The invention discloses a
cell switching method and a
base station. The method comprises the following steps that a source
base station triggers switching; the source
base station sends a switching request to a target base
station, wherein the switching request carries capability information of
terminal equipment to be switched, and the protocol version used by the target base
station is higher than the protocol version used by the source base
station; the source base station receives a switching response message sent by the target base station, and obtains undecoded configuration informationfrom the switching response message based on an
abstract syntax mark corresponding to the switching response message in a communication protocol used by the source base station, wherein the decoding format of the
Handover Command-r8-Ies contained in the
abstract syntax mark on the switching response message is defined as the
Handover Command OCTET STRING, and the decoding format of the
Handover Command-r8-Ies contained in the
abstract syntax mark on the switching response message is defined as the Handover Command OCTET STRING; and the source base station forwards the undecoded configuration information to
terminal equipment to be switched, so that the
terminal equipment to be switched completes switching according to the undecoded configuration information.