mc RNC

mcRNC Architecture
mcRNC Architecture Multi-controller RNC
 mcRNC Introduction

• Multi-controller RNC
• Optimized for all-IP network
environment and mini
• Use Multi-controller platform
common with mcBSC and mcTC for
smooth upgrade from GSM to
WCDMA
• Based on easily installable,
standard-sized, compact modules
• Minimum configuration 2 modules
• Expandable through capacity
licenses and addition of modules
• 2, 4, 6, 8 modules possible
 mcRNC Benefits

• Full WCDMA feature set support

• High data and voice capacity
• High reliability and availability
• Easy installation and maintenance
• Saving rollout cost and easy capacity upgrades
• Lowest RNC power consumption
• Future proof product to Single RAN
Overview of BCN module

The BCN (BCN-B) module contains a motherboard and houses add-in cards and AMCs. It also
provides power feed, cooling and hardware management functions
BCN-B2 modules (introduced with Multicontroller RNC 3.0)
• Octeon II processor
• 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet network connectivity
• S7-B2 is new in mcRNC 4.1 (RU50EP1)

BCN-B2
Configurations

Step S1-B2 Step S3-B2 Step S7-B2

mcRNC Step S7 -
8 box configuration

Eight module Multicontroller RNC Network

Element with DC power includes following
items:

•8 * Multicontroller RNC basic module

•16 * DC power module
•2 *AMC HDD module
•28 * SFP+ Direct Attach cable
•14 * AMCSF-A
•4 * RJ45 Ethernet batch cable (CNI)
BCN-B Front View BCN = Box Controller Node
= mcRNC Module

2x AMC bay
Reset
Network interfaces / Network interfaces
Inter-module interfaces 2 x 10 GE (SFP+) IndicatorLEDs
USB 2.0 (Type B, target) 7 x 1 GE/10 GE (SFP+) 10 x 1 GE (SFP) Synchronizationinterface
1 x 1 GE (SFP) 2 x in/out (RJ45)
SAScross-connect
NE management interface Alarm input interface
LMP serial port
2 x 1GE (SFP) 8 x voltage input (RJ45)
(RS-232)

Module management interface eSW/FW update interface

1x 10/100M/1GE (RJ45) 2 x USB 2.0 (Type A, host)
Box Controller Node Ethernet interfaces (BCN-B)
Provided interfaces and supported standards

2x USB
1x RJ-45 Software download
Hardware maintenance

Debugging
interfaces

1x SFP 9x SFP+ 10x SFP 4x RJ-45

Tracing 7x BCN interconnect, UTRAN interfaces
SFP Alarm and sync interfaces,
2x UTRAN interfaces EM, not used by mcRNC
SFP13 –SFP22 DCN

10GE external ports

SFP+ 11, SFP+ 12
Front panel LEDs

P0
NS
A1
A2

P1 P5
P2 P6
P3 P7
P4 P8
Front panel Ethernet interface LEDs
Link/Activity for all Ethernet ports
–Green: Ethernet link isdetected
–Green blink: Port receives or sends
frame

Link speed
SFP+ ports
•Amber: 10GE
AMC Bay

•No light: 1GE

SFP10 Speed
SFP10 Link/Activity
SFP, Trace, LAN1/LAN2 and MGT ports
Amber: 1GE
SFP+2 SFP+4 SFP+6 SFP8 SFP10 SFP6
No light: 100Base-T

SFP+1 SFP+3 SFP+5 SFP7 SFP9 SFP5

SFP9 Speed
SFP9 Link/Activity
Motherboard and Processor Add-in Cards
Processor add-in card (BMPP2-B)
Dual Fan Module
Octeon 2 variant B
Processor Add-in Card Power Supply

~40mm

The BMPP2-B add-in card is a general purpose processing

unit, performing various data plane and control plane
processing tasks in a number of applications. Up to eight add-
in cards can be installed in the BCN module.

The BMPP2-B add-in card provides a total of four independent

DDR3 memory controllers. Up to 32 GB of attached DDR3
AMC Slot Motherboard DRAM per controller,64/72-bit interface (72-bit with optional
(BCN-A) SECDED ECC),Data rates from 600 to 1333 MT/s,x8 and x16
SDRAM parts are supported
Hard disk drive carrier AMC (HDSAM-A)
DC power distribution unit (BDPDU-A)
The hard disk drive carrier AMC (HDSAM-A) is a mid-size
(single-width, 4 HP) AMC module providing serial attached
SCSI (SAS) storage in the system.
The HDSAM-A is installed in an AMC bay on the BCN module.
The HDSAM-A is equipped with a 2.5-inch small form factor
serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive.
Hard disk currently supported is HDS30-A (300GB).
DC power supply unit, variant B (BDFE-B)
BDFE-B is a 1200-watt DC power
supply unit for BCN module. The
power supply unit is hot
swappable, and it is located on the
rear of the BCN module.
The PDUs take the input power from the site power
supply. A DC PDU has eight breakers installed in the
front panel, and there is a 30 A circuit breaker on the
negative wire at the input to protect the PDU from over-
current. The input is also protected from over-voltage.
Fan and Filter
Fan for the AMCs (BAFU-A)
The BCN module contains a fan (BAFU-
A) for cooling the AMCs that are installed
in the BCN module. The fan module is
located on the rear of the BCN module.
Fan speed is controlled by the hardware
management system to regulate the
cooling of the BCN.
Main fan (BMFU-A) Air filter (BAFI-A)
The BCN module includes an air
The BCN module contains two
filter to prevent dust from
dual-fans (BMFU-A) for cooling the
accumulating inside the equipment.
BCN. The main fan modules are
The air filter meets the NEBS GR 63
located on the rear of the BCN
CORE and GR 78 CORE
module. Fan speed is controlled by
requirements.
the hardware managent system to
The air filter is located at the front of
regulate the temperature within the
the BCN module in the cooling air
BCN.
inlet.
Power distribution principles
Four main mcRNC Processing Units

CFPU Centralized Functions Processing Unit

CSPU Cell-Specific Processing Unit
USPU UE-Specific Processing Unit
EIPU External Interface Processing Unit
mcRNC Processing Units
CFPU
Operation and Management Unit (OMU)
and Centralized Functions for Control
Plane (CFCP)

CSPU
Cell-specific control and user plane
processing

USPU
All services for UE-specific control and
user plane processing

EIPU
Hosts the networking and transport
stacks needed for processing signaling
and user plane data

Ethernet Switches (no redundancy)

mcRNC Functional units

Control Plane and User Plane

• CSCP – Cell Specific functions and services in Control Plane
• USCP – UE Specific functions and services in Control Plane
• CFCP – Centralized Functions and services in Control Plane
• CSUP – Cell Specific functions and services in User Plane
• USUP - UE Specific functions and services in User Plane. This includes the dedicated and shared
channel services since they are relevant for a UE.
Transport Plane
• SITP – Signaling TransportPlane
• EITP – External Interface functions in Transport Plane.
ManagementPlane
• OMU – Operation and Maintenance Unit for Management Plane
Functional Architecture of mcRNC

• Each processing unit physically corresponds to an add-in card

• The add-in cards are identical from the hardware point of view but can be
differentiated by loading different software to different add-in cards
mcRNC Redundancy Schemes
Functional units in Step-7 configuration
mcRNC management interfaces
Terminology
Functional unit
• A unit of execution and deployment that relates to a node in the cluster.
• Belongs to one of Control, User, Transport or Management planes.
• Equivalent to a “computer” in the traditional sense.
- In a Linux based node, the Functional unit has one-to-one mapping to the concept of Recovery
Unit.
- In a SE based node, the Functional unit has one-to-one mapping to the SE based node itself.
Processing Unit
• A unit of deployment that spans one multi-core processor containing one or more
functional units.
• The functional units contained may belong to any of the planes but are grouped together
to ease processing and communication.
Interface card / Transport card
• An add-in card containing one or more processing units (one in mcRNC2.0) used to
process network interface related functions and transport layer services.
Service card
• An add-in card containing one or more processing units (one in mcRNC2.0) that are used
for radio layer services.
BCN module
• 1 Box Controller Node hardware containing 8 add-in cards. Also referred to as “the box”.
The Multicontroller RNC (mcRNC) login and command
• The (mcRNC) includes a structured command line interface (SCLI) for configuration, administration, and
monitoring tasks.
• Access RNC with SSH login
• To display the list of top level commands, press the tab button
.
The generic syntax of one command line is:
<operation> <domain> <rest of command>

Example:
Some commonly used commands:-
Alarm and Alarm History Signalling status

show alarm active-summary show signaling ss7 association all

show alarm active show signaling sccp subsystem all
show alarm history show signaling sccp destination-point-code all
show signaling sccp connections
Card and RNC status
WBTS status
show has summary
show has filter node state managed-object --- all card status show radio-network wbtsstatus all details 1 header-info on
show has filter rg state managed-object --- Recovery show radio-network wcelstatus all details 1 header-info on
group status show radio-network wcelstatus blocked
show radio-network cspudist for-all-cspu

SW and eSW status

show sw-manage app-sw-mgmt builds

show sw-manage embedded-sw version all
show sw-manage embedded-sw status all
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