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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Preface............................................................................................................3
2 Customer Requirements.................................................................................4
5 Success Story.................................................................................................13
6 Conclusion....................................................................................................16
7 Disclaimer.....................................................................................................17
Annex 1 Abbreviations......................................................................................17
1 Preface
As a leading player in the telecommunication industry, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. provides robust, adaptive and
cost-effective solutions to worldwide operators. With its series of outstanding mobile products, successful end-to-end
solutions, experienced radio frequency planning as well as excellent services, operators can be best assured to enjoy
everlasting benefits from the long-term partnership with Huawei.
This document is drafted to provide a comprehensive description of offered system, comprising of core network and
EMS System proposed to Tangerine in accordance to the requirements.
Huawei believes the proposed total solution can ultimately fulfill the requirements of system capacity alongside with
quality of service, ensuring the best of both the project target and long term market strategy of Tangerine. Having
taken into consideration the economic scale and the developmental factors at all times, operators can take pleasure in
effective cost savings on network construction as well as realizing future expansions.
2 Customer Requirements
Based on existing 4G network, Tangerine is planning to build 2G network
Expand the existing 4G network capacity from 50k to 300k LTE Subscribers.
Solution Description:
• Upgrade existing HSS to convergent HSS/HLR so as to support convergent 2G/4G subscriber database
• Expand and upgrade existing USN and UGW to support 2G/4G service.
CS Traffic Model 2G
Average voice traffic per subscriber@BH(Erlang) 0.018
Average Call Duration(Second) 60
Number of SMS/BH/SUB(MO) 0.34
Number of SMS/BH/SUB(MT) 0.17
Number of handover/BH/SUB(intra MSC) 0.1
Number of handover/BH/SUB(inter MSC) 0.06
Location update/BH/SUB 1.5
Location update/BH/SUB(To HLR) 0.4
Send authentication to AuC(Location update)/BH/SUB 0.5
IMSI Detach (BH/SUB) 0.15
USSD/BH/SUB 0.05
Proportion of RingBackTone subscribers 20%
Proportion of normal prepaid subscribers(%) 99%
attached subscriber @ BH
PDP/Bearer modification times per attached 0.038 0.14
subscriber @ BH
Intra SGSN/MME 2 3
Average packet size @ BH (Bytes) 512 512
HW Current
NE Product Qty SW Version MOP
Platform SW Version
EMS U2000 1 ATAE V200R015 V200R017 Software upgrade and software expansion
MSC MSoftX3000 1 ATCA - V200R011 New built
MGW UMG8900 1 SSM-160 - V200R011 New built
HSS HSS9860 1 ATCA V900R008 V900R009 Software upgrade and software expansion
Software upgrade and software expansion,
USN USN9810 1 ATCA V900R014 V900R017
Hardware expansion for SAU and throughput
UGW UGW9811 1 PGP-X8 V900R012 V900R017 Software upgrade and software expansion
CG CG9812 1 ATCA V500R006 V500R006 Software upgrade and software expansion
Items Capacity
E1 252
SS7 MTP2/MTP3 64k
totally support 256 64k or 8 2M links
SS7 MTP2/MTP3 2M
SIGTRAN M2UA/M3UA 64k totally support 256 64k or 8 2M links
SIGTRAN M2UA/M3UA 2M
ISUP CIC 7500
Trunk Groups 18000
19968 AMR or GSM FR/EFR TC channels
or 14976 GSM HR TC channels
TC channels
or 8736 WB AMR TC channels
or 19968 G.711/G.729/G.723 TC channels
G.711,WB AMR,GSM HR Codec,GSM
Available codec
EFR/FR Codec
Power
Node Qty requirements Signaling Media O&M reserve(LI) Billing Provision
3+3(63A circuit 4+4 GE 4+4 GE 1+1 GE 1+1 GE 2+2 GE
USN 1 breaker) electrical Optical electrical electrical electrical N/A
3+3(63A circuit 4+4 GE 4+4 GE 1+1 GE
UGW 1 breaker) electrical Optical electrical N/A N/A N/A
3+3(63A circuit 1+1 GE 1+1 GE 1+1 GE
HSS 1 breaker) electrical N/A electrical N/A N/A electrical
Power
Node Qty requirements Signaling Media O&M reserve(LI) Billing
3+3(63A circuit 1+1 GE 4+4 GE 1+1 GE
MGW 1 breaker) electrical Optical electrical N/A N/A
3+3(63A circuit 1+1 GE 1+1 GE 1+1 GE 1+1 GE
MSC 1 breaker) electrical N/A electrical electrical electrical
Note: Only for reference, all the features provided is detailed in BoQ.
Huawei GSM/LTE (GL) convergence solution refers to a network architecture including USN, UGW and HSS.
The Unified Service Node (USN) acts as the converged MME, GnGp USN and S4 USN. Such convergence is
on dynamic session level. There is no separation on the hardware processing board for different function.
Unified Gateway
In this GL convergence solution, the Unified Gateway (UGW) is acting as the converged GGSN, SGW and
PGW.
The convergence of GGSN, SGW and PGW is based on dynamic session level. When act as the combination
of SGW/PGW, the S5/S8 interface will be kept proprietary within the UGW node. And the standard S5/S8
interfaces are also supported in SGW or PGW logical standalone mode.
The presence of both the unified nodes will be unique. The printing on the Cabinet, the display name in the
OAM system and the description the official product documentation will be USN or UGW for the nodes.
Different logical functions are regard as the feature set on software level. Of course, whether 2G or LTE/EPC
function will be supported in the node will be controlled by the license.
Such converged architecture, especially the unified OAM will reduce the complexity of maintaining the
system.
Huawei UGW, USN, MSC server, MGW and HLR/HSS have passed fierce traffic test. Huawei adopt huge
capacity platform and intelligent traffic control solution. Huawei equipment has suffered Hajj festivals and
never fails. The following case shows the performance of Huawei core network in Saudi Hajj.
Figure 1 Heavy traffic on Saudi Hajj: 16 times BHCA, 18 times SMS, 24 times handover
Huawei SingleSDB software is based distributed and layered design, each module in each layer run in
redundancy mode. The following diagram shows the distributed layered SingleSDB design architecture.
Huawei SingleSDB including FE and BE has internal redundancy and all critical components/modules are
internally redundant.
1. Large Capacity
Huawei MSC server and MGW can be expanded to provide large capacity in the telecom industry, which can
reduce number of network element and save CAPEX and OPEX for operator.
Figure 3 Huawei High Density & High Performance MSC server and MGW
Note: Above mentioned capacity is maximum Capacity, and not the actual capacity provided in proposal.
Intelligent “Voice Activity Detection” can save up to 40% bandwidth. When MGW detect one party is silent
during a call, no packet data will be sent through IP network.
RTP Multiplex is defined in 3GPP TS29.414. Multiple RTP packets of the same category can share the same
IP packet header and save the bandwidth utilization.
1. E2E Tracing
Nowadays, it is really important for operators to provide good quality-of-service (QoS) and quality-of-
experience (QoE) of mobile services to end users. How to do to achieve this becomes more critical to routine
network operation. That is, fast fault location and remove is the criteria to verify the ability of operation and
fast response for each operator.
Huawei End-to-End tracing solution provides such a way to help operator for improvement of ability of easy
and fast fault location and handling. End-to-End tracing refers to the signaling tracing of subscriber on multiple
network elements and the tracing results are gathered from different network elements to the unified
management tool. The architecture of End-to-End tracing is as following.
In this solution, tracing command including creation, query or deletion of tracing order, is delivered via
management link from NMS to HSS in order to enable End-to-End subscriber tracing; then HSS forwards the
tracing command to MME which also forwards the command to other network element such as eNodeB,
Serving-GW and PDN-GW. After handling the tracing task, each network element sends the tracing data to
EMS via trace link and EMS is responsible for analyzing and presenting the results. Huawei product eNodeB,
MME, S/PGW, HSS and U2000 supports End-to-End tracing functionality.
Huawei End-to-End tracing solution can greatly help operator to trace the signaling per subscriber on an
overall network level to facilitate handling the user compliant and wireless coverage detecting, which also help
Softbank for O&M cost-reduction, improvement of end user satisfaction and easy-maintenance. End-to-End
tracing can be used to achieve the following tasks by admin or developer.
Huawei iManager U2000 can manage all the UGW, USN, MSC, MGW and HLR/HSS network elements and
the related IP network equipments. The characteristics are as following:
The function provided by U2000 can manage software versions, patches, licenses, and configuration data of
the NEs on the same GUI. It can also support remote download and activate the software by batches.
Following advantages can be brought to operators:
• Friendly GUI and the convenient operation reducing the complexity of maintenance and improving
efficiency.
• Remote management enabling users to remotely copy and operate software so that the maintenance costs
can be reduced
• The upgrade in batch mode freeing personnel from large amount of repetitive work.
• Reducing the workload and upgrade time and decreasing the possibility of errors caused by human
ROI of LTE deployment is the primary concern for each LTE operator. Huawei SingleSDB can efficiently help
the operator to explore more LTE subscribers, widely spread LTE services, and speed up LTE service
subscription.
The unified BE of Huawei SingleSDB allows the operator to promote LTE services to those potential LTE
subscriber candidates by cross-checking subscriber information for instance current subscription information,
and SIM card type etc.
Figure 8 Huawei SingleSDB enables LTE subscriber detection & service promotion
Besides, Huawei SingleSDB has a unified provisioning gateway. This simplifies the operators provisioning
work by using one set of provisioning commands for all 2G/3G/LTE services with very fast provisioning
speed.
• One command define one subscriber with all 2G/3G/LTE service data
• Maximum provisioning speed up to 10,000 commands per second.
5 Success Story
5.1 Leading Position in Mobile Softswitch Industry
Benefited from sustaining innovation and powerful execution, Huawei mobile softswitch solution takes the
leadership in mobile telecom industry. Huawei leads in Gartner Magic Quadrant from the perspective of vision
and ability to execute since 2008. Huawei ranks 1st in Current Analysis towards the buying criteria ratings.
Huawei is one of the largest softswitch and media gateway supplier since 2008.
Huawei SingleSDB solution is leading and has the biggest market share in mobile telecom UDC industry, and
all this belongs to the E2E reliable and convergent solution design and execution. Huawei SingleSDB solution
enables operator to evolve and win from 2/3G era to LTE era.
By Q4. 2014, Dell’Oro’s latest Wireless Packet Core Reports shows that, in 2014 Total, Huawei Total Evolved
Packet Core and Traditional Packet Core Total (mainly for GPRS and UMTS) Global Shipment are in leading
position among all the other vendors.
6 Conclusion
In this document, Huawei provides a comprehensive technical proposal of Core network for Tangerine. Overall
descriptions on network design and dimensioning are given. Detailed description of the proposed equipments
can be found for evaluation in corresponding system description documents.
Huawei earns reputations of being a fast-growing, innovative, responsible and experienced vendor in
telecommunication field, especially in the leading position in many technology aspects. Huawei is confident
that the offered products can bring an advanced, tailored and most cost-effective mobile network to Tangerine.
Together with our professional technical services, more benefits to Tangerine can be expected. We hope this
offered package will lead to a long-term cooperation between Huawei and Tangerine. As an innovative and
reliable vendor in the telecommunication industry, Huawei is dedicated to deliver a robust, future-oriented and
cost-effective Core Network for our customer with the state-of-the-art technology. A stable and long-term
cooperation is the commitment that Huawei always believes in.
7 Disclaimer
The network dimension is subject to the business requirement and traffic model required in the tender and any
other assumptions deemed as necessary by the Bidder. In case the condition of dimension varies, the BOQ and
price shall be adjusted accordingly.
Annex 1 Abbreviations
Abbreviation Full Name