Alcatel-Lucent 7670 Routing Switch Platform

EDGE SERVICES CARD

Optimize 3G RAN transport, prepare for the evolution to all-IP: the Edge Services Card delivers the most reliable, exible, scalable and cost-effective solution for 3G RAN aggregation

The Edge Services Card (ESC) enhances the rich feature set of Alcatel-Lucents highly reliable, scalable, and fieldproven multiprotocol Alcatel-Lucent 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP). The ESC is optimized for the needs of 3G/HSPA mobile operators who are consolidating, enhancing and improving their mobile data transport networks in order to use their transport facilities most efficiently. Also, the Edge Services Card provides unique capability for costeffective consolidation of separate 2G and 3G mobile transport networks. The ESC offers superior performance and density, unrivaled scalability and flexibility, carrier-grade reliability and network management, and no-risk evolution to IP/MPLS. The ESC comes with unprecedented flexibility in delivering circuit emulation (CE), ATM and inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA). Its network processorbased, future-proof architecture allows the addition of new features and protocols such as multiclass/multilink point-to-point protocol [MC/ML-PPP], through in-service, non-service-disruptive software upgrades, which are secure, fully controlled and remotely managed.

With the highest port density on the market, the ESC facilitates the growth and evolution of the radio access network (RAN) to meet higher bandwidth demands in 3G/HSPA mobile environments. With ATM/IMA and CE (TDM switching) capabilities delivered on the same ESC, service providers can easily aggregate and connect up to thousands of HSPA Node Bs, 3G Node Bs, 2G base stations and cell aggregation devices to radio network controllers (RNCs) and base station controllers (BSCs), and enable rapid growth scenarios for such 2G and 3G networks. With the ESC and the Alcatel-Lucent 7670 RSP, increasing capacity of the existing cells, performing reconfiguration or adding new cells becomes a simple, quick and seamless procedure. The 7670 RSP and the ESC are fully managed by the paradigm-setting Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Network Manager (NM). With its superior point-and-click, end-to-end management and BSS/OSS integration capabilities, the 5260 NM provides a powerful solution for all OAM&P aspects of a highly reliable mobile transport network.

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Physical line protection, in the form of automatic protection switching (APS) Line card protection, in the form of equipment protection switching (EPS) Unique service-level protection in the form of stateful, non-stop IMA The ESC is fully managed by the industry-leading Alcatel-Lucent 5620 NM, which addresses key operational requirements for mobile operators: Point-and-click GUI, with end-to-end management and provisioning Easy assignment of Node Bs to RNCs and Node Bs re-parenting Flexible configuration and reconfiguration Alarm reporting Remote diagnostics and troubleshooting Real-time statistics collection and reporting

Full redundancy Integration to OSS/BSS systems (CORBA/CMIP) The ESC minimizes the technological risks by allowing smooth evolution to future functionality (such as MC/MLPPP) via software upgrades. The multiprotocol features of the Alcatel-Lucent 7670 RSP allow simultaneous support of cell relay, Ethernet, IP/MPLS and CE.

The ESC supports: Eight OC-3/STM-1 ports, with channelization down to DS1/E1 level Two OC-12/STM-4 ports, with channelization down to DS1/E1 level ATM, IMA and CE 672 DS1s and 336 IMA groups on a single card (SONET variant, OC-3 card) 504 E1s and 336 IMA groups on a single card (SDH variant, STM-1 card) The ESC delivers industry-leading scalability of more than 16,000 DS1s/12,000 E1s per 7670 RSP system. In conjunction with the Alcatel-Lucent 7670 RSPs hardware and control redundancy and high availability features (non-stop signaling, routing and forwarding), the ESC offers superior carrier-grade protection capabilities:

T Y P I C A L A P P L I C A T I O N S
Centralized Aggregation of 3G and HSPA traffic at Mobile Telephony Switching Office (MTSO)
A typical deployment scenario for the ESC is for high-capacity centralized aggregation of Node B (Iub) traffic.

Figure 1. High-Capacity Centralized Aggregation of Iub Traffic using Edge Services Card and 7670 RSP

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In this scenario, the Alcatel-Lucent 7670 RSP is located in the MTSO, where it aggregates Iub traffic from a large number of Node Bs and provides connectivity to the RNCs. The excellent traffic management and quality of service (QoS) capabilities of the 7670 RSP allow managed growth of bandwidthintensive 3G and HSPA traffic. In scenarios where the centralized aggregation of mobile traffic needs to encompass more than six to eight STM1s/OC-3s, the deployment of the 7670 RSP and the ESC provides tangible and measurable benefits over similar solutions with lower port densities and capacities. The 7670 RSP provides the highest port density and highest capacity in the industry for the mobile backhaul and aggregation. Augmenting the 7670 RSPs high-capacity aggregation role with further optimization of bandwidth utilization of interfaces towards

RNCs (Iub and Iur) can result in combined savings of up to 25 percent on transport costs and RNC interfaces over non-optimized scenarios.1 Figure 1 shows one such example of centralized, high-capacity mobile aggregation. The 7670 RSP and its ESCs are used to terminate virtual paths from a large number of Node Bs and deliver the traffic to adjacent RNCs via a smaller number of bandwidthoptimized interfaces. In addition, the 7670 RSP is used to optimize connectivity towards the PSTN, SGSN and towards the mobile core network.

With the ability to perform TDM switching (CE) on the ESC, the role of the 7670 RSP in the MTSO can extend to providing connectivity not only to RNCs, but also to legacy 2G BSCs and mobile switching centers (MSCs). By doing so, a mobile operator can reduce the number of networking elements in the MTSO and increase overall reliability and availability. (Figure 3)

Fixed and Mobile Applications

The ESC can also be deployed as a high density card for other ATM, IMA and CE applications for fixed and mobile operators.

Combined 3G Aggregation and 2G Switching at the MTSO

The ESC is also instrumental in enabling cost-effective converged transport infrastructure for 3G and 2G mobile traffic. (Figure 2)

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Figure 3. Combined 3G Aggregation and 2G Switching at the MTSO

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T E C H N I C A L
I/O Characteristics
Eight OC-3/STM-1 ports Two OC-12/STM-4 ports

S P E C I F I C A T I O N S
High Availability (HA)
Physical level protection APS EPS (also known as line card redundancy) Service level protection HA ATM services HA IMA services

Diagnostics
Physical layer status OOS, LOP, AIS, RDI, LCD, SLMF IMA layer status failure, links, cell rate, near/far end states/failures Statistics/alarms: physical layer statistics ATM statistics IMA layer statistics VPA statistics congestion statistics Statistics per ATM connection Statistics per IMA link/group

Node/Network Management
End-to-end management by Alcatel-Lucent 5620 NM GUI-based point-and-click provisioning

I/O Options
OC-3/STM-1 short reach/ multimode fiber (SR/MMF) OC-3/STM-1 intermediate reach (IR) OC-3/STM-1 long reach (LR) STM-1 Electrical OC-12/STM-4 SR, IR, LR

Scalability
Physical 84 x DS1 per OC-3 8 x 84 (672) DS1 per card 63 x E1 per STM-1 8 x 63 (504) E1 per card IMA layer up to 42 IMA groups per port with one to eight links in each group up to 336 IMA groups per card up to 672 member DS1s up to 504 member E1s

Protocols/Encapsulation
ATM cell switching over OC-3/STM-1 over OC-12/STM-4 over DS1/E1 IMA over DS1/E1 Complies with af-phy-0086.001 (IMA version 1.1)

Channelization Options
Concatenated (clear channel) OC-3c/STM-1c Channelized OC-3/STM-1 Channelization to DS1/E1 84 x DS1 per OC-3 63 x E1 per STM-1

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Physical layer loopbacks IMA test pattern generation

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