MWDP is software for generating the scripts needed to configure the equipment used for microwave links between BTS sites.
It was the first piece of software I built from scratch for Iliad. The need was to automatically generate configuration files for radio links from parameters already available in an existing data source.
Script generation
MWDP is synchronized, through an event-based system, with another piece of software that stores network and BTS data.
Inside MWDP, users can find the available radio links. A user can select a link and generate scripts through an explicit action. The system reads the data for the BTS sites involved, retrieves the network configuration, and starts the download of a .zip file containing the generated scripts.
Handling edge cases
In some situations, it is better to use a configuration different from the one calculated automatically by the software.
To support these cases, MWDP lets users manually select the configuration template to use for a specific link. Templates are versioned as well, so before generating the scripts it is possible to choose not only which template to use, but also which version.
