Site protection activity done at SER Ethio Telecom wireless and

transport network o&M

Table of content page

1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….… …..2

2. General problem ………………………………………………………………………… …….2

3. Specific problem…………………………………………………………………………… …..2

4. Solution proposed………………………………………………………………………… …..3

5. Activity done ………………………………………………………………………………… ….4

5.1 DWDM installation Adama and Bishoftu…………………………… …..4

5.1.1. New Rack Install at Nazareth (OTM site) ………… .4

5.1.2. New Rack Install at Bishoftu (OTM site) ……………..4

5.1.3. List of required materials……………………………………5

5.2 MODJO-ADAMA 1*GE SERVICE PROTECTION ………………… ……6

5.2.1 List of required materials……………………………… ….8

5.3 Fiber installation MSAG15 to site 211047…………………………… ..9

5.4 Fiber installation MSAG51 to site 211020………………………… ….10

5.5 Fiber re-habitation…………………………………………………………… ….11

6. Achievement and benefited …………………………………………………….. …..12

7. Challenges………………………………………………………………………………… …..12

8. Acknowledgement........................................................................ ... ..17

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 1. Introduction
 It is known that NE should be protected with different links / rout to become minimum
tendency of down time of sites by link problem that avoid single point failure. But in our
region there are NE which is not link protected and due to this sites are down and so
customers are affected, our company loss its image and huge amount revenue.

 Making redundancy is the best solution by creating more than one link with different
route, so that our NE can be protected from any incident occurred from one of the
link ,like fiber cut.

2. General problem
When any incident happens in OF link:

 From Adama to Modjo and Adama to Bishoftu a lot of NE were down

 Sites in Adama town were down.

 Goba rout lots of NE were down.

3. Specific problem
Due to link unprotected, when any incident happened in our OF link, many NE were down
From Adama - Modjo – Bishoftu

 4 SP Sites at Modjo , 1 SSR and 12 SP sites were down at Bishishoftu

 Totally 88 sites affected

 NE which is not link protected and affected due to some incident happen in Adama city.

 From 211083-211020 about 4 sites down.

 From 211043 to 211047 about 5 sites down.

 NE which is affected due to some incident happen from Herero to Dinsho route, more
than 140 sites affected (Goba, Bala Robe, Ginner….).

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 4. Solution proposed
 Currently Bishoftu SSR 1 and SSR 2 connected from Adama SSR 1 and SSR 2 respectively
through OF which is installed underground and also Modjo as well. To protect those
NE, we proposed to connect Adama SSR 1 to Bishoftu SSR 2 through OPGW. Adama
SSR2 and Bishoftu SSR 1 as well as Adama SSR 1 to Modjo SP ( site ID 211489 ) And also
from Adama SSR 2 to Modjo SP ( site ID 211488 ) continue as per existed underground
OF cable and Bishoftu SSR1 -211488 and bishoftu SSR2 -211489 connected through OF.

 At Adama city

 From MSAG 51 to site 211020 new fibers installed underground so that site 211020
and its down link sites are protected.

 From MSAG 15 to site 211047 new fibers installed underground so that site 211047
and its down link sites are protected.

 Optical fiber re-habitation for SP link from Herero to Dinsho and OPGW backhaul from
Dodolla to Adaba, Since SP link fiber is detolarated and highly loss and Bale Robe route
was working with DWDM link only.

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 5. Activity done
 From Adama SSR1 to Bishoftu SSR2 a new connection through OPGW is done .The wire
was dropped from EEPCO tower and it was connected again as a new installation that
takes much time and more effort.

5.1 DWDM installation Adama and Bishoftu

At Adama install new OTM- NE Rack and at Bishoftu use the Existing Rack ,Metro 1+13 Rack-
1 ,To Bole Direction) Even though E300 EMS shows newly created direct link connection
from Bishoftu to Adama. For this intended protection, this Bishoftu to Adama fiber link
should be OPGW.

5.1.1 New Rack Install at Adama (OTM site):

 At Adama use the Rack that is going to be relocated from Bishoftu, Which Directs to
Meki Metro connection, the relocating rack is called Metro 1+13 M900 Rack-2,
ID=198.This Rack has no Service & the rack need OTU10GE card, DCM and control
subrack boards

5.1.2 New Rack Install at Bishoftu (OTM site):

 At Bishoftu use the Existing Rack Which Directs to Addis Ababa Bole (For metro
connection), Which is extension rack of Metro 1+13 M900 Rack-1, ID=198 so it has
no OA sub rack. Please relocate OA sub-rack from Meki Metro 1+13 M900 which is
faced to Bishoftu direction. This rack is idle and on power off statues. It needs DCM
& OTU10GE additional Boards.

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 5.1.3 List of required materials

no site Required material quantity Remark(location)

name
1 Bishoftu Patch cord LC-FC 2
OTU10GE Card 1 Metro Ring-1, Rack-0

DCM G.655 (60km) 1

Full M900 master 1 From Bishoftu (Existing Rack)
Rack
OA Sub- rack 1 From Meki Metro 1+13 M900 rack
2 Adama Patch chord LC-LC 8
Patch chord LC-FC 2
Ethernet Cable 1
LACG 1 A02.02.24
OHPF 1 NW12.00374/A02.03.14
NCPF 1 A02.02.24
APSF 1 NW17.03121/A02.03.09
DCM G.655 (60km) 1 NW20.00553/A02. 03.39
OTU10GE 1 A02.02.24
OSCF 1 A02.02.24
OPM 1 A02.03..03/ NW12.00378
M900 Rack 1 From Bishoftu

Bishoftu DWDM NE

10 GE

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Adama SSR 1 Adama DWDM Bishoftu SSR 2
10 GE

OPGW FIBER

Adama SSR 2

Direct buried Fiber GE service Existing GE service Bishoftu SSR 1

Fig.1 DWDM installation Adama and Bishoftu

5.2MODJO-ADAMA 1*GE SERVICE PROTECTION

 To avoid single point of failure (SPF) of current 2*GE IP CSG service from Modjo to
Adama, it is required to protect the service through Modjo-Bishoftu-Adama. The
service will be provided from Modjo-Addis Ababa-Bishoftu-Adama on legacy DWDM
(M900).

 To provide the 1*GE service from Modjo-Adama through Bishoftu-Addis Ababa on

the legacy DWDM, an existing idle GEM8 board at Bishoftu DWDM (NE ID: 157, Slot:
[0-1-3]) will be relocated to Modjo and installed at NE ID: 69, Slot: [0-1-3], then
configured to Addis Ababa direction. At Microwave OMU-ODU patching will be done
and configured to Bishoftu direction. Similarly, at Bishoftu OMU-ODU patching will
be done and configured to Adama direction. At Adama, an existing idle GEM8 board
at Bishoftu DWDM (NE ID: 157, Slot: [0-1-5]) will be relocated to Adama and
installed at NE ID: 67, Slot: [1-2-8] and configured to add/drop the 1*GE service. NB:
both GEM8 boards to be relocated from Bishoftu are to be tuned to channel 5
(192.50THz).

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 Addis Abeba Microwave Bishoftu Adama
Modjo
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Fig 2. E2E 1*GE Service Provision (through Modjo-Microwave-Debrezeit-Nazret link)

5.2.1 List of required materials

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Required material Quantity Taken From
Modjo
Patch cord (LC-LC) 2 From AW4, item code: NW01.01832

Patch cord (LC-FC) 4 From AW4, item code: NW01.01300

Microwave

Patch cord (LC-LC) 2 From AW4, item code: NW01.01832

Debrebirhan
Patch cord (LC-LC) 2 From AW4, item code: NW01.01832

Adama
GEM8 (tunable) 1 Existing at Bishoftu BB DWDM NE ID: 157, Slot: [0-1-
5], idle

Patch cord (LC-LC) 2 From AW4, item code: NW01.01832

Patch cord (LC-FC) 4 From AW4, item code: NW01.01300

5.3 Fiber installation MSAG15 to site 211047

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 New fiber installation about 2km from MSAG15 to site 211047 so that the site has full
protection from core site to 211047 about 5 sites is protected.

Core swich

MSAG-23
211043

MSAG65
MSAG-25 211045

211047
MSAG-02
MSAG-15
211054

Fig.3 Fiber installation MSAG15 to site 211047

5.4 Fiber installation MSAG 51 to site 211020

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 New fiber installation about 5km from MSAG51 to site 211020 so that the site is fully
protected from 211084 to 211020 about 4 sites is protected .

Core swich

211075

211022

211083
211084
211090

211020
MSAG-51

Fig.4 Fiber installation MSAG 51 to site 211020

5.5 Fiber re-habitation

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 Bale robe and Goba route the link was working with DWDM. But by fiber re habitation SP
link was done from Herero to Dinsho, so that more than 140 sites are link protected .

Meki Alemtena
Dodola 211301 211225
211288 20km
GE

70km
Ziway
SSR02
34km

Ziway
SSR01
80km

Herero Dinsho
67km 34km 178km

Robe Goba
SSR02 211380
19km

Robe
SSR01

Nazereth
Nazereth SSR02
SSR01

Fig.5 Herero to Dinsho Fiber re-habitation

6 Achievement and beneficiary

 The new proposed activity is done and so that the network becomes stable and link
protected.

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  Repeatedly down time of sites due to fiber cut is controlled

 Costumers are not losing network and so that we keep our company image and
costumers complain.

 The company not loss revenue generated from those protected sites.

7 Challenges
 The wire was dropped from EEPCO tower Adama to Bishoftu and it was very difficult
to install overhead. This challenge was resisted and the wire was installed overhead
and makes it functional.

 Since the fiber from Herero to Dinsho about 67 km was installed during project and
not fully functional, it was damaged and the performance was degraded, also OPGW
backhaul from Dodolla to Adaba re-habitation of fiber was done day to night to
make it fully functional.

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Fig .6 Staffs working on OPGW fiber link on EEPCO tower

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Fig .7 Staffs working on OPGW fiber link on EEPCO tower

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Fig . 8 Staffs working on OPGW fiber link on EEPCO tower

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Fig .9 Staffs working on OPGW fiber link on EEPCO tower

8 Acknowledgment
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The following supervisors and staffs are involved from initial to final accomplishment of the
activity done.

No Name id section

1 Muse Berhe 2762 Fiber Backbone

2 Webeshet Worku 7836 Fiber Backbone

3 Yohanse Debay 5422 Fiber Backbone

4 Samuel Bekele 3894 Fiber Backbone

5 Tujuma Daba 2063 Ip backbone and transmission

6 Chernet Tadesse 5463 Ip backbone and transmission

7 Galgalo Elias 4369 IP backhaul

8 Knott W/senbet 4819 IP backhaul

9 Tsegaye sahile 2947 RAN and core

10 Agonafir Ayele 3580 RAN and core

11 Webeshet Abiyu 9344 Fleet and facility

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