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Challenges from Single-server System SLS System Mechanism and Architecture SLS System Deployment Procedure Successful Cases

Challenges from Single-server System

Network equipment expansion bring multiple sets of separate EMS to be configured.

Sun Single-server System The network management resources are wasted. The security of single-server system is no guarantee. t i t The network configuration is not in one EMS. Multiple sets of network topology are displayed partially . Multiple sets of management accounts are configured. fi d Multiple sets of northbound interfaces are required. Multiple sets of EMS are upgraded separately. separately
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Problems Caused by Separate Single-server System

No backup mechanism for disaster t l di t tolerance on th the single-server system. The system security cannot be ensured ensured.

Multiple sets of maintenance management interfaces. interfaces More O&M engineers. Can not monitor the entire network Security Management Investment The existing hardware cannot be effectively utilized. The number of EMS increases, TCO also increases. Double hardware must be configured to ensure security backup.

Development Not meet the trends of centralized O&M. Easy to meet performance bottleneck as the network functions and performance are enhanced.

How to solve these problems?

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Security is not Ensured

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2 3 4

The maintenance of single node is risky, No available disaster tolerance mechanism...

The network faults severely affects customer satisfaction.

Fault alarms on the NEs cannot be reported timely, delaying the fault rectification process process.

EMS failure causes that the network cannot be monitored.

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Complex Separate Maintenance Mode

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Multiple Management Interfaces

The management of multiple sets of EMS accounts is complex. Interworking between the multiple sets of single-server system must be p g p g y performed. This causes large workload on management maintenance. Only the corresponding NE topology view that are managed by the single-server system can be displayed The topology view of the whole network cannot be displayed displayed. displayed. The operation procedure of migrating cross-single-server NEs is complex and consuming.

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Difficult to Adapt to the Network Development Trend

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Requirements on the EMS increase due to the more and more complex network.

The SLS networking architecture meets the network development trend.

DNS/ENUM S/E-CSCF HSS/SLF

I-CSCF

FE BE FE/BE Traditional HLR Distributed HLR

AGCF P-CSCF

MGCF

IMS Core

SoftxSwtich/TDM

GMSC

MGW

2G/3G /PSTN Network

Traditional MSC

Distributed switching architecture

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High TCO
1 Capacity Expansion
Modular capacity expansion by reusing existing network resources cannot be performed. The existing EMS have to be replaced when reach the capacity bottleneck of single-server. The process of cross-servers load balancing is complex. In this case, Carriers generally need to buy new servers. The investment cost increases.

Maintenance
The separate maintenance mode reduces the efficiency of operation and maintenance (O&M) and increases the investment on human resource (HR). The O&M cost increases continually. continually

Disaster Tolerance
Disaster tolerance can only be performed in the 1:1 mode on the single-server EMS. This increases the cost of investment on the hardware, maintenance ,power consumption.

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General Construction Principles

Utilize the existing hardware to reconstruct the M2000 Multi-server Load Sharing (SLS) system for centralizing the EMS.

Multiple sets of EMS lead to multiple interfaces

EMS 1 EMS 2 EMS 3

One set of logical EMS

M2000 SLS system Centralized management interface Centralized O&M on the whole network Ab d t EMS Abundant functions

Subnet 1 Subnet 2 Subnet 3 Subnet 1 Subnet 2 Subnet 3

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Physical Networking Mapping

Client

NMS

Northbound interfaces
IP bearer network

Core network equipment

Master

Heartbeat , disk array, and optical switch

Standby

Slave

M2000 SLS system

A mass of Data is exchanged between the SLS master servers and all the slave servers. Therefore, all the servers must be deployed in the same equipment room. At the same time an optical fiber switch is required to perform data synchronization time, synchronization.
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System Logical Architecture

Master system Single-server system
Alarm management Configuration management Performance management Security management Software &hardware &h d management Scripts platform

Message collection platform

Slave 1
Performance management g NE mediation layer

Slave 2
Performance management g NE mediation layer

Slave 3
Performance management g NE mediation layer

Slave 4
Performance management g NE mediation layer

Subnet 1

Subnet 2

Subnet 3

Subnet 4

1. The modules related to data collection deploy in slave servers. This can enhance the master server performance and management ability. 2. Slave servers allocate the data reported by the NEs to the corresponding collection modules for processing. The data are converged to the master server and displayed on a centralized GUI.

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Reliable Disaster Tolerance

N+1 Disaster Tolerance
Slave2 Master Standby

Master

When a master server is faulty, It is automatically i h d db switched to standby servers.

Slave1 Slave 2

When a slave server is faulty, It is automatically switched to standby servers.

When a master server or a slave server is faulty, the standby servers automatically take over the server functions functions.
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Centralized EMS Function Experience

Centralized configuration management Centralized performance management Centralized software management Centralized inventory management

Centralized fault management

M2000 SLS System

Centralized security y management

IMS core NEs Fixed core NEs

M2000 SLS system provides a centralized O&M platform to perform centralized monitoring and management for the whole network (Mobile, fixed core and IMS core).

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Reducing the Workload Greatly

Separate EMS O&M mode SLS system O&M mode

Master

Standby

Slave 1 Slave 2 Slave 3 Slave 4

N Sets of Single-server Systems EMS upgrade N person days workload Routine data The routine data modification must be modification performed by logging in to multiple EMS.

M2000 SLS System 1 person day workload

The routine data modification can be performed by only logging in to the master server, 1 EMS.

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Smooth Migration and Smooth Expansion

NE migration on single-server system is complex. Mi t data Migrate d t Mi t NEs Migrate NE D l t NEs Delete NE The operation is complex. p Useless data are generated. Data are easily lost.

Smooth migration of NEs is performed on the slave servers.

Master Run scripts p

New NEs access new data collection server server. The original system service is not affected. Slave 5

Slave 1

Slave 2

Slave 3

Subnet 1 Subnet 2 Subnet 3

Subnet 4

Subnet 5

Perform NE smooth migration and smooth capacity expansion by b running scripts with one-key operation. i i t ith k ti
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Help to Reduces TCO

Operation Cost Maintenance Cost Deployment Cost Purchase Cost

Reducing network expansion cost:

Load balancing makes the EMS resource be effectively reused. The smooth capacity expansion helps save the cost for purchasing the new hardware. 29.7% 29 7%

9.7% 6.7% 53.9%

Reducing network maintenance cost: The centralized O&M management mode

helps save the OPEX.

TCO architecture
Source: 3G Investment and Maintenance Cost Analysis y

Reducing backup cost of EMS disaster tolerance.

The N+1 disaster tolerance mode helps reduce the total investment on EMS backup .

Change the traditional network maintenance mode and reducing the TCO in different ways. y

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Comparison (1)

Items

Single-server System

M2000 SLS System 1 set of EMS accounts:

Security accounts management

Multiple sets of EMS accounts must be managed. managed

Centralized subscriber management, Advanced authority-based and d Ad d th it b d d domain-based i b d management.

No disaster tolerance solution is available. Security features If a single node is faulty, the network is unreachable to the control. If equipment f lt occur, th f lt i t faults the faults cannot be processed in time. The load balancing is performed Load balancing manually. The operation is complex.

The N+1 disaster tolerance solution is performed on the master management server and other collection servers. If single node is faulty, the network services are not affected and all the stored date will not be lost.

The load balancing between the collection servers is performed by using one-key operation. The operation is easy and fast.

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Comparison (2)

Items

Single-server System
The configuration northbound and the alarm northbound must be reported from multiple

M2000 SLS System

The alarm northbound is reported by the master server, and the interworking can be only performed f once. l f d for The subsequent maintenance is easy and effective.

Northbound interface

sets of EMS to third-party NMS. p y The interworking must be performed repeatedly. The maintenance management is complex. The alarm monitoring must be performed on multiple sets of maintenance interfaces. The efficiency is low. y

Alarm management

The alarm monitoring on the whole network can be performed on a centralized interface. The efficiency is high. y g The whole network topology view of statelevel network, city-level network, and the local network can be displayed. NE maintenance is easy and fast.

Topology view management

No centralized network topology view of the whole network is available The whole available. network topology view is maintained manfully.

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Reconstruction Principles
Reconstruction Principles
Create the smallest SLS system first (one master server, one slave server, and one standby server), and then expand the capacity of this system. Reuse the equipment resources of the existing EMS. Change the single server into slave servers (Before changing the single server into slave servers, migrate the NEs to the M2000 SLS system).

Reconstruction Case

EMS before reconstruction SLS after reconstruction

V890 Slave 1 (Reused)

M2000 single-server system(T5220)

M2000 dual-server system V890

M2000 dual-server system V890

M2000 single-server system HP RX7640

Active M5000 server (New added)

Standby M5000 server (New added)

V890 Slave 2 (Reused)

V890 Slave 3 (Reused)

V890 Slave 4 (Reused)

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Fast Enhancing China Mobile(Guangdong) O&M Efficiency

Background

6+1 SLS
173 CN NEs, 50,000+ GSM BTSs. , , 5 sets of separate M2000 for 18 cities in
Guangdong province. In 2008 the number of M2000 was planned to 2008, increase to 8 sets. The workload of cross-EMS maintenance and coordination increases sharply. Effective monitoring is difficult to be performed ff ff f on the whole network.

Master

Standby

Slave 1 Slave 2 Slave 3 Slave 4 Slave 5

Only 1 set of SLS manages all the elements of Huawei radio networks and core networks.

Benefits
Investment cost on hardware is saved : Hardware resources sharing Smooth capacity expansion p y p Effective disaster tolerance Only 1 set of EMS manages all the networks in Guangdong province. O&M efficiency is enhanced.

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Centralized EMS for China Mobile Nationwide-TMSC

Background

2+1 SLS system

Service network Maintenance network

76 MSC servers, 141 MGW 176 LSW servers MGW, LSW,

about 271 equivalent NEs. E4900 local HA system can not meet the network expansion requirement. t k i i t High security and redundancy requirement.

Master

Slave

Standby

Management Console

Benefits
Effectively solve the management capability bottleneck. bottleneck Construct a centralized and safe O&M platform.

Heartbeat network

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Smooth Evolution of Germany O2 Network

Network expansion is continuous
Year
Number of Equivalent NEs

2008
349

2009
423

2010
475

2011
527

Standby 5+1 Backup

V890

Master

South Region,Munich Stuttgart Germany

V890

V890

V890

V890

V890

Slave

Slave

Slave

Slave

2008y

2009~2010y

2011y

The smooth capacity expansion of M2000 SLS system supports long-period network evolution evolution.
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