System Overview

ITI-TJ100 MC-4L

ITI Limited, Mirzapur Road Naini, Allahabad

- 211010
Introduction:
ITI-TJ100MC-4L combines the functionality of a high end SDH-SONET ADM (Add Drop
Multiplexer) and a low-end entry box for interfacing with DWDM equipment. The product provides a
diverse range of data and circuit interfaces in one of the highest densities in products of its class. Digital
Cross Connect at fine granularity and data switching functionality along with the modular nature of the
interfaces provide carriers with very flexible options for configuring the product in networks. The product
can be configured independently in Mesh, Ring, Linear and Bus architectures and also a mix of the above.
The product can also be flexibly configured with equipment redundancy for all or for a selected few among
the modules. These make the product ideal for backbone and high-speed links. Support for data allows
carriers to combine the functionality of data switching with transport.

Software Intelligence built into the equipment allows for intuitive element management using the
Tejas Element Management System which supports the full suite of FCAPS (Fault, Configuration,
Accounting, Performance and Security) management. TejNMS (Tejas Network Management solution)
provide extremely easy provisioning of circuits across the network using a point and click user interface.
The management system integrates the management of other Tejas Products as well, allowing easy
upgradation and expansion of networks. Standard open interfaces also allow the system to be managed by
third party management systems.

To summarize, along with the Tejas Network Management solution the ITI-TJ100MC-4L as part of the
Tejas TJ100 family provide the following features:

 Easy network manageability

 Flexible Configuration

 Lower cost per line

 Easy upgradeability

 Support for both data and voice over SDH

 Higher reliability

Architectural Details

ITI-TJ100MC-4L has a multi slot chassis / backplane. In the chassis, there are 15 traffic slots meant
for aggregate and tributary cards (Line Cards). Additional slots exist for common cards with optional
redundancy. These Common cards do not carry traffic and serve functions like Power Filtering, Cross
Connect and support of auxiliary interfaces. The line cards can support STM-1/4/16, STM-1e, E1, E3/DS3,
Data interfaces of 10/100 Base T and 100 Base Fx.

The figure below shows the main slots in the ITI-TJ100MC-4L chassis. The horizontal MFC(Multi
Function Card) at the top, Horizontal two Power Filter Cards at the bottom and two vertical Cross Connect
cards are the slots for common cards. The slots for Cross Connect and Power Filter are reproduced to provide
redundancy when needed. Section 3 (System Overview) provides detailed information on the cards and
functions.

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 Figure 1 : MC-4L architecture

ITI-TJ100MC-4L has 16 STM-1 equivalent fully non-blocking cross-connect capacity at VC-12

granularity. The distribution of this cross connect bandwidth across the slots is explained in Section 3.

Key features
ITI-TJ100MC-4L provides top of the order features which are listed below:

Multi-service platform: ITI-TJ100MC-4L support both data and TDM services on the same platform.

Flexibility: Depending on the need of the customer ITI-TJ100MC-4L can be configured in various
topologies supporting both electric and optical interface. The box can be configured as ADM, DXC,
Terminal Multiplexer or Regenerator. The modular tributary and aggregate interfaces allow the user to mix
and match the interfaces as required. The box can be configured in all network configurations: Point to
Point, Mesh, Ring and Bus topologies.

Protection: ITI-TJ100MC-4L provides advanced protection features like 1+1 multiplex section protection
(MSP) sub-network section protection (SNCP) and two fiber MS-SPring.

Reliability: ITI-TJ100MC-4L provides outstanding reliability by providing redundant power supply

unit, Cross Connect card (which includes control and timing), and Hot-swap capacity for all the redundant
cards.

Configuration: ITI-TJ100MC-4L can be configured into a wide range of products. ITI-TJ100MC-1 can be
configured as regenerator (REG), add-drop multiplexers (ADM), digital cross-connect (DXC) and terminal
multiplexers (TMUX).

Tributary supports: ITI-TJ100MC-4L supports a wide range of tributaries, which include E1/DS1,
E3/DS3, E4, STM-1 optical/electrical (o/e), 10/100 Base Tx and 100 Base Fx.

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Cross-connect capability: ITI-TJ100MC-4L provides powerful cross-connect software configurable at
VC-12 and VC-3/VC-4 granularity.

Dynamic bandwidth allocation: The rate adaptive feature of the Ethernet provided by the support of link
capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) allows easy control of bandwidth with 2 Mbps granularity for 10/100
Mbps Ethernet. ITI-TJ100MC-4L along with TejNMS allows the dynamic allocation of bandwidth in a
hitless manner as the requirement for traffic grows for the customer.

Mixed deployment support: Support for DCC-M, DCC-R, F1, F2 bytes and E1 channel in payload VC-
12 as options for remote node management enable Tejas products to be managed over third party equipment.
In addition, since Tejas products allow DCC bytes to be passed through transparently when required, third
party equipments using those bytes for remote node management can be managed through Tejas equipments
in the network. Thus it is easy to deploy Tejas equipment along with third part equipment in a network.

Applications
The product can be configured independently in Mesh, Ring, Linear and Bus architectures and also
a mix of the above. It can be used in the core of the network to provide high-speed backbone STM-4 rings
dropping PDH tributaries and STM-1 spurs. This application can be combined with the functionality for
Data switching and transport.

Figure 2 MC-4L Typical Configuration

ITI-TJ100MC-4L could also be used to provide versatile cross-connect functionality to connect

telephone exchanges in STM-1 rings in dense metro areas. Lower speed STM-1 rings and PDH dropped by
ITI-TJ100MC-4L from this ring could connect to local exchanges. MC-4L could also provide the
connectivity between Mobile Switching Centres and Telephone exchanges.

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System Overview
The ITI-TJ100MC-4L is a 19” wide, 11U high chassis, in a half-depth rack allowing back-to-
back arrangement for TJ100s. This chassis can be installed in both 19” and 23” rack with suitable
adapters. It has 15 vertical slots, 2 of which are reserved for cross-connect cards, 2 for system control
units and 11 for traffic slots. It has 2 horizontal slots for power supply units and 1 for management
interfaces.

Front View of TJ100MC-4L

 Network topologies supported:

1. Point-to-Point Link

2. Bus topology

3. Ring topology

4. Hub topology

 Supports subtended STM-1/STM-4 rings.

 Supports SNCP, 2 fiber MS-SPRING (BLSR), and MSP protection schemes for various
configurations. Any employed protection scheme consumes equivalent cross-connect capacity of
the node.

 2.5G worth cross-connect at VC12 granularity.

 Supports expansion chassis for further drops.

 1:N protection on client side PDH tributary interfaces.

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  Up to 252 E1 drop capacity. Any valid mix of PDH tributaries supported

System Configurations

The ITI-TJ100MC-4L can be configured to operate as:

 Add Drop Multiplexer

 Multiple ADM

 Terminal Multiplexer

 Digital Cross Connect

 Regenerator

Slot numbers on the chassis are designated from left to right. For vertical slots, leftmost slot is slot
number 1 and rightmost slot is slot number 15. The left PSUL slot numbers are 16 and 17 from left to right.
MFC slot number is 18.
2U

MFC
System Control Unit #1

System Control Unit #2

Cross connect Card #1

Cross connect Card #2

Line Card #10

Line Card #11

Line Card #1

Line Card #2

Line Card #8

Line Card #9
Line Card #3

Line Card #4

Line Card #5

Line Card #6

Line Card #7
6U

6T
28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm 28mm
2U

Cable tray
1U

PSUL #1 PSUL #2

84T
Front View of TJ100MC-4L

Card Details
STM-1 Aggregate/Tributary Card (A01)
The aggregate/tributary card has 1 or 2 STM-1 interfaces. Terminal multiplexer configuration can
utilize a single 1 STM-1 card. Add-Drop Multiplexer configuration can utilize either two 1 STM-1 card or a

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single 2 STM-1 card. The optics on these cards can be any of ITU-T G.957 S1.1, S1.2, L1.1 or L1.2
depending upon link engineering data. To provide aggregate card redundancy, additional card are inserted in
the second aggregate card slot.

STM-4 Aggregate/Tributary Card (A041)

The aggregate card has 1 STM-4 interface for terminal multiplexer or add-drop multiplexer
applications respectively. The optics on these cards can be any of ITU-T G.957 S4.1, S4.2, L4.1 or
L4.2 depending upon link engineering data. To provide aggregate card redundancy for Terminal
Multiplexer configuration, additional card can be used. Optionally, ITU-T G.691 V4.2 optics interface can
be incorporated to achieve very long spans.
28E1/DS1 Tributary Card (TET28)
Up to nine 28E1/DS1 tributary cards are supported in a single TJ100 chassis, the maximum in a
single chassis being 252.

1x3E3/DS3 Tributary Card (TE3)

Up to nine 1xE3/DS3 tributary cards are supported in a TJ100 chassis.

21E1/DS1, 1E3/DS3 Combination (“Combo”) Tributary Card (TE3)

Up to nine such “Combo” cards are supported in a TJ100 chassis.

STM-1e/E4 Tributary Card (A1E4)

Multiple 1xE4/STM-1e cards are supported, up to eleven in a single TJ100 chassis. These interfaces
are programmable either to E4 or STM-1e.

8-Port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Tributary Card (ETC)

The 8-port ETC card maps 10/100 Mbps Ethernet data on to VC-12’s. The aggregate bandwidth
from each ETC card is STM-1 line rate (63 VC-12 worth of traffic), or lower. This is available as
10/100Base T or 100BaseFx.

Multi Function Card (MFC)

The MFC card would contain all the management interfaces to the TJ100. This is configured at horizontally.

System Controller Unit-4 (SCU4)

The SCU4 card would contain the processor, memory and hard disk required to operate the TJ100. SCU
card can be configured as redundant.

Power Supply Card (PSU)

The power to entire chassis is distributed from this card. PSU can be configured to be redundant. If it is non-
redundant PSU filler panels should be configured.

4x4 STM-4 Cross connect Card (XCC16L)

This card contains the cross-connect fabric for 4x4 STM-4 with granularity of VC-12 (ie. 1008x1008), VC-3
(ie. 48x48) and VC-4 (ie. 16x16).This can be configured redundant. It contains synchronization module as
well.

Filler Cards
Filler card are needed to fill the vacant slots.

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Bandwidth Distribution
The bandwidth distribution is given as below. Vertical columns shows the slots along with the numbers and
horizontal rows show the STM-1 buses. Rectangular boxes show that the particular bus is shared at that
particular slot. The boxes shaded in red color indicate the buses that are available for sharing only for
1xSTM-4 cards. Each telecom bus represents a bandwidth of 1xSTM-1, which can be shared across the
different slots at VC-12 granularity.

Slot 1 2 3 4 5 10 11 12 13 14 15

STM-1 Bus 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Software:
ITI-TJ100MC-4L can be managed locally using Tejas Network Element Software (TejNES). Also
we can centrally maintain large number of TJ100 nodes using Tejas Network Management Software
(TejNMS).

TejNES

TejNES provide the following key features:

 Switchover to redundant power supply in the event of any hardware fault.

 Auto Recovery after Input Power Failure in a redundant system

 Node-wise Operations & Maintenance

 User programmable severity levels for Alarms

 Node-wise Alarming & Remote Login.

 Performance monitoring as per the standard specifications (G.826).

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  In-service monitoring of E1 tributaries.

TejNES allows user to configure all the above –mentioned features using a standard Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based web browser. TejNES makes the physical data connection using the
Ethernet interface in the management interface module in ITI-TJ100MC-4L. TejNES also allows users to
control remote nodes using the web browser interface. For this purpose Tejas uses DCC bytes in the STM-1
frame for carrying the management information to the remote node.

TejNES allows open software interface using the TejNES-SNMP software module.

ITI-TJ100MC-4L comes with a point-and-click provisioning (PNCP) tool. This module enables
customers to provision end-to-end circuits in a network that comprises all Tejas family of SDH products. For
this users can enable node-resident software module TejNES-NODE-PNCP, and the server-resident software
module TejNES-HOST-PNCP.

TejNMS
ITI-TJ100MC-4L provides support for a centralized network management through TejNMS. For
this MC-4L provides the following operation interfaces:

 10/100 Mbps half-duplex LAN interface for NMS data connection to ITI-TJ100MC-4L node (RJ45
connector)

 RS232C Craft interface for local Command Line Interface data connection

 2 wire analog telephone interface for Engineering Order Wire (E1 or E2 bytes access) with
omnibus calling.

Specifications

Network Details
 Topology supported
Linear, Ring, Mesh, Bus Element Configuration

Terminal Multiplexers (TMUX)

Add drop Multiplexers (ADM)

Regenerator

STM-1/4 cross-connect

 Aggregate Interfaces
STM-1, STM-4

1310/1550 nm

Short Range, Long range

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 1 x STM-1e / 140 Mbps

 Tributary Interface
E1/DS1, E3/DS3, E4, STM-1e

10/100 Base-Tx, 100 Base-Fx

 Cross-connect
16x16 STM-1 equivalent

Fully non-blocking at VC-12/VC3/VC4 granularity

Line to line, Line to Tributary, Tributary

to Line, Tributary to Tributary

 Timing and Synchronization

G.813 complaint

External 2 Mbps/ 2 MHz source

Internal and external timing interface (2 E1 BITS

interface)

Internal G.703 complaint stratum-3 oscillator SSM

byte support

 Protection
SNCP

1+1 MSP

2F MS-SP Ring

 Redundancy
Power supply redundancy

Cross Connect, Timing and Control System

Redundancy

 Maintenance
Higher-order and lower order POH SDH alarms

Performance monitoring as per G.826 and G.784

Local and remote loop-back

Remote software download

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 Management
TejNES which support FCAPS feature

SNMP interface (for NMS)

RS-232 port (craft interface)

V.24/V.28 modem interface (for remote management)

In Band Channel control

10/100 Base T (RJ45) Management Interface

External alarm interface and indicators

 Order wire and user data channel

E1/E2 byte for express order wire

2 potential-free output and 5 potential free input

F1 byte for user data channel

 Power Supply
-48 V dc Nominal

-36V to –60V dc variation

Consumption: < 100 W

 Environmental
Operating Temperature: -5° to 50° C

Relative Humidity: 10 – 90 %, non-condensing

 Physical dimension
H x W x D: 489 mm x 482 mm x 300 mm

19” or 23” or 600 mm rack mountable

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