ZTE ElasticNet UME R18 Solution

ZTE
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Architecture Overview

NMS / 3rd Party System

Unified Portal
• Unified management for multi
Provisioning Monitoring System Security Northbound
and Openness RAT NE
ZTE ElasticNet UME R18

TOPO Management Fault Management UME Health Check UME 3A Center

• Deploy on x86 architecture
RAN Configuration Northbound
Performance
Log Management Adapter Function
Management Management server or virtualized platform
UME Setting Center
Inventory and ...
Hardware
RAN Supervision • WEB interface for client
Dashboard Open API Service
Management
Application data Document ...
Service Provisioning Signalling Trace Backup...
Recovery
and Upgrading Analytics
DocLite
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2G/3G/4G/5G/NB-IoT
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Highlights of UME

More advanced architecture More powerful Management More stronger features More open system

• Micro-service architecture • Unified management including • Basic network functions, • SNMP and SFTP
• Elastic expansion GSM, UMTS, LTE(FDD&TDD), FCAPS features northbound interfaces
• More flexible deployment and NB- IOT, NR and VNF • RAN VNF life cycle • Open API
upgrade management.

• The UME provides intelligent operation and maintenance management of the network.
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Main Functions & Solutions

Fault Management High Availability

UME
Configuration Management Backup and Restore
Functions
Performance Management
Geo-redundancy
Security Management
NBI(Northbound Interface)
Topology Management
STA (Signalling Trace Analytics)
Inventory Management
RSD (RAN Supervision Dashboard)
Software Management

RAN VNF Management Open API(RESTful)

MANO Integration
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Configuration Management

CM Data Output/Input

CM Data Comparison

Consistency & Integrity Check

Fast Provisioning of Site

Configuration Audit
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Fault Management

• Alarm monitoring: real-time monitoring of current alarms, history

alarms and notifications
• Alarm handling: alarm acknowledge，alarm un-acknowledge, alarm
clear, alarm severity re-define
• Alarm rule: alarm filter rule, alarm correlation rule
• Alarm forwarding
• Alarm knowledge library

UME Client E-Mail

NMS SMS
Alarm
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Performance Management

KPI Management
• Support user-defined KPI
• Support real-time KPI

Performance Task
• Measurement task
• Threshold task

Performance Query
• History performance data query
• Periodically exporting reports

Performance Monitor
• Realtime monitor
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RAN Supervision Dashboard

Real-time display of whole network

indicators
• RSD provides the real-time display of whole
network indicators to understand the whole
network status such as the network traffic and
capacity.

High visualization dashboard

• RSD provides abundant visualization

dashboard such as line chart, map, panel,
table for alarm real time monitoring and
performance real time monitoring.
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Security Management

User Management & Secret Key

Log Management Node Hardening Transport Security
Authentication Management
• As required assign user • Support operation log, • Support secret key • Access of files and • Southbound/Northboun
right. system log, and security generation, distribution folders control. d supports encryption
• Role-based log. and destruction. • Communication ports protocols, i.e. SSH/TLS
authorization • Support syslog protocol. • Support different user control. SFTP, SNMP V3, etc.
(Authorized to • Support log query and data with different • Authentication and • Web browser to UME
operation/resource). export. secret key. login policy control. Server supports
• Account rules encryption protocols, i.e.
management (i.e. https over TLS, etc.
password, account and
lock rules, etc).
• Login account
management (i.e. login
time, login IP range
settings, etc).
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Topology Management

• Centralized management and display all of the

network elements.
• Entire network alarm monitoring, alarm
statistics.
• Whole network performance statistics.
• Real-time monitoring of network element
status.
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Inventory Management
NMS / 3rd Party System

SFTP(CSV /XML)

NBI
Export Display
Adapter
Inventory Data Management

Hardware Software
Inventory Inventory
Inventory Data Store
• Hardware & Software Inventory Management for the
whole wireless network
• SFTP for NBI, following with 3GPP TS 32.69x
GERAN UTRAN eUTRAN NB-IoT NR
• Synchronization between NEs and UME periodically
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Signalling Trace Architecture

3rd Party TCE UME Client

NDS Module
Core • 2/3G
Network
Cell and UE signalling message from
TCP/IP Network BSC/RNC
• 4/5G and NB-IoT
Cell and UE signalling message from
BSC RNC
eNodeB/NR, UE identification info
via core network
• Integration with 3rd Party
Site
NDS module puts the trace data to
the 3rd party TCE by SFTP.
2G 3G 4G NB-IoT 5G

Control Command
UE Signalling Message
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Signalling Trace Analytics

• UEs and cells real-time signalling trace

for the whole wireless network
• Standard interface signalling trace, i.e.
Uu, X2, F1, NG1, Xn, E1, etc.
• Signal intelligent analysis and fault
location.
• Integrate with ZTE or other vendor’s
core network.
• Trace data reports to the 3rd party
system via NBI.
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RAN VNF Management

NFVO

VNFM

VIM

Integration with
VNF Life Cycle management VNF Package Management
VIM and NFVO

• VNF instantiation. • Subscription/cancellation of VNF • Integration with 3rd party VIM and
• VNF scaling in/out. package changes from NFVO. NFVO according to the specifications
• Query VNF package information from of ETSI NFV.
• VNF termination
NFVO and download the VNF package
files.
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Northbound and integrated to MANO

ZTE/3rd Party
• UME provides Northbound • UME supports to be
interfaces to transfer NE integrated with 3rd party‘s
information, such as NE NFVO.
configuration data, • RAN-VNFM supports VIM
performance data, Alarm which has OpenStack
data, etc.
UME interface.

3rd Party TEST

• UME contains EM and RAN • NOKIA's Orchestrator.

VNFM modules. • Ericsson's ECM (cloud
• EM provides FACPS manager).
functions to manage NEs. • HP choreography system.
• RAN-VNFM provides RAN
VNF life cycle management.
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RAN NSSMF

OSS/NMS NSMF

NBI NSMF-NSSMF
interface • Provides life cycle management of RAN NSSI
UME
• Provides alarms and performance view for RAN
RAN NSSMF
NSSI

Configuration Fault Performance • Reports slice-related alarms and performance

Management Management Management

data through the northbound interface

NR
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High Availability
VM1-1/Bare Metal VM1-2/Bare Metal VM2-1/Bare Metal VM2-2/Bare Metal VM2-3/Bare Metal

Occupied Resources Occupied Resources Occupied Resources

UME UME UME UME
MS 1 MSUME
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MS 2
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Idle Resources Idle Resources Idle Resources

UME UME UME UME
UME UME UME UME UME
MS n-1 MS n MS n-1 MS n
MS n MS 1 MS 2 MS n-1 MS n

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Storage
MS: Micro-Service

• Provide Micro-service level HA solution

• When a Micro-service fails, it will restart on the same node or switch to other nodes
• When a node fails, the Micro-service will switch to idle resources of other nodes
• Hardware HA and VM HA provided by virtualization platform, APP HA provided by UME controller
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Backup and Restore

UME
APP1 APPn Control flow
Backup Backup BR-APP BR Server
Service 11
Service
Service n1
Service
Data flow
Service 12 … Service n2
Service 13 Service n3
… …

HW
Server Disk Array

• UME backup and recovery solution consists of backup software, backup center server and backup
storage media.
• Back up the backup data of each APP node to the backup center by the BR APP.
• The backup and recovery policies can be customized according to the user's needs.
• History PM data, FM data, SON monitor data and trace data will not be backed up.
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Geo-redundancy

NMS
UME Client UME Client
switch switch

DCN/IP RAN

UME Server Data Link UME Server

Active Standby

• Support 1+1 backup

• Data is transmitted asynchronously (Note: Unsynchronized history PM data, FM data, SON monitor data and
trace data )
• It takes 30 minutes from the beginning of restore procedure to the full availability of UME service.
• It takes 3 minutes to establish a link between the UME and the Network Elements after the recovery.
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Northbound Interface (NBI)

Interface SNMP FTP/SFTP

Fault Management √

Performance Management √(csv)

Configuration Management √(csv/xml)

Inventory Management √(csv/xml)

Northbound interface communicates with 3rd party system to integrate UME with operator's existing or higher level
maintain or operation system.
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Open API

3rd party APP

APP (A) APP (B) APP (C)

Calling the API • Open Platform

UME • RESTful Interface
Open API Platform API registration • 3rd party APP Integration

Configuration Alarm Performance Inventory Software

Management Management Management Management Management

Access data
DATA
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RAN Sharing

NMS NMS
Operator A Operator B
Northbound
• Different opeators have different
Interface
operation and resource access right

for CM, FM and PM

UME Client
Operator A
• Different opeators have different data
UME Server specifications for NBI datas for CM,
Operator A (host)
UME Client FM and PM
Operator B
Southbound Interface
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