Section 3

OMC-R Overview

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Objectives

Upon completion of this section, you will have knowledge of:

The general hardware of the OMC-R

The hardware dimensioning
The network model used by the OMC-R
The ROT & RACE position in the network

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Contents

Operation & Maintenance Manager Agent Model

Data Flow between the OMC-R OMC-R Capacity

and the BSS
OMC-R Dimensioning
OMC-R in the GSM Network
ROT/RACE Position in the
General Hardware Description GSM System

OMC-R Server Layout ROT Presentation

Storage Array Upgrade RACE Presentation

Sun Blade 150 Review Exercises

Monobox Server

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Operation & Maintenance

Network Operation Main OAM improvements

Software upgrades
BDA building time
BSS restarting time
BTS reconfiguration

Maintenance
New OAM functionnalities
linked to the Bsce3
BSS/OMC Connection
Plug & Play Recognition
Fault Tolerance and
Load balancing

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Data Flow between the OMC-R and the BSS

(Re) Configuration
OMC-R
Administration
Fault Management

Performance and Trace Mngt

Users
Security Management Facility

BSS Software Upgrading

BSS OMC-R
ROT/
RACE
Local
station
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OMC-R in the GSM Network
Remote
Manager
PSTN NSS OMC-R

Local External
Manager Q3 Interface
GMSC GMSC Internal
Q3
MD - R

PSPDN PCM <->X.25

( for BSS 2G) OMN interface
A interface A interface
Gi PSTN

GGSN
T Ater B T Ater B
C interface S C interface S
Gprs Backbone only with
U C U C
RACE
SGSN
P A Abis interface Abis interface
Gb C
U Gprs
S ROT/
N B B B B B B RACE
T T T T T T
S S S BSS S S S

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General Hardware Description
ROT or
RACE

Local Local
Local workstation workstation
X workstation Printer PCU OAM Server PSTN
Terminal SDO

Terminal server
+ modems
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Ethernet LAN Display Display Ethernet/X.25

unit unit MA E LAN

E4XXX Router
Alarm OMC-R Alarm
relay servers relay BSS2
Agprs
Serial link
X.25 NETWORK or BSC
Ethernet connection
Optical fiber
PCUSN
Router BSS17
StorEdge A5XXX
BSS1
Sun
StorEdge A5000

Remote
workstations

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OMC-R Server Layout

Monitoring link
to second server Ethernet/10baseT

TTYB
Console
Sun
E4500
towards BSS
with Bsc2G

HSI
Port 0
Optical
Fiber Port 1

To X.25 modem
IP Port 2
(OMN)

connection Port 3

Sun

StorEdge A5000

StorEdge A5200
towards BSS
with Bsce3

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OMC-R Server Upgrade

Nominal OMC-R Server in V14

SUN FIRE 880

SUN E4002 400MHz

still supported SUN E450X 400MHz

2 hard disks of
2x18Gb

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Storage Array Upgrade
2x T3

Nominal Storage Array in V14 9 x 36Gb

disks

A5200
2 x 9 x 9Gb
disks
still supported with Upgrade

2 x 73Gb disks

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SUN Blade 150

Sun Blade 150

Nominal WKS in V14

Ultra Sparc 5, 360MHz

still supported
Ultra Sparc 5, 400MHz

Hard disks of 256MB

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Mono Box Server

Mono box
OMC-R

PCU OAM

SDO
SUN FIRE 880 T3 StorEdge

X-terminal server
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Manager Agent Model

OMC-R
User EXTERNAL
MMI MANAGER PART MANAGER
MIB

Q3
Q3

AGENT PART (MD-R)

BDE

OMN Interface
BSS
BDA
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OMC-R Capacity

V14 V14
Standard / High Very High
Capacity Capacity

20 / 30 BSC 40

1600 / 2400 SITE 3200

Main benefits:
Less investment required
to face an increasing traffic
1600 / 2400 CELL 3200
Example: 60 BSC - 4800 cells
- standard capacity 3 OMC-R
- high capacity 2 OMC-R

Less hardware entities and

software modules to handle 6400 / 9600 DRX 12800

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OMC-R Dimensioning

2
Servers

16
Workstations

10
ROTs/RACEs

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ROT/RACE Position in the GSM System

OMC-R
Site OMC-R Terminal
110 - 240 VAC
1.0 - 0.5 A 50 - 60 Hz
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
ETHERNET

server server

ROT
server

IP
X.25
PSTN
Bsce3
Bsc2G ONLY with RACE modem

BTS
S8000/
S12000 ROT/
RACE
ROT/
RACE

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ROT Presentation
PC Laptop or Desktop

PCMCIA interfaces

Minimum:
540 Mb Hard Disk Space
16 Mb RAM

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RACE Presentation

The RACE needs the OMC-R username and password.

RACE

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