EVO Controller 8200/RNC

BY : DINESH
MALHOTRA
 Introduction- Evo Controller 8200/Multi
• The Evo Controller 8200/Multi introduces a common building practice, processing device and
switch for both GSM BSC and WCDMA RNC. It contains one subrack of a WRAN Evo
Controller 8200/RNC and two subracks of a GSM Evo Controller 8200/BSC in one cabinet.
• From a radio and transport network point of view, the RNC and BSC functions are completely
separated and treated as separate logical nodes. However, the GSM BSC and WCDMA RNC
applications are run on the same type of Hardware (HW). Thanks to the same type of HW all
in one cabinet, fewer spare parts are needed and the floor space can be saved. The Evo
Controller 8200/Multi cabinet can also be used for free expansion later, becoming either a
pure RNC or a pure BSC cabinet.
• The common HW is as follows:
• Cabinet (BYB 501)
• EGEM2 subrack
• Evo Processor Board (EPB)
• Ethernet switches (SCXB and CMXB)
• Power and Fan Module (PFM)
• The EPB is the key enabler of the multi controllers. It can be moved from a BSC subrack to an
RNC subrack, or the reverse, without the need to be reprogrammed in any way - simple
plug&play is sufficient.
 Capacity and Benefit of Evo Controller
• Evolved Controller ~ RNC or BSC
• Higher Capacity (More signaling and more data traffic, approximately 5 times to RNC3820 R1)
• Low Cost to the performance
• All IP (Evo-ET for ATM would be introduced later)
• W11B~Software release supported for EVO.
• RNC and BSC may stay together in one Cabinet

• 20 Gbps Iub throughput (5 times to RNC3820 R1.1)---HW Ready for 50 Gbps

• 5 times signaling capacity to RNC3820 R1.1—Scalable upto 10 times with SW change.

• HSPA Evolution with 100 Mbps peak-rate for downlink and upto 12 Mbps for Uplink.
• 2304 cell 738 Iub (16592 cells in theory)
• 155448 active users (in theory)
• EVO-BSC capacity 4095 TRX---HW ready to support upto 8000 TRX.

• 65% production cost reduction to Gbps, compared with RNC3820 R1.1

• 73% power reduction to Gbps, compared with RNC3820 R1.1
• Performance Processor of EPB = 1.27 * SPB3
CABINET- BYB 501 with BFD 538
• The EvoC 8200/RNC is built with one Main
Subrack (MS) and up to two Extension
Subracks (ESs), which are all housed in
one cabinet. Apart from the incorporated
Power and Fan Module (PFM), each
subrack contains a cable shelf at the
bottom. The connection field in the EvoC
8200/RNC is called Active Patch Panel
(APP). A standard cabinet is equipped with
two APPs located one above the other at
the very bottom of the cabinet.

• Figure shows the layout of the EvoC

8200/RNC cabinet .
RNC Modules
RNC modules divide the EvoC 8200/RNC into smaller resource units. An RNC module consists of a processing
unit on a Module Controller (MC) and a number of associated devices within an Evo Processor Board (EPB).
The number of RNC modules can differ in the Main Subrack (MS) and in Extension Subracks (ES) as the node
configuration is customized.

Subrack Equipment
The MS and ES can each house up to 28 boards. The subracks can contain EPBs, System Control Switch Boards
(SCXBs) and Common Main Switch Boards (CMXBs), as well as some Dummy Boards (DBs. The EGEM2 subrack
has 28-slots where each slot is 15 mm wide. Each slot
has a duplicated 1 Gbps- and 10/40 Gbps Ethernet connection. The total backplane switching capacity per
subrack is 960 Gbps. Up to 3 EGEM2 subracks can be used, which gives a total of 84 slots for plug in units.
Each subrack is self-contained and includes temperature controlled fans.
Main Subrack Software Configuration

20 Configurable slots for EPB_BLADE or EVO-ET

Extension Subrack Software Configuration

24 Configurable slots for EPB_BLADE or EVO-ET

Internal Node Connection
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 Concept of RNC Module in EVO
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SPB
GPB

GPB SPB
EPB
SPB
SPB

RNC Module EVO Controller

 Plug in units
The Evo Controller 8200 has been designed to reduce the different types of plug in
units in order to reduce operator cost for spare part handling and simplify
maintenance. Each board is 225x265x15 mm.
The plug in units can be replaced without ISP impact. All plug in units are either
working in a 1+1 redundant mode or with n+1 redundancy. The Evo Controller is
designed for telecom grade performance with an availability of 99.999% or better
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Plug in units 8200/BSC 8200/RNC 8200/Multi
EPB1 x x x
CMXB3 optional x x
SCXB3 x x x
EvoET optional optional optional
APZ 212 60C x - x
APG43/2 x - x
NWI-E x - x
 EPB1
• Evo Processor Board (EPB1) ROJ 208 394/1

– Generic processor board used for all RNC processing tasks. Each EPB1
board is equipped with two multi-core processors.
• The EPB combines the roles of GPB, SPB and ET-IPG (which are
used in RNC 3820) on the same board.

– There are three different Software Allocations (SWAs) for EPB:

• EPB_C1 RNC Central Processor 1 placed only in Main Subrack in

slots 3 and 25.
• EPB_C2 RNC Central Processor 2 placed only in Main Subrack in
slots 4 and 26.
• EPB_BLADE_A Has three Module Controllers, two DC devices and
one CC device on the primary processor, and one PDR and six DC
devices in the secondary processor.

– The four (‘c1’ and ‘c2’) EPB boards located in the Main Subrack are
used only for central main processing tasks (both 1+1 redundant).

– The rest of the EPB boards (up to 20 in the main subrack and up to 24
in the extension subracks) are used for the Blade (traffic processing)
role.
 EPB1 (cont..)
• The EPB1 board has 2 processors with 8 cores = total 16 cores.

• In Evo Controller 8200, the roles on each core are pre-defined making
it easy to predict capacity expansions. The capacity scales with each
EPB blade installed. The pre-defined core configuration is:
• 3 cores for MC
• 8 cores for DC
• 1 core for CC
• 1 core for PDR
• 1 core for CPP programs
• 2 cores for IP termination

– Every EPB1 blade is configured with MC, CC, DC and PDR roles all on the
same board. Thus one individual call is handled within the same EPB
board, reducing signaling between boards in the Evo controller.
 RNC Software deployment
C1 (1+1) C2 (1+1)
-Equal to 3820 C1 + 2 x SCTP FE - 2 x SCTP Front End
-Load balanced between cores - Central device handling & UE reg
(except JVM and Bare Metal) - RFN server (moved from TUB)

“Blade” (3 – 68)
Primary processor Secondary processor
BDH + CPP PDR device + CPP
IP (bare metal) IP (bare metal)
CC device DC device
RNC Module + RANAP DC device
RNC Module + RNSAP DC device
RNC Module + PCAP DC device
DC device DC device
DC device DC device
 SCXB3
• System Control Switch Boards (SCXB3) ROJ 208 395/1
– SCXB is used to carry node internal control signaling and manages system clock
distribution, and connections between EGEM2 subracks for control traffic.

– There are two SCXBs in every subrack belonging to two physically separated
LANs.
• Each subrack contains a redundant SCXB pair, in slots 1 and 27
• All device boards and switch boards in a subrack are connected to both
SCXBs through a 1Gbps backplane connection. .

– The MS SCXBs are connected to the ES SCXBs by 10Gbps front panel Control
Inter Switch Links (CISLs) - (slot 1 to slot 1 and slot 27 to slot 27).

– Functionally comparable to SCB and TUB in RNC 3820

 Ethernet Cabling – SCXB3
• SCXB3 Connectivity
MS – Cabling recommendations:

CMXB

CMXB
EPB
SCXB
1G

SCXB
A: to ES1 (A) (10G) 1G
B: to ES2 (A) (10G)
C-G: Spare (10G)
H-I : Not Used (1G)
J: 2048kHz or 10mHz sync ref
K: Not Used
L: Management - RS232

CMXB

CMXB
EPB
SCXB
1G

SCXB
M: DBG – ETH 1G
N: 2048kHz or 10mHz sync ref (QMA con)

10G 10G
ES1 and ES2 – Cabling recommendations:
A: to MS (A & B) (10G)
B: Spare (10G)
C to H: Not used

CMXB
CMXB

EPB
SCXB

SCXB
1G 1G
 CMXB3
• Common Main Switching Board 3 (CMXB3) ROJ 208 392/1
– Carries user plane data and node external traffic.

– Each subrack contains a redundant CMXB pair, in slots 2 and 28. All CMXB boards
will be interconnected in a double star topology with Ethernet Subrack Links (ESL)
– slot 2 to slot 28, slot 2 to slot 2 and slot 28 to slot 28.

– The board has 24 (10Gbps) Backplane ports which reach all (non switch) device
boards within the same subrack.

– Also has 8 front panel (1 or 10Gbps) ports that can be used to connect to other
CMXBs inside the node or as external ports for outgoing traffic. Ports A –D are
HW prepared for 40Gbps.

– Functionally comparable to CMXB in RNC 3820

 Ethernet Cabling – CMXB3
EvoC 8200/RNC
10G

10G
10G

CMXB

CMXB
EPB
MS – Cabling recommendations:
A: to APP (Iub) (10G, HW prepared for 40G)
B: to ES1 (10G, HW prepared for 40G)
10G
C: to ES2 (10G, HW prepared for 40G) 10G 10G
D: Cross-link in MS (10G, HW prepared for 40G)
E: to APP (IuPS/CS, Iur) (10G)

CMXB

CMXB
EPB
F: to APP (10G)
G: to APP (10G)
10G 10G
H: to APP (10G) 10G

CMXB
CMXB

EPB
ES1 and ES2 – Cabling recommendations:
A: to MS (10G, HW prepared for 40G)
B: cross-link in ES (10G, HW prepared for 40G)
4x10G 4x10G
D to H: Not used
APP APP
4x10G 4x10G
 EvoET
• The EvoET board is an optional board to handle ATM
transport for Iub, Iur, and Iu-CS in the RNC and
Packet Abis over TDM transport in the BSC.
• The EvoET logically terminates the node external
transmission interfaces. Different versions exist for
different standards and transmission speeds e.g.
STM-1/VC4 and STM-1/VC12. The board uses a 1+1
redundancy principle.
• There are 8 ports per EvoET. The number of EvoETs
required and number of activated ports per board is
dependant on the transport requirements.
• The EvoET uses the same board positions as the
EPBs. The maximum no decapacity is therefore
reduced when ATM- or TDM transport is required
Evo-C Provides 10G and 1G Ethernet to
all Slot Positions
White fronts and new LEDs

SCXB CMXB3 SCXB CMXB3

Dbg Dbg Dbg Dbg

APP APP
1GE 1GE
ExtA 1GE ExtA 1GE
Sync 1GE Sync 1GE
RPBS 1GE RPBS 1GE
10GE
SCXB provides 28x1G backplane ports and 10GE
10GE 10GE

10GE 4x10G + 2x1G front ports 10GE

1GE 1GE
1GE 40GE 1GE 40GE

10GE 40GE 10GE 40GE

10GE 40GE 10GE 40GE

10GE 40GE 10GE 40GE

10GE 40GE 10GE 40GE

CMXB3 allow 24 * 10GE backplane ports

3 * 10GE + 5 * 40GE + 4 * 1GE front ports
 APP
• Active Patch Panel (APP) KDU 137 557/4
– The APP converts the electrical 10GE interface of CMXB3 to various types of 1 GE
and 10 GE optical interfaces by use of different types of SFPs. A 1000BaseT SFP
electrical interface is also provided.

– The Active Patch Panel (APP) is the main physical point of connection for
transmission. There are two APP units placed at the bottom, below the Main
Subrack (MS).

– The APP provides O&M connections for a service terminal where one Ethernet
connection and one RS232 connection can be used to connect to the Evo
Controller.
 APP – EXTERNAL IP INTERFACES
• EVO external interfaces are very similar to what we have for RNC3820 with regards to
IP/cabling for OAM and bearers.
– The only differences are related to the slots used for the internal connection points in the
subracks.

There are 3 pairs of External IP connection points:

SFP - SFP - RJ45 -

32 42 61

IuCS,
IuPS
&
Iur

•
1. One pair of OAM Ethernet connections
2. One pair of 1 or 10 GigE connections to carry
• Iub over IP traffic (User Plane and Control Plane)
• 3. One pair of 1 or 10 GigE connection to carry
• IuCS, IuPS and Iur over IP traffic (bearer and signaling)
BYB 501 with BFD 538 and CAS/CAXB

APP is used in first release.

Cabinet switch will be
introduced in later release.

CAS Subrack with one CAXB

board disassembled

Cabinet Switch
 SW Description - overview
›W11B EVO (W11.2) Software Changes:
– The HW platform is completely new. In between the feature SW, (which is the same
as W11B), and the HW there is a middleware layer (e.g. in device & resource handling
and user plane handling) that adapts the HW to the feature SW layer. That layer is
updated in order to adapt the SW to the blade concept and the IP infrastructure.
– Platform: CPP9 (vs CPP8 for 3820)

›Features:
– Same features as W11B
– Dynamic Iu/Iur Signaling – This is a new feature required for EVOc

›Maintenance/Merging:
– W11.1 (W11B) & W11.2 (W11B EVO) Merging in W12B
– Standard TR mapping process between releases
 Hardware Comparison
RNC 3820 EVO-C 8200
Subrack High Capacity Subrack EGEM2 Subrack
Subrack switching 200 Gbps 960 Gbps
Capacity 8 Gbps Iub throughput Hardware 20 Gbps max. Iub throughput
prepared for 20 Gbps HW-prepared for 50 Gbps
Capacity (2) Max. 32 module MPs and 40 SPBs In a max. configuration of 68 EPB blades: 204
MCs, 68 PDR devices, 68 CC devices and 544
DC devices

Backplane Switching 10 Gbps HW ready for 40 Gbps

IP connectivity ETIPG, CMXB EPB, CMXB
Processing GPB, SPB EPB
Local sync source and TUB Timing unit on the SCXB
timing unit
Optical Indicators Three: red (fault), yellow (information) Four: a new blue optical indicator
and green (operation) (maintenance)
Router Path Supported Not supported. External mechanisms, such as
Supervision (RPS) Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP),
must be used for router supervision.
 Software Comparison

RNC 3820 EVO-C 8200

IP configuration ET board required to Both node external and
terminate external IP traffic node internal IP traffic is
terminated directly on
the EPB
Dimensioning Control Plane (CP) vs. User Both CP and UP
Plane (UP) dimensioning, increased in a linear
CP increased with GPBs, UP fashion with the number
increased with SPBs. of EPB blades installed.
 IP Termination Comparison
RNC 3820
Mono signaling stack configured as a
Iu and Iur robust Sctp, where the RPU is configured
Control with both active and passive slot and with a
Plane multi-homed IP host, where the physical
links are on two separate ET-IPG boards.
Iub Configured on ET-IPG. Redundancy is
Control provided by using IpAccessHostEt and
Plane sharing one IP host with Iub UP.
Iu-PS
User Configured with one IpAccessHostSpb
Plane instance for each PDR device.
Iu-CS and The same IpInterface, IpAccessHostEt,
Iur User IpAccessHostPool instances can be used
Plane both for the Iu-CS and Iur unless different
Vlans/subnetworks are required to separate
the planes.
EVO-C 8200
Horizontally distributed signaling stack
configured as a non-robust Sctp. One SCTP
Front End (FE) executes on each C1 and C2
EPB (four FEs in total).
Configured on one EPB only; no ET board
redundancy.
Configured with IpAccesssHostPool and
IpAccessHostEt.
Configuration with IpAccesshostPool is
similar, but the underlying implementation is
changed. The pool is used to identify which
interface a certain IpAccessHostEt belongs
to, but the selection of IP host is based on
which EPB is handling the call.
 Processing Comparison
Processing RNC 3820 EVO-C 8200
GPB SPB EPB Blade
RANAP/
RNSAP/ C2 Board Distributed to the blades
SCCP

One dual-core
Control plane, Iub processor with Three Module Controllers (MCs) on the
links one RNC primary processor (PIU)
module on
each core
Three dual-core Two DC devices and one CC device on the
processors and PIU, Six DC devices and one PDR device
User plane, PDR, CC, DC on the secondary processor (PIU Device)
devices devices arranged
into four different
SPB_TYPES