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LAGU INSTALLATION
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Agenda

 About LAG

 LAG/LAGU Physical Installation

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 Introduction

 LAGU system is Line Access Gateway Unit system.

 LAGU system is installed at RBM and co-located BM sites.
 A BM system is converted to LAGU system replacing BPU and TSU
with NGTJ cards and TSI cards.
 All TUs with PSUs, TCs (LCC), TIC, SPC and TUI cards are retained.
 2-slot chassis consists of NGTJ card and TSI card interfacing with
TUI cards in ATU frame.
 Two types of Base Modules in one MAX system are:
 Co-located BMs which are housed in the same building in which
Central Module is housed.
 Remote Base Modules which are located remotely and are connected
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 C-DOT LAGU is designed to migrate fixed line TDM based

technology of DSS-MAX to IP based technology.

 It converts basic voice into RTP and Signaling information to SIP

and connects to the IP network.

 LAGU provides gateway functionality through a pair of network

gateway cards working in active-standby mode.

 LAGU systems are installed at all co-located and remote Base

Modules of the MAX exchanges.

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 There will be no change in the end user interfaces.

 E1 link shall remain unaffected by the migration exercise.

 Supports maximum 32 E1s from RBM site to co-located BM site.

 BM in concentration supports maximum 2K subscribers at remote BM

site.

 Call processing and feature handling by centralized softswitch.

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 Terminal Interface Controller (TIC) controls the four terminal groups
(TG) of 32 channels and multiplex them to form a duplicated
128channel,8 Mbps link towards NGTJ card.

 For signaling information of 128 channels, it communicates with

Signaling Processor (SP) to receive/send the signaling events on
analog terminations.

 In concentration, three other Terminal Units share the 128 channel

link towards the NGTJ card to have 4:1 concentration.

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 Key requirements during
upgradation
 BPU and TSU frame is replaced with 2-slot chassis,NGTJ cards and TSI
cards

 There will be no change in the existing TU frame having line cards,

PSU, TIC, SPC and TUI.

 TSI cards will be interfaced with TUI in ATU frame just like as was in
case of BPU and TSU.

 Power Supply of -48V to be supplied to NGTJ cards in 2-slot chassis.

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LAGU Physical Installation
 For upgrading MAX to LAGU system, BPU & TSU to be replaced
by LAGU chassis as shown in next slides.

 Chassis to be mounted in the BM through nuts & LN key.

 5V, 12V DC are used for driving TSI cards which is fed from ATU.
Both the cables (5V/12v) are fed from different ATU. If one ATU
fails, LAGU will not be affected as it will work in simplex mode.

 Two slot chassis contains two NGTJ and two TSI cards.

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TSI card

LAGU Chassis with 2

NGTJ
cards & 2 TSI cards

NGTJ card

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 NGTJ card

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 LAGU Chassis
 LAGU chassis contains two NGTJ & two TSI cards.

 TSI cards interface with TUI cards in ATUs through TT cables.

 NGTJ can be installed in either simplex or duplex mode.

 NGTJ variants are NGTJ-A00 (EEB integrated) and NGTJ-B00 (EEB not
integrated).

 LAGU Chassis operates at -48V DC.

 5VDC & 12 VDC for LAGU is fed from ATU.

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 Physical card Installation
 TSI
 LAG

 Ethernet connection

 EEB connection

 Serial ports copy-0 or copy-1 in NGTJ can be accessed through

minicom in PC/Laptop with the help of serial cable.

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 LAGU cable details
 Two -48Vdc power cable ( 4 cores )

 Two green chassis cables

 Two TU-TSI 5Vdc/12Vdc cables

 Two Ethernet cables

 16 TT cables

 Two minicom cables

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 LAGU chassis after installation

LAGU chassis is installed replacing BPU & TSU 9/20/18

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Back-plane of 2-slot chassis

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Back plane of LAGU chassis
after Installation

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Power supply connection
 -48VDC is fed from both bus-bar to LAGU chassis in
duplex mode

 Blue wire is for -48VDC

 Red wire is for reference 0 volt

 Yellow/yellow-green wire for digital ground

 Green wire is for chassis Ground

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 Power Supply Connection

LAGU Chassis

LAGU Chassis
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Bus-bar power connection

Bus-bar

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 TT cable connection

 There are four terminal units (TU1,

TU2, TU3, TU4)

 TT cable connection (back-view)

between TSI & TUI cards is shown below

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TT cables interfacing TSI and TUI
cards

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 TSI power (5Vdc & 12Vdc) connection
At LAGU
5V/12Vdc fed from TU

AT LAGU

5V/12Vdc fed from TU

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AT LAGU
 Minicom connection
• Serial cable is for accessing serial communication. There are two
minicom ports in LAGU chassis for copy-0 & copy-1 NGTK cards.
• Serial cable is connected b/w minicom port in LAGU chassis and
PC/Laptop.

PC side

Minicom

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LAGU connectivity

Ethernet ports

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Conversion of a Line BM/RBM to Line Access Gateway

Line Line Line

Cards Cards Cards

Control Control Line Access

Cards Cards Gateway Unit

Existing Base Module Migrated Base Module

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 LAGU connectivity

E1 to CACU site
EEB/
EEB E1 DDF DDF E1
MLS Uplink to
/CACU core

ETHERNET E1

LAGU SYSTEM
LAGU SYSTEM
(A00)-EEB
INTEGRATED
LAGU SITE CACU SITE

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 Connectivity for co-located BM

MLS
ETHERNET ETHERNET
EEB
BM /LAG BM /LAG
V5AG/PRIAG

SG/MG

SLM

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Access connectivity

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Access/Core connectivity

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Here is the LAGU Installation Video
(Total:-27 Minutes)

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