RSEB Board

There are two kinds of RSEB board: RSEB-RPR and RSEB-EOS.

RSEB-RPR board is the ordinary RSEB board. It provides the RPR Networking function.

RSEB-EOS board implements the pure EOS function with two GE interfaces and eight
FE interfaces by using “bypass RPR MAC switching”. RSEB-RPR board and RSEB-
EOS board are completely the same physically. RSEB board can be configured as RSEB-
RPR board or RSEB-EOS board in ZXONM E300. In this section, all descriptions are
applicable to both RSEBRPR board and RSEB-EOS board if there is no extra note.

Overview
RSEB board uses the system-supplied power, clock, management interface, service
interface to switch the service data converged into itself. The RSEB-RPR uses the
channel bandwidth resource of SDH/MSTP ring network to provide the dual-ring
topology required by RPR and to implement the ring interconnection of RPR nodes. The
SDH channels occupied by the RSEB-RPR board are independent. Working with the
OIS1x8 optical interface board or the ESFEx8 electrical interface board, RSEB board can
provide eight FE optical or electrical interfaces. RSEB front panel provides two GE
optical interfaces.

RSEB board can be inserted in any slot of slot 2 to slot 5, and slot 12 to slot 15. Interface
board OIS1x8/ESFEx8 can be inserted in any slot of slot 62 to slot 65, and slot 68 to slot
71, as shown in Figure 14.

RSEB-RPR Board
RSEB-RPR Board Functions
RSEB-RPR board has the following functions:

Ports and interfaces

At the user side, RSEB-RPR board provides two 1000 Mbit/s Ethernet (GE) optical
interfaces and eight 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet (FE) optical/electrical interfaces.

At the system side, RSEB-RPR board provides one RPR port (including two RPR SPAN
port: RPR SPAN1 and RPR SPAN2) and a maximum 2 Gbit/s ring add/drop bandwidth.
At the system side, RSEB-RPR board provides four EOS ports which support
reception/transmission of Ethernet frames compliant with the IEEE 802.3 standard.
RPR SPAN ports and EOS system ports share the 16 VC-4s SDH processing bandwidth.
They support the RPR ring total bandwidth of 8 VC-4s at most, and EOS bandwidth of
63 VC-12s at most.

Ethernet data of any EOS system port can be mapped to the virtual concatenation group
composed of 1 to 63 VC-12s. The total bandwidth of four EOS system ports can reach up
to 63 VC-12s.EOS system port can work for RPR service cross-ring, or for
communication with EOS board such as SEC and MSE. It supports VC-12-xv mapping
and LCAS protocol.
Ethernet data of any SPAN port can be mapped to the virtual concatenation group
composed of 1 to 24 VC-3s or 1 to 8 VC-4s.SPAN port supports VC-3-xv and VC-4-xv
mapping and LCAS protocol.

Service capabilities

The bandwidth and peak rate of services with different priorities are configurable.
It supports fairness algorithm.
It supports the topology discovery and path protection function.
It supports EMS configuration and alarm performance query, and other queries (including
RPR physical port running status, RPR ring topology relation diagram).

RPR layer supports two protection modes: Wrapping and steering, so that conflict of
SDH and RPR inter-layer protection switching can be avoided by setting the delay time.
When protection modes of different sites in the ring are not consistent with each other,
they can be automatically unified as Steering protection, and report the alarm of
protection inconsistency. The protection switching time satisfies the 50 ms switching
requirement (with less than 16 sites).
Supports L2 switching; traffic flow from point to point, from point to multi-point, and
from multi-point to multi-point; static MAC address configuration, and automatic
learning of MAC address.
Network management functions by automatically discovers ring network topology and
updates it without human interference.

Supports “plug and play” of site. Automatically detects connection error in optical fibers,
reports alarm, and performs protection.

Supports Connection Admission Control (CAC). When the ring network is configured
with excess reserved bandwidth or excess guarantee bandwidth (exceeding the single ring
bandwidth), it will send an alarm (sends alarm only and does not handle the alarm).

Notes:
Reserved bandwidth is assigned to one kind of service and cannot be used by other
service.

Guarantee bandwidth is assigned to one kind of service for priority use, and other service
can also use the guarantee bandwidth if it is free.

Supports automatic ring selection based on service configuration, or manual ring

selection

Automatic ring selection is by default, which generally selects the shortest path for
transmission. The manual ring selection allows user to select shorter or longer path
manually. When Steering protection occurs in the ring network, manual ring selection
will be disabled to avoid service interruption.
Supports online upgrade of software and programmable components, It also ensures that
the CPU with minimum configuration can work normally.

RSEB-RPR Board Working Principle The functional block diagram of RSEB-RPR board

EOS Port EOS

User Side System Side
Receive direction (Ethernet → SDH):
Ethernet data packet passes through the FE/GE processing module and enters the 802.3
Ethernet switch module. The switch module implements the switch and convergence of
FE/GE interfaces at user side and RPR/EOS ports at system side. The RPR MAC unit
performs service classification, route judgment, and bandwidth adjustment by fairness
algorithm, service forwarding, and protection. It adapts the Ethernet data to SPAN1 and
SPAN2 ports.

SDH processing module put the payload data into SDH virtual container, and sends the
data into CSE/CSA board via service bus. Transmit direction (SDH → Ethernet):
The RSEB-RPR board receives signals from service bus, overhead bus, and clock bus
from CSE/CSA board and SCI board.

The SDH processing module processes the signals and sends the payload data into 802.3
Ethernet switch module through EOS port or into RPR MAC unit which converts data of
SPAN1 and SPAN2 ports to RPR port data.

The 802.3 Ethernet switch module receives frames and then distributes the frames to
various user ports.

Finally, the FE/GE processing module completes the transmission. RSEB-RPR board has
dual service buses, dual overhead buses, and dual clock buses. The service buses adopt
the principle of “concurrent transmission and preferred reception” to select the active bus
according to the traffic alarm information. The overhead buses conduct selection
according to the CSE/CSA board information such as board-in-position, ready, and
active. The clock buses conduct selection according to the SCI board information such as
board-in-position, ready, and active. The functions of RSEB-RPR modules are described
as follows.

FE processing module
It provides eight FE optical/electrical interfaces. The optical interfaces comply with the
IEEE802.3 100BASE-FX standard. They adopt the SFP optical module, and can choose
single-mode or multi-mode optical module as required. The electrical interfaces comply
with IEEE802.3 100BASE-TX standard with 10/100 Mbit/s FE interfaces. They support
Full/half duplex work mode
GE processing module
It provides two 1000 Mbit/s Ethernet optical interfaces. The optical interfaces comply
with the IEEE802.3z standard with 10/100 Mbit/s FE interfaces, and support full duplex
mode. The optical interfaces adopt SFP optical module, and can choose single-mode or
multi-mode optical module as required. 802.3 Ethernet switch module It performs the
switch and convergence of FE/GE interfaces at user side and RPR/EOS ports at system
side. Its converges user ports and EOS system ports to the RPR system port, and
distributes the frames received from the RPR system port to various user ports or EOS
system ports. The bandwidth of the interface between the RPR MAC module and the
Ethernet switch module is 2.5 Gbit/s.

RPR MAC unit

It performs all the steps to adapt Ethernet frame to RPR MAC adaptive layer, classify
services, limit speed, and judge the route. It also performs the RPR MAC function
specified by IEEE802.17, bandwidth adjustment by fairness algorithm, service
forwarding, and protection.

EOS unit: Performs the following two functions.

Provides the RPR MAC unit with two ring ports (SPAN1 and SPAN2), adapt RPR data
frame to SDH physical layer, and provides GFP encapsulation, supports VC-4 or VC-3
virtual concatenation and LCAS, with the maximum total bandwidth of 2.5 Gbit/s
(equivalent to 16×VC-4 or 48×VC-3).

Provides the Ethernet switch unit with EOS function, The system side can provide at
most four EOS ports for RPR service cross-ring, or for communication between SFE,
MSE, and other EOS boards. Provides GFP encapsulation, supports VC-12 virtual
concatenation and LCAS.

SDH processing module It implements mapping/demapping between RPR frames and

SDH frames, processes SDH section overheads and path overheads, cross connects SDH
timeslots.

MCU
It communicates with NCP board, performs board self-test and initialization
configuration. It also collects performance and alarm information.