Technical Support Note

TS-3GBTS-SW-0141_I2

FRGP/FRIE/FXCA/FXDA
commissioning in case of
3+3+0 and 3+0+0 (A or F-
type) configurations

WCDMA Base Stations

This document contains following

type of information
Informative X
Preventive
Corrective
Urgent
Security

Information is classified as
Internal
Public X
Customer Specific

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Table of Contents

1. Validity............................................................................................................................................3
2. Compatibility / Dependencies to other products.............................................................................3
3. Keywords........................................................................................................................................3
4. Summary ........................................................................................................................................3
5. HW / SW requirements...................................................................................................................3
6. Detailed description........................................................................................................................4
7. Corrective actions...........................................................................................................................4

Contact:

Contact your local Nokia Siemens Networks support.

Summary of changes:

25-March-2011 1.0 Approved Version

20-April 2.0 Version 2. Correction target updated and missing
license information added

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Purpose
This document contains generic information about products. These can be instructions that
explain problem situations in the field, instructions on how to prevent or how to recover
from problem situations, announcements about changes or preliminary information as
requirements for new features or releases.

1. VALIDITY

Product Category 1
Flexi WCDMA BTS software X
EUBB UltraSite
UltraSite

2. COMPATIBILITY / DEPENDENCIES TO OTHER PRODUCTS

N.A

3. KEYWORDS

FRGP, FRIE, 3+3+0 configuration, 3+0+0 configuration, RP3 Dynamic allocation

4. SUMMARY

Purpose of this document is to describe how 3+3+0 and 3+0+0 configurations can be
utilized by using single FRGP / FRIE RF modules in RU20 EP1 SW level.

This Technical Support (TSN) Note applies only to 3+3+0 and 3+0+0 configurations build
by using only one FRGP / FRIE modules.

Workaround solution described in this TSN does not require any additional actions in RNC
or OSS.

Correction for this will be implemented in two phases: WN6.0 MP4 and final correction in
WN7.0. These two phases are described more accurately in the end of the document.

5. HW / SW REQUIREMENTS

SW REQUIREMENTS:
 RU20 EP1

HW REQUIREMENTS:
 FSMD/E
 FRGP
 FRIE

No special requirements for transmission in WCDMA.

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6. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

With WN6.0 MP3.x SW in 3+0+0 or 3+3+0 BTS configurations a faulty antenna mapping
was selected and due to that not all cells went onto air because not all TX and RX
resources in the RF were activated.

When using 3+3+0 or 3+0+0 A- or F-type configurations with one FRGP / FRIE RF module
and RU20 EP1 SW level, following workaround solution must be applied
 Site must be configured first as 3+3+3 configuration
 Only needed amount of cells are activated from RNC ( 3+3+0 or 3+0+0 )
 Two optical fibers are needed between System and RF module
 Two Local Cell Groups are needed to configure
 36CE are reserved for common channels in second LCG

NOTE !

After implementing the workaround solution, notification of missing Branch

Activation Licenses will appear. Licenses are not needed to be downloaded to
commissioned but not activated sectors.

7. CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

Corrective actions are implemented in two phases

Phase 1: WN6.0 MP4

Support for 3+3+0 and 3+0+0 configurations will be implemented in WN6.0 MP4 SW
Release. SW correction will enable building 3+3+0 and 3+0+0 configurations without the
workaround solution mentioned earlier in this document. No extra CE:s are consumed after
the correction but two Optical fibers are still needed.

WN6.0 MP4 correction for the problem is that the antenna mapping selection logic is
changed so that when there is 3 cells from one/two or three branch in use the correct
antenna mapping is always selected in configurations 3+0+0, 3+3+0 and 3+3+3.

Phase 2: WN7.0
Final correction will be implemented RAN2162: RP3 Dynamic Allocation. RAN2162
enables to commission both 3+3+0 and 3+0+0 configuration normally without the
workaround solution described above.

After RAN2162 feature implementation only one optical fiber is needed when using 3+3+0
or 3+0+0 configurations.

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