FOX515 with Ethernet over SDH services

NEBRO adds advanced LAN/WAN functionality

Broadband Ethernet services

New Ethernet Services
With the availability of the NEBRO unit
the FOX multiservice access platform
now offers further extended broadband
capabilities. Cost-effective Fast Ethernet
and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity is now
combined with the well-known reliability
and manageability of SDH networks.
This makes it ideal for bandwidth intensive applications like corporate Internet
access, office LAN interconnections, and
video over IP applications. Furthermore,
NEBRO can offer new services for
SCADA system related tasks.
How does it work?
The Ethernet frames are encapsulated in
SDH by using GFP and then transported
through the SDH network in a VC-12 or
VC-3 group. VCAT and LCAS enhance
the flexibility of bandwidth usage and
traffic protection based on the traditional
SDH protection schemes in combination with LAN/WAN based restoration
mechanisms.
Apart of the physical Ethernet interfaces
on NEBROs front side, the card supports
eight Logical WAN Ports (LWP) with
2 Mbps granularity toward the FOX
SDH trunk interfaces. These LWP can
be used to carry individual VLANs
with guaranteed bandwidth per service
or tagged VLANs sharing bandwidth
according CoS to definitions.
Standard Interfaces
NEBRO offers on its front side four 10/100
BaseT interfaces and two cages for optical
SFP plug-in modules. Having electrical
and optionally optical interfaces makes
the NEBRO suitable for a wide range of
mission critical applications. NEBRO fits
perfectly for utility networks with their
high expectations and commitments to
quality and reliability.

The electrical Ethernet interfaces (RJ-45

connectors) are implemented according
to IEEE Std 802.3. The two cages for plugin SFP modules comply with the industry
standard multi-source agreement.
The Ethernet over SDH transport using
GFP and VCAT opens new horizons in
terms of interoperability and standardization. They permit transparent operation
with legacy SDH equipment as well as
interworking with any other standard
compliant equipment.
Seamless Migration
The new NEBRO plug-in module is
fully compatible with the existing base
of FOX515 and FOX512 installations.
Therefore, FOX network elements can
be smoothly upgraded to support new
broadband Ethernet services all in
perfect combination with the traditional
services like teleprotection, emergency
phones, and SCADA. Using TDM
technology (PDH/SDH) on the trunkside assures the continuity of time and
mission critical services.
One Management System
The management of the various types
of services and transport functions is
all centralized under the umbrella of
ABBs Network Management System.
This enables the user to act in a familiar
environment, reduces further training
efforts, and accelerates the provisioning
of Ethernet / IP connections over the
valuable SDH network assets.

Video

NEBRO

Video

NEBRO
SDH card

C
B

VoIP

Ethernet Switch

SCADA
Event Rec
LWP 1

LWP 2

...

LWP 6

LWP 7

B
LWP 8

B'

Fibre-Optic
Backbone

GFP/VCAT mapper

FOX Station I

FOX Station II

SDH datastream with VC12's

Legacy Data
2/4 W Tel.

SDH card
NEBRO
VoIP

SDH Trunk Card

A'

FOX Station III

SCADA
Event Rec

4x10/100 BaseT 2 x GbE

FOX Station I

SCADA
Event Rec

Ethernet over SDH services on FOX

Teleprotection
Any other FOX Interface Card

Video: Virt. concatenated VC12s for Station I to Station III Video VLAN connection
VoIP: Virt. concatenated VC12s of logical ring VLAN for VoIP
SCADA/Event Recorder: Virt. concatenated VC12s of tagged VLAN connection Station I - Station II
(dashed line indicating SDH protection ring)

The diagram above shows details

of LANs for various Ethernet-based
applications connecting to NEBRO.
Packets are switched with a userdefinable capacity (n x 2 Mbps) to LWP
and afterwards mapped according to
GFP to concatenated VC-12s. These
VC-12s are transmitted via FOXs SDH
trunk card and the fibre-optic backbone
to remote stations (II & III). VC-12s of
one concatenated stream (e.g. the orange
Video stream) may travel on different
paths to their destination.

To establish a distributed LAN with a

logical ring structure (e.g. the blue VoIP
VLAN), the VC-12s of the related
concatenated stream are terminated in
each stations; the extracted Ethernet
frames are switched either to the
corresponding physical Ethernet port
or directly to the LWP that carries the
connection to the next station.
Traffic protection can be achieved either
on an Ethernet / RSTP base or with much
faster SDH ring and/or 1+1 protection.

Technical Data
Unit Level

Ethernet service unit NEBRO

Supported Services
Ethernet Switching

Switching bypass mode for IEEE Std 802.3 frame

Switching based on port or VLAN tag ID

Ethernet Transport

Standard EoS (Ethernet over SDH) transport

ITU-T G.707 - Virtual concatenation
ITU-T G.7041 - GFP
ITU-T G.7043 - LCAS

Performance Monitoring

SDH monitoring according to ITU-T G.826

Ethernet monitoring

Ethernet over SDH

characteristics

SDH card type

Capacity

Tributary card
Up to 63 x VC-12 / 3 x VC-3

Number of LWP

Virtual concatenation

On VC-12 and VC-3 level

Ethernet characteristics
Frames

Standard IEEE 802.3 frames and baby jumbo

frames up to 1600 bytes supported

Up to 4096

Number of MAC addresses

VLAN support

VLAN tagging or pass-through (IEEE 802.1q)

VLAN tag stacking (IEEE 802.1ad)

Spanning Tree

Spanning Tree according to IEEE 802.1d

Rapid Spanning Tree (IEEE 802.1w)

4 CoS queues per port (IEEE 802.1p)

Traffic prioritization

Interfaces
Electrical front interfaces

4 10/100BaseT according IEEE 802.3 autonegotiating full/half-duplex mode, automatic

MDI/MDIX crossover, RJ-45 connectors

Optical front interfaces

2 cages supporting SFP 100BASE-FX or GbE

plug-in modules

Protection

SDH

SNCP protection scheme

Power

Maximum power consumption

per card

13 W

Dimensions

Module width (4TE)

1 slot

Third-party Interoperability

Ethernet (user side)

With standard Ethernet equipment

Ethernet over SDH (trunk)

FOX

Operating Environments

Temperature range
Humidity

ABB Switzerland Ltd

Power Systems
Brown Boveri Strasse 6
CH-5400 Baden/Switzerland
Phone +41 - 58 589 37 35
or
+41 - 844 845 845 (Call Center)
Fax
+41 - 58 585 16 82
e.Mail utility.communication@ch.abb.com
www.abb.com/utilitycommunications

1KHA - 000 876 SEN 1000 - 06.06 - Printed in Switzerland

ABB Switzerland Ltd, June 2006.
The right to modifications or deviations due to technical progress is reserved.

System Level

Transparent for legacy SDH equipment and

interoperable with EoS standard compliant
modes
According to FOX environmental specification
According to FOX environmental specification

List of abbreviations
CoS
GFP
LCAS
LWP
MDI/MDIX

PDH
SCADA
SDH
SFP
TDM
VC-...
VCAT
VLAN
VoIP
RSTP

Class of Service
Generic Framing Procedure
Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
Logical Wan Port
Medium Dependant Interface
(with crossover)
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Small Form-factor Plugable
Time Division Multiplexing
Virtual Container within SDH
Virtual Concatenation
Virtual LAN
Voice over IP
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol