GS 890

High Capacity AXE Group Switch

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 Agenda
• History, the birth of GS890 switch
• Why GS890
• GS890 HW Structure
• GEM, Generic Ericsson Magazine
• XDB, Switch Distributed Board
• KJELL, Switch Core ASIC
• Reductions
• “The Amazing story of the AXE evolution”

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 Definitions

• AXE Classic: AXE 10 in BYB202

• Existing/Current AXE: AXE in BYB501 (HWM)
• AXE 3G : The AXE being developed. GS890 is a part of
APT 1.5, which is a part of AXE3G
• GS890: Product name for new group switch
• CL890: Product name for the clocks in the new group
switch

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 History

• HWM1.3./1.4 used main stream technology

• What can be done using edge ASIC technology?

The birth of GS890 !!!

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 Why GS890

In the new telecoms world the focus is mainly on

packet based switching and networks.

This change will not take place over one night,

it will be a migration from STM-switching to
packet based switching.

Ericsson has not yet sold half of the expected

amount of AXE nodes.

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 GS890 - Switch Hardware Architecture

HWM
• Distributed switch 1.3/1.4
concept
RPI
RPI RPI
RPI • 512K Normal rate switch
RPI
RPI – Switch on 64Kbit/s level
Switch
Switch
CLM
CLM MUX5
MUX5 MUX34
MUX34 – MUX3
32 Gbit/s
Core
Core
• 128K Sub rate switch
– Switch on 8Kbit/s level
RPI
RPI
SNT
SNT – 8 Gbit/s SNT
SNT
• Duplicated switch
RPI
• Duplicated clock
RPI
SNT
SNT • Strictly Non-blocking
SNT
SNT
• Wideband connection,
1 - n bits wide
RPI
RPI
Switch
Switch
CLM
CLM MUX5
MUX5 MUX34
MUX34 MUX3
Core
Core
RPI
RPI RPI
RPI

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 GEM - Generic Ericsson Magazine, Concept
• Based on BYB 501
• Board division: 15 mm
• Linear growth
• Each magazine can house:
– Duplicated Group Switch Module (16 K capacity)
– 1 - 22 Device boards - ET155, ECP505 etc
– CL 890 (clock modules, in device slots)
– RP control, support and Ethernet switch
– A pair of maintenance processors
– All interconnect signals in the back plane

• Open
– Independent of control system
– In built TCP/IP possibilities
– Possible synergies AXE, WPP, Cello

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 GEM - Compact, Flexible, Scalable

Switch Clock magazine

magazine
AXE 3G

GEM

Echo canceller Transcoder

ET155 magazine
magazine magazine

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 SCB
Switch
ET155

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ET155
TRA
TRA
TRA
TRA
TRA
DLEB

2000-07-13
Sync
Clock

ET155
ET155
ECP
ECP
ECP
ECP
ECP
GEM - Compact, Flexible, Scalable

DLEB
Sync
Clock
Switch
SCB
ÄS/UAB/X/XX
 GEM with clocks
Device boards Device boards

IRB

IRB
XDB

CGB

CGB

XDB
SCB-RP

SCB-RP
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 GEM - System Hardware

RPI
RPI
RPI ET155--11
ET155

RPI
RPI RPI • New Group Switch
TRA--R6
TRA R6
Switch
Switch MUX5
CLM
CLM Core
Core RPI • New devices
ECP5
ECP5
• RPI on each circuit board
DLEB RPI
RPI
DLEB

RPB-S to/from RPI

Ethernet to/from RPI
SCB RPI
RPI

Ethernet to/from CP RPB-S to/from CP

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 GEM - Synchronization Strategy

ETC CLM
NS GS890
GS890
ET155 (16k)
(16k)
IFC

RCM
CLM

CBC
(non-AXE)
IFC = Incoming Clock Function
NS = Network Synchronization

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 GS890 Switch and the GEM subrack

Applications in SW
Applications in SW
ST M-1
TRA B G SP U ET155
Generic speech O C-3 Generic 155 Mbit
processing unit SD H Exchange Terminal
EC Japanese

GE M
4 * DL-3
RP Bs 16 K MUP RP Bs
A-plane B-plane
Interface

22 pos.
DLEB Device boards
DL3 MUX
G S plane A G S plane B

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 GS890 - Highlights
• Strictly non-blocking
• Distributed, 16 kMUPs per GEM. Implemented as a single-width XDB board.
• Maximal capacity at normal rate (64 kb/s) is 512 kMUPs, scalable in steps of 16
kMUPs.
• Maximal sub-rate capacity (n x 8 kb/s) is 128 kMUPs, scalable in steps of 16
kMUPs
• Duplicated, meaning that single faults will not affect traffic
• TS (Time/space) structure
• Supports device protection without any waste of MUPs
(used for ET 155-1).
• An additional GEM magazine may be plugged in while traffic is being
processed – no traffic disturbances will be caused.
• Each DLEB board has sufficient capacity for the connection of four GDM
magazines, corresponding to four DL-3 interfaces

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 GS890 Architecture - Distributed Switch

Configuration example
GEM

CLM
GEM1 GEM5
DL34
GEM2 GEM6
SNT
Switch DL3
SNT SNT GEM3 GEM7
core

DLHB GEM4 GEM8

DLEB
SNT

DL2 128K Normal Rate or Subrate

+ High Speed Devices

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 CL 890 - Possible Synchronization inputs

• 8 kHz derived from a traffic link terminated in an ETC

• 2048 kHz dedicated synchronization signal (both
differential and single-ended)
• 1544 kHz dedicated synchronization signal (both
differential and single-ended).
• 64 kHz with superimposed 8 kHz information
• 64k + 8 kHz composite clock
• 2048 kb/s

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 Group Switch Evolution
• Distributed GS, Integrated RP,
• Mixed high speed devices
128 K GS12
128 K GS890

GS16M-0 GS16M-2 GS16M-0 GS16M-2

Plane A Plane A Plane B Plane B1800 mm GEM1 GEM5

GS16M-1 GS16M-3 GS16M-1 GS16M-3

Plane A Plane A Plane B Plane B GEM2 GEM6

GS16M-4 GS16M-6 CL128M GS16M-4 GS16M-6

Plane A Plane A Plane B Plane B GEM3 GEM7

GS16M-5 GS16M-7 GS16M-5 GS16M-7

Plane A Plane A Plane B Plane B GEM4 GEM8

Capacity 1 : 1
Cabinets 10 : 2
Po wer 4 : 1

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 16K Group Switch Comparison
BYB 501

AXE 3G/GS890

Capacity 1 1
Volume 1 1/6
Power 1 1/4
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 System Capabilities - Switch Fabric Related

Capability BYB 202 BYB 501 3G

AXE /GS890
Capacity, nx64 kbps, KMUP 64 128 512
Capacity, nx8kbps KMUP 4 4 128

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 GS890 Connection to GDM

ET 155-1 STM-1

GS890
ET 155-1 STM-1
GS890
(16k)
(16k) EC

TRAC DL-2
GDM
Device
DLEB
DLEB DLHB
Device
DL-3
Device

GDM
Device
DL-34 GEM
DLHB
CLM Device

System Components
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 Switch Distributed Board, XDB

Teradyne,
VHDM

DC/DC
DC/DC 1.8V
1.8V EMMA
EMMA FIA
FIA
RPI
MPC860
MPC860
DC/DC
DC/DC 3.3V
3.3V

KJELL
KJELL KJELL
KJELL
RAMs
RAMs
PLL
PLL area
area

GLVDS
GLVDS
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 KJELL, Switch Core ASIC

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 KJELL Specification

• TI GS20 process (0.18u drawn)

• 1.8 V Core
• 3.3 V I/O
• 432 CD STAR BGA package
• 4 Mbit of static RAM
• 300 kgate logic
• 248 functional pins, 100 are LVDS
• 2 APLLs running @ 666 MHz

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 KJELL Specification

• Clock systems:
– @ 666 MHz, telecom macros for high speed interfaces
– @ 333 MHz, Speech Store RAMs
– @ 66 MHz, Core logic
• Plus 78 other minor clock systems…...

• 20 high speed interfaces @ 666 Mbit/s

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 KJELL functionality

• Switch core in GS890

• 8K Normal Rate
• 8K Sub Rate
• Wideband connection, 1 - n bits wide
• Strictly Non-blocking switch
• Mode dependent clock gating

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 KJELL functionality

• Full implementation of LogicBIST

• Fault Insertion for Function test purposes
• RAM BIST
• Control Store has checksum supervision
• Speech Store has continuous self supervision
• All control and data paths are supervised

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 Reductions, Interconnect

• GS890 • HWM1.3/1.4
– DL5 Vs. – DL3
– Highway – Highway
– DL34 – Clocks
– SYCL

• E.g 128K • E.g 128K

– 56 Highway cables, both – 896 Highway cables, both
planes planes

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 Reductions, Power

• GS890
– One board 16K Switch including subrate switching.

Power dissipation: 12 W

Vs.
• HWM1.3/1.4
– One magazine 16K Switch excluding subrate switching

Power dissipation: 70 W

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 Reductions, Production

• GS890
– Enormous reduction in cabling
– Less PBAs
– Teradyne 15 mm back plane connectors with steering pins
prevent bent pins in back plane

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MCI AXE 10 Exchange in West Orange, New Jersey
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ETC replacing DL2 ATME
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64K Switch, modernized APT HW
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GSS core APZ

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ET155-7 replacing ATME
DL1and DL2
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P CO
RAM A IR

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 1999 AIRCO
64K Switch, modernized HW
L OSET
C

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GSS core APZ

RAM
ET155-7 replacing ATME
DL1and DL2
Other APT
P CO
RAM A IR

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 2000 AIRCO
64K Switch, APT 1.5 HW
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RAM
APT 1.5
APZ

ATME
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RAM A IR

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