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BSC6900V9R011 GO Hardware Structure and System Description

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The BSC6900 is an important network element of Huawei Single RAN solution. It adopts the industry-leading multiple radio access technologies, IP transmission mode, and modular design. The BSC6900 can be flexibly configured as a BSC6900 GSM, BSC6900 UMTS, or BSC6900 GU as required in different networks.

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Know the functions and features of BSC6900 Master the hardware structure of BSC6900 Master the signal flow Master the typical configuration of BSC6900

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Reference

BSC6900 Technical Description BSC6900 Hardware Description

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Chapter 1 BSC6900 System Description

Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 BSC6900 Signal Flow Chapter 4 BSC6900 Typical Configuration

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Location

The interfaces between the BSC6900 GSM and each NE in the GSM network are as follows:
Abis Interface: the interface between the BTS and BSC A Interface: the interface between the BSC and MSC or MGW Gb Interface: the Interface between the BSC and SGSN

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BSC6900 Product Charactersmultimode amalgamation

GSM&UMTS cabinet GSM&UMTS co-cabinet BSC Software upgrade

RNC

RNC

RNC

BSC

RNC

RNC

BSC

BSC

Smooth evolution from BSC to RNC with software upgrade Reducing CAPEX by reusing hardware Dynamic capacity adjustment between 2G&3G

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BSC6900 Capacity Index

Typical configuration specifications of the BSC6900 GSM(BM/TC separated and Abis over non-IP R11 board)
BSC6900 GSM only
Item Number of cabinets 1MPS+1TCS 2 1MPS+1EPS+2TCS 2 1MPS+2EPS+2TCS 2

BHCA
Traffic volume Erl Number of TRXs

1750
6500 1024

3500
13000 2048 8192

5250
19500 3072 12288

Number of active 4096 PDCHsMCS-9

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Chapter 1 BSC6900 System Description

Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure

Chapter 3 BSC6900 Signal Flow Chapter 4 BSC6900 Typical Configuration

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Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure

2.1 Frame and Subrack 2.2 Board Introduction

2.3 Cable Introduction

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BSC900 Hardware--Cabinet

The BSC6900 uses the Huawei N68E-22 cabinet and the Huawei N68-21-N cabinet. The two models of cabinets have the same appearance.N68E-22 is divided into a single-door cabinet or a double-door cabinet.

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BSC900 Hardware--Cabinet

The BSC6900 GSM cabinet is classified into main processing rack (MPS), extended processing rack (EPS), and transcoder rack (TC).

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BSC900 Hardware--Subrack

The BSC6900 GSM subrack has a standard width of 19 inches. The height of each subrack is 12 U. The boards are installed on the front and rear sides of the backplane, which is positioned in the center of the subrack. A subrack provides 28 slots. The slots on the front of the subrack are numbered from 0 to 13, and those on the rear are numbered from 14 to 27.

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BSC900 Hardware--Subrack

Classification of BSC6900 GSM subracks

Front View Item Height of the subrack Weight of the subrack Consumption Index 12U Empty: 25kg; Full configuration57kg l MPS subrack: 1000W l EPS subrack: 1000W l TCS subrack:1000W HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. All rights reserved Page 14
1 Fan box 4 Front cable trough 7 DC power input port 2 Mounting ear 5 Boards

Rear View

3 Guide rail 6 Grounding screw 9 Cover plate of the DIP switch

8 Port for the monitoring signal cable of the power distribution box

DIP Switch on the Subrack

The DIP switch on the subrack has eight bits numbered in ascending order from 1 to 8

If the bit is set to ON, it indicates 0. If the bit is set to OFF, it indicates 1.

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DIP Switch on the Subrack

Subrack number Subrack 0 Subrack 1 Subrack 2 Subrack 3 Subrack 4 Subrack 5

Subrack code 1 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF 2 ON ON OFF OFF ON ON 3 ON ON ON ON OFF OFF 4 ON ON ON ON ON ON 5 ON ON ON ON ON ON 6 ON OFF OFF ON OFF ON 7 ON ON ON ON ON ON 8 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

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Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure

2.1 Frame and Subrack 2.2 Board Introduction

2.3 Cable Introduction

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BSC6900 Overall Structure

The overall structure of the BSC6900

Switching Subsystem; Service Processing Subsystem; Clock Synchronization Subsystem;

Interface Synchronization Subsystem;

OM Subsystem.

GO-Mode

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Switching Subsystem

Functions

Provides intra-subrack Medium Access Control (MAC) switching Provides intra-subrack Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) switching Distributes clock signals to the service processing boards Provides inter-subrack switching Provides switching channels for traffic data

Provides OM channels

Hardware Involved

TDM switching TNUa board MAC switching SCUa board

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BoardTNUa

GTNU

The TNUa is the TDM switching unit in the BSC6900.

The active and standby TNUa are inserted in slot 4 and slot 5. The TNUa board performs the TDM switching function, which is the TDM switching center of the system.

RUN ALM ACT

TNM0

The TNUa has the following functions:

TNM1

Providing 128 K 128 K TDM switching Allocating TDM network resources, establishing, and releasing radio links

TNM4

TNM3

TNM2

Port TDM05

Matching connector TDM high-speed serial port, used to connect DB14 Function the TNUaS between subracks

PARC

TNM5

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BoardSCUa

SCUa

The SCUa is the switching control unit in the BSC6900.

RUN ALM ACT RESET

LINK ACT

The active and standby SCUa are inserted in slot 6 and 7. The SCUa board provides maintenance management of the subrack and GE switching platform for the subrack.

0 1 2 3

The SCUa has the following functions:

Performing maintenance management of the subrack Providing a GE platform for the subrack Providing clock information for the other boards in the same subrack except the GCUa
Matching RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 SMB connector

LINK ACT

4 5

6 7
LINK ACT

8 9 10 11

10/100/1000BASE-T

Port EHT09

TESTOUT

PARC

Function 10M/100M/1000M Ethernet ports, used to connect subracks 10M/100M/1000M Ethernet ports, used to connect GBAM (Only the EHT1011 main subrack is connected with the GBAM) COM Debugging port Clock source port, used to receive the 8 kHz clock signals from the CLKIN panel of the GGCU TESTOUT Clock test signal port, used to output clock test signals

CLKIN

COM

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Service Processing Subsystem

Functions

User data transfer

Radio channel ciphering and deciphering

System admission control Data integrity protection Mobility management Cell broadcast service control Data volume reporting Radio access management CS service processing PS service processing Radio resource management and control System information and user message tracing

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Service Processing Subsystem

Hardware Involved

XPUa/b board, SPUa/b board, DPU/c/d board

Board Specification

XPU/SPU is the signaling processing unit

SPU board can process GSM/UMTS signaling panel, XPU board can process GSM signaling panel SPU board Works for BSC6900 GU mode XPU board Works for BSC6900 GSM only mode

Services Process Unit DPUc/d/

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Board Introduction-XPU/SPU

XPUa RUN ALM ACT

Loaded with different software, the XPUa board is functionally divided into main control XPUa board and non-main control XPUa board.

The 0 subsystem of main control XPU/SPU board is MPU, used to manage the user panel

and signaling plane resources within the

subrack and process the signaling.
LINK ACT

0 1 2 3
10/100/1000BASE-T

The subsystem of non-main control XPU/SPU board is CPU, used to process the signaling.

Main control XPUa

Non-Main control XPUa

PARC

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Board IntroductionDPUc

DPUa

Function

RUN ALM ACT

DPUc process CS services and perform the voice coding and decoding function. It works as subrack system pool mode. Provides the speech format conversion and data forwarding functions when configured in BM subrack. Provides the voice enhancement function

DPUd board works for GSM services.

PARC

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Board introductionDPUd
DPUa

Function

RUN ALM ACT

The DPUd is the Data Processing Unit for PS services. It can be installed in slots 811 in MPS and 8-27 in EPSit processes the packet services for the BSC. Each DPUd supports 1024 activated PDCHs at the same time, and all the PDCHs support MSC-9 coding. Packet links processing function.

PS fault self-detection.

DPUd board works for GSM services.

PARC

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Subsystems Five: Interface Board System

Board Type Physical Board EIUa Board specification Transmits, receives, encodes, and decodes 32 E1s/T1s. Scene GSM Only

OIUa
Old Boards FG2a GOUa PEUa Multikernel Boards FG2c GOUc POUc

Provides one STM-1 port for TDM transmission

Provides eight channels over FE ports or two channels over GE electrical ports Provides two channels over GE optical ports Provides 32 channels of E1s/T1s for HDLC transmission Extracts line clock signals Provides 12 channels over FE ports or four channels over GE electrical ports Provides four channels over GE optical ports Provides four channels over channelized optical STM-1/OC3 ports based on IP protocol

GSM OnlyGU
GSM OnlyGU GSM OnlyGU GSM OnlyGU GSM OnlyGU GSM OnlyGU GSM OnlyGU

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Board Introdction-FG2c

The FG2c board supports IP over Ethernet transmission. The FG2c board performs the following functions:
Provides

12 channels over FE ports or four channels over GE

electrical ports

Provides the link aggregation function at the MAC layer Provides the routing-based backup and load sharing Supports the transmission of data over all its Ethernet ports on the

basis of the synchronized clock signals

Supports
Port 10/100BASE-T 10/100/1000BASE-T 2M02M1

the AbisAGbIuIub interfaces

Function 10M/100M Ethernet ports, used to transmit 10/100M signals 10M/100M/1000M Ethernet ports, used to transmit 10/100/1000M signals Port for 2 MHz clock signal outputs Connector type RJ45 RJ45 male connector

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Board Introduction-GOUc

As an optical interface board, the GOUc board supports IP over Ethernet transmission.

The GOUc board performs the following functions:

Provides

four channels over GE optical ports

Provides the routing-based backup and load sharing

Extracts line clock signals

Supports the Abis, A, and Gb,Iu, Iub interfaces
Function Connector Type LC/PC

Port

RX TX 2M02M1

Optical port, used to transmit and receive optical signals. TX refers to the transmitting optical port, and RX refers to the receiving optical port. Port for 2 MHz clock signal outputs

SMB male connector

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Board Introduction-POUc

As an interface board, the POUc board supports IP over channelized STM-1/OC-3 transmission. The POUc board performs the following functions:
Provides

four channels over channelized optical STM-1/OC-3 ports based

on IP protocol

Supports the PPP function Extracts line clock signals Provides the Automatic Protection Switching (APS) function between the active and standby POUc boards the A, Abis, Gb, Ater,Pb, Iu, Iub interfaces
Connector type LC/PC

Supports
Port RX TX 2M0 2M1

Function Optical port, used to transmit and receive optical signals. TX refers to the transmitting optical port, and RX refers to the receiving optical port. Output ports for clock signals. These ports are used to transmit the 2 MHz line clock signals to the GCUa/GCGa board. The clock signals are extracted from upper-level devices and serve as the clock sources of the BSC6900 system.

SMB male connector

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Subsystems Four: Clock Subsystem

Clock Source

Bits clock Line clock GPS

Reference Clock for the MPS or EPS

The reference clocks are provided by the GCUa. The reference clocks generate 8kHz clock signals through the GCUa. MPS: The clock signals are sent to the SCUa in the MPSa subrack through the backplane. Then, the clock signals are sent to other boards in the same subrack. EPS: The clock signals are sent to the SCUa board in the EPSa subrack through

the clock cable. Then, the signals are sent to other boards through the backplane.

Reference Clock for the TCS

Each TCS extracts line clock from the A interface. The line clock is processed through A interface panel and then generates 8 KHz clock signals.

The clock signals are sent to the SCUa in the subrack through the backplane. Then the clock signals are sent to other boards in the same subrack.
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BoardGCUa

GGCU

The GCUa is the general clock unit in the BSC6900. The active and standby GCUa are configured in slots 12 and 13 in the MPS. The GGCU board provides synchronous timing signals for the system The GCUa has the following functions:

RUN ALM ACT

Generating and keeping synchronous clock signals Keeping the consistency of synchronization information output from the active and standby GCUa
Function Reserved Ports for transmitting synchronization clock signals. The ten ports are used to transmit the 8 kHz clock signals to the CLKIN port on the panel of the SCUa board. Reserved Reserved Input port for testing external clock signals Synchronization clock input port, used to receive the 2.048 MHz clock signals or 2.048 Mbit/s code stream signals Connector type SMA male connector RJ45

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 CLKOUT

Port ATN-IN

8 9 COM0 COM1
CLKLIN0 TESTOUT TESTIN

CLKOUT0~9

COM0,COM1 TESTOUT TESTIN CLKIN0-1

RJ45 SMB male connector SMB male connector SMB male connector

PARC

CLKLIN1

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Subsystems Five: O&M Subsystem

Internal network

S C U a O M U a O M U a S C U a

S C U a S C U a

EPS

MPS

LANSWITCH
M2000

Internet cable Serial cable

WEB LMT

External network

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Board Introduction OMU

The OMUa board works as a bridge for the communication between the WebLMT and the other boards in the BSC6900.

Function

Performing the configuration management, performance management, fault management, security management, and loading management functions for the system

To control the communication between the LMT/M2000 and the SCUa board of the BSC6900

(1) Captive screw (5) LED (ALM) (9) USB port (13) COM port (17) Hard disk

(2) Shielding finger (6) LED (ACT)

(3) Ejector lever (7) Button (RESET)

(4) LED (RUN) (8) Button (SHUTDOWN)

(10) Ethernet port (ETH0) (11) Ethernet port (ETH1) (12) Ethernet port (ETH2) (14) VGA port (15) LED (HD) (16) LED(OFFLINE) (18) Screw for fixing the hard disk All rights reserved Page 34

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2.1 Frame and Subrack 2.2 Board Introduction

2.3 Cable Introduction

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TDM Switching Subsystem

Intra-Subrack: Other boards in the subrack connect with TNUa (Active/Standby) through LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signal) high speed serial ports of backplane.

Inter-Subrack: TDM units of every subrack fully interconnected with each other through TNUa crossover cables.

Board

TNUa Active TNUa Standby

TNUaActive

Board

Board

TNUaStandby

Board

LVDS TDM path of backplane Inter-TNUa Cable

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Inter-Subrack Interconnections of TNUa Crossover Cables

0
TNUa TNUa

1
TNUa TNUa

2
TNUa TNUa

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Interconnection Between SCUa

Active/standby SCUa boards: HiG interconnection; 30G bandwidth.

Intra-subrack : The SCUa board provides 48G GE switching capability through backplane. Inter-subrack : The SCUa boards are connected in star topology through intercross cable using the GE ports on SCUa.
RBS Switchin g and control unit Other board

Other board

Other board

Switchin g and control unit

Other board

Other board Switchin g and control unit

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The Physical Cable Between Subracks

SCUa in MPS subrack

GE07 interconnect with EPS, open the port by MML command.

SCUa in EPS subrack

GE01 interconnect with MPS

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Clock Synchronization Interconnection

The connection of the GCUa of the main subrack and the extension subrack is shown:

The active and standby GCUa output 10-way signal channel respectively. A signal channel of an active GCUa and that of a standby GCUa are integrated through the Y-shaped cable. Any of component including GCUa, Y-shaped cable, and SCUa is faulty, the system clock

still can work normally.

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Chapter 1 BSC6900 System Description Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure Chapter 3 BSC6900 Signal Flow Chapter 4 BSC6900 Typical Configuration

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GSM CS Signal Flow

Abis over TDM+A over TDM

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GSM CS Signal Flow

Abis over IP+A over TDM

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GSM CS Signal Flow

Abis over TDM+A over IP

Abis over IP+A over IP

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GSM PS Signal Flow (Inner-PCU)

Abis over TDM

Abis over IP

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Signaling Flow on the A Interface

Abis over TDM+A over TDM

the signaling processing board XPUa processes the signaling according to the MTP3, SCCP, and BSSAP protocols.

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Signaling Flow on the Abis Interface

Abis over TDM/IP/HDLC

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Signaling Flow on the Gb Interface

Gb Over IP

the signaling processing board processes the signaling according to the NS and BSSGP protocols. Then, the signaling is transmitted to the Gb interface board through the SCUa board. The Gb interface board processes the signaling according to the IP or FR protocol. Then, the signaling is transmitted to the SGSN over the Gb interface.

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OM Signal Flow

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Chapter 1 BSC6900 System Description Chapter 2 BSC6900 Hardware Structure Chapter 3 BSC6900 Signal Flow Chapter 4 BSC6900 Typical Configuration

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Specification of the Board

XPUa/XPUb

350TRX/XPUa

640TRX/XPUb No. of XPUb=TRX No./640TRX

No. of XPUa=TRX No./350TRX

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Typical Configuration

Parameter Description

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Typical Configuration

Parameter Description

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