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ATCA-MediaGateWay

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Table of contents:
Reviewed by:____________________________________________________________________________

References___________________________________________________________________

Indroduction_________________________________________________________________

2.1

ATCA stands for Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture_____________________________

2.2

The following types of MGW configurations are covered__________________________________

2.3

Release Roadmap - @vantage CMG 3500 (CS/PSTN-MGW)_____________________________

General_____________________________________________________________________

Interfaces___________________________________________________________________

Rack Overview_______________________________________________________________

5.1

Mounting conditions for the R:MGW_________________________________________________

5.2

PRHB Rack layout for R:MGW and AAL2____________________________________________

Frame Overview_____________________________________________________________

6.1

MGW configuration consists of:_____________________________________________________

6.2

AAL2 switch configuration consists of:_______________________________________________

Module description__________________________________________________________

Minimum and maximum number of boards / Redundancy / Interface / MU-Number

12

Cabling for GE and STM1 ports_______________________________________________

9.1

Interaction between NDR and Cable list OP___________________________________________

9.2

Connection from RTM IDF/Splitter ODF________________________________________

9.3

FO Adapter_____________________________________________________________________

9.4

Holder for the GE interface________________________________________________________

10

NDR Impact________________________________________________________________

10.1

ATCA-MGW____________________________________________________________________

10.2

AAL2 Switch____________________________________________________________________

11.1

Rack Overview___________________________________________________________________

11.2

Handling of more then one NETelement in the same Rack________________________________

11.3

Frame Overview_________________________________________________________________

11.4

Edit List overview______________________________________________________________

12

MOMAT___________________________________________________________________

13

Important Links_____________________________________________________________

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Reviewed by:
Silvio, Bufalino
Server-I.Gezmis,
Faisal, Md. Hasan
Xiao Lu, Jin
Enn, Koger
Siegfried Lederer,
Ulrich, Schoepp,
Dietmar, Struck,

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1 References
Functional Specification Level 2:
LM Functional Specification Level 2

P30309-A5477-A255-*-7659
P30309-A3307-A255-*-76H1

Support from: PLM / Systems / Development/......

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2 Indroduction
2.1 ATCA stands for Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
ATCA MGW has been designed for deployment in all types of networks, since it supports the transport
of user traffic on time division multiplex (TDM), asynchronous transfer mod (ATM) or Internet protocol
(IP) based backbones. It features a wide range of media handling capabilities for processing user
traffic for services as handover, insertion of tones/announcements, CS data services, multi-party
calles/conferencing, etc. User data is also, if necessary, converted between the different transport
modes.

2.2 The following types of MGW configurations are covered

CS MGW: as an interface to radio only

PSTN MGW: as an interface to PSTN only
Combined CS/PSTN MGW : as interface to both radio and PSTN
AAL2 Switching (Transit GW): with an independent AAL2 no dial switch functionality and
without any control of the MSC-Server
IMS MGW (future)

MGCF: MGW Control Function

CSCF : Call Session Function
AAL2: ATM-Adaption-Layer2
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

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2.3 Release Roadmap - @vantage CMG 3500 (CS/PSTN-MGW)

VdfD2 - TRIAL

9/06

3G BasicCallHandling acc. preCommConfig

3G Handover
Interfaces:
Iu (ATM), Mc (GE), Nb (GE), PSTN (TDM)
Support of IP V4 incl. DiffServ (GE), ATM, TDM
(STM1)
HUB Card redundancy w/o stable calls
Iu Signaling backhaul
NUC for ISUP routing
Support of SS (CW, CH, CF)
Support Tones, DTMF, BasicAnnoun.&EchoCan
(STM-1).
3G VideoCalls
Control of NB-AMR Codec, G.711, AMR_2

B600-1 MGW-light

12/06

VdfD2 TRIAL
2G/3G BasicCallHandling
Interfaces: A (TDM), Nb (TDM)
AAL2 switching
LI light (t.b.d.)
Support of SS (CT)
HUB Card Redundancy w stable calls
7x MSBrev1.5
#7 conformance test / VQ test
Tracer / Audits
ATM, TDM, MSB, SPE/CPE-full redundancy
(2/07)
Combined MSC-S (2/07)??

Up to 1400 Erl (3G) / 100 kBHCA

Up to 2000 Erl (3G) (2/07)
NM via switch commander
SW-upgrade w stable calls (2/07)

Up to 300 Erl (3G) / 2.1 kBHCA

NM via switch commander SCR13
SW-Management w/o stable calls
preComm ATCA Plattform
MSBrev1.5, PerfectShelf-shelf

Commercial ATCA Plattform incl. Shelf and

rack
MSBrev2.0 (2/07)

B6002
MGW-light
Interfaces: Mc (ATM)
Conferencing, LI
Special Announcements
IPSEC for OAM and #7
ISUP&BSSAP&Nc backhauling
APS / ATM loadsharing
Sales Feature Flag
Line-timing, SSM-light
TrafficMeasurement / Overload
ATM PerformanceMonitoring
CS-Data
EchoCan (4xSTM-1)

Up to 5.000 Erl (3G), 7.000 Erl (2G) / 350

kBHCA
TDM LIC w full EchoCan capacity

New Features and Services

Performance
Platform and Technology

Up to B600-1:
MSB1.5:
MSB2.0:

AOP released; SoA released => MU offer and order

AOP released; SoA locked => MU only offer;

From B600-1:
MSB1.5:
MSB2.0:

AOP released; SoA released => MU offer and order

AOP released; SoA locked => MU only offer

M01/07:
MSB2.0:

AOP released; SoA released => MU offer and order

E01/07:
MSB1.5:

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3 General

Released with CS5.0

Traffic for 2G and 3G cross the ATCA-MGW
Mounted in a new 7Ft. Rack-(the measurement will be 750x600 mm)
max. 3 MGW CS/PSTN Shelfs can be implemented in one Rack
Supply air at the bottom edge of the ATCA-MGW rack 20C +/-2K
max. 2 AAL2 Shelfs can be implemented in one Rack
a mixture of CS/PSTN Shelfs and AAL2 Shelfs is possible

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4 Interfaces

H
UH
GU
EG
E

MUX
Mc interface
+ Signalling
Backhauling

MSC
MSC
Server
Server

Mc interface
+ Signalling
Backhauling

MGW
MGW
I
PI
P

T
DT
MD
M

GERAN
PSTN
otherMSC
MSC
UTRAN

A
TA
MT
M

STM1 interface
E1 / HSL
1000BT (GE op.interface)
1000BT (GE el. interface)

LAN

10/100BT (FE el. interface)

I
PI
P

Mc interface
+ Signalling
Backhauling

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EG
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TA
MT
M

MGW
MGW

UTRAN
T
DT
MD
M

MSC
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5 Rack Overview

5.1 Mounting conditions for the R:MGW

Separate rack row for the ATCA MGW

Max. 3 R:MGW next to each other ->new power connection will handle this
The holder for IDF / Splitter and Monitoring will be mounted in the factory
Asymmetrical doors(perforate door (about 80%) due to cooling improvement without declining
of EMC behavior) will be mounted in the factory
Space for 200 optical cable and bottom / top cabling
Support 10,32KW power
No breaker panel, support different systems(OEM elements)
MOMAT for the connection between racks in one row is necessary
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5.2 PRHB Rack layout for R:MGW and AAL2

R:ATCA-MGW
S32005-C126-X 7ft
S32005-C127-X 7ft
UNIT
03-04
03-06
05-06
03-06

R:ATCA-MGW
S32005-C126-X 7ft
S32005-C127-X 7ft

07-29
07-29

MUT
03
04
05
06
09
07
08

30-52
30-52

32
30
31

Holder fix in the Rack

Equip MUT 30
ped
F: ATCA 02
panel optional
31
MGW

Holder fix in the Rack

Equip MUT 30
ped
F:ATCA 02
panel optional
31
AAL2
Switch

53-75
53-75

55
53
54

Holder fix in the Rack

Equip MUT53
ped
F:ATCA 01
panel
54
MGW

Holder fix in the Rack

Equip MUT53
ped
F:ATCA 01
panel
54
AAL2
Switch

GPS:NTP/T3 02 optional
GPS:AV4S optional
GPS:NTP/T3 01 optional
Radio clock kit optional
Holder fix in the Rack
Equip MUT 07
ped
F:ATCA 03
panel optional
08
MGW

empty
empty
empty
empty
Holder fix in the Rack
Equip
ped
panel empty
08

!! Attention:!!
following MUTs are only for RV and not separate to order
Equipped Panel C50324-A289-B218 for RTMEO (IDF) MUT 08, 31, 54
Holder C50324-A289-B201 for RTMETH (IDF opt., el.) MUT 09, 32, 55

The Equipped Panel with 9 mounting positions(S001-S009) is placed at MUT 54 / 31 / 08

S001

S002

S003

S004

S005

S006

S007

S008

S009

Each of these 9 positions can be equipped with either FO Adapter or Optical Splitter.

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6 Frame Overview
The frames will be mounted from the bottom to the top
16 slots on the frond side and 14 slots on the back side are possible
Midplane for slots 1 through 14 is responsible for the interworking of frond and back side
Blind blend are necessary on free spaces air canalization
Wight of one frame ~ 25Kg
The figure below demonstrates the resulting MGW configuration:
Such a configuration, supporting all three transport options (TDM, ATM/AAL2, and IP) with maximum
call capacity completely occupies one 16 slot shelf.

6.1 MGW configuration consists of:

6.2 AAL2 switch configuration consists of:

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7 Module description
7.1 HUGE always mandatory
One pair of Hub Cards M:HUGE (Hub card Gigabit Ethernet), equipped with FE electrical
for Interface each (O&M interface).
And can have maximum 2 GE interfaces.

7.1.1 M:RTMETH always mandatory

Backplane module with 2 external GE and 1 FE (electrical for OAM) interface
7.2 GPP970D (SPE) always mandatory
One pair of SPE/CPE Cards (end point for H.248) have following functions:
Signaling and Call Control Engines for signaling gateway
signaling back-haul*
call processing on the MGW (end point for H.248)
The OAM control engine and switching fabric, based on internal switching on MAC addresses,
according to standards and similar to external IP switching, clock generator and 2 GE(Giga
Ethernet) ports for IP)

7.3 LICAIP4 for IP and ATM always redundant

High speed line interface cards for different technologies: basically same HW for IP and ATM
cards, first release with IP via AAL5, second release w. IP via GE. One pair of IP line interface
cards (M:LICAIP4) and ATM interface cards (M:LICIP4) equipped with 4 STM-1 interfaces.
Hint: Mixing of IP and ATM interfaces in the same card is not permitted.

7.3.1 M:RTMEO
Backplane module with Electrical Optical Converter for STM-1

7.4 LICTDM always redundant

High speed TDM line interface cards, incudes A i/f and modern digital echo canceller (G168)
DSP (digital special processor); STM-1 channelized with TDM-E1 via VC12(Virtuel container).
One pair of TDM line interface cards (M:LICTDM), equipped with4 STM-1 interfaces each
(PSTN interface): S50043-Q75-X 1

7.4.1 LICTDM with DEC function always redundant

The LICTDM module include the echo cancel for PSTN connections: S50043-Q75-X101
7.4.2 M:RTMEO
Backplane module with Electrical Optical Converter for STM-1

7.5 MSBM
Media Streaming Board transcodes cards with full media handling functionality through realtime download of SW on the DSPs, thus identical HW independent of the download function
(special announcements conferencing, tones, cs-data inter-working, LI, TrFO). Six MSB-M`s,
five of which are active and one being the redundant card. The mounting position for the
redundant MSB card is S012.Each MSB-M provides 13 conferences.
N:1 redundancy e.g. 5:1 is the maximum configuration with six MSB-Ms

7.6 Dummy Modules

All not used modules plug pos (front- and backside) of the frame have to be filled with
blindplates. MUs will follow and the MU template will be modified
*Back-haul - In wireless network technology, to transmit voice and data traffic from a cell site to a
switch, i.e., from a remote site to a central site.

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8 Minimum and maximum number of boards / Redundancy / Interface / MU-Number

A high availability of the system will be gained by using all boards in redundancy.
The following table gives the minimum and maximum numbers of the various boards and the resultant physical STM1 and GE port counts.

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9 Cabling for GE and STM1 ports

There are only 2 Cable groups necessary for MGW: CG OP and OD. With CG OP the optical
cables from all LIC cards go to IDF (FO adapter or splitter in the equipped panel) and from HUGE
cards go to GE holder. The CG OD passes those optical cables from IDF or Holder to ODF.
Cable manual RV OP describes the variance 3700-3705 for electrical OAM cable pairs and GE
cables to IDF. For LIC to IDF (FO adapter/Splitter) cables, the single mode optical cable variance
12304-12311 is used based on with or without monitoring functionality. Cabling for each STM1 port is
necessary.
Cable manual RV OD describes the variance 2700-2705 for OAM and GE cables from IDF to ODF.
The STM1 interface cables from IDF to ODF use the variance 12801-12811 depending on the
monitoring functionality and the plug-in cable type selection depends on the optical coupling type
between LSH and SCPC/SA/FCPC/LSH at the ODF side.

The following MU is release for the cabling of MGW

L50510-C7029-X1
L50510-C7030-X1
L50510-C7031-X1
L50510-C7032-X1
L50510-C1092-X1

Optical Cable to IDF (STM1)

Optical Cable to Splitter Box (STM1)
Optical Cable for GE (virtual IP)
Electrical Cable for OAM
MGW_C1092

Hint:
The cable-type Z21 will be removed from the cable documents!!

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Interaction between NDR and Cable list OP

BSS, MGW-E, MSC-E, PSTN

#STM1 optical total with DEC (excl. red. links)

no

BSS, MGW-E, MSC-E, PSTN

#STM1 optical total without DEC (excl. red.links)

no

ATM Payload

RNC, MGW-Nb, MSC-Nb

#STM1 optical total (excl. red. Links)

no

number

IP over ATM Payload

MGW

#STM1 optical total (excl. red. Links)

no

number

STM1 Options

STM1 Redundancy

STM1 Redundancy (1 = yes, 0 =no)

no

STM1 Optical Monitoring Splitter

STM1 Monitoring (1 = yes, 0 =no)

no

MGW

#GE ports optical incl. red. link

no

GE redundancy (1 = yes, 0 = no)

no

TDM Payload

IP Payload

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Connection from RTM IDF/Splitter ODF

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FO Adapter

The adapter is located on the backplane position S001 up to S009 of Equipped panel.
1

9.4

Holder for the GE interface

This holder is always plugged in the rack at position 55, 32 and 09

Port I1 up to !4 is for the GE optical connection from the backplane to the GE-Holder.
Port O1 up to O4 is for the GE optical connection

I1 incoming Port 1

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10 NDR Impact
10.1 ATCA-MGW

10.2 AAL2 Switch

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11 NEPTUN

11.1 Rack Overview

11.2 Handling of more then one NETelement in the same Rack

Please insert NET-ID in every frame of your Netelement (red color 11.1).

The realization of the print-out of the ATCA-MGW will be a Webbased solution.

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11.3 Frame Overview

11.4 Edit List overview

Edit List>>LL_Shelf_LIC
All the LIC cards should be assigned the number including the redundant LIC.

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Edit List>>Sul_LIC_Port
All the LIC ports need to be defined with used STM1 interface type: DEC, TDM, ATM or IP

12 MOMAT
You will find the information in MOMAT Katalog L Chepter NEW chapter for ATCA_MGW will be
released in 02/07
Today we have a temporary solution PowerPoint-file

13 Important Links
System Configuration Homepage https://sharenet-ims.siemens.com/Open/341570439

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14 Abbreviations
3GPP
A2BS
AAL2
AAL5
ATCA
ATM
BHCA
BICC
BSC
BSSAP
CCS7
CMN
CP
CS
CSCF
DEC
DIU
E1
FE
FTP
GE
GSM
GTT
HLR
HSL
IMS
IN
IP
ISUP
IWF
LAN
LI
LIC
LTG
MAP
MB
MGCF
MGW
MP
MSB
MSB
MSC
MSC-S
MTP
MTPY
NBSL
NDR
NexTA
OAM
OCANEQ
OMC
PABX / PBX
PCM
PLMN
PO
PSTN
PVC
R4
R99
RANAP
RNC
RTM
SDH

Third Generation Partnership Project

AAL2 Break Switching Card
ATM Adaptation Layer 2
ATM Adaptation Layer 5
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Busy Hour Call Attempt
Bearer Independent Call Control
Base Station Controller
Base Station Subsytem Application Part
Common Channel Signalling #7
Call Mediation Node
Coordination Processor
Circuit Switched
Call Session Function
Digital Echo Canceller
Digital Interface Unit
PCM30 Transmission Line
Fast Ethernet
File Transfer Protocol
Gigabit Ethernet
Global System for Mobile Communication
Global Title Translation
Home Location Register
High Speed Signalling Links
IP Multimedia Subsystem
Intelligent Networks
Internet Protocol
ISDN User Part
Interworking Function
Local Area Network
Lawful Interception
Line Interface Card
Line Trunk Group
Mobile Application Part
Message Buffer
MGW Control Function
Media Gateway
Main Processor
Media Streaming Board
Media Stream Board
Mobile Switching Centre
MSC-Server
Message Transfer Part
Multiparty
Narrow Band Signalling Links
Network Design Report
Next Generation Telecom Architecture
Operation and Maintenance
Operational Controlled Announcement Equipment
Operation and Maintenance Centre
Private Access Branch Exchange / Private Branch
Exchange
Pulse Code Modulation
Public Land Mobile Network
Packet Oriented
Public Switched Telephony Network
Permanent Virtual Connection
3GPP Release 4 standard
3GPP Release 99 standard
Radio Access Network Application Part
Radio Network Controller
Rear Transition Module
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

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SGW
SIGTRAN
SN
SS7
SSNC
STM
STP
T-MSC
TDM
TrFO
UMTS
UTRAN
VoP
VLAN
VLR
VMS
WAN

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Signalling Transport
Switching Network
Signalling System #7 (CCS7)
Signalling System Network Controller
Synchronous Transport Module
Signalling Transfer Point
Transit MSC
Time Division Multiplex
Transcoder Free Operation
Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
Voice over Packet
Virtual Local Area Network
Visitor Location Register
Voice Mail Centre
Wide Area Network

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