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iGWB

CDR Flow
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iGWB
TheiGWBis a large-capacity charging gateway
developed by Huawei. Located between NEs and the
BS, theiGWBreceives and stores the CDRs
generated by the NEs, converts the format of the
CDRs to generate final CDRs required by the BS, and
then sends the final CDRs to the BS.

The functions of iGWB includes;

Receiving and buffering CDR files
Sorting CDRs
Converting the format of CDRs

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 Typical Networking

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 CDR Processing Process

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 CDR Receiving Principle
The iGWB uses the customized Sliding Window
Protocol to receive the CDRs generated by the
SOFTX3000 in real time. This ensures no repetition
or loss of CDRs.
The CDRs are received directly by the network
module. It communicates with the SOFTX3000 to
ensure that the CDRs generated by the SOFTX3000
are sent to the iGWB properly. After receiving CDRs,
the network module sends them as a package to the
frontsave module.
The frontsave module stores the package of CDRs as
original CDRs. After that, the frontsave module
responds to the SOFTX3000.
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 After original CDRs are successfully stored on the
frontsave module, they are preprocessed by the CDR
processing module.
The preprocessing process involves; Decoding,
Sorting, Converting and Encoding

Principle for Storing CDRs

The frontsave and backsave modules of the iGWB
store CDRs.
After original CDRs are received successfully, they
are stored on hard disks as original CDR files.
When original CDRs are decoded, converted,
sorted, merged, and encoded, they are stored in
channels on hard disks as final CDR files.

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 Principle for Transmitting CDRs

The iGWB uses the FTP, SFTP and FTAM protocols

to transmit CDRs. The FTP protocol is
recommended.

When the iGWB uses FTP to transmit CDRs in PULL

mode, it serves as the FTP server. The IIS software
delivered with the OS runs on the FTP server. The
iGWB shares the storage directories of CDR files
with the BS.

When the iGWB uses FTP to transmit CDRs in

PUSH mode, it serves as the FTP client. The
transmission software is developed by the iGWB.
The iGWB uploads CDR files to the specific
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 Hardware Alarm Reporting Path
1. Alarm Path for Service Processing Frame

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 Alarm path for front boards except for the ALUI
and the UPWR
After collecting alarm data from the front boards
through the Ethernet bus, the SMUI reports the data to
the BAM through the Ethernet for alarming purposes.
The alarm data is displayed on the alarm console on
the workstation. Audio/visual alarms are generated in
the alarm box.
Alarm path for the UPWR
The ALUI collects state signals of the power supply
modules through the backplane, and then drives the
related indicators on its front panel to indicate the
current state of the power supply modules.
In addition, the ALUI reports the state information of
the power supply modules to the SMUI through the
Pageserial
9 port bus.
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 The SMUI reports to the BAM through the LAN
Switch for alarming. The alarm information is
displayed on the alarm console on the workstation,
and audio/visual alarms are generated in the alarm
box.
Alarm path for back boards
For the back boards (the HSCI, SIUI, and BFII)
without processors, the corresponding front boards
collect respective state of these back boards and
report to the SMUI through the Ethernet bus.

For the back boards (the ALUI) with processors,

respective state is directly reported to the SMUI
through the serial port bus on the backplane.

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 After collecting the information of the back
boards, the SMUI reports the information to the
BAM through the Ethernet for alarming.
The alarm details are displayed on the alarm
console on the workstation, and audio/visual
alarms are generated in the alarm box.
In addition, the SMUI delivers the data of the
state of the back boards to the ALUI through the
serial port bus. The ALUI drives the indicators on
its front panel to indicate the state of the back
boards.
A board may be in the state of "uninstalled",
"normal" or "abnormal"
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 Software Alarm Reporting
Path
Both the SoftX3000 software and the BAM can generate
software alarm.
For the SoftX3000 software modules such as the signaling
processing module and the call control module, their
alarms are sent to the alarm module, which transfers
the alarms to the alarm server module on the BAM.
For the BAM, the alarms are directly sent to
the alarm server module for further processing.
The following cases are associated with software alarms:
Signaling program does not interwork with the opposite
office, Circuit may transit to a different state due to
operations on the opposite office, Service may fail to be
processed and CPU may be overloaded.
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