The Structure

Difference of ATCA
and CPCI SGSN
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References

CPCI SGSN(V800R009) produce document- hardware

description.

ATCA SGSN(V900R010) produce document- hardware

description.

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Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Describe the hardware difference of ACTA and CPCI platform

SGSN

Describe the difference of hardware related operation.

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Contents
1. The Difference of Hardware Structure
2. The Difference of Software Structure
3. The Difference of Cable connection
4. The Difference of Performance Specification

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Contents
1. The Difference of Hardware Structure
2. The Difference of Software Structure
3. The Difference of Cable connection
4. The Difference of Performance Specification

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Difference of Hardware Platform

CPCI: Compact Peripheral Component Interconnect, which

follow the PICMG 2.X standard, and the venders can do
some modification based on application.

ATCA: Advanced Telecommunications Computing

Architecture, which fully follow the PICMG 3.x standards, is
a real stander open platform.

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Difference of Rack Configuration

ATCA

CPCI

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Difference of Rack Configuration

CPCI

Base subrack: configured with

UOMU and UCKI board. The base
subrack is numbered as 0 and place
in the bottom of 0 rack. There are only
one base subrack in the SGSN.
Switching subrack: configured with
UFCU board. There is only one
switching subrack in the SGSN, which
is numbered as 3 and place in the top
of 0 rack.
Extend subrack: all the other
subrack except base and switching
subrack. It is optional.

ATCA

Base subrack: configure with OMU

board. The base subrack is numbered
as 0 and place in the bottom of 0 rack.
There are only one base subrack in
the SGSN.

Extend subrack: all the other

subrack except base subrack. It is
optional.

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Difference of PDB

CPCI

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ATCA

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Difference of Subrack: CPCI

1. FAN

2. Front view 3. Rare view

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Difference of Subrack: ATCA

Front view

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Rare view

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Bus of CPCI Subrack

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Bus of ATCA Subrack

service boards to managment board
managment bus

from one subrack to another subrack

from SGSN to GGSN or other connected nodes.

full mesh connection.

FB

universal service
interface.

BB

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CPCI Subrack Configuration

U U U U U U U
P P P P P P B
I I I I I I I
U U U U U U U
U
F
C
U

U
F
C
U

U
F
C
U

U
F
C
U

U
F
C
U

U
F
C
U

U
R
C
U

U U U U U
E E E E B
P P P P I
I I I I U

U U U U U U U
A B A B B P P
C I C S S I I
U U U U U U U
U
R
C
U
7

U
C
D
R

U
C
D
R

U
R
C
U

U
L
A
N

U U U
L E E
A P P
N I I

U
B
I
U

U U U U
A B A F
C I C S
U U U U

U
F
S
U

U
O
M
U

U
O
M
U

U U U U U
I I G G S
C C B B P
P P I I U

U
S
P
U

U
R
C
U

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

U U U U U U U
A B A E E E E
C I C P P P P
U U U I I I I

U
S
P
U

U U U U
G L L A
F I I L
U P P U

U
P
W
R

U
R
C
U
8

U
R
C
U
7

Switching subrack

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17,1819,20

U U U U U
I I G G S
C C B B P
P P I I U
2

U
G
F
U

U
P
W
R

U
S
P
U

U U U U U
S G G I I
P B B C C
U I I P P

U
A
L
U

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

Extend subrack

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17,18 19,20
U
C
K
I
U
G
T
P

U
C
K
I

U U U U
G S S A
T I I L
P G G U

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

U
P
W
R

Basic subrack

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17,18 19,20

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ATCA Subrack Configuration

U E U E E E T T E E E P E P
S T S T T T MM T T T F T F
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

E E E E E E T T E E E P E P
T T T T T T S S T T T F T F
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

O E O E E E S S E E E E E E
M C M C C C WW C C C P C P
U U U U U U U U U U U U U U

E E E E E E S S E E E E E E
C C C C C C WW C C C P C P
U U U U U U U U U U U U U U

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213

Basic subrack

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Service subrack

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logical name of
boards in the
ATCA and not the
physical name.

important slide.

Comparison of Board Function

CPCI

ATCA

UGBI, USPU, USIG,

ECU

UICP, UCDR
UGTP, UGFU, ULIP

Function Description
Responsible for processing the signalling and
charging

EPU

Responsible for packet routing and forwarding.

user plan

UOMU

OMU

Responsible for operation and maintenance

URCU

SMM

Used to manage and maintain the devices

inside the subrack

UFCU

SWU

Providing the basic function such as layer 2

switching for the GE interfaces of the Base
plane and Fabric plane inside a subrack and
between subracks

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Difference of Front/Back Board

Relationship
active and standby board are
connected to the same bus.

U
P
I
U

InterInterconnection
fiber

U
G
F
U

U
P
I
U

P
F
I

U
G
F
U

E
P
U

CPCI

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P
F
I

Update bus
bigger
bandwidth

ATCA

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E
P
U

Contents
1. The Difference of Hardware Structure
2. The Difference of Software Structure
3. The Difference of Cable connection
4. The Difference of Performance Specification

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CPCI Software Logical Structure

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ATCA Software Logical Structure

only two boards for the service.
ECU and EPU.

SWU: board management and communication between different sub racks

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CPCI Data Base: CDB

configuration data base.

Service board

UOMU

URCU of
switching
subrack

Hard disk:
MML.TXT

CDB

CDB

Service board
CDB
CDB: configuration data base

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dynamic data and universal data base

ATCA Data Base: DDB, UDB

data configuration script and other.
ECU

OMU
UDB

Service board
Read only

Configuration
data

DDB

Read only

Read only

EPU

Service board
DDB
DDB

Dynamic data

DDB: Dynamic data base

UDB: Universal data base

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Contents
1. The Difference of Hardware Structure
2. The Difference of Software Structure
3. The Difference of Cable connection
4. The Difference of Performance Specification

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CPCI Interconnection of Subracks

ATM

Fiber
Eth cable
packet

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CPCI Interconnection Principle

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ATCA Interconnection of Subracks

less hardware to provide the inter communication.

S
W
U

S
W
U

T
S
I

T
S
I

Service subrack

Service subrack

T
M
I
S
W
U

Base subrack

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ATCA Interconnection Principle

no ATM
encapsulation.

Service
board

IP of Des board

Data

Base/Fabic bus

S
W
U

Data

IP of Des board

Base/Fabic bus

Service subrack

Service
board

IP of Des board

Data

Base/Fabic bus

S
W
U

S
W
U

IP of Des board

Data

Base/Fabic bus

Service subrack

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Base subrack

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CPCI Service Cable Connection

2.5G PSM1
USPU
UEPI
2.5G PSM1 URCU
USPU
UEPI
UBIU
URCU
UGBI
UGBI UEPI
UEPI
UBIUURCU
UGBI
UEPI
UGBI
URCU
USIG UEPI
UBSU
USIG
UGTP
UCDR
UBSU
UGTP
UCDR

Switching
System
Gs/Gd/Gr/Ge/Gf/Lg (IP)

Gn/Gp/Ga/X

Gb (IP)

U
L
P
I
o rU
UG
LF
PU
C/
U
P
I
U

U
U
FP
CU
U
/
U
P
I
U

2.5G PSM1
2.5G/3G
PSM0
USPU
UEPI
URCU
2.5G PSM1
2.5G/3G
PSM0
UBIU
USPU
UEPI
URCU
UGBI
UGBI UEPI
UEPI
URCU
UBIU
UGBI
UEPI
UGBI
USIG UEPI
URCU
UFSU
UOMU USIGUICP
UFSU
UOMU
UICP UGTP

Gs/Gd/Gr/Ge/Gf/Lg (E1/T1)
Gb

Gs/Gd/Gr/Ge/Gf/Lg (E1/T1)
Gb

UGTP

Iu-PS

2.5G
3G
PSM1
PSM1
USPU
UEPI
2.5G
3G
PSM1
PSM1 URCU
UBIU
USPU
UEPI
UICP
URCU
UGBI
UEPI
URCU
UBIU
UICP
USIG UEPI
UGBI
URCU
UBSU
USIGUGTP
UCDR
UBSU
UGTP
UCDR

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Gs/Gd/Gr/Ge/Gf/Lg (E1/T1)

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ATCA Service Cable Connection

BSC HLR

RNC

E1

U E U E E E T T E E E P E P
S T S T T T MM T T T F T F
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

IP network

BSC/RNC
SIGTRAN/
GGSN/CG

O E O E E E S S E E E E E E
M C M C C C WW C C C P C P
U U U U U U U U U U U U U U

E1
Fiber
IP

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213

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CPCI O&M Networking

Ethernet Cable
LMT

LANS
UFCU/UPIU

URCU

Switching

UOMU
ULAN

Extended

U
R
C
U

U
C
D
R

U
R
C
U

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Basic

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Optical Fiber

ATCA O&M Networking

Ethernet cable

O
M
U

Base bus

S
W
U

Base
bus

E
P
U

IPMB bus

LMT PC

SMM board

Ethernet cable

Base bus

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IPMB bus

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F
A
N

P
E
M

CPCI Clock Networking

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ATCA Clock Networking

TMI
TMI is the backboard of SWI

SS7 clock input

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BITS clock input

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ATCA Clock Distribution

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CPCI PDB Console Cable

Monitor Serial Cable
for the Power
Distribution Box

PDB

Slot 6 UBIU

COM1

X1

X2

COM2

COM2+

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COM2+

Slot 8 UBIU

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ATCA PDB Console Cable

Monitor Serial Cable
for the Power
Distribution Box

8
X1

X2

SDM
ETH

COM2 COM1

ETH

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COM2

COM1

Contents
1. The Difference of Hardware Structure
2. The Difference of Software Structure
3. The Difference of Cable connection
4. The Difference of Performance Specification

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CPCI Performance Specifications

Parameter

Value (2.5G)

Value (3G)

Maximum number of attached

subscribers

3 million

3 million

Maximum number of PDP

context can be activated at the
same time

3 million

3 million

Maximum packet data transfer

capacity (pps)

450,000 (Average
packet size: 256
bytes)

4 million (Average
packet size: 330
bytes)

Maximum packet data transfer

flow

900 Mbit/s (Average 10 Gbit/s (Average

packet size: 420
packet size: 420
bytes)
bytes)

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ATCA Performance Specifications

Parameter

Value (2.5G)

Value (3G)

Maximum number of attached

subscribers

12 million

12 million

Maximum number of PDP

context can be activated at the
same time

22 million

22 million

Maximum packet data transfer

capacity (pps)

900,000 (Average
packet size: 256
bytes)

6 million (Average
packet size: 330
bytes)

Maximum packet data transfer

flow

3G bit/s (Average
packet size: 420
bytes)

20 Gbit/s (Average
packet size: 420
bytes)

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