N50/N70-Series Introduction

OTN Product Training

E1006v9.6 v5

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Presentation Overview

• N50/N70 Series introduction

• N50/N70 Series Hardware & Features
• OTN-X3M principles
• Service Configuration

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The N50/N70 series

The N50/N70 series combines the reliability

of an industrial hardened transport product
with the requirements of IT oriented
applications
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The N50/N70 series (2)

• Simple
– Easy installation, maintenance, configuration and operation
– L2 and L3 Ethernet services
– Scalability of the network
– Network management system to control the network
– User friendly graphical user interface
– Wizards for network wide configurations
– Fully compatible with OTN-X3M-2500 and OTN-X3M-10G

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The N50/N70 series (3)

• Multi
– Multiple independent Gigabit Ethernet networks on a single
backbone
– Each application its own service layer : Segmented LAN
– Guaranteed bandwidth for each application
– Power over Ethernet
– Fiber and/or Cu
– Point-to-point & multipoint

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The N50/N70 series (4)

• Non stop
– High reliability and availability, also in harsh environments
– Independent from management system
– Extended operating temperature range
– Double ring structure to guarantee fast reconfiguration
– Two hot-swap redundant power supplies
– Up to 12 SLANs with guaranteed QoS
– Cyber security proof
– 10 year guaranteed product support

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 N50/N70 Series
Hardware & Features

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Hardware Variants
GE all the way (10/100/1000-BASE)
OTN Type Cu Combo E1 and SFP for FE and GE (Combo ports)
type number Cu/FO
OTN-X3M-2500

N5024C 24

N5024CF 24

N5048C 48

N5224C 24 24

N7024C 24
OTN-X3M-10G

N7024CF 24

N7048C 48

N7224C 24 24

• N50 and N70 are equipped with PoE modules.

• PoE License needs to be purchased.
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N50/N70 Hardware Front panel
Interactive Fan
display

PSUs PSU (un)lock handle USB Management BORA

• 3 Variant Front panels

– N5024C / N7024C : 24 RJ45 gigabit Ethernet Ports
– N5048C / N7048C : 48 RJ45 gigabit Ethernet Ports
– N5024CF / N7024CF : 24 Combo gigabit Ethernet Ports
• Redundant, hot swappable Power Supply (AC and/or DC)
• Removable tray with hot swappable intelligent fans (filter optionally)
• Interactive Display
• Connections : OTN TRMs / Management OMS & OMS-FEM / USB
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N52 / N72 Hardware Front Panel

24 E1-ports

• N52xx = X3M 2500 logic ; N72xx = X3M 10G logic

• N5224C / N7224C :
– 24 RJ45 gigabit Ethernet ports
– 24 E1 ports via 2 Champ-connectors  E1-24P Distribution Panel
• See N5024C/N7024C

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N50/N70 Series Hardware Back Panel

PE:
Protective I/O Air Outlet Holes VAC PSU
Earth Connector Connectors

• 2x2 Digital I/O contacts

• AC Power Connectors (DC Power connectors on front)
• Air Outlet Holes
• Earth connection
• Manageable via OTN Management system (OMS) (v8.0 or above)
• Extended temperature range : -20°C to +55°C (-4°F to +131°F)
• 19 inches rack mountable ( 2U high)
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Ethernet Ports

Service Plane

• Service Plane supports multiple services

– 24 or 48 ports can be mapped into services (SLANs)
– Up to 12 SLANs with dedicated bandwidth
– SLAN 1 - 10 add/drop capacity up to 1Gbps
– SLAN 11 & 12 full OTN-X3M ring add/drop capacity
– Point-to-point / Multipoint

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Ethernet Ports

SLAN video
SLAN VoIP
SLAN MIX

S1 S2 S3
Fiber = segments = SLANs
N70

10 20 99 101 VLANs

Front = ports
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6

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Ethernet ports - LEDs

Ethernet • La : Link Activity

SFP LEDs
– Lit, yellow : link up
La 14
LOS 14 – Fast blink : link activity
LOS 13 • S : Speed
La 13 – Dark : 10 Mbps
Ethernet – Lit, green : 100 Mbps
RJ45 LEDs
– Lit, orange : 1000 Mbps
• LOS : Loss Of Signal
– Lit, red : Optical signal loss
– Dark : Optical signal OK or
SFP module is missing

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E1 Ports

• = E1-24P IFC
– 24 E1 ports offered via 2 CHAMP-connectors
– E1-24P Distribution Panel : 48 coax OR 24 RJ45  
– Loopback options  
• E1 on N52/N72 is compatible with E1-24P IFC
– Type of Service = E1-X3M

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Protocols and Feature Sets

VLAN support (802.1Q) Multiple VRF Enhanced Pack

or VLAN Transparent Channels OSPF v2 (RFC 2328)
Link aggregation (802.3ad/802.1ax)
VRRP (RFC 2338)
Spanning Tree (MSTP) (802.1s)
Static and Inter-VLAN routing IGMP (v1,v2,v3) (RFC 3376)
IGMP (snooping and proxy) PIM-SM (RFC 2362)
DHCP (Server and Relay)
Access Control Lists (MAC, IP) Power Over Ethernet Licenses
Radius Auth. (802.1x PNAC) (24 ports/48 ports)
Jumbo frames
MRP Interaction License
Flow control (802.3x)
Port rate limiting
Storm control MIB 2 Monitoring
Port mirroring
Live Monitoring support Basic Pack
Fast reconfiguration
SLAN support (HX, HX4 & GX modes)
Congestion control OTN-X3M

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Interactive Display

• Alphanumeric display
• 30s backlight
• Automatic main info loop
• Navigation with buttons
Alarms, Versions, Temperature
• Basic configuration
Ring/node No., Clear Node, Reboot node, USB...
• Password protected

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Management Plane

• OMS : Infrastructure management

8 1
• Nodes, links between nodes, power
supplies,
1 8 • Setting up SLAN configurations
• Setting up the N50/N70 front-end
management SLAN.

La : Link Activity
• MGT : Front-end Management
Lit green : link up • Management of the different front-ends.
Dark : link down • An extensive set of wizards is provided to
Blink : link activity help the operator with the configuration of
S : Speed network wide settings.
Dark : 10 Mbps
Green : 100 Mbps
Orange : 1000 Mbps
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Management Connections

OTN-X3M

8 1

1 8

IP over Ethernet
Remote Clients

OMS Server with 2/3 NICs

OMS client
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USB

• USB slot (USB2.0)

– Backup configuration
– Restore configuration
– Save log files
• Manipulation via interactive
display

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Digital I/O

PE:
Protective I/O Digital “dry” I/O contacts Air Outlet Holes VAC PSU
Earth Connector Connectors

• 2 Input contacts • 2 Output contacts

Minor/Major via OMS

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 OTN-X3M Principles

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Optical backbone

Transport Plane

• Transport plane controls the optical backbone of the

OTN network
– N50  BORA X3M 2500 logic
– N70  BORA X3M 10G logic

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X3M - BORA

• 2 TRM slots for SFP/XFP optical modules

• Different SFP/XFP modules
• Ring and node status via alphanumeric display
• LEDs
– Minor (Mi) and Major (Ma) alarm LED
– Synchronization status LED (SY)
– Bit Rate Error LED (BR)
– SDH error LED (SH)
• Hidden Reset button
(warm restart - interruption of Ethernet front port connections)

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Fast Reconfiguration

Non-stop Active
10 20
High availability Standby
No single point of failure
Hardware-based 30
50
Robust Primary
Proven 40 Secondary

Automatic reconfiguration mechanism

≈ 120msec

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Fast Reconfiguration

Non-stop Active
10 20
High availability Standby
No single point of failure
Hardware-based 30
50
Robust Primary
Proven 40 Secondary

Automatic reconfiguration mechanism Loopback

Change-over
≈ 120msec
10 20 10
10 20
20
“QUICK”
< 50 msec
30 30
30
50 < 1000 km 50
50
< 110 nodes
40 40

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Optical connections
Primary
Secondary

previous node Next node

OTN-X3M

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 Service Configuration

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Service : an engineered Layer 1 connection

• ‘Service’ = TDM connection through the OTN-X3M ring

– Reserved time slots  guaranteed bandwidth
– High granularity of the service bandwidth (1 frame bit up to all bits)

• SLAN = Ethernet service on the OTN-X3M ring

– Guaranteed bandwidth

– Resynch of the fiber ring does not affect

L2  no modifications of MAC-tables

– Up to 12 SLANs can terminate in one

N50/N70-node (with 2x >1Gbps)
– Multipoint services or point-to-point
services !!
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Multiple nodes connected via SLAN SLOW
forwarding
• N50/N70 Building Blocks

• Multipoint SLANs
IP world : always
point-to-point links

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Reference : OSI model and traditional IT

• The OSI model

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N50/N70 in the OSI Layer

Advantages :
 Large number of nodes in series (up
to 110 nodes)
 Ring reconfiguration has no impact
on Ethernet layer
 Redundancy without protocol
 Very small delay to reach destination
node
 Few routing devices needed
  easier packet handling

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N50/N70 ring : a MAC learning network

• Learned versus unlearned Ethernet frames

Unicast :
mostly learned
traffic

Multicast and
Broadcast :
always
unlearned
traffic
• Including IP Router

Router
position
matters !
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Logical representation of OTN-X3M ring with SLANs

• Forget about the physical ring, consider the bus-like connections

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User interaction : better than CLI !

• OTN Management System:

OMS scripting

OMS user remote OMS user

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User interaction : no CLI … but OMS

• OTN Management System (OMS)

– Server contains full knowledge (SQL)
– Client is for user interaction
• OMS GUI for daily configuration & monitoring
• OMS scripting for initial setup
– 2 parts : Infrastructure & Front End
– User always talks to system, not to devices (°)
 no CLI available to user !
• Management plane
– Dedicated communication channels for both OMS parts
(one is hard-coded)  independent, secure, never cut by config, …
– Typically a third one for ETS-management
(°) exception today : ETS configuration is via web interface
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Configuration steps

• On N50/N70 hardware
1. Install the node. Take care of earthing and ESD !!!
2. Configure ring and node number
3. Clear node via interactive display before connecting the fibers
4. Connect OMS and MGT connectors with OMS PC
• On OMS
5. Create the node/network topology  cf. OMS Manual
6. Create MGT service
7. Create User services
• On OMS-FEM
8. Configure features for the Front End

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Supported Service Types

• Supported Ethernet Service types:

– GET (Gigabit Ethernet) many
• For User Services
• Maximum full ring capacity
• N50/N70 only
– ET100HX4
• Maximum 784 Mbps (cf. N42 & N415)
• Compatible with H.264/AVC and ET100DAE in HX4 mode
– ET100
• Maximum 196 Mbps (cf. N42 & N415)
• Compatible with ET100E, ET100AE and ET100DAE in HX mode
– MGT (Management) 1x
• 100 Mbps for OMS-FEM management
• Compatible with SLANs on ET100AE and ET100DAE (HX mode)
• Other supported Service types:
– E1-X3M (E1 on X3M)

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