RAN_ENG_3G Site Engineering solution

(for the whole network) _V1.2_20140110

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Due to update and improvement of ZTE products and technologies, information in this document is
subjected to change without notice.
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Catalogue
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 4
1.1 Purpose............................................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Scope ................................................................................................................................................ 4
2. General Introduction of the BTS Upgrade Solution .............................................................................. 5
BPK board slot guideline ....................................................................................................................... 5
3. RF System upgrade Solution ................................................................................................................. 6
R8860E interface description: ................................................................................................................ 7
R8881 Interface description ................................................................................................................... 8
3.1 RF system Swap Scenarios ............................................................................................................ 11
Scenario-1: 2G single band sector, FS board available for 3G. ................................................... 11
Scenario-2: 2G Single band 900M sector S4, FS board available for 3G. ................................... 12
Scenario-3: 2G Single band 1800M sector S1-S4, FS board available for 3G. ............................ 13
Scenario-4: 2G Single band 1800M sector S5-S6, FS board available for 3G. ............................ 14
Scenario-5: 2G Single band 1800M sector S7-S8, FS board available for 3G. ............................ 15
Scenario-6: Single band 1800M sector S9-S12, FS board available for 3G. ................................ 16
Scenario-7: Dual band 900M&1800M, S1-3, FS board available for 3G. ................................... 17
Scenario-8: Dual band 900M S1-S3, 1800M S4 or 900M S4 1800M S1-S4, FS board not
available for 3G RRU .................................................................................................................. 18
Scenario-9: Dual band 900M S1-S4, 1800M S5-S6, FS board available for 3G. ........................ 19
Scenario-10: Dual band 900M S1-S4, 1800M S7-S10, FS board available for 3G. .................... 20
Scenario-11: Indoor micro site using BS8908. ............................................................................ 21
FS-RSU/RRU Relations Guideline ...................................................................................................... 22
4. Antenna solution ...................................................................................................................................... 23
1. TP Sharing sites........................................................................................................................ 23
2. TP Build sites. .......................................................................................................................... 23
5. Power Supply Solution ............................................................................................................................ 24
For 2G power supply, there are 2 scenarios as below: ......................................................................... 24
For distributed sites(BS 8700), A DCPD4 module will be configured for 3G RRU power supply ..... 24
For the Macro sites(BS 8900A), one 16A breaker will be changed to a 63A breaker for 3G RC
cabinet .................................................................................................................................................. 25








Glossary:
RRU Remote Radio Unit
LPU Lightning Protection Unit
OLP Outdoor Lightning Protection
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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
This documentation will describe in detail the 3G site engineering solution from the existing ZTE 2G
BTS to the 2/3G BTS/NodeB .
This document is only valid together with all approved product manuals and engineering handbooks.
Its purpose is to show a small variety of BTS upgrade solution in detail and to serve as quick reference
for quality checks.
1.2 Scope
This documentation is customized for the Telenor Pakistan 3G project and based on 2G swap
solution.
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2. General Introduction of the BTS Upgrade
Solution
For 3G sites, we just need to add BPK board (baseband board) in the existing 2G BBU and 3G
RRUs/RSUs for the RF part.
New RRU will be cascaded to existing RRU for saving FS board.
BPK board slot guideline
For the sites are using BS8700, BPK board will be normally configured at BBU slot 6.
If there are 3 UBPG already configured, BPK will be configured at slot 5.
If SE board is configured at slot 5, during upgrade, the 3
rd
UBPG will be moved to slot 4, then BPK
could be plugged at slot 6.

For the sites are using BS8900A, BPK board will normally be configured at BBU slot 6.
If there are 3 UBPG already configured, BPK will be configured at slot5.
If SE board is configured at slot 5, 3G will not be upgraded until original rectifier cabinet is swapped by
W301 rectifier, so that the 8 external alarms can be provided by W301, then BPK could take slot 5
instead of SE board.

BPK board will be prior plugged in BBU slot 6.

Figure- B8200 layout

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3. RF System upgrade Solution

There are 11 RF system scenarios during the 2G Site Swap:
Single Band
900M
S1~S3 MBR
S4 R8860E/R8881
1800M
S1~S4 R8860E/R8881
S5~S6 R8882
S7~S8 R8860E/R8881+R8860E/R8881
S9~S12 R8882+R8882
Dual Band
900M 1800M Configuration
S1~3 S1~S3 MBR
S1~3 S4 R8860E/R8881 (900M)+R8860E/R8881 (1800M)
S4 S1~S4 R8860E/R8881 (900M)+R8860E/R8881 (1800M)
S1~4 S5~S6 R8860E/R8881 (900M)+R8882(1800M)
S1~4 S7~S10
R8860E/R8881
(900M)+R8882(1800M)+R8860E/R8881 (1800M)

MBR is the Dual band R8882 which can work at both 900M and 1800M.
For 3G RRU, only 2100M R8881 will be used. And which could be only cascaded with R8860E and
R8881.
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R8860E interface description:

The interfaces are described in the following table:

No Label Interface Interface type/connector
1 LC1
BBU and RPU Interfaces/
RRU concatenation
interface
LC optical interface (IEC 874)
2 LC2
BBU and RPU Interfaces/
RRU concatenation
interface
LC optical interface (IEC 874)
3 AISG AISG device interface 8-cores socket (IEC 60130-9-ED)
4 Mon External device interface 37-core aviation socket
5 PWR Power supply interface
AC interface: Connector
XCE18T3K1P1-02+FJJP1-7.5 Cable
section area: 3*1 mm2
DC interface: Connector
XCG18T4K1P1-01+XC18FJJP1-10.5
Cable section area: 4*1.5 mm2
6 RX
Interface to receive
diversity RF cable
50 ohms DIN-mode Connector
7 RX/TX
Interface to
transmit/receive main
diversity RF cable
50 ohms DIN-mode Connector
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No Label Interface Interface type/connector
8
RX
out
Frequency expansion
interface
N-KY (MIL-C-39012 or IEC169-16)
9 RX in
Frequency expansion
interface
N-KY (MIL-C-39012 or IEC169-16)
10 GND Machine grounding Section area of cable is 16 mm2


R8881 Interface description


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No. Label Interface Interface/Connector Applications
1 Rx in
Combined
cabinet interface
N type connector
Diversity receive
signal input
2 Rx out N type connector
Diversity receive
signal output
3
Protection
ground interface
16 mm
2
yellow/green
round terminal
Protection
grounding
4
ANT1
TX/RX
Transmit/Receive
antenna feeder
interface
DIN type connector
Connection with the
antenna feeder
5
ANT2
RX
Receive antenna
feeder interface
DIN type connector
6 OPT1
Interface for
communication
between the BBU
and RRU
LC type optical
interface(IEC 874)
Signal transmission
between the RRU
and BBU
7 OPT2
RRU cascading
interface
LC type optical
interface(IEC 874)
8 AISG
AISG equipment
interface
8-pin socket square
plate installation
AISG signal
connection for
electrically tuning
antenna
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No. Label Interface Interface/Connector Applications
9 MON
MON external
monitoring
interface
8-pin round socket
panel installation
straight cable welding
Signal interaction
between the RRU
and external
equipment
including alarming
and RS485 control
four pairs of dry
contact inputs
10-1
10-2
PWR
Power input
interface
10-1: R8881 DC
chassis uses a 2pin
round connector
10-2: R8881 AC
chassis uses a 3pin
round connector
DC power input
interface: provides
-48 V DC power
AC power input
interface: provides
AC power
11 LMT
O&M Ethernet
interface
8P8C angle socket
PCB shielded welding
LED phone (LED
indicators: yellow for
left indicator and
green for right
indicator)
RRU O&M and
internal signal
output

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3.1 RF system Swap Scenarios
Scenario-1: 2G single band sector, FS board available for 3G.
For this scenario, MBR was used for GSM, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G RRU.
MBR
900M
ANT1 ANT2 OPT1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
3G
R8881
OPT1
ANT1 ANT2
3G
2100M


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Scenario-2: 2G Single band 900M sector S4, FS board available
for 3G.
For this scenario, R8860E/8881 was used for GSM, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G
RRU.

R8860E
900M
RX RX/TX
LC1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
OPT1 ANT1 ANT2
R8881
3G
2100M




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Scenario-3: 2G Single band 1800M sector S1-S4, FS board
available for 3G.
For this scenario, R8860E/8881 was used for GSM, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G
RRU.

R8860E
1800M
RX RX/TX
LC1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
OPT1 ANT1 ANT2
R8881
3G
2100M




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Scenario-4: 2G Single band 1800M sector S5-S6, FS board
available for 3G.
For this scenario, R8882 was used for GSM, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G RRU.

R8882
1800M
ANT1 ANT4
OPT1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
ANT1 ANT2
OPT1
R8881
3G
2100M

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Scenario-5: 2G Single band 1800M sector S7-S8, FS board
available for 3G.
In this scenario, Two R8860E/8881 were cascaded by both optical fiber and cascading cable, While slot
3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G RRU.
R8860E R8860E
1800M
LC1
LC2
LC1
RX out
RX in
RX out
RX in
RX/TX
RX/TX
Optical Fiber
Cascading cable
Jumper
R8881
3G
2100M

Figure
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Scenario-6: Single band 1800M sector S9-S12, FS board
available for 3G.
Some VIP sites, two R8882 were cascaded for GSM, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for 3G
RRU.
R8882 R8882
1800M 1800M
ANT1 ANT4 ANT1 ANT4
OPT1 OPT2
OPT1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
3G
2100M
ANT1 ANT2
R8881
OPT1

Figure


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Scenario-7: Dual band 900M&1800M, S1-3, FS board available
for 3G.
For this scenario, MBR was used for GSM 900M&1800M, while slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is available for
3G RRU.
900M 1800M
MBR
ANT1
ANT2
ANT3
ANT4
OPT1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
R8881
OPT1
ANT1 ANT2
3G
2100M

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Scenario-8: Dual band 900M S1-S3, 1800M S4 or 900M S4
1800M S1-S4, FS board not available for 3G RRU
In this scenario, two R8860E/R8881 were cascaded for GSM 900M&1800M, slot 3, 4, 5 of FS board is
not available for 3G RRU.
R8860E R8860E
900M 1800M
RX RX/TX RX RX/TX
LC1
LC1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
3G
2100M
R8881
LC1
LC2

Figure:
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Scenario-9: Dual band 900M S1-S4, 1800M S5-S6, FS board
available for 3G.
In this scenario, one R8860E/R8881 was used for 900M; one R8882 was used for 1800M. While there is
no FS port available for 3G RRU, The 3G RRU will be cascaded with R8860E/R8881.
R8860E
900M 1800M
R8882
RX RX/TX
LC1
ANT1 ANT4
OPT1
LC2
OPT1
3G
2100M
ANT1 ANT2
R8881

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Scenario-10: Dual band 900M S1-S4, 1800M S7-S10, FS board
available for 3G.
In this scenario, one R8860E/R8881 was used for 900M, one R8860E/R8881 and one R8882 were used
for 1800M, and one R8881 will be used for 3G. The three R8860E/R8881 will be cascaded by Optical
Fiber.
R8860E
900M 1800M
R8882
R8860E
1800M
LC1
LC2
RX
RX/TX
ANT1 ANT4
OPT1
RX RX/TX
LC1
Optical Fiber
Jumper
3G
2100M
OPT1
ANT1 ANT2
R8881
LC2

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Scenario-11: Indoor micro site using BS8908/BS8700.
For this scenario, 2G is using BS8908/BS8700. 3G will build a new site co-site with 2G. RF part will use
a combiner to combine 2G&3G to the splitter for indoor coverage.

GSM
BS8908
UMTS
R8881
Combiner
Splitter TX/RX
ANT1


GSM
BS8700
UMTS
R8881
Combiner
Splitter TX/RX
ANT1

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FS-RSU/RRU Relations Guideline
In addition to RSU layout principles and connections between FS and RSU/RRU, the port
connections between antennas and RSU/RRU should also be considered (such as the case of one
RSU supporting one or two cells or two RSUs supporting one cell).
a) RSU layout principles:
3G RSU
The RSUs are placed into the cabinet from left to right (No slot leaves empty) in the following
order:
3 empty RSU slots in the existing RC cabinet, 3G RSU will be installed in these slots by
the order 4,5,6.
No available slot for 3G RSU in the existing RC cabinet, a new RC cabinet will be added.
b) The connections between FS and RSU/RRU should comply with the following rules:

Fiber or SFP Cable connections between FS and RRU/RSU
In case of using one FS card: The FS card is placed at slot3 of BBU. The ports of FS card are
numbered from 0 to 5 (from right to left).The RSU/RRU units are connected to the FS ports in
the following order from port No. 0 to port No. 5 (No port leaves empty):
GSM 900 RSU/RRU in order of cells (lower at first) takes 0, 1, and 2
DCS1800 RSU/RRU in order of cells (lower at first) takes 3, 4, and 5
If there is no DCS1800M, UMTS 2100M will take FS 3,4,and 5.
Otherwise, UMTS 2100 RRU will be cascaded with R8860E/R8881.
For RSU, a new FS board will be configured.



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4. Antenna solution
1. TP Sharing sites.
For these sites, space on the tower is not available for installing the RRU and new antenna. In this case,
A new RRU pole will be added on the ground, all the single/dual band antennas will be changed to
Tri-band antennas.



2. TP Build sites.
For these sites, a new 2100M single band antenna will be added for each sector.
a. Sufficient space on the tower, the 2100M antenna will be installed above 1800M antenna.

b. Insufficient space on the tower, a diversity pole will be installed with 1800M antenna pole. 2100M
antenna will be installed beside 1800M antenna.
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5. Power Supply Solution
For 2G power supply, there are 2 scenarios as below:
Scenario1
For the Non EOL site, There is at least one breaker available on the original rectifier for
BBU power supply(10A). All 8 output port can be used for 8 RRUs.

For the Non EOL site, there is no breaker available for the BBU power supply, The first
port of DCPD4 will be used for BBU power supply, second port will be the backup for
BBU, third port to eighth port used for RRU.

Scenario2
For the EOL site, 7 ports in LVLD can be used for RRU power supply.


For distributed sites(BS 8700), A DCPD4 module will be configured
for 3G RRU power supply

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For the Macro sites(BS 8900A), one 16A breaker will be changed to
a 63A breaker for 3G RC cabinet



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