times cause the remote node to wait for the primary base node to recover before attempting to connect to an alternate base node. Options for wait times of 25 minutes or more have been removed so that none of the new options result in the remote node waiting an indeterminate amount of time. This change prevents the remote node from situations in which it can no longer make a connection to any base node, which could require the provider to deploy a maintenance crew to the site.

Customer Application

Feature Description

In this release the uplink data rate appears on the speed test graph so that you can see the data transfer rates and link ratio visually during a speed test.

The following user experience and interface enhancements have been added to TCS:

The following issues are known to exist in the current release. Where possible, a workaround appears in the Description column.

The following issues have been fixed in this release.