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UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL
AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERINGSTREAM
The engineering internship is about 600-640 hours (75-80 days) full time work placement with
an industrial partner conducted as an alternative pathway to an engineering thesis for final year
engineering students at Adama science and Technology University.
The purpose of internship is to provide engineering students with experience to the world of
engineering practice through a period of work place employment.
This report details the work performed during an 80 days internship placement with the western
& Assosa region Ethiotelecom. The report features Western& Assosa region Ethiotelecom
description including several telecommunication sectors to make clear communication for
subscribers by solving communication challenges of this region.
The future work required to be completed as the continuation of a work performed during
internship placement is presented.
Acknowledgement
First of all we would like to express thanks toalmighty God.Second,we would also like to thank
Adama science and Technology University for organizing the internship program at all for his
engineering students alike.
Again show appreciation Western & Asosa regional ethiotelecom for permitting the semester
internship to be train with their company.
We would like to express gratitudeto Ato Aman Mieso the Electrical Engineering department
Head, Ato Temesgen the electrical engineering internship student advisor. We would also like to
give special thanks to our supervisor, Ato Tilahun Ejigu and operation and maintence
manager,Ato Mulatu and other operation and maintenance worker who assisted usby sharing
their knowledge and experience throughout their working timein our internship duration. Finally,
we would like to show gratitudeto other western & Asosa regional ethio-telecom workers that
gave their knowledge and other efforts to make us perfect with works.
Table of contents
Abstract…………………………………………………………......I
Acknowledgement………………………………………………. …II
Table of contents…………………………………………………....III
1. Introduction………………………………………………………. 1
2. Background of Ethiotelecom…………………………………….. 2
2.1 Company mission and values…………………………………
2.2 Company objectives,services and products …………………..
3. Management, Training and employee information……………….......
4.Specific job information……………………………………………..
4.1 Radio access network system(RANS) section………………….
4.2 Transmission,Access and Transport section……………………
4.3 Internet protocol (IP) section…………………………………...
4.4 Core network,Local switch and MSAG section………………..
4.5 CPE and Payphone section …………………………………….
4.6 Power and environment section…………………………………
5.Evaluation and Critique……………………………………………...
5.1 Recommendation………………………………………………
1. Introduction
Western & Assosa Region Ethiotelecom is situated in the West of Ethiopia which is found at
Nekemte town 330km from Addis Ababa 430 from Adama.This region includes seven
departments, such as indirect channel,direct channel,fixed access network,operation and
maintenance,Business partner,finance and physical security and 12 shops in different areas.
This is final report for Electrical engineering in communication stream semester internship .The
internship was undertaken to finalize this semester industry internship for engineering
students.This specific internship wasundertaken at Ethiotelecom western & Assosa region, where
duties were assigned providing the experience as a product specialist .Over the course of
internship a variety of activities were experienced,both technical and process related .This
provide a range of valuable job skills whichwould be able to applied in future position both with
Ethiotelecom and western& Assosa region in general.
2. Background of Ethio telecom
The introduction of telecommunication in Ethiopia dates back to 1894.
Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation is the oldest public telecommunications
Operator in Africa. In those years, the technological scheme contributed to the
Integration of the Ethiopian society when the extensive open wire line system was
laid out linking the capital with all the important administrative cities of the
country. After the end of the war against Italy, during which telecommunication network
was destroyed, Ethiopia re-organized the Telephone, Telegraph and Postal services
in 1941. In 1952 the Imperial Board of Telecommunications (IBTE) was
established by proclamation No. 131/52 in 1952. The Board had full financial and
administrative autonomy and was in charge of the provision and expansion of
telecommunications services in Ethiopia.
The Imperial Board of Telecommunications of Ethiopia, which became the
Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority in 1981, was placed in charge of both the
operation and regulation of telecommunication services in the wake of the market
reforms.In 1996, the Government established a separate regulatory body, the Ethiopian
Telecommunication Agency (ETA) by Proclamation 49/1996, and during the same
year, by regulation 10/1996, the Council of Ministers set up the Ethiopian
Telecommunications Corporation (ETC).
Recently,the Ethiotelecom company has been organizational structured by 1 head quarter,6 zonal
offices and 8 regional offices providing different services such as fixed telephone,mobile
telephone,internet,CDMA,etc through its offices .Western region is among 8 regional office and
plays vital role in ethiotelecom on behalf of it self.
2.1 Company mission and value
As a continuation of the last five-year plan and after concentrating its efforts on education, health
and agriculture, the Ethiopian government has decided to focus on the improvement of
telecommunication services, considering them as a key lever in the development of Ethiopia
Ethio telecom is born from this ambition of supporting the steady growth of our country. Ethio
Telecom wishes to implement state-of-the-art processes, to develop reliable network
infrastructures and to provide the best quality of services to Customers. This is the mission of
Ethiotelecom; that drives all Ethio telecoms actions.
To ensure that EthioTelecom runs parallel with top telecom operators, the Ethiopian government
has reached an agreement with France Telecom, one of the world’s leader telecommunication
companies. This agreement will help ETHIO telecom to improve its management capability
through the transfer of world-renowned know-how and skills.
While meeting international standards, Ethio Telecom remains faithful to his values:
Ethio Telecom commit to understand, meet and exceed the telecommunications
needs and expectations of our country at large and of customers in particular
Ethio Telecom respect customers and recognize that their revenues allow to
operate
Ethio Telecom recognize that the company employees are the most valuable
asset and want to create an efficient corporate management environment that allows
them to develop and grow
Ethio Telecom will commit to high-level job performance, customer service
quality, organizational excellence and continuous improvement in all areas
Ethio Telecom will stay motivated and encouraged to meet all the challenges
that will face
Ethio Telecom will make every effort to achieve a superior financial return
Ethio Telecom uphold ethical standards, being honest in all assignments
Ethio Telecom will hold employees accountable to all their stakeholders
To reach these goals, all Ethio telecom divisions will focus on:
Ethio telecom offers a wide range of products and services tailored made for Enterprise
customers and non enterprise customers. Ethio telecom offer Fixed wire line and wireless
services, mobile services, Internet and Data services as well as 3G services like WCDMA and
CDMA through the newly deployed Next Generation Networks(NGN).
Owing to nationwide huge capacity Ethiotelecom provide Enterprise customers a reliable and
affordable Internet and data services which facilitate their business and increase their
productivity by connecting them to local and international partners
3.Management, Training and employee information
Ethiotelecom has different departments in different places.Here,at western & Asosa
region we assigned to work in operation and maintenance department for all internship
session.This section covers all operation and maintenance case of western region.So
that,it consist of different working section.At the day we began intern to this region we
introduced with operation and maintenance manager and he assigned a supervisor for
us.On the next day, after we have introduced with our supervisor he shown us different
working sections of this region and supervisor assigned us to work with their
coworkers.
We introduced to the supervisor and with other operation and maintenance worker for
two weeks first.After that,we assigned to see different western regional Ethioitelecom
equipments and how they are configured these includes RAN system,transmission
system,exchange,routers,PSTN,BSCs,BTSs,IP,VSAT and the like. To have detail
knowledge about this equipment the manual of some equipment was given us by pdf
and by hard copy/module/.After we have completed these duties we are assigned to
see all operation and maintenance section turn by turn.First turn RAN section,second
turn core section,third,fourth,fifth IP section,transmission section,payphone section
respectively.Finally we are assigned to see power section.For each section we are
assigned to work for more than two weeks.
Our supervisor has helped us to succeed in our assignments in a good manner. After
we encountered about a week one personal computer is given for us from his working
section.There are free internet access about 10Mbps and we have used for reading and
checking our account and such a like. Our supervisor guided us what we have to do
and what we haven’t do in our daily working at every working time and he took
attendance to follow us whether we present or not.We ask our coworkers if there is
unclear thing while we are on working.
The other responsibility we had during our internship is respecting working ethics like
arriving on time, cooperation with coworker, accepting and respecting daily duties
given by our supervisor and the like.
Western region has many workers in different departments. It is difficult to mention all
departments on this report because of its wideness but, let us mention the main
department of this region.
1.Operation and maintenance department
This department deals with all operation and maintenance of RAN, corenetworks,
transmission, exchange, PSTN, payphone,IP,VSAT equipments sothat, this
department is back bone at this level.
2.Fixed access network department
Does the operation maintenance activities of copper cables and optical fibers/external
plant/.
3.Human resource management department
This department manages human power so that employee appraisal is conducted once
a year for employee and managers and also used two types of standardized forms i.e,
administrative and clerical, and management and professional performance evaluation
format respectively. Progress of employee performance is measured periodically,
provide feedback and support employees to achieve both quantitative and qualitative
targets.
From this work we develop many working skills like: Punctuality,Reliability,and Independence
in WorkCommunication Skills,Professionalism,Speed of Work, Accuracy, Engagement, and
Cooperation with colleagues,Technical skills, Organizational skills,responsibility in the task-
fulfillment
Fig 4.1
Figure 4.1 shows a simplified microwave link incorporating just one regenerativerepeater and
two end terminal stations. The terminal stations house
switching equipment that connects the customers to the long-distance paths.In this illustration, a
large number of customer signals (around 2000) are multiplexed together into a single signal,
ready for transmission over the microwave link. The signal is converted to the microwave
frequency (around6 GHz) and transmitted over a path of typically 30 to 60 km from station A
tothe receiving antenna at the repeater station. The repeater either (1) simplyamplifies the signal
and sends it off on its journey using a different microwavefrequency to minimize interference, or
(2) it completely regenerates theindividual pulses of the bit stream before reconverting the signal
back to amicrowave beam for onward transmission. Station B receives the microwavesignal,
processes it, and unravels the individual channels ready for distributionto the appropriate
customers at these end users.
2. Fiber optic
Fiber-optic communication is now the dominant data transmission method. However,
microwave communication equipment is still in use at many remote sites where fiber-
optic cabling cannot be economically installed.
At present cisboarder backbone network is microwave transmission system, as
telecommunication service is becoming in Ethiopia.The existing back bone
transmission system cannot meet the needs of the people.Therefore ETC confirmed
eight optic fiber lines through out the country to be builted; its main aim is to resolve
communication problem of communication between country capital and states. This
Nekemte branch includes eleven stations(Addis Ababa,Holota,Adis
Alem,Welenkomi,ginchi,Ambo,Guder,Gedo,Ijaji,Bako,Sire and Nekemte).This
Nekemte branch also extended up to Asosa regions by branching to different western
regional towns.Here one SDH 2.5G and one SDH 155M system is equipped in the
route.
All optical fiber out from or into all stations terminated at the termination box on the
ODF.The termination box connected to flange; using single ended pigtail fibers, and
connected to SDH equipment using dual ended pigtail fibers with FC/PC.The
34Mbits/s(E3) or 2Mbits/s(E1) port of SDH equipment connected to DDF in the
equipment rooms. Using coaxial RF cables.The 155M outlet fibers of the branches
terminated on ODF in the transmission rooms,using dual ended pigtail fibers with
FC/PC.In this transmission system communication cables includes trunk cables,
pigtail fibers, clocking wire and alarm wires and network wires.All these cables run
in cable trays and placed in order and bound fitly.
3.VSAT (Very small Aperture Terminal)
Two Stations on Earth want to communicate through radio broadcast but are too far away to use
conventional means.The two stations can use a satellite as a relay station for their
communication. One Earth Station sends a transmission to the satellite. This is called
aUplink.The satellite Transponder converts the signal and sends it down to the second earth
station. This is called a Downlink.
The Broadband VSAT is a satellite system especially applied to the remote areas of the country.
The country uses the Broadband VSAT network for the provision of triple play services for high
schools, universities, research centers, Woredas and Non Governmental organizations.
School Net: with the aim of providing similar standard education to high schools throughout the
nation, the program was launched in February 2004. At this time 1093 high schools and
preparatories are getting the service with the help of 12 channels; in addition to this the 197 of
the high schools have got access to internet service with a capacity of 256kbps.
WoredaNet: The WoredaNet Network has enabled woreda centers of the country with the
opportunity to use voice, data and multimedia services. At this point in time 631 woredas are
getting data, internet and Video conferencing service with a maximum capacity of 512kbps.
AgriNet: This AgriNet Network has a total of 35 VSAT stations which are agricultural
institutions connected with each other and the federal government for Internet service.
Ethio telecom’s IP Network is constructed in such a way that it can provide NGN (including
GSM, Fixed NGN, CDMA, IP/Broadband Access Network services including Value Added
Services) at regional cities, major cities, sub cities, and towns. To understand easily this IP
network let us show you its topology.
: Figure 4.2: Over all ETC IP NGN network Topology
IP network layers and their functions
1.Gateway layer:This layer deployed in four sitesand contains routers mainly
functions to connect to an external network /internet/
The Ethio Telecom has built extensively Ethiopia’s internet infrastructure to give better
and quality internet service. Currently;we have fifteen international internet links from
Bole, Bahirdar Diredawa and Shashemene gateways.The Total Upstream /downstream
bandwidth is 6475.5/6775.5 in Mbps
2. Back bone layer:Totally 10 sets of BR (T8000), distributed to five cities and each city
deploys two sets of BR, full meshedconnection.This layer is mainly responsible for
service traffic forwarding and high capacity communicationfacilities.
3.Core layer:This layer is mainly responsible for service traffic forwarding, convergence and
high capacity communication facilities.
4. Edge layer:Provides information exchange b/n the access and core network.It is an entry point
in to carrier/service provider core backbone networks and used for aggregation of core switches
Fig 4.3
5.Acess layer:Access layer is where broadband access devices and ethio telecom’s other
networks (GSM, CDMA, FL-NGN) are connected.
1.Soft switch: A soft switch has revolutionized telecom industry. Gone are the days of
conventional voice switches. These days, a softswitch can work with voice, fax and video,
contributing much to the recent telecommunication revolution. As a matter of fact, a softswitch is
a virtual device/software that connects calls from one line to another. Since this is a virtual tool,
it is entirely managed via computer.
2.Media gate way: A Media Gateway acts as a translation unit between disparate
telecommunications networks such as PSTN; Next Generation Networks; 2G, 2.5G and 3G radio
access networks or PBX.As the Media Gateway connects different types of networks, one of its
main functions is to convert between the different transmission andcodingtechniques.
3.Public switching telephone (PSTN):-The basic service of PSTN refers to the basic call
connection functions provided by the switch, inter office call, local call, national toll call,
international toll call, tendem call and others.
MSAG:-MSAG (Multi-service Access Gateway), a reliable device of medium capacity and
carrier class rolled out by ZTE, mainly develops VOIP services and broadband data services over
the IP MAN or backbone network, and is primarily based on the accessing of ADSL or VDSL to
realize the voice and data services simultaneously. Also, it can access the corporate users like
enterprises by deploying the inner LAN to provide IP phone services.
Local switch:-Is the telephone exchange in the PSTN directlyserving subscribers.This serves
includes dial tone,calling,features and additional digital and data services to subscribers using the
local loop.
Finally; in our report we wanted to describe the topology of Nekemte BSC but because of
shortage of available space we haven’t described on this report.