Product Sheet

R-828 TetraNode eXchange

General Description
A TetraNode digital trunked radio network consists of one or
more R-828 TetraNode eXchanges (TNXs) and Base
Station Sites. A single TNX serves co-located and remote
Base Station Sites. With inter-TNX connections the system
capacity can be further increased. A TNX is also referred to
as a node - hence the name TetraNode.

The TNX provides the Switching and Management

Infrastructure (SwMI) functionality in a TetraNode network
and is fully based on soft-switch technology.

The TNX is standard configured with a R-865 TetraNode

Main Controller (TMC), two load-sharing hot swappable
power supplies, cooling fans and integrated programmable
system monitoring and alarming functions.
The TNX is equipped with on or more R-878 TetraNode
Communications Adapters CompactPCI Version (TCA) to
interface with base station transceivers, TetraNode
peripherals, remote sites and telephony. TCA provides eight
Synchronous communication ports for connection to TETRA
Base Stations, PABX/ PSTN and ISDN interfaces.
The R-879 E1 Telephone Interface (ETI) is available for
connection to high density E1 telephony networks.
The TNX is compliant with PICMG 2.0 R3.0 (CompactPCI®),
2.1 R1.0 (Hot Swap) and 2.5 R1.0 (Computer Telephony)
specifications.
Additional Details
The TNX is based on standard CompactPCI® (cPCI for
short) system architecture, which has been designed for the
most demanding mission-critical applications.
The TNX contains an 8-slot cPCI-backplane with seven
peripheral slots and one master slot. It supports hot
swappable system components to simplify replacement and
minimize service time.
The standard TNX solution is housed in a 9U 19”
rack mounted enclosure. It will accept 6U CompactPCI®
peripheral cards and rear-panel I/O boards complying with
IEEE 1101.10 and 1101.11 specifications (respectively).
These standards assure hot swappable features for
CompactPCI® cards. All slots are located on 0.8-inch
(20.32 mm) centres.
The TNX provides 8 CompactPCI® slots. One slot is
dedicated to the TMC, up to four slots can be used for
TCAs, one for the ETI and the two remaining slots can
support other CompactPCI compliant boards, if required.
The TetraNode eXchange backplane is a PICMG 2.5
specification-compliant telephony backplane, which
provides ECTF H.110 CT Bus connections across the P4
connectors of all 7 peripheral I/O slots. Connectors P3 and
P5 on each peripheral slot are configured for rear-panel I/O.
Each slot accommodates IEEE 1101.11-style 80mm-deep
transition cards for rear-panel I/O connections.
The rear-panel I/O card for the TMC (TMC-RIO) provides
access to two LAN ports, a VGA monitor, mouse and
keyboard.
The rear-panel I/O card for the TCA (TCA-RIO) provides
access to eight V.11 ports.
The rear I/O card for the ETI (ETI-RIO) provides access to
two LAN ports and one RJ45 E1 port.
One CD-ROM drive and one 3.5" FDD are pre-installed.
The IDE CD-ROM drive and FDD interface to the TMC
subsystem.
A 1U fan module with three hot-swappable fans is integrated
into the TetraNode eXchange 9U, 19-inch rack mounting as
standard. Standard two redundant AC input 300 W hot-
swappable, load sharing power supply units are provided.
TNX is suitable for serving a maximum of 16 Base Station
Sites with a maximum equivalent of 256 voice channels. Up
to 1020 TNXs can be networked together, serving maximum
16,320 base station sites with in total 130,560 voice
channels
Key Design Elements
• 9U high 19" rack mounted enclosure
• CD-ROM drive and FDD included
• 7 64-bit peripheral slots with H.110 telephony bus and
rear-panel I/O (P3 and P5) according to ECTF and
PICMG 2.5 R1.0 specification
• Support of IEEE 1101.11-style rear transition cards
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R-828 TetraNode eXchange

Standard Product Features
System compliance Power supply
Compliant with the following specifications: AC (standard)
• CompactPCI® Specification, PICMG 2.0, R3.0 Input voltage 90 to 264 VAC
• CompactPCI® Hot Swap Specification, PICMG 2.1, R1.0 Input current 3 A @ 230 VAC
• CompactPCI® Computer Telephony Specification, PICMG (typical configuration)
2.5, R1.0 Power factor 0.99
Efficiency >75%
System capacity On/Off switch
• One system slot
AC inlet IEC 320 input receptacle
• Seven peripheral slots
(one per system)
• 33 MHz PCI backplane
Output Current
• 64 bit PCI bus width
(per 2 power supplies) 22 A @ 3.3 VDC; 30 A @ 5 VDC
• H.110 telephony bus
13 A @ 12 VDC;
System expansion 1.0 A@ -12 VDC;
• R-878 TetraNode Communications Adapter (TCA) DC (optional)
• R-879 E1 Telephone Interface card (ETI) DC operated systems are available upon request

Mechanical Environmental
Dimensions (W x H x D) 440 x 400 x 342 mm Operating Temperature 0 to 45 oC *
Weight 15 kg Storage Temperature - 40 to 60 oC
(without rack-mount flanges) Humidity 95% @ 60 oC, non-condensing
* Individual CompactPCI boards have specific operating temperatures. Please refer to
individual board specifications for details.

NMS VLC LDS GPS antenna

FSC TCA
R -855 TBS-SYN
TEP-PAC TEP-PBA V.11
R -8050 TBS
Combiner

spare Supply
1
U DM TEP-SDI TEP-RC I R -4050 BST
2 Supply
TEP-SDI TEP- RCI
3
TEP-BSI TEP-RC I 3rd Party BST
4
Intranet / TEP-ATI TEP-RC I
Intranet /
Internet
Other TN X 17
Internet TEP-IDI TEP-RCI Telephone
18 2-w ire Telephone
TEP-CDI TEP-RCI Netw ork
Netw ork
TEP S ite B
Fixed line or
Ethernet, Fixed line
Microw ave or
R S-232 Microw ave
Infrastructure
VLS Infrastructure
Optional: redundant
TEP-PAC TEP-PBA Optional:
dial-upredundant
line
spare Supply dial-up line GPS antenna
cPCI PS Supply
1 G.703 ISDN R -855 TBS-SYN
cPCI PS V.11 TEP-SDI TEP- RCI
2 circuit circuit
Combiner

1 TEP-C DI TEP-RC I
TMC TMC -RIO 3 R-8050 TBS
2 TEP-IDI TEP-RC I
TCA TCA-RIO 4 Supply
3 TEP-SDI TEP- RCI
ETI ETI-RIO 5 R-4050 BST
4 TEP-SDI TEP- RCI
spare spare 6
5 TEP-SDI TEP- RCI Other TNX
spare spare E1/T1 7
6 TEP-ITI TEP-RC I
spare spare 8
7 TEP-ICI TEP-RC I
spare spare Telephone Telephone
8 Telephone
Netw ork 18 ISDN Telephone
Netw ork
spare spare Netw ork spare spare Netw ork
ISDN dialup
V.11
TNX TEP S 0 bus S ite A

Example of a TetraNode Network Configuration

Rohill Technologies B.V.

Issue 2.02
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