According to embodiments of the present invention, a method of initiating a base station is provided, comprising the following steps that: a basic coverage cell sends an switch on instruction to a hot spot cell in a closed state according to a predetermined rule, the switch on instruction carrying the predetermined rule information; the basic coverage cell is provided with a user equipment (UE) for measuring, and receives a measurement report from the UE; the basic coverage cell sends an switch on instruction to the hot spot cell such that the hot spot cell provides communication service for the UE. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a network-side equipment is further provided. As illustrated in technical solutions of the present invention, by setting a rule to select the hot spot cell adapted to be initiated, it can make data receiving of the UE suffer slight interference as initiating the base station, reduce interference form the data receiving of the UE to the down-link reference signal of the hot spot cell as possible, and thereby system performance can be improved effectively.