About Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways
Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways combine the latest in cellular technology with deployment flexibility and ease of management. Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways connect your users and devices to trusted cloud and enterprise applications using 5G and 4G LTE Advanced Pro technologies. These gateways enable secure, scalable cellular deployments from any location using your existing infrastructure for primary or failover connectivity.
The Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways is deployed on the new lightweight Cisco IOS CG software. This software is customizable making it more flexible for any complex performance or functionality improvements. It offers a modular system where each module is independent and complete.
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As of Cisco IOS CG 17.6.x release, Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways have transitioned from Cisco IOS XE software to Cisco IOS CG software. The last version of Cisco IOS XE software that can be used with Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways is Cisco IOS XE 17.5.x. |
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Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways Platforms
The Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways Platforms includes the following models:
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CG418-E (CAT18 LTE Advanced Pro)
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CG522-E (5G Sub-6 GHz)
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From Cisco IOS CG 17.9.2a release, IPv6 is supported on the Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways. Prior to deploying this release, ensure that it is supported on your service provider’s network. For all prior Cisco IOS CG releases, before you deploy Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways, it is mandatory to check if there is a requirement to support IPv6 addresses in the customer network and the service provider network. If you need IPv6 support on the device prior to the Cisco IOS CG release 17.9.2a, the recommended software versions are the following:
If you require use of vManage, any specific vManage version supports up to three prior releases of Cisco IOS XE or Cisco IOS CG. Therefore, any given version of Cisco IOS XE or Cisco IOS CG will be supported by up to 3 following versions of vManage. For example, Cisco IOS XE 17.5.x is supported by vManage version 20.5.x, as well as by vManage versions 20.6.x, 20.7.x, and 20.8.x. |
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Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways support Local WebUI in the Cisco IOS CG 17.10.1a release. |
New and Changed Software Features
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Support to upgrade Firmware | From Cisco IOS XE 17.18.1a release, you can now upgrade the firmware image for cellular module, LTE module, or Wi-Fi module of supported devices using Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, without configuring and managing multiple commands for each device and its associated modules. |
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Ease of use |
Configure cellular band select for cellular interfaces | You can select specific frequency bands to which the device can connect to, allowing optimized connection depending on location and network availability. This configuration can be done using Feature Parcels in Catalyst Cisco SD-WAN Manager. |
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Ease of use |
Configure logging of crash dump events for cellular interfaces | You can configure the device to collect the crash dump logs by enabling the boot-and-hold mode on the device using the lte modem crash-action boot-and-hold command. |
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Ease of use |
Reset cellular profile for cellular interfaces | You can reset the cellular network profile settings on a specific interface to a factory default state using the cellular<slot> lte profile reset command. |
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Ease of use |
Enable diagnostic monitoring on devices | You can enable diagnostic monitoring log capture for devices with cellular interfaces using Catalyst Cisco SD-WAN Manager. |
Resolved Bugs - Cisco IOS XE 17.18
There are no customer impacting bugs that were fixed in this release.
Open Bugs - Cisco IOS XE 17.18
There are no customer impacting bugs that were identified in this release.
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