= GENI Site Installation =

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Typical site GENI 4G wireless deployment is shown in Figure 1. The [wiki:./hardwaresetuplink hardware setup] establishes the wiring layout and switching requirements for nodes and the console. The nodes can be easily distinguished from the console by the number of Ethernet ports they have. Consoles require 4 ports while nodes have only 3. 
[[Image(GENI Setup.jpg, width=600)]]. 

Possible switching configurations

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The site software installation process has three major phases. All of the software setup is done on the console since the nodes have their operating system pushed onto them via the OMF imaging infrastructure that we are going to build on the console.

To setup the console software, we have to [wiki:./b0OS install a base operating system] (based on Ubuntu 12.04), [wiki:./c0OMF install and configure the omf services] and test the deployment. The services that need to be configured are: DNS/DHCP, LDAP, xmpp and a range of OMF Aggregate Managers: Inventory, Account Management, CMC, etc.

Once these services are properly function, the GENI site is ready to be used for experiments.