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BGAN 9201 User Manual
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The Satellite Terminal includes four automatic options: auto power on, LED on/off, antenna
pointing bypass, and automatic context activation. You can set all of these options with the
BGAN LaunchPad or Web UI. The terminal also has an Automatic Context Activation feature
that can be used without LaunchPad or the Web UI.
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When the Satellite Terminal is mounted on a pole, the power button may be inaccessible. This
can be a problem if there is a power failure since the unit will turn off and will not turn back on
when power is applied. You could use the unit with a battery to provide battery backup in case
of power failure. However, at extreme temperatures a battery could be damaged and should
not be used.
To solve this problem, you can activate the terminal‟s auto on feature. With auto on enabled, if
a power adaptor is connected, the terminal turns on as if the power button was pressed. The
terminal can still be powered off by pressing the power button with this feature enabled. The
terminal can be powered on by reconnecting the AC or DC power adaptor, or pressing the
power button. The default configuration of the terminal is for auto on to be enabled.
The auto on feature can be used in conjunction with antenna pointing bypass to allow the
Satellite Terminal to automatically recover from a power outage (assuming PIN, etc are
disabled).
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In a semi-fixed installation, you can use this option to operate with all LEDs off to make your unit
and operation less conspicuous.
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You can configure a pointing bypass option that causes the unit to skip the pointing phase. The
unit then performs spot beam selection, registration and network connection. This option should
only be used for fixed installations where pointing is not required on subsequent power ups. With
this option active, if the unit is moved or the signal attenuated, the unit will remain in global
beam scan until the problem is fixed and the global beam acquired. After acquiring the global
beam the Satellite Terminal automatically continues with network registration.
Point Once is another form of pointing bypass and is described in the “M2M Satellite Terminal
Point Once Installation Procedure” section.
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If you have enabled automatic context activation, the Satellite Terminal automatically activates
a PDP context when it exits antenna pointing, registers with the network and detects a
connected TE.
The “context create” request uses the default Access Point Name (APN), username and
password stored in the Satellite Terminal. You can modify these parameters using the BGAN
LaunchPad or Web UI (see the ACA and M2M Web pages.)