RTTC HYD

EWSD Digital switching system has been

designed and manufactured by M/s
Siemens, Germany. The name is the
abbreviated form of German equivalent of
Electronic Switching System Digital
(Electronische Wheler Systeme Digitale).
EWSD switch can support maximum
2,50,000 subscribers or 60,000 incoming,
outgoing or both way trunks, when working
as a pure tandem exchange. It can carry
25,200 Erlang traffic

System Architecture
Main hardware units of an EWSD switch are as

The

under:(1) Digital line unit (DLU) - functional unit on which subscriber lines
are terminated.
(2) Line/Trunk Group (LTG) - Digital Trunks and DLUs are
connected to LTGs.
(3) Switching Network (SN) - All the LTGs are connected to the SN
which inter connects the line and trunks connected to the
exchange in accordance with the call requirement of the subscrib
ers. CCNC and CP are also connected to SN.
(4) Coordination Processor (CP) It is used for system-wide
coordination functions, such as, routing, zoning, etc. However
each subsystem in EWSD carryout practically all the tasks arising
in their area independently.
(5)
Common Channel Signaling Network Control (CCNC) Unit or
Signaling System Network Control (SSNC)- This unit functions
as the Message Transfer Part (MTP) of CCS#7. The User Part

Access

LTG

DLU
DLUC
C

Switching Network

GP

LTG
GP

Common channel signaling/ Signaling

System Network Control
CCNC/

SSNC

Coordination
SYPC

EM

SYP

CP
MBC

MB

OMT
CCG

Distributed controls in EWSD

SGC

Digital Line Unit (DLU)

Analog or Digital (ISDN) subscribers, PBX lines or V5.1
interface are terminated on DLU . DLUs can be used locally within
the exchange or remotely as remote switch unit , in the vicinity of
the groups of subscribers.
DLUs are connected to EWSD sub-systems via a uniform
interface standardized by CCITT, i.e., Primary Digital Carrier
(PDC) to facilitate Local or Remote installation. A subset of CCS# 7
is used for CCS on the PDCs.

Switching Network
Different peripheral units of EWSD, i.e.,
LTGs, CCNC, MB are connected to the
Switching Network (SN) via 8192 kbps
highways called SDCs (Secondary Digital
Carriers), which have 128 channels each. The
SN consists of several duplicated Time Stage
Groups (TSG) and Space Stage Groups (SSG)
housed in separate racks.

Signaling System Network Control

(SSNC)
In the EWSD powernode the SSNC
takes over the control of the SS7 network
(instead of CCNC as was used in EWSD
Classic). Here SSNC can be used as
signaling end point (SEP) or signaling
transfer point (STP) as was also done by
CCNC and output circuits called inlets
and outlets.

System Data
No. of Subscriber lines

max. 250 000

No. of Trunks
Switchable traffic

max. 60 000
max. 25 200 E

Signaling systems

All conventional signaling systems,

e.g. CCITT R2, No.5, No.7

ISDN accesses
Basic access
160 kbps(2B+D+sync.)
B= 64 kbps, D= 16 kbps
Primary rate access 2048 kbps(30B+D+sync.)

Environmental conditions

Ambient temperature

5C to 40C

Relative humidity

10% to 80%