HLR-A-T02-E1

HLR System Structure

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 Content
Part1HLR system structure
Part2Signaling FEP Hardware
Part3Subscriber Database System
Part4Operation Maintenance Center system

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 Part1 HLR System Structrue
Operation and maintenance Subscriber data management
background background
NMS BOSS

Q3 or DDN/X.25/FR/
COBRA PSTN

OMC OMM Database DBIO HLR Interface

Client Client Server Server Agent Processor

FE FE FE FE FE FE

OMC & OMM

Server Switch

ZXWN HLR FE FE

OMP RPU SMP USI

F FE FE
FE E

Switch(UIM)

FE FE SYN Signal FE
Output
Signaling FEP SIG
-
SPB CLKG
IPI

SYN Signal
E1 FE Input

NO.7
Signalling SigTran BITS SYN Signal Input
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 Part2 Signaling FEP Hardware

Signaling FEP consists of

1Rack
2Shelf
3Board

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1Cabinetor Rack

measurement
2000mm600mm800mm

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Blank panel (1U)

P O W E R D IS T R IB U T E U N IT

Power subrack (2U)

A LM

Fan subrack (1U)

Service subrack (8U)

Cable subrack (1U)

2000 Service subrack (8U)

Cable subrack (1U)

Fan subrack (1U)

Service subrack (8U)

Cable subrack (1U)

Service subrack (8U)

Cable subrack (1U)

Fan subrack (1U)
Air filter
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2Rack

Control Sub-Rack of ZXWN iHLR adopts the shielding-

class structure where front boards and back boards are
inserted in the opposite direction.

The control Sub-Rack is the control center of the iHLR. It

manages and controls the whole system.

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There are special Boards can be inserted in a control sub-rack

1 CLKG
2 UIMUIMC
3 MPx86SMPOMPRPU
4 MNICUSISIG-IPI
5 SPB
6 CHUB

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 Part2 Signaling FEP Hardware
Example

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The example shown in the foreside pictrue are two-

layer Sub-Racks. The board names beginning with
the letter R are the corresponding back boards.

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3Board
Board Name
CLOCK Generation Board (CLKG)
Main Processing Board (MPx86)
Multi-Function Network Interface Card (MNIC)
Universal Interface Board (UMIC)
Signaling Process Board (SPB)
Power Distribution Board (PWRD)
Control HUB(CHUB)

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1CLKG

The CLKG is the clock generation board in the iHLR

system. CLKG is in the hot active/standby mode. The
active and standby CLKGs are locked to the same
reference to implement smooth change over. CLKG
adopts a measure to filter out phase jitters or burrs of the
clock during the change over.
The CLKG communicates with the main processing unit
through RS485. At the same time, it uses the clock
reference 8 KHz frame synchronization signal from the
trunk SPB, or 2 MHz/2 Mbits signal from the BITS
system.

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ZXWN iHLR requires only one pair of clock generation

boards (CLKG). The CLKG boards are in the active and
standby mode and are inserted in slots 13 and 14 of the
control Sub-Rack. The corresponding back boards are
called RCKG.

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2MPx86

MPx86 can be used as an OMP, RPU, signaling

MP or service MP. The OMP and RPU are on the
same MP board. OMP uses the first CPU on
MPx86 and RPU the second. The signaling MP
and service MP are called SMPs.
On MPx86 board, there are two sets of CPU
systems. They are respectively called CPU_A and
CPU_B. The two CPU systems are independent of
each other. CPU_A is the main control, managing
circuit boards.

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OMP

MPx86 RPU

SMP

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The OMP controls the operation and maintenance

(including the operation and maintenance agent) of the
whole system and is connected with the OMC through a
100M Ethernet interface for isolation of internal and
external network segments.
The RPU is responsible for maintaining routing tables for
all the NEs.
The SMP processes signaling from various interfaces,
including narrow band No.7 signaling (MTP3, SCCP,
TCAP and MAP) and SIGTRAN signaling (SCTP,
M3UA).

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3MNIC

The MNIC can be used as a USI or IPI interface unit. For

this at least two MNIC cards have to be configured. They
work in the 1+1 backup or load sharing mode.

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 Part2 Signaling FEP Hardware

When the MNIC is used as an IPI board, it provides an FE

interface and processes SIGTRAN bottom-layer signaling.
It forwards IP packets. It forwards the SCTP packets
received from the IP network to the signaling MP for
processing. After receiving routing packets, the IPI board
forwards them to the RPU. The routing table is maintained
by the RPU.
The USI board is a universal server interface board. The
service processing MP communicates with the database
server through the USI board for storing user data.

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4UIMC
UIMC
The UIMC manages the control Sub-Rack and
implements Ethernet level-2 switching inside the
control Sub-Rack. It provides two 24+2 switched Hubs.
It provides the clock-driven function inside resource Sub-
Racks. After the phase lock and drive, the input clock
signals will be distributed to various slots in resource Sub-
Racks.
It provides the function of reading cabinet numbers, Sub-
Rack numbers, slot numbers, equipment numbers,
backplane version numbers and backplane type numbers.

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5SPB

If HLR need to be connected with PSTN ,SPB can be

used to provide E1 interface
The SPB circuit board provides 16 E1 interfaces, four
CPU-based communication processing units
The SPB board supports 64K and 2M signaling links. It
supports a maximum of four 2M signaling links or one
hundred and twenty eight 64K signaling links.

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6CHUB

The CHUB unit (a control hub) implements tandem

connections for the control planes of multiple Sub-Racks.

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7PWRD

PWRD distributes isolates and backs up two channels of

48 V power supply in the iHLR system, and monitors
the power supply, cabinets and environment. The power
supply part includes the EMC filtering design, lightning
protection design and isolation design of the power
input/output end.

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The monitoring part includes over-voltage and under-

voltage detection of two channels of 48 V power supply,
speed detection of 18 fans, and detection of environment
temperature, environment humidity, smoke sense alarms,
infrared alarms, cabinet entrance control and equipment
room entrance control.

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

Software Name Function

Database Server Storing subscriber dataprovide
DB Engine interface for modifing database.
DBIO Server

HLR Agent A tool for operatorfor

maintenancing subscriber data

Interface processor An interface to Boss system,for

maintanencing subscriber data
automatically

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

PC MiniComputor Server

Hlr Agent
SWITCH
PC Server
Subscriber
Database+DBE

HLR Interface
processor+DBIO

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

Normally,there is one Database Node to be adopted.And

one node include two servers plused one disk array.
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Database principle

The database is divided two parts,one is application database

and the othe is memory database .
Both application database and memory database are used.
Thus, the application database serves as the reliable backup of
subscriber data while the memory database ensures the data
access performance of large-capacity system.
Minicomputer servser is often adopted,such as IBM
minicomputer,HP minicomputer.

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DDN/X.25/FR
DBIO Server PSTN
BOSS

Local HLR Agent

BOSS BOSS

Internet
HLR Interface processor

Remoter HLR Agent

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

HLR Agent

BOSS
DBIO
System Server

COMMAND Interface
processor database server

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

The local service handling console (iHLR Agent) provides the

man-machine operation platform for subscriber management.

The service handling server (DBIO Server) receives the

request from iHLR Agent and the remote service handling
request from the iHLR interface machine. It send the message s
of queries, adds, deletes and modifies to . Database.

iHLR interface machine (Interface Processor) provides the

open interface for upper NMC and enables the BOSS system to
access the ZXWN iHLR system. After receiving the service
handling request, the Interface Processor makes service
operations through the DBIO Server.

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 Part3 Subscriber Database System

Notice:
1. DBIO is often installed on PC server ;
2. Database and DBE is often installed on
minicomputer(Unix System);
3. Some time , DBIO and Database and DBE can be
installed on one PC server;

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 Part4 Operation Maintenance Center system

OMC Server
Oracle

One pc server

OMC Client

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 Part4 Operation Maintenance Center system

OMC Server is the maintenance center of the entire

system. OMC Client is the client of maintenance system.
The Client/Server structure is adopted.

OMC Server stores the configuration data of the entire

device and has such maintenance functions as network
configuration, alarm management, performance statistics,
signaling trace and service observation.

The NM client of operation & maintenance background

adopts ordinary PC machine and the server adopts middle-
end or lower-end server.

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 Part4 Operation Maintenance Center system

Foreground
and
OMC CLIENT OMC SERVER
Background
modules

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