Objectives

By the end of this chapter the student will be able to :-

State the functional areas of the Horizon II macro cabinet. Describe the functions and operation of the Horizon II macro Digital modules. Describe the cabinet RF Components.

Basic Block Diagram of Cabinet

Antenna

Three Main Functional areas: 1. 2. 3. Digital Cards Radios (CTU2) RF equipment

RF interface to Antenna ( Transmit - Combining and filtering) (Receive Amplification and filtering)

CTU2

CTU2

CTU2

CTU2

CTU2

CTU2

E1 Link

Digital Cage == Controls the cabinet Alarms Power Supplies

The Horizon II macro BTS hardware supports the following functionality: Support of 6x double density CTU2
Single or Double carrier per Radio.

Horizon II Site Controller (HIISC)

Integrated NIU Integrated FMUX E1 support Enhanced E1 Redundancy Increased Capacity/removable flash media Increased RSL functionality

Expansion of Horizon II macro cabinets to support 24 carriers per BTS site. Horizon II Expansion Multiplexer (XMUX) Site Input/Output (I/O) Panel Interoperability with current M-Cell and HORIZON macro products

HORIZON II macro Cabinet Front View

Alarm Board

Circuit Breaker Card (CBC)

Site Controller (HIISC)

Power Supply Units (PSU)

Cooling Fans

CTU2

HORIZON II macro Cabinet Top View

Power Supply Site I/O Panel

SURF2

Link Interface Board

EAS Alarm, PIX 0 & 1

Tx Blocks

Cabinet Power Supply Maximum 4x PSU per cabinet One for Redundancy Depends on the number of Radios fitted. The Cabinet can support the three types of power supply +27V (negative earth) -48V (positive earth) Nominal 120/240V AC

Horizon II macro cabinet power supply requirements

Nominal Voltage

Voltage supply range

Current supply maximum

+27 V dc +19.5 to +30 V (negative earth) dc -48 v dc (Positive earth) 120/240 V ac (50 to 60 Hz)

204A (at nominal voltage) -39 to 72 V dc 99A (at nominal voltage) 88 to 270 V 45A (at nominal voltage)

-48v Power Supply Units

Power Supply Units All three unit types support the same PSU Alarms: O/P over/under voltage. I/P under voltage. Over temperature. Internal Fan failure.

Circuit Breaker Card (CBC)

6x CCB for CTU2 2x Push Button HIISC 2x Push Button SURF2 1x Tx RF Blocks 1x FAN trays

H11SC Front Panel

States LEDs GREEN (normal operation) RED (Fault).

Status LEDs

Compact Flash Slot

Compact Flash Card slot contains 32Mb of memory. TTY MMI connection for 9 pin D type connector. CAL PORT Calibrates the Sync Block. The 8K Reference is used in GCLK calibration. The NIU Ethernet and SYNC/NIU TTY Port are for factory use only.

Reset Buttons CPU is a Soft Reset (Reset Controllers Main Processors. Software remains in RAM). FULL is a Hard reset. Removes software from memory.

Reset Buttons

TTY MMI

NIU Ethernet Port

CAL Port

Synch/NIU TTY PORT

HIISC Functional Diagram

Site Controller Card NIU Block NIU Control Processor Control via NIU Port 0, TS 0 NIU Port 0 & Port 1 2 Line Interface Module 8 Line Interface Unit & Framers TSI (SMURF) 8 8 2 Site Control Processor

24?

Control Interface Internal 2048 kbps TDM interface with 32 timeslots. External E1 or T1 interface. Internal E1 or T1 interface.

Frequency Reference

Radio(s)

Horizon II macro HSCII Block diagram

Uplink RSL Insertion 16Kbs only E1 Inputs x 6 Current x 8 Future SMuRF Sync, Mux, uBCU, Replacement, FPGA LAPD Encode/Decode Layer 2 processing CTU2 dual carrier unit single/dual carrier operation single frequency band BTP function of the BTS runs site software and call processing functions Second H2SC configured for redundancy

Three on board XMUX functions FMUX equivalent

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) similar function as the ASIC 64Kb switch incapable of sub-rate switching

Cabinet Expansion The Cabinet can be expanded up to 3x Horizon II macro Cabinets Can be expanded with Horizonmacro and Mcell6 cabinet combinations. Expansion Kit 1x XMUX card 1x Input/Output (I/O) card 1x 2m Fibre Optic cable

Cabinet Components Inter connections

CTUII radio(s) H-II Radio Horizon II Cabinet

TDM

H-II Expansion Cabinet

Alarm Site IO XMUX XMUX

HIISC NBSC

Site IO Horizonmacro Cabinet

FMUX FMUX

Alarm

Holdup Unit (AC Supply only)

Cabinet Temperature Control Operating range -5 C to +45 C Three Internal FAN units speed controlled 3x Cabinet Temperature Sensors
1x (70 C) for cabinet alarm 2x (85 C) to shutdown the cabinet, reset at 55 C.

Horizon II Site Controller (HIISC) Performs functions of: MCUF, NIU, FMUX and BPSM in Horizonmacro cabinet. Cabinet supports 2x HIISC cards Master/Slave ( redundancy) Compact Flash card (32 Mbyte memory)

 XMUX Location

XMUX in slot 0

XMUX Functional Diagram

Input/Output (I/O) card

Connects up to 3x extra cabinets Fibre optic connections

GPS connector (not supported) Site Expansion Board

SITE I/O PANEL CONFIGURATION

GPS connection

Fibre connections IN/OUT

Expansion configurations
E1 Horizon II macro (6xCTU2) X M U X Horizon II macro (6xCTU2)

Two Horizon II macros expanded.

E1

Horizon II macro (6xCTU2)

X M U X

Horizon II macro (6xCTU2)

F M U X

Horizonmacro (6 x CTU)

Horizon II macro, expanded to a Horizon II macro and a Horizonmacro.

Expansion configuration (cont)

E1 Horizon II macro (6xCTU2) X M U X F M U X Horizonmacro (6 x CTU) F M U X F M U X Horizonmacro (6 x CTU)

Horizonmacro controlling a Horizon II macro and another Horizonmacro.

E1

Horizon II macro (6xCTU2)

X M U X

F M U X

M-Cell 6 (6 x TCU)

F M U X

F M U X

Horizonmacro (6 x CTU)

M-Cell 6 controlling a Horizon II macro and a Horizonmacro.

Cabinet Alarm Module Collects All internal Cabinet Alarms Controls the PIX connection (customer external alarms) Process Antenna VSWR alarms Note: NOT backwards compatible to the Horizonmacro cabinet

Alarm Board
Mains ALL LEDs are GREEN when the equipment is OK

Door 1

Only 4x active Displays

LVD

RED when equipment is faulty

Fan 0

Fan 1 & 2

Compact Transceiver Unit (CTU2)

CTU2

Compact Transceiver Unit ( CTU2) Single Density Mode High Power 63W (48dbm) 900MHz 50W (47dbm) 1800MHz Normal Power 20W (43dbm) 900MHz 16W (42dbm) 1800MHz

Double Density Mode Normal Power 20W (43dbm) 900MHz 16W (42dbm) 1800MHZ

CTU2 backwards compatibility

Compact Transceiver Unit 2 (CTU2) Backwards compatible with Horizonmacro Cabinet (with minor limitations). Requires the correct software ( GSR6 HII) Can NOT support the CCB controller function O/P power reduced when in Double Density Mode BBH not supported

CTU2 Receiver Sensitivity Performance EGSM900 -110.5 dBm, static channel -107.5 dBm, faded channel DCS1800 -111.5 dBm, static channel -108.5 dBm, faded channel

Compact Transceiver Unit 2 (CTU2)

TRANSMIT RF OUT TEST INTERFACE

TTY INTERFACE

Radio Status LED

VCAT INTERFACE

Tx Status A LED

Tx Status B LED

CTU2 to SURF2 interconnection

Second SURF2 not supported (4 branch diversity)

Basic Block Diagram TX (PA only)

PA Branch 1 Branch A VVA

Fwd Power Detect A

Rev Power Detect

PA Mode Switches

PA Temp.

PA Pad Switches

Phase Adjust

*
Branch B VVA PA Branch 2 Fwd Power Detect B 2nd Temp.

RF Equipment
RF Equipment

Sectorized Universal Receiver Front end (SURF2)

SURF2 Functional diagram

3x Ant ports with 2x Branches each

Expansion

VSWR Monitoring
Antenna
To SURF

Rx Filter

VSWR Monitor

Tx Filter

The Antenna VSWR monitoring function is used to detect faults in antennas or antenna path connections.
Tx

Tx Block

CTU2
Signal

Alarm Board

Cabinet TX Blocks
Transmitter RF Blocks New RF Blocks: DUP - Duplexer HCU - Hybrid Combiner Unit DHU - Dual Hybrid Combiner Unit Connecting Panels Blanking Plate Feedthrough plate

Transmitter Blocks

Blanking Plate
Used to control the Air flow within the cabinet

Feedthrough Plate

Duplexer- DUP
Connects a single CTU2 to a single Tx/Rx Antenna. Typical 1db loss.

DUP Block diagram

Hybrid Combiner Unit - HCU

HCU Used to connect 2x CTU2 via a Hybrid Typical 3-4db loss

HCU- Block diagram

Typical 3-4db loss

Dual Hybrid Combiner Unit - DHU

Typical 6 db loss

Dual Hybrid Combiner Unit - DHU

6dbs typical loss

Software and Database Requirements

New Cabinet Type - horizonmacro2 (24) - horizonmacro2_ext (25) Equipping the DRI Density is required
Single or Double (called the associated DRI)

Setting CTU2 to High Power (max_tx_bts= -1)

Equipping a DRI Single Density

MMI Command : equip <site number> DRI Enter the 1st and 2nd DRI id: 0 0 Enter the density of this DRI: SINGLE Enter the cabinet identifier: 0 Enter the type of connection to the BTP: master Enter the port to which the TCU is connected: 0 Enter the 1st and 2nd RTF id: Enter the GSM cell ID where the DRI appears: 1 2 3 9 9 4 21 Enter antenna select number for this cell: 1 Does this DRI use tuneable combining: no Enter diversity flag for this DRI: 1 Enter the fm cell type: 4
New line within the command

Equipping a DRI Double Density

MMI Command: equip <site number> DRI Enter the 1st and 2nd DRI id: 0 0 Enter the density of this DRI: DOUBLE Enter the 2nd DRI id of the associated DRI: 1 Enter the cabinet identifier: 0 Enter the type of connection to the BTP: master Enter the port to which the TCU is connected: 0 Enter the 1st and 2nd RTF id: Enter the GSM cell ID where the DRI appears: 1 2 3 9 9 4 64 Enter antenna select number for this cell: 1 Enter diversity flag for this DRI: 1 Enter the fm cell type: 4
Associated DRI Number

CTU2 High Power parameter

DRI equipped in SINGLE Density Mode only Parameter max_tx_bts = -1 (per cell basis) Parameter tx_power_cap =1 (DCS1800 only) RF power EGSM900 63W (48dbm) DCS1800 50W (47dbm)