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BN-CPE-1000X Series Service Features

Apr 4, 2025
4 min read

Updated: Jul 31

This document lists and explains the service features supported on BN-CPE-1000. The service features are grouped together for their functionalities. Under each group is a list of the services.


The services features applies to the

  • BN-CPE-1000

  • BN-CPE-1000C (integrated cellular modem)

  • BN-CPE-1000F (2 fiber interfaces)

  • BN-CPE-1000FC (2 fiber interfaces plus integrated cellular modem)



BN-CPE-1000 service features
BN-CPE-1000 service features


  1. General Information Group


    Edit CPE Info (for BN-CPE-1000 Service Features)

    Make changes, such as CPE name, shipping address, site address, provider service ID and client circuit ID, local contact name, local contact emal, etc, to a device.


Edit Network Info

Make changes to WAN and LAN addresses of the device.


Assign Entity

Assign the device to an entity. The purpose is for IAM access control that determines who can view what information. Refer to this document for more details.


Edit Secondary WAN

Data failover Primary WAN to Secondary WAN. Secondary WAN maybe a different ISP, Starlink or other IP connectivity medium.


  1. Performance Tests Group

Run Speed Test

Run speed tests from Bumblebee CPE to speed test well knowns sites fast.com and Ookla speed test. Also Bumblebee CPE as a Speed Test target. Refer to this document for more details.


Start Activation Test

The Activation Test runs at any time, it tests throughput, latency and jitter to assure the service contract. Refer to this document for more details.


Retrieve Activation Test Report

This is to retrieve the latest Activation Test report, up to 10 test results are saved.


  1. Advanced Features Group

Edit Appflow

Enable Appflow to see applications passing through the device. It also enables application performance troubleshooting. For more information, refer to this link.


Edit Down Notification Interval

The default notification interval is 1 minute, that is, if the Bumblebee portal does not receive keep alive messages from a device for a minute, it declares it down. Use this function to make the notification time window longer in increment of a minute. For instructions on how to change the outage detection timer interval, follow this link.


Edit IP Monitor Target

The default IP Monitor Target is the default gateway IP address. Typically this IP address is the ISP default gateway IP address. The IP Monitor Target is used for measuring latency and packet loss. Edit IP Monitor Target if you prefer a different IP target.


Edit iPerf Server

The BN-CPE-1000 can be used as iPerf server ready to receive a client traffic for iPerf performance testing.


Edit Link-Down Relay

When WAN link is down, automatically shut down its Bumblebee CPE's LAN interface.


  1. DDoS Protection Suite

    To learn more about security services, refer to this link.


    Edit Geo Visibility

    Turn on this feature to see what countries are originating traffic to the CPE device and what countries your site is egressing traffic to. You'll be surprised lots of traffic is originated from not so friendly countries, many of originating source IP addresses are malicious IPs.


    Edit Block Malicious Sources

    Turn on this feature to block originating IPs with malicious score of 100.


    Edit DDoS Mitigation

    Enable this service to block TCP SYN flood, UDP flood and ICMP flood.


  1. Diagnostics Group

Get Diagnostics

Get Diagnostics returns live status on the device, such as if LAN ports are connected (have carrier) and if they are in UP state.

Ping and Trace route

Use this tool to run ping, trace route and HTTP to test reachability from the selected device.


Packet Capture

Use this tool to capture packets on any interface. The resulting pcap file is kept in My Documents for easy retrieval.


Reset LAN Ports

             Take this action if the LAN is in down state and you wish to bring it back up. Make sure the LAN port is connected.


Reset Device

             Take this action if the device is up but not forwarding packets. By rebooting the device the software gets restarted.


Generate Registration Token

If a Bumblebee device fail to register due to a failed token, you can recover that by following the instruction here.


  1. Delete

    Take this action cautiously! This will delete the device from the database.


  1. Dashboards

    Map View

    Display the summary information of the deployment and geo locations of the sites.


    WAN Link Health

    Display Uptime, WAN Link Health, Outage history, Daily Performance Assurance Tests. For more info, refer to this link.


    WAN Link Utilization

    Display link utilization, Peak Hour and Peak Hour utilization, Peak Hour utilization trend (3 years of storage). For more info, refer to this link.


    Application Visibility

    Application Visibility and Application Category Bandwidth Consumption info.


    DDoS Protection Suite

    Display inbound originating sources and malicious IPs. Display blocked IPs and block DDoS attacks. For more info, refer to this link.


  1. OOB Remote Control

    USB Serial Console Access

    Provides serial console access to remote site firewalls, routers, switches and servers from Bumblebee portal. No VPN, no client software. Check this link for more details.


Network Based Access

Provides network based access to local websites or portals of the firewalls, routers, switches and servers. Check this link for more details.


PDU Management

Provides power management to remote site modems, firewalls, routers, switches and servers from Bumblebee portal via switched PDU deployed at the remote site. Check this link for more details.


  1. Cellular WAN

    Provide 5G Cellular WAN site failover and OOB Access to remote IT infrastructure.

Bumblebee Static IP

Provides the capability to securely tunning the site traffic to a Bumblebee managed static IP address. The static IP address can be whitelisted. For more info, check out Bumblebee Static IP.


Shared Data Pool

Allow enterprise sites to share a data pool for monthly cellular data allowance. To learn more, check out Shared Data Pool.


  1. Systems

    My Documents

    Useful tool to upload, store and retrieve documents related to a site. Packet Capture pcap files are stored in My Documents too.


Support

Create support tickets and corresponds.


Entities and IAM

Through Entities, Bumblebee solution organizes enterprises, IAM users and access privileges. Check out Accounts, Entities and IAM Users.


Operations

This feature allows you to setup email destinations and automations for alerts.


  1. CPE Local Diagnostics Portal

    The CPE has a http diagnostics portal for troubleshooting and disaster recovery. This portal runs on the CPE Eth3 port. To access the diagnostics portal, connect the CPE Eth3 port to your laptop. Type http://169.254.1.1:8080

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