Multi-Band Booster

hRLB – Routed DCN

Hadi Balharith
Hadi.Balharith@ericsson.com
Multi-band booster –
Combining different frequency bands
High availability (99.995%)
Lower availability (99.9%)
Very wide
frequency band Multi-band
70/80GHz

Wide frequency
bands 18-42GHz
Narrow frequency
bands 6-15GHz

Dense urban Remote rural

hRLB, hierarchical Radio Link Bonding,
with NPU 1005 in MINI-LINK 669x & 62xx
9 Gbps One fat pipe
10 Gbps Radio link bonding
Single QoS handling point

hRLB Up to
NPU 1005
10 Gbps
RLB

• True L1 bonding technique with up to 10 Gbps total • Very scalable

capacity • Up to 10Gbps in 1 direction
• supports maximum peak traffic and hitless switching • Up to 2 directions, 5Gbps each
• Very flexible • Up to 16+0 configuration, in one direction
• Bonding between several modem groups and /or • Up to 8+0 traditional each, when using 2 directions
all outdoor units • Up to 2 x MINI-LINK 6352 in each direction
• for Multi-band Booster bonding and traditional • Very efficient
bonding • Typically, 99% utilization in aggregation nodes
 Multi-Band Booster with hRLB
In-Band Routed DCN RF Cable
10G FO Cable

ML6352 – Eband

FE ML6352 DCN IP
NE ML6352 DCN IP
ML6600 – Traditional Band XXX.XX.XX.XX/30
XXX.XX.XX.XX/30

ip route XX.XX.XX.XX/29 YY.YY.YY

ML6693 DCN GW
YY.YY.YY.YY/29
NE ML6352 DCN GW ML6352 DCN GW
XXX.XX.XX.XX/30 XXX.XX.XX.XX/30

PE-AGG
ML6693 DCN IP ML6693 DCN IP
YY.YY.YY.YY/29 YY.YY.YY.YY/29
Default Static route toward PE-AGG Default Static route toward PE-AGG

Specific Static route toward NE ML-6352

• ML6352 DCN /29 subnet will be divided to 2x /30 subnets and assign each /30 subnet to one end .
• Static Routes shall be configured in ML nodes (NE & FE) to add the in-band DCN network to the routing instance
• In PE-AGG, ML6352 /29 subnets should be configured as L3 and routed via ML-6600 DCN GW
DCN Guidelines
• In PE-AGG , Static routed toward ML-6352 /29 subnet should be defined using ML-6600 GW

• The /29 ML-6352 subnets will be divided to 2x /30 subnet where each subnet will be configured between
ML-6352 and ML-669x in same site .

• VLAN 50 will be used as local DCN for ML-6352 nodes

• In ML6600, DCN will be changed from DCN over VLAN to Routed DCN

• In FE site that’s connected to PE-AGG , define following static routes in ML :

Default route toward PE-AGG
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 >ML669x DCN GW<
Specific Static route toward ML-6352 subnets in NE site
ip route >NE ML6352 DCN subnet< >NE ML669x DCN IP<

• In NE site ,
Default route toward PE-AGG
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 >ML669x DCN GW<
ZRW005 - ZR3006
ML6352 – Eband
ZRW005 ZR3006

FE ML6352 DCN IP
NE ML6352 DCN IP 10.70.54.82/30
10.70.54.86/30 ML6600 – Traditional Band
1/2 1/2

ip route 10.70.54.80/29 10.70.110.92

ML6693 DCN GW
10.70.110.91/29
ML6352 DCN GW ML6352 DCN GW
10.70.54.85/30 1/6/8
1/9/7 10.70.54.81/30

PE-AGG
ML6693 DCN IP ML6693 DCN IP
10.70.110.93/29 10.70.110.92/29

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.70.110.91 ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.70.110.91

ip route 10.70.54.84/30 10.70.110.93

Global Local Assigned

FN_NE Site_NE NE_IP_Address Mask GW PE-Agg-Name Slot/Port
VLAN VLAN Subnet
ZR3A006_ML66_01 ZR3A006_ML66_01 10.70.110.92 255.255.255.240 10.70.110.91 PE-Agg10-Quwa-137-2 S0/B0/P8 2001 RF Cable
116 10.70.54.80/29
ZR3A006_ML66_01 ZRW005_ML66_01 10.70.110.93 255.255.255.240 10.70.110.91 10G FO Cable
ZR3006_ML6352_ZRW005 ZR3006_ML6352_ZRW005 10.70.54.82 255.255.255.252 10.70.54.81
ZR3006_ML6352_ZRW005 ZRW005_Ml6352_ZR3006 10.70.54.86 255.255.255.252 10.70.54.85
hRLB
Configuration
LAN & WAN Setup

WAN and LAN Traffic ports should be configured as INNI

- Set the Traffic LAN (1/9/7) connected to ML-6352 :

Role : INNI
Speed : 10000 Mbps
Alias Name : ML-6352
 hRLB Configuration
Right-click Ethernet → Configure → Hierarchical Radio Link Bonding
▪ For 10G Members , choose Traffic LAN port connected to ML-6352
▪ For 2.5G Members , Choose WAN RLT
▪ Set Admin Status UP , Click save

Go to External radio link speed tap , Set RL Speed as per ML6352 Radio Link capacity
hRLB Configuration
Under WAN Interfaces , Right click on WAN 1/9/50 → Configure
• Set Role : INNI
• Admin Status: UP
• Alias Name : Site ID_MBB

Click on WAN 1/6/50 and confirm that Oper Status is UP ( after its configured in all nodes )
VLAN Configuration
Go to VLAN Page
• Add the Multi-Band Booster port ( WAN 1/9/50) to the required VLANs
 ML-6352 Ports configuration

In ML-6352, LAN 1/2 & WAN 1/5 should be configured as L1 so it can be added as members of hRLB
Do not configure WAN 2/5 because its a passive Radio and follow the configuration of master radio WAN 1/5
ML-6352 hRLB configuration

Go to Multinode systems → Multi-band Booster-hRLB

Under port settings, Tick ports LAN:1/2 & WAN 1/5 only and enable hRLB option
ML-6352 hRLB configuration

After applying previous configuration , the hRLB should be enabled as shown below
ML-6352 VLAN Configuration

• In VLAN page , you should have only DCN VLAN .

• Do not add any traffic VLAN because the ML-6352 is a transparent L1 in Multi-Band Booster configuration

• Rename the DCN VLAN to Local DCN and make sure only port LAN 1/2 is added
DCN
Configuration
 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Remove LAN-DCN from members & untagged of DCN VLAN

Enable L3 VLAN in DCN VLAN

Add WAN 1/9/50 and any needed ports except LAN-DCN
 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Under L3 Interfaces , Click on L3 VLAN vlan.116
→ Configure

Set Admin Stats : UP

Alias name : DCN

IP address : ML6600 DCN IP

IP Prefix length : ( as per subnet mask in below
table)
Subnet Mask IP Prefix
255.255.255.252 30
255.255.255.248 29
255.255.255.240 28
255.255.255.224 27
 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
• Go To Basic NE and change DCN-Mode to Routed
• Click Save

• Scroll down and select NE host interface L3 VLAN vlan.116

 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Go to LAN interfaces , Click on LAN port connected to ML-6352 ( 1/9/7 in this scenario) and click Configure → General
Under related Tasks , Click on L3 VLAN subinterfaces – configure

Click Add, and choose LAN port connected to ML-6352 and set VLAN to 50
 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Under L3 Interfaces , click on L3 SUB 1/9/7.50

Admin Stats : UP
Alias name : DCN

IP address : ML6352 DCN GW

IP Prefix length :30
 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Adding Static Routes using CLI

This step can be done using CLI or GUI

Login to ML-669x through CLI , and add the required static routes as per IP design (slide 6)
In this site , will add the following :
config
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.70.110.91
ip route 10.70.54.84/30 10.70.110.93
exit
write

Using GUI
• right click on MINI-LINK 6692
→ configure → DCN → Static Routing

• Click on Router IPv4 tab

• Add static routes as per IP design

 Far End ML-669x DCN Configuration
Remove DCN IP from LAN-DCN using following commands :
config
interface lan-dcn
no ip address
exit
write
 Far End ML-6352 DCN Configuration
Login to ML-6352 in FE site , set DCN as per design and choose only LAN 1/2
 Near END ML-669x DCN Configuration
In Near End Site , Repeat the same steps except for the Static routing where only the default route to PE-AGG is needed

config
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 10.70.110.91
exit
write