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Can I change my SFPs from copper to fibre?

"I'm moving my SBC 5k from one building to another and need to change my SFPs from copper to fibre. Can I just swap them with the Ribbon-provided SFPs before I power on the SBC, or is there more involved?"

You can swap the SFPs as long as you make sure to use the Ribbon-provided SFPs. Do not use a mix fiber and copper SFPs (all PKT ports have to be the same and all HA ports have to be the same).

How do I transfer files from one unit to the other?

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Beginning with release 3.1, file transfers must be performed using SFTP on port 2024. Use the following steps as a guide (default login/password is sftpadmin/sftpadminyou can use any CLI account in the Administrator group):

1. From the source SBC, login to Linux shell using sftpadmin/sftpadmin and then change directory to where the file is located.
   
   

2. Connect to target SBC. In this example, SBXa is the source and SBXb is the target SBC.

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   sftpadmin@SBXa$admin@SBXa$ sftp -oPort=2024 sftpadmin@SBXbadmin@SBXb Connecting to SBXb sftpadmin@SBXbadmin@SBXb's password: sftpadmin<password> Connected to SBXb

3. Use the put command to transfer a file to the specified directory as shown in the example below.

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   sftp> put sbc-V03.01.00-R000.x86_64.tar.gz /opt/sonus/external

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