About Firmware File Acquisition And Modem Update - Comtech EF Data CDM-760 Installation And Operation Manual

Updating Firmware
CDM-760 Advanced High-Speed Trunking Modem
4.1.2

About Firmware File Acquisition and Modem Update

The CDM-760 Advanced High Speed Trunking Modem is factory-shipped with its latest version of
operating firmware. If you need to update the modem firmware, you may download the
firmware update archive file from the Comtech EF Data Web site (www.comtechefdata.com).
You may also receive the file via e-mail from Comtech EF Data Product Support.
You may perform the firmware update, without opening the CDM-760, remotely over satellite,
or you may directly connect a user-supplied Microsoft Windows-based PC, running the latest
version of Java, either to the CDM-760 rear panel J4 | MGMT RJ-45 M&C port or, when the
optional High-Speed Packet Processor is installed and enabled, the P0 | MGMT RJ-45 M&C port.
Do these steps:
1. Download the firmware update archive file via the Internet to the User PC. Except as noted
in Appendix A, the tasks outlined in Sects. 4.2 and 4.3 are the same regardless of the
firmware version running.
2. Use Windows Command-line to transfer, via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), the extracted
firmware ZIP file from the User PC to the CDM-760 standby firmware image. You may
alternately use the CDM-760 HTTP (Web Server) Interface ADMIN | UPGRADE page
'automated upgrade' feature to transfer the ZIP file.
3. Use the CDM-760 Front Panel or the HTTP Interface ADMIN | UPGRADE page to configure
the modem to operate using the updated firmware image.
You are not able to use the HTTP Interface to change the Modem IP Address.
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Chapter 6. FRONT PANEL OPERATION
Chapter 7.5 HTTP (Web Server) INTERFACE
Chapter 8. SERIAL INTERFACE OPERATION
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