FTTM Solution

Overview
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 Cont Network Architecture and Typical
P1
Networking -----------------------------
ents
High Bandwidth ------------------------- P3
PROJECT
FTTM

Flexible Deployment -------------------- P4

Quick Delivery -------------------------- P5

High Accuracy Clock -------------------- P6

E2E Protection -------------------------- P7

Y.1731 Visible Quality Performance

P8
Monitoring ------------------------------

Key Components ----------------------- P9

Acronyms and Abbreviations ---------- P10

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 Network Architecture and
Typical Networking
Network Architecture
BTS/AP Equipment room 3
RNC
BITS
5
ODN 4
6
NodeB/ IP network
eNodeB Optical
ONU
splitter
OLT
1 2 BSC
AP

With the fast development of LTE, traditional macro base stations cannot meet LTE's full
coverage and seamless transition requirements. Therefore, micro base stations and indoor
distributed base stations are gradually becoming the mainstream trend.
The fiber to the mobile base station (FTTM) solution carries base transceiver station (BTS)-
access services through passive optical network (PON), and uses leverage optical distribution
network (ODN) resources and ONU series devices to fast deploy access services on the micro
base stations and indoor distributed base stations, dramatically saves customers' investments.

Components

C R
Core Components Related Components

1 ONU 4 ODN

2 OLT 5 NodeB/eNodeB

3 BITS 6 RNC/BSC

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 Network Architecture and
Typical Networking
Typical Networking
In an FTTM network, the ONU accesses the macro base stations or indoor distributed base
stations through the E1 or Ethernet port and uses PON to uniformly carry mobile access
network, meeting high bandwidth and high-density BTS requirements.
As the last mile that connects users to the Internet, small-cell backhaul makes fully use of
leverage access resources and outdoor ONUs to provide backhaul services for distributed
small cell bases. It uses a simple and mature service configuration scheme, featuring a high
transmission efficiency in addition to ensuring the QoS. Also, it simplifies sites to lower the site
installation and maintenance costs.

ONU
E1/GE

NodeB/
eNodeB

BITS Router Router

ONU
GE/FE Optical
splitter
IP Network

RNC/BSC
Indoor distributed base station
OLT Router Router

AP

Outdoor ONU

BTS

The ONU connects to the 2G/3G/LTE BTS through the E1 or Ethernet port and is
upstream to the PON or 10G PON service boards of the OLT. Then, the OLT restores E1
or Ethernet signals, processes these signals, and upstream transmits them to the upper-
layer network.

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 High Bandwidth

Challenge
The video service rapidly develops and an increasing number of users are using mobile phones
to watch videos. On this basis, 4K video has become the basic service, soaring bandwidth
demands.

Huawei Solution
In an FTTM network, MA5800, the industry's first OLT with distributed architecture is deployed.
It provides high bandwidth, lowers delay, and provides best video service experience.

High bandwidth: 16-port 10G PON access, concurrent 16,000 4K online TV users

SPL
Pico base station
GPON GPON/
10GPON
xG-PON
10GPON/ Micro base station
CE TWDM-PON
TWDM-PON
AWG
WDM-PON
Wholesale
WDM-PON
4K/8K
Supports PON access: GPON and 10G PON
Upstream interface: 2 x 100GE/20 x 10GE/GE for 4K
a single slot
Best video service experience: 16,000 users watch HD videos at the same time, superior
user experience and O&M experience
Buffer
Buffer

Control
Board
Buffer

Buffer

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 Flexible Deployment

Challenge
Small cell installation is flexible, with poles, walls, ceilings, and embedded sites feasible,
bringing great challenges for backhaul network, site acquisition, power feeding, and
maintenance.
Small cells are deployed in hot spots where existing macro cell backhaul networks cannot
reach. Moreover, traditional ring backhaul networks are difficult to expand.

Huawei Solution

Supports Various Physical Medium

FTTM makes fully use of existing access resources for

fast cell backhaul, reducing optical fibers and boosting
device go-to-market.

eNodeB
GPON OLT FTTM
GE/FE
ONU LAN
NodeB

Indoor/Outdoor

Site selection is not limited by installation

environment, installation mode, and power
feeding mode, that is, Huawei solution supports
fast deployment and plug and play (PnP).

Supports Various Installation Scenarios

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 Quick Delivery

Challenge
Commissioning engineers remotely commission ONUs, bringing high costs on engineering
deployment and low service provisioning efficiency.

Huawei Solution
0
NMS

Network designer
NMS administrator
records information to
Engineer hands over the the NMS.
work table to the NMS
Engineer
administrator. 2
1

Outdoor ONU Optical splitter

OLT

Small cell
3 Outdoor service release flow

Site

Step Operation Procedure

The network designer designs the network and issues configurations to the NMS.
0 The configurations include no-authentication policy, ONU configuration file, and
OLT configuration file.

1 The engineer installs the small cell and ONU onsite. Then, installs GPON optical
fibers to the ONU and powers on the ONU.

The OLT notifies the NMS of the online ONU. The NMS finds out the no-
2 authentication policy of the ONU and matches the policy, and then automatically
issues configurations to the OLT.

3 The OLT issues commands to the ONU and activates the ONU.

About 5-10 minutes, the engineer confirms that the small cell functions properly
4 and copies ONU SN and site position to the work table. Till now, the installation
completes.

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 High Accuracy Clock

Challenge
On a communications network, the wireless application has the most rigorous requirements on
the clock frequency. The frequencies of different base stations must be synchronized within a
specified precision. Otherwise, re-sync occurs during the base station switching.

Huawei Solution
FTTM supports 1588v2 clock, external BITS clock, and synchronous Ethernet clock.

Clock transmission:
Through the PON line
NodeB/ Time transmission:
eNodeB Through PON line+OMCI/OAM Clock input

E1/STM-1
Micro base ONU BITS
station
1588v2
1588ACR
Pico base OLT
Clock output port:
station
1. BITS/E1 port
2. Synchronous Synchronous Ethernet
Ethernet
3. 1588v2
4. 1PPS+ToD

1588v2 features high clock precision, which achieves clock synchronization, and time
synchronization at the precision of 100 ns, fully meeting 3G and 4G LTE BTS frequency
synchronization and phase synchronization (that is, clock synchronization and time
synchronization) requirements.
Synchronous Ethernet clock implements clock frequency of 50 ppb.

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 E2E Protection

Challenge
LTE has high requirements on reliability for a backhaul network.
Reliability of a backhaul network should be at least 99.99%, that is, it must run normally in
99.99% of the time.
Duration of a fault must be within 500 ms to 2s
Interruption duration of real-time services (such as voice and video services) must be within
50 ms to 250 ms
.
Huawei Solution
An FTTM network must be fully protected for high reliability of LTE services so that service
interruption duration when a fault occurs can be shortened.

OLT Router RSG

ONU OLT
IP core
Convergence
Micro base Optical splitter RNC/
layer
station BSC
ONU Router RSG
Network protection
OLT
2 3
NodeB/ Line protection
RRPP/ERPS LAG/VRRP
eNodeB
1

Type B/Type C
protection

1 Optical fibers from the OLT to ONU need to be especially protected for
complicated cable branching and routing, and harsh environments. Type B and
type C protection used improve ODN reliability and ensure continuous service
running.

2 Uplink disconnection of the OLT brings great impacts. RRPP and ERPS are used
to protect links over an Ethernet ring, improving network reliability.

3 LAG and VRRP are used to protect links between the OLT and upstream devices,
enhancing system reliability.

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 Y.1731 Visible Quality
Performance Monitoring
Challenge
As popularization of video services over mobiles, carriers have difficulties in Ethernet OAM.
Video streams are very sensitive to packet loss and delay. Loss of a packet may lead to lose of
dozens of picture frames, resulting in picture freeze and poor user experience. In this case,
prevention of network quality deterioration (causing user complaints) and fast network fault
locating become imperative issues for carriers.

Huawei Solution
Y.1731 defines a series of methods that can be used to detect the Ethernet link performance so
that carriers can obtain the link performance data in real time and fast diagnose network
performance issues. In this way, user experience on video services over mobiles can be
improved and SLA report for carriers can be output.

OLT
NMS ONU
ONU
NodeB/
eOTDR
Alarm ONU eNodeB
Optical splitter
Optical splitter

OLT
MEP MIP MIP MEP

Monitors network parameters in real time, including packet loss rate, delay,
and jitter.
Supports service quality monitoring and E2E fault detection.
Supports reports generated by day, week, and month.
Supports flexible report format, including excel, HTML, and PDF.

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 Key Components

Recommended Components
Product Common Configurations

Upstream port: 10GE/GE

MA5600T
Downstream port: flexibly configured according to actual service
MA5603T
requirements.
MA5608T
Supports 1588v2 and built-in 3-stratum clock.
OLT
Upstream port: 10GE/GE
MA5800-X17 Downstream port: flexibly configured according to actual service
MA5800-X7 requirements.
Supports 1588v2 and built-in 3-stratum clock.

Upstream ports: 2*PON/GE

Downstream ports: 2GE electrical + 2GE optical/electrical ports
MA5694
Supports 1588v2 and built-in 3-stratum clock.

Used indoors and does not support PoE.

Upstream ports: 2*PON/GE
Downstream ports: 2GE electrical + 2GE optical/electrical ports +
MA5698 2*8 FE/8 E1 ports
Supports 1588v2 and built-in 3-stratum clock.
Used indoors and does not support PoE.
ONU
Upstream ports: 10G PON/PON
Downstream ports: 2GE electrical + 2GE optical/electrical ports +
MA5898 2*8 FE/8 E1 ports
Supports built-in 3-stratum clock.
Used indoors and does not support PoE.
Upstream ports: 1*PON/GE
Downstream ports:
3GE electrical port + 1GE optical port (PON upstream
MA5694S transmission)
3GE electrical port + 2GE optical port (GE upstream transmission)
Supports 1588v2 and does not support built-in 3-stratum clock.
Used outdoors and supports PoE.

SYNLOCK T6020 Configured flexibly for different application scenarios. Select the
BITS corresponding configurations according to actual service
SYNLOCK V3 requirements.

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 Acronyms and Abbreviations

AP access point

BITS Building Integrated Timing Supply

BSC base station controller

BTS base transceiver station

ERPS ethernet ring protection switching

FTTM fiber to the mobile base station

LAG link aggregation group

MEP maintenance association end point

MIP maintenance association intermediate point

NMS network management system

ODN optical distribution network

OLT optical line terminal

ONU optical network unit

OTDR optical time domain reflectometer

PoE power over Ethernet

PPS+TOD pulse per second+ time of day

RNC radio network controller

RRPP Rapid Ring Protection Protocol

RSG radio network controller site gateway

VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

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 Change History

Issue Release Date What's New

03 2016-06-28 Optimized the file from contents, style, and format.

01/02 2014-2015 Released for the first time and modified the document.

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