GX 8000

version 5.2
Nuera Technical Training

Support Training Department rev 1.0

© 2004 Nuera Ltd.

All rights reserved.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able

to perform the following tasks:

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Prerequisites

Element
Elementand
andNetwork
Network
Management
ManagementSystem
System
concepts
concepts

VoIP/VoP
VoIP/VoParchitecture
architecture
and •• Use
UseWindows
WindowsO.S
andprotocols
protocols O.S
((MGCP/MEGACO
MGCP/MEGACO/Sigtran/
/Sigtran/ to
torun
runmultiple
multipleapplications.
applications.
SIP)
SIP) •• Basic
BasicSolaris
SolarisOS
OScapabilities.
capabilities.
Voice
VoiceEssentials
Essentials––
Basic
BasicTelephony
Telephonyandand
IP
IPTelephony
TelephonyConcepts
Concepts

Networking
Networkingand
andTCP/IP
TCP/IP
Nuera PSTN protocols
NueraSystem
System PSTN protocols
GX
GX8000
8000

Course Roadmap

Module 1 Module 2 Install Module 3 EMS

Hands On Hands On
GX-8K Intro GX-8K Install EMS

Module 4 GX-8K GX8K Prov. Module 5 Chassis

Provisioning & Hands On Hands On
Operation GX-8K Maint.

Module 6 CLI
Hands On
CLI
Graphic Symbols

Voice Gateway
Switch Router 2000 Firewall Soft Switch DSP
GW

Personal 8000 GW 5000 GW Analog

computer Board
GW

Phone IP Phone FAX

Node Cloud

Circuit Switched
Ethernet Line Serial Line Line

Sources of Information

299-451-301 EMS Product Description v5.2.pdf

299-451-101 EMS Users’ Manual v5.2.pdf
299-451-301_Nuera EMS Release Notes v5 2.pdf
299-448-601 GX-8K Installation & Operation Manual v5.2.pdf
299-448-301 GX IPM 5K 8K Release Notes v5.2.pdf
299-448-501 GX IPM 5K 8K OAM Guide.pdf
Roadmap - Where Are We?
GX 8000 – Introduction and Overview

Module 1 Module 2 Install Module 3 EMS

GX-8K Intro Hands On Hands On
GX-8K Install EMS

Module 4 GX-8K GX-8K Module 5 Chassis

Provisioning & Prov. Hands On
Operation GX-8K Maint.
Hands On

Module 6 CLI
Hands On
CLI

Product Overview – What is this and where does it fit in?

Hardware Overview – What goes where? What does what?
Hardware Redundancy – What is redundant? How does it work?

Module1 Diagram:
Overview & Basic Operation
Course Introduction and Agenda

Nuera Gateway products and Applications

Product overview – GX 8000 specifications.

Hardware overview - Platform

Cards and Modules

GW Functional Overview

EMS+Demo

Review and Summery.

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Chapter Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to

perform the following tasks:

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 GX 8K
Product Specification &Versions
Targeted towards Large Scale Deployments
that require High Availability & Redundancy
Standard 19’’, 12U packaging
Carrier-Class, (including PSTN redundancy)
cPCI Hot-Swap
cPSB (PICMG2.16) compliant
High Backplane switching capacity of 2x17Gbps (Ethernet)

Hardware Versions
GX 8000
Scalable from 480 up to >16K Low Bit Rate (LBR) VoIP calls.
Carrier-Class, designed for availability above 99.999%

GX 8K
Product Specification
Mid & High-Density Media Gateway
High Availability per design
Modular design
Versatile platform in terms of capacity,
interface types, and signaling types
Low price per port
Field proven solution
Interoperability was made with leading
SSW/MGC providers
What’s special on GX-8K?

System Mangement
Board booting
Configuration
Fault Mangement
cPSB
Ethernet switch aggregates traffic from all boards.
High Availability Support
Chassis management.

Features and Capabilities -1

PSTN Signaling
CAS based Protocols:
T1 Robbed Bit, MF-R1, FG-A/B/D, PSAP
E1 CAS/MFC R2

ISDN PRI (SigTran interworking )

Termination of lower layers (up to Q.931)
Delivery of Q.931 over IUA/SCTP/IP

SS7 (SigTran interworking )

Termination of lower layers (up to MTP1,2)
Delivery of higher level signaling (ISUP/SCCP/TCAP/MAP)
over MTP3/M2UA

Call Control
MGCP / MEGACO/ TGCP/ SIP
 Features and Capabilities-2

VoIP Capabilities
Large number of VoIP vocoders:
G.711,G.723.1,G.726,G.728,G.729A
Cellular Vocoders: (Optional)
• GSM-FR, GSM-EFR, AMR (all 8 rates), AMR2
• CDMA: EVRC, QCELP 8k, QCELP13k

Tone Detection&Genaration:
VAD, CNG and PLC are supported in all coders.
DTMF detector/generator complies with TIA-464B
Call Progress Tones – 32 tones (16 on TP-1610).
Detectors & Generators can work both on TDM and Packet side.

Features and Capabilities-3

Voice Band Features

Echo Cancellation
G.168/2002 with tail of 30/64/128 msec (64*/128 – with density hit)
DTMF Transport
Relay per RFC2833
Proprietary Relay
Inband
Fax&Modem
Mature Fax Technology
Supports Group 3 Fax up to 14.4 Kbps
Fax CNG/CED/V.21 detection (from PSTN IF)
Fax/Modem discrimination.
VoIP processing: either T.38 or bypass.
T.38 can withstand up to 8sec round trip delay.
Features and Capabilities-4

PSTN Features
PSTN Interfaces
E1/T1/J1
OC3/STM1 – APS protected.
PSTN Protocols
– CAS
• MGCP CAS Package Support (RFC 3064)
• MEGACO R2 Package support. (R2 and CAS drafts)

– ISDN PRI
• Termination of lower layers (up to Q.931). PRI for Japan – NTT, KDD
• Delivery of Q.931 over IUA/SCTP/IP (RFC 3057/2960)
– SS7
• MTP2 termination (ITU, ANSI, China variants) and transport over M2UAoSCTP.
• MTP2 conformed per ITU Q.78x.
• MTP3 termination and transport over M3UAoSCTP.

Features and Capabilities-5

Call Control Protocol
– MEGACO/H.248
– MGCP/TGCP
– SIGTRAN

VoIP Characteristics
Standard RTP/RTCP (RFC 1889/1890).
Voice channels capacity Supports:
480 to 7,200 VoIP with TP-1610; 2,000 to 18,000 channels with TP-6310.
All channels are bi-directional (full duplex) and can be G.711 or Low-Bit-Rate
IP
Single IP address for provisioning and OAM.
Direct H.248 and SigTran control path between SSW and VoIP blades
Management
SNMP – V2 (MIB2 , RTP MIB , Trunk MIB , Nuera Private MIB)
Various log and traces for debugging (to external Syslog server) – for debug
and technician monitoring
 Features and Capabilities-6

Network Interface
Ethernet
Dual redundant 1GB Ethernet, Dual redundant SC style fiber optic
connectors,1000Base-SX via the front/rear panel
IP
Single IP address for provisioning and OAM.
Multiple IP address for Media and Call control
(H.248, MGCP, VoIP, SIGTRAN).
PSTN
16 channelized T1/E1/J1 via double 50-pin Central Office connectors
APS protected channelized OC-3/STM-1 via optical connectors
ATM IF*
(supported by 6310 )
For 3GPP media gateway.

Features and Capabilities-7

HA Principles
• No Single Point of Failure:
Redundant, Load Sharing Power Supplies and Fan Trays.
Redundant Ethernet Switches.
Dual star cPSB Ethernet connectivity.
Redundant: System Controllers, VoP Cards, Alarm Boards
No usage of PCI bus. Limited, non-critical usage of H.110
APS protection on PSTN (STM-1) and ATM interfaces.
• Fault Handling:
Detection – BIT, heart beat, chassis sub - (systems monitoring by alarm
card)
Location – Supported by fault detection mechanisms
Isolation – reset support
Recovery – using redundant boards and chassis sub-systems
Reporting – to EMS and NMS via SNMP.
Repair - Hot swap removal of all system elements
Reintegration – Hot swap insertion
 Features and Capabilities-8

High Availability Features

• No single point of failure
• Fault detection and alarm indications ( LEDs & messages to EMS)
• All modules are Hot Swap
Redundancy
– Automatic switch over to redundant modules: (SC,ES,TP, PSTN
redundancy, uplink i/f, SA-1)
– Load Sharing common HW infrastructure:( Fans, P.S )
• “Hot Protection” - TP switch over with continuation of ongoing calls.
Supported with following configuration:
– MG Blade: TP; - Call control: H.248, MGCP
– ISUP: SS7 Transparent + M2UA
– PRI: tunneled over SIGTRAN (IUA)
• “Warm Protection” - TP switch over with preservation of capacity but
ongoing calls will discontinue.
Supported with following configuration:
– CAS ( in all call control protocols )

Features and Capabilities-9

Platform
including PSTN redundancy
No single point of failure,
cPCI Hot-Swap, Standard 19’’, 12U packaging ,21 slot chassis
Up to 20K LBR channels (Planned)
SIGTRAN: M2UA/SCTP Signaling Available

Carrier-Class with High Availability

Full Redundancy Hot-Insert of modules
Designed for NEBS Level 3 compliance
Homologation Safety and EMC certified
AC or DC (-48V ) powered
Sturdy & reliable per design
Open Platform: OEM can run application on additional CPU cards
cPSB (PICMG2.16) compliant
High Backplane switching capacity of 2x17Gbps (Ethernet)
High Availability Features

• Load Sharing common HW infra:

Fan, P.S.,
• Hot* Redundancy for all modules :
maintain existing calls during switch over.
• Automatic failure:
detection and switch over to redundant module:
SC,ES, ES uplink, TP, SA-1
• Hot PSTN Redundancy
TP s/o for SS7 transparent, MEGACO, MGCP wireline

System™ internal interconnections

EMS
MGC

Call Control
SNMP

TP1610 VoIP
Redundant SC Active SC TP Board
Boards

Heart Beat TPNCP

Database
replication

Alarm Card Alarm Card

GX VoP Capabilities - Review

Media Gateway
– Large number of VoP vocoders:
• E.g. G.711,G.723.1,G.726,G.728,G.729A,AMR…
– MGCP / TGCP / MEGACO call control
– Rich voice processing feature list
• Echo cancellation, Fax & Modem, progress tone, Dynamic Jitter
buffer,DTMF detection and generation
– E1/T1/J1 interfaces
Signaling Gateway
– CAS MF(basic support via MEGACO packages )
– ISDN ( via IUA )
– SS7 ( via M2UA )

General Application: Network Architecture

SIGTRAN

MGCP/MEGACO
E1/T1/J1

RTP/RTCP

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Applications1: GX E1/T1 Trunking
Region B

GX 8000 Soft Switch

Trunking Gateway GX 8000
Region A Trunking Gateway

Class 5 Central Office

Class 5 Central Office
Wide Area IP Network

Region C Class 5 Central Office

GX 8000
Trunking Gateway
GX 8000
Trunking Gateway Region B

Class 5 Central Office

Applications2: Trunking Long Distance

GX 2000
Trunking Gateway
Region A Region B

PSTN PSTN

Wide Area
IP Network
Customer Premises

GX 8000 GX 2000
Trunking Gateway Trunking Gateway
PBX or PBX or
Key System Key System
Soft Switch
Hardware Overview

Nuera GX 8000 Media

Gateway is comprised of the following components:

Chassis enclosure
1 or 2 System Controller (SC-2) Boards
1 or 2 Synchronization and Alarm Boards (SA-1 Rear Transition
Modules (RTM))
1 to 15 TP-1610 Media Gateway Boards or 1 to 9 TP-6310 Media
Gateway Boards
1 to 15 RTM/1610/Normal boards or 1 to 9 RTM/6310/Normal boards
1 RTM/1610/Standby or 1 RTM/6310/Standby board (required for PSTN
redundancy
Up to 2 Ethernet Switches (ES-1)
Up to 2 ES RTM boards
Up to 3 DC Power Supply Modules
2 Fan Trays with 7 Fans in each tray

System Controller - Hardware

Sun CP2300
UltraSPARC™ 650 MHz processor
Solaris 9 operating environment
Hard Disk on board (40G)
512MB SDRAM (onboard or module)
256KB set associative L2 cache
Dual-redundant Fast Ethernet interfaces
 System Controller Tasks
System Management
Introduce the whole chassis as one manageable entity (one SNMP
Agent )
Holds the full system configuration.

Chassis management
HW monitoring( temperature, voltage, fans )
Board booting and configuration.
Board diagnostic.

High Availability
Continuous health monitoring and automatic recovery
from failure without effecting Media Gateway operation:

VoIP blades
Ethernet Switches
System Controllers

SA1-Synchronization & Alarm RTM Board

1+1 redundancy configuration

cPCI hot-swappable rear transition module, resides on
the rear of each CPU slot

Functions:
Monitoring all midplane voltages
Monitoring correct operation of all power supplies
Monitoring the speed of all chassis fans
Controlling the state of alarm relays
Controlling the front panel chassis LEDs
Detecting the state of front chassis push-button
H/W board reset
SA1-Synchronization & Alarm RTM
Board (cont.)
Alarms
Fans speed control.
Fan failure detection.
Power supplies outputs monitoring.
Temperature sensing.
Voltage monitoring
Chassis LEDs
Push buttons
Dry contacts relay for external alarming.

Front Panel LEDS

Front Panel LEDS - Description

Component Label Description Color Code Remarks

LED 1 SYSTEM Indicates that the System Green OK Default = Red
Controller board is properly Red Fail Steady Red during initialization of active SC.
functioning Steady Green indicates proper SC board
functioning
LED 2 CRITICAL Indicates the detection of a Green OK Default = Red
fault (or faults) - Red Fail Red when critical alarm is set. When This Led is on,
categorized as ‘Critical’ all other Major and Minor severity LEDs are also lit.
Green when no critical alarms
LED 3 MAJOR Indicates the detection of a Green OK Default = Orange
fault (or faults) - Orange Fail Orange when Major alarm is set. When this Led is
categorized as ‘Major' on, the Minor severity LEDs is also lit.
Green when no Major alarms
LED 4 MINOR Indicates the detection of a Green OK Default = Orange
fault (or faults) - Orange Fail Orange when minor alarm is set.
categorized as ‘Minor’ Green when no Minor alarms

LED 5 System Indicates the health or Green OK Default = Red

failure of the chassis‘ Red Fail Green = initialization complete
hardware as detected by Red = during initialization process
the alarm module
Pushbutton 1 ACO Alarm Cut Off --- Used to mute the telco alarm relay devices attached
to the SA/RTM. Returns all of the alarm relays to
normal position, deactivating the alarm relay
devices. Both the chassis LEDs and other gateway
alarm signals are NOT affected.
Accessed with finger

cPSB Overview

Node Slot
connected to both PSB Fabrics
support 2 10/100/1000 Mbps links
Connection via 16 J3/P3 pins

Fabric Slot
Fabric board switches packets between Nodes
Up to two Fabrics may be supported
Standard / Extended Fabric supports 1-19 / 20-24 links
Standard Fabric Connection via 152 J3/P3, J5/P5 pins
Extended Fabric Connection via 192 J3/P3, J4/P4, J5/P5 pins
Optional “f” link between both Fabrics
 ES/6600 Ethernet Switch Board
Serves as Fabric board in Packet Switching Backplane (cPSB)
architecture.
24 1000Mbps cPSB-compliant Ethernet ports
18 downlinks are connected to the GX 8000 midplane slots
1-3Gbps aggregated uplink for media ( or all traffic in case of no separation )
100 Base-T Call control uplink ( optional )
100 Base-T OAM uplink ( optional )
An out-of-band 10 Base-T/100 Base-TX management port provided on
the front panel
802.3-2000 Link Aggregation (up to 12 groups, 8 ports per group)
• 802.1p priority queuing (8 classes of service).
• 802.1Q VLAN support (16 VLANs)
• Multi-Port Mirroring
• Board diagnostics

Cooling GX 8000
Fan Trays
Lower / Upper modules
Cooling principle - suck-up hot air from boards and
power supplies.
GX 8000 Boards - TP1610

Complete Media Gateway on a Blade

• High-density
• Hot-swappable
• CompactPCI resource board
• Capacity of 480 DS0 channels, 480 G.711/LBR VoIP channels
• Supports all necessary functions for voice, data and fax streaming
over IP networks.
• Provides 16 E1/T1 trunk interfaces
• Provides 2 redundant 100 Base-TX cPSB Ethernet ports
• Accompanied by a Rear Transition Module (RTM) board. The PSTN
interfaces are connected to the RTM from the rear of the chassis.
The redundant board is supplied with a special RTM.

1610 Board, Panel View

1610 RTM Panel with 2 Telco Connectors

GX 8000 Boards - TP-1610

IP

Each TP1610 provides:

Vocoding & Echo Cancellation
Termination of IP Transport Protocols
Termination of PSTN Protocols
IP & TDM Interfaces
PSTN Signaling
Signaling Gateway Interworking (SigTran)
Progress Tones & Announcements
Media Gateway Control (H.248,MGCP, TGCP and Sigtran)
GX 8000 Platform-Front View

Front Panel Logo Area Front View

Fan Tray • 21 Slot Chassis

• Modified cPSB
Fan Tray
(PICMG 2.16) backplane
• High capacity of

TP1610 or TP6310

TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
TP1610 or TP6310
2x17Gbps (Ethernet)
• 6U cPCI Boards
• 2 Sun Sparc SBC System

ES-1
SC-2
SC-2

ES-1
Controllers
• PSTN Redundancy
• Designed for:
• Carrier environment
• NEBS Level 3
• Note: All TP Boards in the
chassis should be of the
Power Supply Power Supply Power Supply same type; either TP6310
or TP1610

GX 8000 Platform-Front View (cont.)

Leds Panel

Fans

Power Supply
and Air Filter
 GX 8000 Platform-Rear View
Rear View Line Interface
Logo Area Module (LIM) –
Rear makes available
Transition Fan Tray 5 Ethernet Ports
Module (RTM) – not used by
– One of the Fan Tray the system
RTMs is a blades.
special module
– providing the
PSTN
Alarm & Timing
redundancy

SAT-1
SAT-1

ES-1
Module (SAT-1)
RTM

RTM

RTM

RTM
RTM

RTM
RTM
RTM
RTM

RTM

SC-2 RTM
RTM
RTM
RTM

RTM
Feature

LIM
LIM

– provides Alarm
& Timing
functions
(*Roadmap)

-48V DC
Connection
& Circuit -48V DC
Breaker Connection
& Circuit
Breaker

ESD Connection AC Power

Inlet

Power Subsystem

Type Requirements Connection

AC 100 to 240 V AC, nominal 50/60 Hz Standard 3-prong quick

connect socket

DC -40 to -72 V DC Protective barriers

 TP switch over

N+1 redundancy
Board Failure detection:
Continuous on line diagnostics
Heartbeat is sent to SC every 10ms
Board state, including information needed for seamless
switchover.
Switchover may be initiated by VoP board, SC or EMS.
Upon switchover:
The redundant board is updated with the failed board state.
PSTN interfaces are switched over the backplane to
redundant board.
The redundant board assumes the IP address of the failed board
Switchover control busses and logic circuitry are duplicated to
avoid erroneous switchover.

GX 8000 parts - Summary

Front Rear
Qty/Redundant Qty/Redundant
Item Item
System System
TP1610 – active Mode Up to 14 in 8K Active RTM Up to 14 in 8K

TP6310 – active Mode Up to 8 in 8K Active RTM Up to 8

TP1610 ( or TP6310) – 1 Redundant RTM 1

Standby Mode

SC – System Controller 2 SA-1 ("SAT") 2

(SUN CP2300) ;

ES - Ethernet Switch 2 Line I/F Module For CPC4411 2

(PTi – CPC4411)

Fan trays 2 Fan trays 2 in 8K

PS- Power Supply Module 3 - -

Q &
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