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Reliability Based Products Design

Telecom Grade Network Reliability

Advanced Access Restriction

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Dual-plane CN Architecture

FE FE To the billing center

Frame 0# FE

Standby iGWB
To the billing center

LAN Switch in
Frame 1# plane 1 GE
Active iGWB

LAN Switch in plane 0 BAM

Frame 2#

Emergency WS Hub
To the network
Management center
Dispatching Station

Frame 9#
WS WS WS
Host Background

1+1 or N+1 for all boards, Dual-plane for inter-connection, dispatching

station and O&M etc.

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Dual-network Plus Dual-plane

Dual-network plus Dual-plane SAU hardware redundancy

SAU O&M/SMU ActiveStandby Active Standby

LAN 2
LAN 1 …
HDU

1+1 N+1
Plane 1 Plane 2
Key Board Common Board

Dual-network dual-plane technique, realizing real-time data backup

and eliminating single-point failure
Hot backup, 1+1 for key boards, N+1 for common boards
Real-time fault detection and self-healing

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Reliability-secured All-IP BSC Platform
Dual-plane Port Trunk
Standby frame Host frame Standby frame
Host SCU Host SCU Host SCU

Automatic fault detection

Standby SCU Standby SCU Standby SCU

Process board Process board Process board

1+1 or N+1 backup

Stable Modularized design
Platform enables fault isolation

Resource Pool

DSP DSP
TransCoder
TransCoder pool
pool
DSP DSP
DSP
DSP pool
pool

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Dual-Plane OM Networking
OMU OMU

……

Lanswitch Lanswitch
(Active Plane) (standby plane)

Active link

M2000 Client M2000 Standby link

Avoids single-point failure and provides high availability of OM

network

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Multi-level Traffic Control
Traffic control trigger Traffic control basing on CPU utilization
Signaling Overload Trigger CPU
Utilization
Congestion start
Services Attempt Times Trigger threshold
Congestion end
CPU Utilize Rate Trigger threshold
Overload start
threshold
Automatically monitor Overload end
threshold
The trigger value can be
configured via O&M system
Suitable for all traffic model Time

Combined with user's priority

The trigger threshold can
be flexibly configured

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Automatic Alarm System

SMS Notice

iM anagerTM M 2000
E-mail

Alarm Report

Failure NE
Alarm Box
Notice

Alarm
Inspection

Flexible alarm customization: alarm name, alarm class, receiver etc.

Diverse alarm notification, network operation status in your hand

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Reliability Based Products Design

Telecom Grade Network Reliability

Advanced Access Restriction

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Dual-homing + Mini-Flex
Centralized O&M
MSC Server1 Backup MSC Server2
iManager M2000

MGW
High Reliable Solution: MGW MGW
MGW Pool
MSC Server with N+1 Dual-homing,
MGW in pool with mini-flex Mini-Flex
Load sharing in A interface between
MGW
Convenient O&M BSC BSC BSC BSC
Synchronizing the data
configuration automatically

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Huawei HLR Redundancy Solutions
1+1 mated redundancy solution 1+1 load-sharing redundancy solution

Master Master
Active Standby HLR-
HLR-1 HLR-
HLR-2
HLR HLR Backup Backup

HLR-
HLR-1 HLR-
HLR-1

Redundancy Redundancy
HLR HLR

HLR-
HLR-N HLR-
HLR-N

N+1 mated redundancy solution N+1 compatibility redundancy solution

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Data Backup in HLR

System Level Backup
Disk Array
and Tapes Cluster Configuration Information
Oracle System
System Level Backup
Operation System
Active-HDU Standby-HDU Data Level Backup
Dump data to local disk
DB 1 DB Copy data to local hard disk of
2
Standby-HDU
Backup data to tapes
Backup Frequency
Local Hard Disk Local Hard Disk
System level backup is performed
once when delivered
3
Data level backup frequency is
Tapes
configurable

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Double Coverage
Double coverage secures high reliability of radio coverage
Simple network planning
Less civil works due to no additional site requirements

Co-site coverage technique Overlap coverage technique

A1&B1 A2&B2 A1 A3

Master-A

Backup-B

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Transceiver Redundancy

T T T T T T N – Integer
R R R R R R M – Integer
X X X X X X
1 2 n 1 2 m M<N

Master - TRX Standby - TRX

Standby TRX will be activated once master TRX has failed

Activated standby TRX will use the same frequency point as master

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BTS Ring Networking
Indoor Macro
BTS

BSC/PCU Mini BTS

Outdoor Macro BTS

Local communication is available if transmission link is broken

Industry’s fastest recovery algorithm guarantees quick transmission
reversal
All calls will be held during reversing

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Fallback for Emergency

BTS

BSC/PCU

Communication available during an Abis interface fault

VGCS and VBS for emergency communication
Shunting for dedicated shunting yard

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Reliability Based Products Design

Telecom Grade Network Reliability

Advanced Access Restriction

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Predefined Access Control Class

Broadcasting Class Info.
BSC/PCU
Assigning cell with Access
Control Class
Broadcasting access control
class to all subs in the cell

BTS
Common Access Class

Class 0 - 9
GSM-R SIM
High-priority Access Class

Class 11 - 15

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IMSI Based Access Control

Assigning designated
The duration of link occupation
network code in IMSI
will be significantly shortened in
Subs with Non-designated order to avoid radio traffic
network code in IMSI will be congestion
rejected by BSC...

Suppose ‘50’ is the designated network code

IMSI: 460502300003252 Subs A will be directly

Subs A
NC: 50 routed to MSC

IMSI: 460208299888816 Subs B will be directly

Subs B rejected by BSC
NC: 20

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