Differences Between the
IMS Cloud and ATCA Platforms
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Sales Mode
ATCA platform: unified sales
Only fixed mappings
are supported.
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Hardware Software hardware are sold by
Huawei.
Cloud platform: layered sales
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Advise customers to purchase the
corresponding universal server
hardware and virtualization software
Resell to customers compatible
universal server hardware and
virtualization software.
Customers purchase by themselves
universal server hardware and
virtualization software.
Software/Hardware Installation Mode
ATCA platform: factory installation
Factory installed hardware
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Cloud platform: layered installation
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Maintenance Mode
ATCA platform: unified maintenance
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%
Fault symptom
Hardware fault ~ ae Software fault
Fault identification by Huawei
Service restoration
Fault demarcation
Root cause identification and
‘oubleshooting by each product
Cloud platform: layered maintenance
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Fault identification Troubleshooting
Subsequent operations performed by each engineer
Service software
Virtualization
Upgrade Mode
ATCA platform:
unified upgrade
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Cloud platform:
layered upgrade
Virtualization
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the CGP upgrade tool [Sees
for ME
upgrades
the CGP upgrade too!
Patch Installation Mode
ATCA platform: Cloud platform:
unified patch installation layered patch installation
Virtualization
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engineers responsible
responsible for this
for all emusee ten operation
operations checks
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using the CGP upgrade tool [Seana
for ME
patch
installation
Disaster Recovery (DR) Mode
ATCA platform: high reliability for a single site
High
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Earley
- Highly reliable hardware platform for a single site
Active/Standby redundancy for MEs
+
+ Pool redundancy for IMS networks,
SONOS 9/5 - 141 active/standby or mutual assistant
Na
network
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+
VISES) NIC binding, preventing service interruption caused by a
poe) single NIC failure
DR
Redundant hardware deployment
+ 1+1 active/standby or load-sharing VM deployment
Stateless architecture: pool deployment for programs and
14#1 redundancy deployment for data
Redundancy
Nea e ae Same DR capabilities as the ATCA platform
Core Network Product a A
Infomation Server Center core Network Assistant
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