ISAM - Product - Overview - FX (Read-Only)

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TAC42044_HO01 Edition 2.1

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Document History
Edition Date Author Remarks
01 Dec/2012 ALU-University Madrid R4.4 - AMS 9.1.10
02 July/2013 ALU-University Madrid R4.5/R4.6 - AMS 9.2.30
03 Feb/2014 ALU-University Madrid R5.0 - AMS 9.2.30
04 31-01-2015 Roy, Debashis R5.1-AMS 9.3.10


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1 Shelf types 7
1.1 ISAM family evolution 8
1.2 One ISAM family, many deployment options 9
1.3 Shelf types: FX equipment practice 10
1.4 7360 FX shelf specifics 11
1.5 7360 FX-16 12
1.6 NFXS-D: FX-16 shelf 13
1.7 AFAN-H/BFAN-H NB 15
1.8 Power Distribution Backplane (PDBP): ETSI module 16
1.9 PDBP-C: General Facilities Card (GFC )—ANSI module 17
1.10 7360 FX-8 18
1.11 NFXS-E: FX-8 shelf 19
1.12 AFAN-E/BFAN-E 21
1.13 NGFC-E: GFC—ETSI module 22
1.14 NGFC-H: GFC—ANSI module 23
1.15 7360 FX-4 24
1.16 NFXS-F: FX-4 shelf 25
1.17 AFAN-X/BFAN-X 27
1.18 NGFC-F: GFC—ETSI module 28
1.19 NGFC-G: GFC—ANSI module 29
1.20 ISAM FX summary 30
1.21 General architecture of 7360 FX 31
2 Board types 33
2.1 FANT-F: Control card for FX chassis 34
2.2 Standard vs. high-capacity NT: Comparison 35
2.3 FANT-F Redundancy 36
2.4 FNIO-B 37
2.5 FNIO-A 38
2.6 Point-to-point support, EPON, GPON, and 10GPON 39
2.7 NELT-B Ethernet Line Termination (LT) unit 40
2.8 FPLT-A: EPON LT board 46
2.9 FPXT-A: 10G EPON LT board 47
2.10 NGLT-A and NGLT-C LT boards 48
2.11 FGLT-A: GPON LT board 49
2.12 FGXT-A 50
2.13 NDPS-B (ANSI): Vector processing server 51
2.14 NDLS-E AB (ANSI): VDSL2 LT/splitter with SLV 52


The Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) is a frame-based Access Multiplexer, i.e. an access multiplexer
which is based on a (Ethernet) frame forwarding architecture in a packet aggregation network.
Different types of ISAM exist, but conceptually they have the same building blocks. The mapping of the functional
blocks to hardware modules depends on the equipment practice chosen. ISAM FX is the highest capacity fiber
platform on market, ISAM FD (Flexible Density) is a single platform for voice, copper and fiber, 7342 ISAM was the
first GPON product.
GPON on FD available since R4.0.10

NANT-E introduced in R4.2.01
NELT-B available since R4.2.02
The American market works with 7330 ISAM FTTN XD instead of ISAM FD

FD/FX-# of slots (LT boards).
The 7360 FX-16, 7360 FX-8 and 7360 FX4 support Fiber-based services, such as GPON and Point to Point optical
fiber.
The packet processing architecture of the ISAM family is future-safe and specifically designed for multimedia and
business service delivery over IP/Ethernet aggregation networks.
These ISAMs are managed by the remote manager 5520 Access Management System (AMS) and all of them have
the same line boards, software, forwarding intelligence, and troubleshooting.
The 7356 ISAM FD-2 (Flexible Density), also called 7356 ISAM FTTB REM (Remote Extension Module), is the one
that can be a remote or as a stand-alone module. The 7356 FTTB as remote cannot be used as a remote line card
of the 7360-FX. If the 7356 FTTB REM is a stand-alone, it is a host and can be subtended from 7360-FX, to offer
the services to remote subscribers.

We call the shelves World Wide, for a new equipment type has been defined for the FX shelves: Large New
equipment World Wide (LNWW). Contrary to FD equipment that is designated as LNEU for ETSI region.

There are 3 different type of shelves, one for the 7360 ISAM FX-16 (called NFXS-D), another for the 7360 ISAM
FX-8 (called NFXS-E), and the last one for the 7360 ISAM FX-4 (called NFXS-F). The difference among them is
the number of the LT slots. The NFXS-D has 16 LT slots, the NFXS-E 8 LT slots, and the NFXS-F 4 LT slots, but
the rest of the specifications are similar.
The backplane capacity is 100 Gbps between LTs and NTs, 400 Gbps between NTs, and 400 Gbps between
NTs and NTIO.
These shelves have universal LT slots, such that, it allows any board type in.
NT (Network Termination) active-active redundancy mode is supported. If only one Network Termination is
needed, this one will be installed in the NTA slot. The NTB and NTIO slots can not be used by LTs.
In the figure, the 7360 ISAM FX-16 with its tracks on the backplane. This shelf is similar for the other 2 types of
shelves, except for the number of the LT slots:
Supports NTIO redundancy if half height NTIO cards are used but these are not planned today.
NTB and NTIO slot can not be re-used as LT slot.

This shelf has 16 LT slots and the external cabling is applied directly to the front access connectors on the line
termination boards. Since one sub-rack is one ISAM system, the maximum number of point to point Ethernet lines
that one ISAM FX system can support with 36 port boards is 576 lines (point to point Ethernet). However, for
GPON, the maximum LT boards will be 16. With 16 PON ports per board and 128 users per PON port, there can be
32000 subscribers (ONTs).
The first 8 slots and the last 8 slots of the shelf are installed with LTs.
The Network Termination A (NTA), the Network Termination In and Out (NTIO), and the Network Termination B
(NTB) are installed in this order in the middle of the shelf. If only one Network Termination is needed, this one
will be installed in the NTA slot, and the other 2 slots can not be used by LT boards.
All FX shelves support redundant battery feeding. The 2 branches (A and B) are distributed thru the power unit to
all slot positions and the FAN unit. The circuit breakers have 1 dual pole per branch with 35A per pole, i.e., 70A
shelf level.
Pre-cabling is supported via dummy face plates with cable lockers. All cabling, both electrical and optical, has to
be routed to the cable management part at the opposite side of the fan unit.
The power unit and cable connection area provide door alarm, Central Office alarms up and down, and alarm
signals up and down to rack lamps. These up and down signals are a daisy chain connection to forward the signals
from the two possible ISAMs in the rack towards the rack lamps and the central office.
EMC compliant at subrack level according to EN 55022 Class B.
Safety compliant at subrack level according to IEC 950(EN 60950).
Protection of the power interface according K.20 (up to 4kV).

Card cage area
The card cage area houses the different boards. The LTBP-E backplane is located in the card cage area,
providing the interfacing between the NT, NTIO and LT boards.
The 7360 ISAM NFXS-D shelf is designed to support:
Two NT boards
One NT I/O board
Up to 16 LT boards
General function and control unit
The general function and control unit contains the general facility card and is responsible for providing the
external power interface and the external alarm interfaces towards the 7360 ISAM FX-16 shelf. Contrary to the
other FX shelves (FX-8 and FX-4), this GFC is integrated in the shelf (non-pluggable).
Fan unit
The fan unit contains eight temperature controlled, variable speed fans to cool the plugin boards in the ISAM
subrack assembly. It has a local temperature sensor, which monitors the local ambient temperature of the fan
and defines the fan speed as a function of this temperature.
When there is a fan failure, the Alarm LED will light red. Under normal operating conditions, it is off.
The Fan unit, as an option, can have a dust filter, which is installed beneath the lowest fan tray in the
configuration and can be removed without extracting the fan tray.

Card cage area
The card cage area houses the different boards. The LTBP-E backplane is located in the card cage area,
providing the interfacing between the NT, NTIO and LT boards.
The 7360 ISAM NFXS-D shelf is designed to support:
Two NT boards
One NT I/O board
Up to 16 LT boards
General function and control unit

The general function and control unit contains the general facility card and is responsible for providing the
external power interface and the external alarm interfaces towards the 7360 ISAM FX-16 shelf. Contrary to the
other FX shelves (FX-8 and FX-4), this GFC is integrated in the shelf (non-pluggable).
Fan unit
The fan unit contains eight temperature controlled, variable speed fans to cool the plugin boards in the ISAM
subrack assembly. It has a local temperature sensor, which monitors the local ambient temperature of the fan
and defines the fan speed as a function of this temperature.
When there is a fan failure, the Alarm LED will light red. Under normal operating conditions, it is off.
The Fan unit, as an option, can have a dust filter, which is installed beneath the lowest fan tray in the
configuration and can be removed without extracting the fan tray.

The AFAN-H and the BFAN-H contain eight variable-speed fans to cool the plug-in boards in the ISAM subrack
assembly.
The AFAN-H and the BFAN-H must be mounted in the fan area of the subrack.
When there is a malfunction of a fan blower, the fan alarm LED will turn red. Under normal operating conditions,
the fan alarm LED is not illuminated:
The BFAN-H intelligent fan unit provides the following main improvements:
Contains 8 fans variable speed-fans. The front fan and the rear fan in the same column of the fan tray have
the same fan speed.
The fan speed can be controlled in two modes:
The fan speed is defined by the local ambient temperature (measured via temperature sensors on the
control board) according to a pre-defined speed versus temperature curve
The fan speed is defined by a worst-case temperature margin of the functional boards which are
influenced by the specific fan
In case of fan failure, the active fans are forced either to full speed or to a pre-defined speed if the fan tray
is working in the mode where the fan speed is defined by the local ambient temperature

The PDBP-C provides the power interface, inter-rack routing of alarms toward the NT card,
user-defined alarms, and power-related alarms for the shelf. The GFC provides:
External interfaces for power, alarms, network timing, and shelf management towards the NFXS-D
LTBP-E interface for the LT card backplane
Distribution of the power rails to the LT/NT/NTIO backplane
Filtering of the battery power rails to the backplane
Protection using two 70 A circuit breakers
Monitoring power of both power branch feeders separately
Connections for BITS and ToD/1 Hz interface for NTA and NTB
Monitoring of CO alarm inputs and outputs (50-pin micro DSUB connector)
LEDs for the shelf alarms (critical, major, and minor)
LEDs on the frontplate for alarm cut-off (ACO)
Disconnection push button on the frontplate for ACO switch

The PDBP-C provides the power interface, inter-rack routing of alarms toward the NT card,
user-defined alarms, and power-related alarms for the shelf. The GFC provides:
External interfaces for power, alarms, network timing, and shelf management towards the NFXS-D
LTBP-E interface for the LT card backplane
Distribution of the power rails to the LT/NT/NTIO backplane
Filtering of the battery power rails to the backplane
Protection using two 70 A circuit breakers
Monitoring power of both power branch feeders separately
Connections for BITS and ToD/1 Hz interface for NTA and NTB
Monitoring of CO alarm inputs and outputs (50-pin micro DSUB connector)
LEDs for the shelf alarms (critical, major, and minor)
LEDs on the frontplate for alarm cut-off (ACO)
Disconnection push button on the frontplate for ACO switch

The 7360 ISAM FX 8 shelf/subrack (NFXS-E) can be deployed at either the Central Office (CO), or in a remote
location (which can be in an outside cabinet). The shelf can be mounted horizontally, in a 19” or ETSI rack.
External cabling is applied directly to front access connectors on the line termination boards.
There are a maximum of 8 LT boards in one 7360 FX sub-rack.
The maximum number of point to point lines that one 7360 ISAM FX system can support with 36 port boards is 288
lines. However, for GPON, the maximum LT boards will be 8, with 16 PON ports per board and 128 users per PON
port, which gives 16000 subscribers.
The first 8 slots of the shelf from top to bottom contains the LTs. The last slots have the Network Termination A
(NTA), the Network Termination In and Out (NTIO), the Network Termination B (NTB), and the
NGFC-E. If only one Network Termination is needed, this one is installed in the NTA slot and the other 2 slots can
not be used by LT.
Is fed by 2 fully redundant power branches (BATA & BATB) with a nominal voltage of -48V or –60V. Each power
input branch is protected by a 40A circuit breaker.
CO alarms: 5 inputs and 2 outputs

The NFXS-E shelf has a pluggable General Facilities Card (GFC), the NGFC-E.

The NFXS-E shelf has a pluggable General Facilities Card (GFC), the NGFC-E.

Like the 7360 ISAM FX-16 system, the fan plug in unit is designed for forced air cooling in the 7360 ISAM FX-8 equipment
practice. It is field replaceable and can be hot-inserted. It contains 6 wide-range fans, temperature controller, variable speed
fans, and an alarm interface board. It also provides the space and guide tacks for a field replaceable dust filter.
The Fan unit provides an alarm indication towards the NT in case of failure. One alarm LED is present on the front panel of
the Fan unit, to provide a visual indication of fan failure conditions:
Therefore, the AFAN-E unit provides the following features:
Provides forced air cooling in a 7360 ISAM FX-8 subrack
Contains six wide voltage range, temperature controlled, variable speed fans
Is mounted in the 7360 ISAM FX-8 subrack fan area behind the fan unit cover
Supported nominal voltages: -48Vdc / -60Vdc
Contains the fan control card EFCU-D, which generates a common fan alarm towards the NT cards (via the NGFC-
E) in case of fan failure and drives the fan alarm LED
Is secured to the 7360 ISAM FX-8 subrack with a screw
Is field replaceable and can be hot-inserted
Provides the space and guiding for a field replaceable dust filter
The BFAN-E intelligent fan unit provides the following main improvements:
Contains 8 fans variable speed-fans. The front fan and the rear fan in the same column of the fan tray have the
same fan speed.
The fan speed is defined by a worst-case temperature margin of the functional boards which are influenced
by the specific fan
In case of fan failure, the active fans are forced either to full speed or to a pre-defined speed if the fan tray is
working in the mode where the fan speed is defined by the local ambient temperature
The NFXS-E (FX-8) shelf has a pluggable GFC General Facilitate Card, the NGFC-E. It is at the bottom of the 7360
ISAM FX-8 system and it is the main electrical power entry. Therefore, it provides the following functions:
provisioning for the connection of the external input power feeders (branch A and B feeders), distribution of
these to all the slots, and the FAN unit. It has 2 circuit breakers of 40 A each, one per branch. It also has LEDs
showing the BAT-A/B availability and the system alarms such as Central Office alarms, door alarm, and Rack lamp
alarms.
LED indicators:
BAT-A availability indicator (green)
BAT-B availability indicator (green)
Alarm lamp (red)

The NFXS-E (FX-8) shelf has a pluggable GFC General Facilitate Card, the NGFC-H. It is at the bottom of the 7360
ISAM FX-8 system and it is the main electrical power entry. Therefore, it provides the following functions:
provisioning for the connection of the external input power feeders (branch A and B feeders), distribution of
these to all the slots, and the FAN unit. It has 2 circuit breakers of 40 A each, one per branch. It also has LEDs
showing the BAT-A/B availability and the system alarms such as Central Office alarms, door alarm, and Rack lamp
alarms:
BAT-A availability indicator (green LED)
BAT-B availability indicator (green LED)

The 7360 ISAM FX 4 shelf/subrack (NFXS-F) is similar to the previous shelf, the NFXS-E, but with a maximum of 4
LT boards. It can be deployed at either the Central Office (CO), or in a remote location (which can be in an
outside cabinet). The shelf can be mounted horizontally, in a 19” or ETSI rack.
External cabling is applied directly to the front access connectors on the line termination boards.
The maximum number of point to point lines that one 7360 ISAM FX-4 system can support with 36 port boards is
144 lines. However, for GPON, the maximum LT boards will be 4 with 16 PON ports per board and 128 users per
PON port gives 8000 subscribers.
The first 4 slots of the shelf from top to bottom contains the LTs. The last slots have the Network Termination A
(NTA), the Network Termination In and Out (NTIO), the Network Termination B (NTB) and the NGFC-F. If only one
Network Termination is needed, this one is installed in the NTA slot and the other 2 slots can not be used by LT.

The NFXS-F has a pluggable General Facilities Card (GFC), the NGFC-F.

The NFXS-F has a pluggable General Facilities Card (GFC), the NGFC-F.

Like in the 7360 ISAM FX-8 system, the fan plug in unit is designed for forced air cooling in the 7360 ISAM FX-4 equipment
practice. It is field replaceable and can be hot-inserted. It contains 4 wide range fans, temperature controller, variable speed
fans, and an alarm interface board. It also provides the space and guiding for a field replaceable dust filter.
The Fan unit provides an alarm indication towards the NT in case of failure. One alarm LED is present on the front panel of
the Fan unit, to provide a visual indication of fan failure conditions.
Therefore the AFAN-X unit provides the following features:
Provides forced air cooling in a 7360 ISAM FX-4 subrack
Contains four wide voltage range, temperature controlled, variable speed fans
Is mounted in the 7360 ISAM FX-4 subrack fan area behind the fan unit cover
Supported nominal voltages: -48Vdc / -60Vdc
Contains the fan control card, which generates a common fan alarm towards the NT cards (via the NGFC-F) in case
of fan failure and drives the fan alarm LED.
Is secured to the 7360 ISAM FX-4 subrack with a screw
Is field replaceable and can be hot-inserted
Provides the space and guiding for a field replaceable dust filter
The BFAN-X intelligent fan unit provides the following main improvements:
Contains 4 fans variable speed-fans. The front fan and the rear fan in the same column of the fan tray have the
same fan speed.
The fan speed is defined by a worst-case temperature margin of the functional boards which are influenced
by the specific fan
In case of fan failure, the active fans are forced either to full speed or to a pre-defined speed if the fan tray is
working in the mode where the fan speed is defined by the local ambient temperature
The NFXS-F shelf has a pluggable GFC General Facilitate Card, the NGFC-F. It is at the bottom of the 7360 ISAM
FX-4 system and it is the main electrical power entry. Therefore, it provides the following functions: Provisioning
for the connection of the external input power feeders (branch A and B feeders), distribution of these to all the
slots, and the FAN unit. Each power input branch has a circuit breaker and is protected by 3 fuses of 10A each,
i.e., 30A shelf level. LEDs show fuse indicators, the BAT-A/B availability, and the system alarms, such as Central
Office alarms, door alarm, and Rack lamp alarms.
LED indicators:
Fuse OK indicators for A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3 (green)
BAT-A availability indicator (green)
BAT-B availability indicator (green)
Alarm lamp (red)

The NFXS-F shelf has a pluggable GFC General Facilitate Card, the NGFC-G. It is at the bottom of the 7360 ISAM
FX-4 system and it is the main electrical power entry. Therefore, it provides the following functions: Provisioning
for the connection of the external input power feeders (branch A and B feeders), distribution of these to all the
slots, and the FAN unit. Each power input branch has a circuit breaker and is protected by 3 fuses of 10A each,
i.e., 30A shelf level. LEDs show fuse indicators, the BAT-A/B availability, and the system alarms, such as Central
Office alarms, door alarm, and Rack lamp alarms:
Fuse OK indicators for A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3 (green LED)
BAT-A availability indicator (green LED)
BAT-B availability indicator (green LED)

The slide shows:
A 7360 ISAM FX-16 with its 16 LT shelf options.
A 7360 ISAM FX-8 with its 8 LT shelf options.
A 7360 ISAM FD-4 with its 4 LT shelf options.
7360 FX shelves are high-capacity access shelves in the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family of IP access products. The
shelves address the need for mass-market, high-capacity fiber deployments.
These three shelves have a FANT-F controller board with 480 Gb/s switching capacity and a 40 Gb/s (100 Gb/s
backplane ready) link between each LT in a 7360 FX-8 or FX-4. The switching capacity is 20 Gb/s for 7360
FX-16. As an option, the controller board can be in an active/active redundancy role having 2x40 Gb/s (2x100
Gb/s ready) between each LT. It has a total of 40 Gbps uplink capacity, which can be increased to 80 Gbps with
the NTIO (I/O) board, and up to 160 Gbps with the future NTIO.
The services, such as triple play, can be offered to subscribers via 10G-PON, which is also called XG-PON,
2.5GPON, or with up to a 128 subscriber PON split. As a result, operators are not locked into a certain fiber
access technology or shelf density, but can choose to deploy different options based on techno-economics, local
regulations, or the services offered.
Note:
NELT-A card is not supported for ptp Ethernet on FX platform.
An additional 80Gbps uplink card, which is known as FNIO-A (8*10Gbps) is available from Release 5.1.

The universal slot concept in the FD equipment practice allows the 7360 ISAM-FX shelf to accommodate different
line card types. All of them will be fiber based and will include among others the GPON, EPON and XPON line
cards.
There are 3 types of shelves: NFXS-D, NFXS-E, and NFXS-F.
The shelves have 16, 8 or 4 universal slots, 2 NT slots and 1 NTIO slot. This way NT redundancy (typically in
active/active) is supported.
The NT board consists of an intelligent HUB –iHUB- subsystem and a System Control subsystem.
The IHub subsystem has enhanced L2 functionality (VPLS based) and L3 functionality (VPRN based) and consists of
a 10-Gigabit-Ethernet switch/router device, and IHub control software SW. The System Control subsystem
implements the management plane of the system (both the NT board and the LT boards) and part of the control
plane (subscriber management in particular).
The NT board capacity is 480 Gbps.
There are extra Ethernet links that can then be used as uplink, subtended links or directly connected end-user
links.
The NT cards for FX equipment practice can terminate 5 external Ethernet links: 4 SFP+ and 1 GE RJ45 interface.
The NTIO is providing the connectivity to the outside world for the several additional links up to 80 Gbps.

The line termination module terminates subscriber interfaces and provides the interworking and aggregation
function towards the intelligent HUB.
The LT-module actually consists out of 2 functional sub-modules. The transport function and the IWF
(Interworking function). The transport function varies with the type of access technology used; Ethernet, GPON,
etc.
The IWF handles frame forwarding, including sophisticated traffic filtering and traffic management (QoS). Line
termination modules (located on LT-boards), are connected to the IHUB via the LT-links. The capacity of the NT-
LT links can be 10/20/40 Gb/s. The backplane of the FX however is ready to support evolution to higher densities
and higher subscriber bandwidths (up to 100 Gbps).
The Control and Management function is required for maintenance and operations, remote inventory information
and shelf management.
Clocking and alarm control functionality are also provided on the NT. The Alarm Control Unit (ACU) module
provides collection & distribution of equipment, customer alarms, and local connection for the operator. The
clock module generates the system clock. It consists of a local oscillator which can optionally be locked to an
external reference clock (BITS- Building Integrated Timing Supply), or there can be a synchronous Ethernet.
Powering and other general shelf functionality (e.g. visual alarm indicators) is supported by the GFC unit, which
is integrated in the 7360 ISAM FX-16 shelf and pluggable in the FX-8 and FX-4 shelves, as mentioned before. This
way the FX shelf can operate as a a stand-alone unit, allowing the operator to install the 7360 ISAM FX in any
standard rack.
The System MAC Address Storage (SMAS) module is integrated on a remote inventory PROM that contains the MAC
address of the ISAM (the NT). By having this MAC address stored on a separate location, the same MAC address can
be maintained when swapping between active and stand by NTs, or when an NT board is to be replaced or
upgraded. The SMAS functionality is placed in a socket, which is plugged on the backplane.

The FANT-F network termination can be placed in the 7360 ISAM FX-16 equipment, as well as in the 7360 ISAM FX-8 and 4
equipment.
The Intelligent HUB, integrated in the FANT-F board, has a throughput of 480 Gbps.
The FANT-F is interoperable with 10, 20 or 40 Gbps LT boards. Limited to 20Gbps in FX-16. Max 60G interconnection with
FNIO.
An uplink is a port to the network, to a Network Element (called subtending), or to a user. The FANT-F has 5 uplinks. 4 of
them are optical ports and can work either at 1 GE mode with a standard SFP connector or at 2.5 or 10 GE mode with an SFP+
connector. The fifth uplink is an electrical port and it can work both in 10, 100 Mbit, or 1 GE mode. Any of the five
communication interfaces can also be used as management interfaces. Moreover, there is a Local Craft Management interface
(LCMI) (RJ45 connector).
The forwarding model, in other words, the way to forward the data, is based on Layer 2 and Layer 3, with MPLS and the
routing protocols OSPF, RIP, IS-IS, and BGP.
This network termination board can have up to 64 VRs (Virtual Routers) to work with the forwarding model which is layer 3
based. Therefore, there are 63 VPRN services that can be created to be used as VR. Apart from that, the ISAM has a base
router, configured via the IES L3 service.
The processing platform is a quad core with a CPU memory of 4 Gbyte. An important point is the NT redundancy. FANT-F can
work in an active-active mode, i.e., both NT boards can work simultaneously. There is a 40 Gbps communication speed
between them.
The front access of the NT board with their uplinks mentioned previously, its craft port as the local connection, and an Alarm
Cut-Off Switch (ACOS). It also has the following LEDS; Power status, Active/Stby, Alarm, Alarm cut off, Link Activity, and the
BITS connectors.
The deployment model is aimed for very high bandwidth applications, high density point to point optical fiber, GPON and a 10
GPON or XG-PON technology.
Synchronization: SyncE, BITS, GPS, 1 Pulse Per Second (PPS), PTP or Precision Time Protocol (also known
as IEEE 1588v2- frequency synchronization only) and related Time of Day (ToD) functionality (Hw ready). The last two ones,
PTP (frequency synchronization only) and ToD (Hw ready), only supported by the FANT-F variant AD
10 Mhz: 10Mhz GPS timing reference.
Only Alcatel-Lucent SFPs are supported.
From R4.4.02, any GE SFP port can be converted in an E1/T1/PRA port by plugging in E1-SFP.
FANT-F BD variant is the ANSI Card Controller. This Card doesn’t have BITS IN, BITS OUT and the ACOS on the front card.
The Network termination comparison.
Note on NT-LT speed for NANT-D/E: when in Active/Active mode, the capacity towards the new LT cards (among
others NGLT, NELT-B) will double towards 5 Gbps and 20 Gbps respectively.
FANT-F is the same as the previous release. Max 40G interconnection with LTs (limited to 20Gbps in FX-16,
because the max bandwidth toward the LTs is 320G).
M-VR : Multiple Virtual Routers : There are 63 VPRN services that can be created to be used as VR. Apart from
that the ISAM has of course a base router, configured via the IES L3 service.
When it comes to the stability of these NT cards, towards the network they can make use of the IP assets, like
dynamic routing protocols, MPLS Fast Reroute. From an equipment point of view there is, starting from R4.2 the
possibility of supporting Active/Active in case of redundant NT cards. From R4.2.02, the active/active
architecture is also used towards those LT cards that are still supported on FX platform: NELT-B, NGLT-A, NGLT-C
(from R4.4) and FGXT-A.
The FANT-F quad core processing enables adding DPoE quickly:
Core 0/1 – EPON application, GPON, router functionality
Core 2/3 – DPoE application, Application Intelligence

With the FANT-F the protection scheme is active/active in the data plane, and active/standby in the control and
management plane.
The NANT-F works in load sharing with LTs. Therefore, the traffic flows through both NTs, there is load sharing
towards LTs and the traffic from the both NTs flow from both.
In the bottom picture we can notice as when a NTIO is installed, if one NT fails, the 50% traffic will not be
impacted because it flows through the other NT and this NT will quickly take over the other 50% as well, without
impacting in the system availability.

The NTIO is the FNIO-B board and it can be inserted in any 7360 ISAM FX. It has interfaces with the FANT-F board.
It provides additional GE interfaces to the FX subrack, which can be used as additional uplinks to the network.
The FNIO-B provides up to 8 Giga Ethernet uplink ports and can be composed of 4 optical ports (SFP ports) and 4
combo ports, i.e., these ports can be optical ports (SFP ports), electrical ports (RJ45), or a combination of optical
and electrical ports.
The FNIO-B supports clock recovery via Synchronous Ethernet on all the ports.
The LEDs on the board indicate power status, board alarm indicator, and SFP port connection status.
From R4.4.02, It is supported RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) thresholds and alarms on SFP at NT/NTIO
uplink ports for following boards:
FANT-F
NTIO: FNIO-B
From R4.4.02, any GE SFP port can be converted in an E1/T1/PRA port by plugging in E1-SFP:
Currently, the ISAM-FX ANSI doesn’t have a NTIO

FX Shelf:
NT - FANT-F
Uplink LAG should be configured such that the NT-A and NT-B controlled ports are equally distributed
SyncE in/out supported on active controlled NTIO ports on active-active mode
Inter NT higig speed is been increased internally from 40G to 60G only for the
Active-Active mode profile
For the supported sfp’s pls refer to 3HH-03843-AAAA-FDZZA
Scope for R5.1 is FNIO-A Active-Active Mode profile

Only ALU SFPs are supported.
Here we introduce the LTs, the Line Termination boards in all the 7360 ISAM FX. There are 5 types, the NELT-B,
NGLT-A, NGLT-C, FGLT-A, FGXT-A and FPLT-A.
The first board, the NELT-B, is a point to point optical fiber LT board. The second ones, the NGLT-A, NGLT-C and
the FGLT-A, are GPON LT boards. The FGXT-A, is a 10G PON LT board. The last one The FPLT-A is an Ethernet
Passive Optical Network (EPON) LT card that can be installed in a 7360 ISAM FX shelf. The FPLT-A provides
termination of 8 EPON ports (1.25 Gb/s downstream and 1.25 Gb/s upstream). SFP EPON optical modules can be
plugged into the FPLT-A card.
DPoE (DOCSIS Provision over EPON) supports:

DPoE provisioning framework phase 1
DPoE OLT MIBs framework
DPoE Event framework
All of them are focused for residential, business services, and mobile backhaul environments.

The NELT-B supports dual-rate, Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet Dual Compact SFP (CSFP) with the following
configurations:
18 Fast Ethernet (FE) CSFP for a total of 36 FE channels
18 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) CSFP for a total of 36 GE channels
Gigabit Ethernet (GE) CSFP and Fast Ethernet (FE) Dual Compact SFP concurrently
18 GE SFP for a total of 18 GE channels
Each port can be used independently as FE or GE and as UNI (User to Network Interface) or NNI (Network to
Network Interface).
It also supports downstream Synchronous Ethernet. The Network Timing Reference (NTR) is derived from the NT
board. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certification is supported, since it is often requested in business service
offers.
The LEDs shown on the board are the power status, board alarm indicator, and active-standby mode status:
The NELT-B supported from R4.2 onwards
20Gbps throughput in act/act NT config
LEDs: status for Power, Act/Stby, Alarm
From R4.4.02, any GE SFP port can be converted in an E1/T1/PRA port by plugging in E1-SFP
From R4.4.02: SSM on Ethernet ports of NELT-B synchronization status messages (SSM) is a signal used by NE
to select the highest quality clock source. For example, Subtended nodes: In case of subtended nodes dual
homed through NELT-B, SSM messages allow the subtended node (ISAM, REM, others) to the select the right
uplink as clock source

Hi-Cap UNI: High –Capacity UNI:
The max aggregated rate per NELT-B for UNI is 2.5 Gb/s, for Hi-Cap UNI is 20 Gb/s and for NNI is 20 Gb/s
Main Applications:
Residential:
High port count
Bi-directional fibres, cSFP
Business:
High bit rate, transparency, Ethernet OAM, SLA guarantee
Lower port count but higher flexibility with respect to optics : SFP
Mobile backhaul:
Similar to business
Network synchronization
Pre-aggregation:
First aggregation level of small remote nodes (REM/SEM, MDU with P2P uplinks)
High scalability (VLAN, MAC)
Lower port count, SFP

The NELT-B port type needs to be provisioned.

Note: Downstream policers in session profile on bridge port are implemented with dedicated BRCM HW
resources and are not counted by policer meter usage resource management.

In previous releases to R4.4.02, when configuring the SFP type in the NELT-B, the operational speed is fixed.
In R4.4.02 a new parameter “AUTO-SENSE” is introduced. The optical SFPs which support dual rate will work
as auto-sensed. So:
Fibres speed auto-sensing (R 4.4.02).
Only supported by dual rate cSFP (100/1000 Mb/s) configured in GE mode.
NELT-B automatically adjusts its line rate to the highest rate supported by the CPE.
Similar to speed auto-negotiation for electrical interfaces, though speed auto-negotiation is not
defined / standardized for optical interfaces.
Moreover, from R4.5.02.
Auto-negotiation:
Auto-negotiation is not standardized for 100 Mb/s optical interfaces (and therefore not supported by
NELT-B).
NELT-B: Auto-negotiation is supported in “advertising mode” only. They will communicate their
settings (default or fixed by the operator) to the CPE but they will not change them as a result of the
negotiation. It is up to the peer to line up its configuration to the advertised settings. That’s, the
NELT-B communicates its settings to the CPE and the CPE works with them.
Auto-negotiation for electrical interfaces:
Supported on GE interfaces only.
Auto-sensing and auto-negotiation cannot be enabled simultaneously.

The FPLT-A is a Line Termination (LT) card used in the 7360 ISAM FX system and is supported in the ETSI, MII, and
ANSI market. This unit uses several different devices to perform packet processing, traffic management,
backplane management and PON management. Each device contains memory to store information about the
packets, flows and connections between the NT and each subscriber.
The LT card provides connectivity between the Network Termination (NT) cards and the Optical Network Units
(ONUs). The FPLT-A card is plugged into the 7360 ISAM FX shelf, together with one or two NT cards.
Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) is the embedded functionality on the FPLT-A card that is used to
detect faults, degradations, and defect location on optical links. OTDR-capable EPON SFPs can be deployed in the
ISAM. The configuration of the OTDR function in the ISAM and the analysis of the OTDR measurements are done by
the 5530 Network Analyzer Fiber.
The FPLT-A supports 1:64 optical split ratio per EPON port, but the system currently supports 1:32:
10G connectivity towards the backplane in FX-16/8/4.

The FPXT-A is a Line Termination (LT) card used in the 7360 ISAM FX system. This unit uses several different
devices to perform packet processing, traffic management, backplane management and PON management. Each
device contains memory to store information about the packets, flows and connections between the NT and each
subscriber.
The LT card provides connectivity between the Network Termination (NT) cards and the Optical Network Units
(ONUs). The FPXT-A card is plugged into the 7360 ISAM FX shelf, together with one or two NT cards.
The FPXT-A:
Provides subscriber termination and non-blocking user aggregation for EPON
20G connectivity towards the backplane in FX-16 per each FANT-F and 40G connectivity towards the
backplane in FX-8/4 per each FANT-F
Supports:
4 compliant IEEE802.3av EPON XFP ports
Up to 1:128 optical split ratio per EPON port and hardware support for 1:64 split ratio per EPON port
Meets ETSI, ANSI, and MII specifications
Supports a reach capacity of 20km (12.4 miles)
Supports downstream forwarding rates of mixed unicast and multicast traffic of up to 10 Gbps
Supports an MTU size up to 1526 bytes
Supports PR30 and PRX30 optics and supports RSSI
Hardware ready for IPv6
Provides low power consumption
Supports a single-fiber two-way system with upstream wavelength of:
1310 nm voice/data burst transmit in the 1 Gb/s upstream
1490 nm voice/data continuous receive in the 1 Gb/s downstream
1270 nm voice/data burst transmit in the 10 Gb/s upstream
1577 nm voice/data continuous receive in the 10 Gb/s downstream
The NGLT-A and New technology GPON Line Termination (NGLT-C) boards. These boards provide eight GPON ports
per board and support a 2.488 Gbps downstream rate and 1.244 Gbps upstream rate. The NGLT-A can work at 10
G and NGLT-C at 20 G with a simplex NT. However, both boards can work at 2x10G, if two NTs are present in an
active active mode. Their split ratios are 1:128. These boards support type B redundancy. An LT will be active
while the another one is std-by. This means one active PON port will be protected by another std-by one in the
other std-by LT. This will also result in having two fibers to the first splitter (this is known as feeder redundancy).
They have an embedded Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR), used to detect faults and degradations on
optical links. They have the feature Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). Their traffic managers provide
flexible scheduling and rate limiting on a per class of service, per service, and per subscriber basis for
downstream PON traffic.
The NGLT-A and NGLT-C generate GPON downstream signals, synchronized to a timing reference from one of the
two NT slots. All other clocks and synchronization signals are derived from on-board oscillators.
The LEDs shown on the boards are the power status, board alarm indicator, and active-standby mode status.
Fibers pointing down: Less sensitive to dust NGLT-C introduced in ISAM R4.4.02: 8 ports and 20G connectivity
towards the backplane (simplex FANT-F) and 2x10G (Duplex FANT-F).

The FGLT-A is a GPON line termination board.
The FGLT-A provides termination of 16 GPON ports. 2.488 Gbps downstream and 1.244 Gbps upstream.
This board can work at 20 G with a simplex NT or at 2X20G if two NTs are present in active active mode in a 7360
FX-16 or it can work at 40 G in a 7360 FX-8 or FX-4.
Its split ratio is 1:128 and supports L2 and L3 forwarding modes.
This board also supports type B redundancy like the previous ones.
It has an embedded OTDR used to detect faults and degradations on optical links.
It has the feature Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI).
The FGLT-A generates GPON downstream signals synchronized to a timing reference from one of the two NT slots.
All other clocks and synchronization signals are derived from on-board oscillators.
This board with Traffic Manager provides flexible scheduling and rate limiting on a per class of service, per
service and per subscriber basis for downstream PON traffic.
Its LEDs show the power status, board alarm indicator the PON port status.

The FGXT-A board has four 10 Giga GPON ports and provides a maximum of 20 Giga bits per second towards the
Network Termination, via the backplane with the 7360 FX-16 and 40 Giga bits per second with the 7360 FX-8 and
FX-4. If the shelves work with 2 active-active NTs, it is 2 x 20 Giga bits per second. It allows PON feeder
redundancy and supports OTDR. It has the feature Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). Its split ratio is 1:32

The Vector Processing Server board - version B (NDPS-B) which can be used to deliver very
high-speed broadband services in central office/cabinet/building deployments and is part of the ISAM
FD –ETSI- and the 7360 ISAM FX –ANSI-.
The two main functions of the NDPS-B within the 384-line System Level Vectoring (SLV)
sub-module are:
1. Vectoring Control Entity (VCE):
The VCE is responsible for the non-real-time calculations of the vectoring coefficients. The VCE also manages
the joining and leaving of all the vectored VDSL2 lines.
2. Vectoring Processor (VP):
The VP does the real-time matrix calculations of the cross-talk correction samples for the transmitted
(downstream) and received (upstream) VDSL2 symbols in the frequency domain for up to 384
vector-capable VDSL2 lines.

The High Capacity VDSL2 Line Termination over POTS Combined Line Termination (LT)/Splitter unit with System Level
Vectoring (SLV) functionality - version E (NDLS-E).
can be used in the following shelves:
7360 ISAM FX-4, 7360 ISAM FX-8, and 7360 ISAM FX-16
Provides termination on 48 ADSL, ADSL2plus, ADSL2 or VDSL2 lines
Is equipped with a splitter board with 48 Low Pass Filter (LPF) for POTS
Note: The splitter board does not contain relays for line testing purposes.
supports:
VDSL2 US0 type A, B and M, ADSL annex A and B, ADSL2(+) annex M, A and B
ADSL2/ADSL2+ annex M mask32, mask36 and mask40 up to 64
VDSL2 Type M (8, 12, and 17MHz profiles)
Supports System Level Vectoring (SLV) (ITU G.993.5) in upstream and downstream direction
Is inter-operable with typical ANSI reference CPE
Produces a maximum output level per line:
18.6 dBm in VDSL2 Profile 8B mode
19.8 dBm in ADSLx mode
Supports downstream forwarding rates of mixed unicast and multicast traffic of up to 2.5 Gbps
Supports an MTU size up to 1580 bytes
Has line protection
The NDLS-E supports board-level bonding and is designed for the following transfer mode capabilities:
ADSL/ATM
VDSL2/PTM
Dual line bonded ADSL/ATM
Dual line bonded VDSL2/PTM
Multi-port PTM bonding up to 8 ports
The SLV-capable LT boards are connected to the Vector processing server board via QSP cables.

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01 Dec/2012 ALU-University Madrid R4.4 - AMS 9.1.10

02 July/2013 ALU-University Madrid R4.5/R4.6 - AMS 9.2.30

03 Feb/2014 ALU-University Madrid R5.0 - AMS 9.2.30

04 31-01-2015 Roy, Debashis R5.1-AMS 9.3.10

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