ITU Regional Development Forum 2008 for CIS,
CEE and the Baltic States
“Bridging the ICT standardization gap in
developing countries”
Session 5
Network Planning
Ignat Stanev
ITC, Bulgaria
ITU Regional Development Forum
10-11 June 2008 , Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Session 5 - 1
Presentation content
¾ NGN requirements to the planning
domains (referenced in ITU GNPT document)
¾ Fixed Network Planning Tools
(referenced in ITU NP Manual)
¾ Radio Planning Tools
(referenced in ITU NP Manual)
¾ ITU validation process for planning tools
™ Case study of Planning Broadband
Access
ITU Regional Development Forum
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Planning Domains for top level Requirement
Specifications
¾ requirements are organised by 8 planning domains derived from planner
needs and networking problems
¾ minimise the number of tools to be applied and facilitate their
interrelations
Fixed
FixedAccess
Access
Planning
Planning
Access
Accessradio
radio
planning
planning
Core
Coreradio
radio
planning
planning
Fixed
FixedSwitching
Switching
and
and
routing
routingplanning
planning
Signaling
Signalingand
and
control
planning
control planning
Business
BusinessPlanning
Planning
IT,
IT,OSS
OSSand
and
Applications
planning
Applications planning
Transmission
Transmission
planning
planning
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
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Fixed Access Planning
Inputs
From other
Modular Functionalities
Outputs
To other
Market Demand Forecasting
Planning Tools
Planning Tools
Access Location/Design
From Network
To Network
and OSS
Configuration and Assignment
From Technology
From Data Bases
Dimensioning and Performance
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
Optimisation and Sensitivity
To Planners
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the fixed access planning domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
10-11 June 2008 , Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾ Modeling of future NGN access network
equipment, including equipment parameters,
technological constraints, costs structures
¾ Extending of the forecasting models and
methods due to NGN service/customer
requirements
¾ Adapting of the calculation modules to the
NGN access network requirements
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Fixed Switching And Routing Planning
Inputs
From other
Planning Tools
Outputs
Modular Functionalities
Traffic Demand Forecasting
To other
Planning Tools
Switching Location and Routing
From Network
From Technology
From Data Bases
Configuration and Assignment
To Network
and OSS
Dimensioning and Performance
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
Optimization and Sensitivity
To Planners
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the switching and routing domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
10-11 June 2008 , Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Session 5 - 6
Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾ Service demands characterisation and traffics for VoIP
and NGN multi-service flows
¾ Device catalogue covering most typical NGN technologies
¾ Routing flows for most typical cases including OSPF,
shortest path, widest path and weighted cost functions
¾ Routing methods for Labelled Switched Paths (LSP)
¾ Routing over ATM links or PDH/SDH systems or
tunnelling via other IP links
¾ Exact allocation of the IP or MPLS links
¾…
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Transmission Planning
Inputs
Outputs
Modular Functionalities
From other
Planning Tools
Bandwidth Demand forecasting
To other
Planning Tools
Transmission Location/Design
From Network
Configuration and Assignment
From Technology
Dimensioning and Performance
To Network
and OSS
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
From Data Bases
Optimisation and Sensitivity
To Planners
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the transmission domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
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Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾ Device catalogue covering Next Generation SDH
technologies
¾ Formation of optical networks
¾ Capability to model IP over SDH and IP over
WDM
¾ Modelling architecture and capabilities of
Ethernet mesh topology and Ethernet ring topology
¾ …
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Signalling, Control And NM Planning
Inputs
From other
Modular Functionalities
Traffic Demand forecasting
Planning Tools
Outputs
To other
Planning Tools
Signalling nodes Design
From Network
To Network
Configuration and Assignment
From Technology
From Data Bases
Dimensioning and Performance
and OSS
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
Optimisation and Sensitivity
To Planners
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the signalling domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
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Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾ SS7 network planning tool should be easily
upgraded for the requirements related to
NGN and corresponding new technologies in
respect to the demand flows and protection
level. Also capabilities should be provided to
analyze and optimize signalling gateway
locations and dimensioning
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Radio Access Planning
Inputs
From other
Modular Functionalities
Outputs
To other
User and Traffic Forecasting
Planning Tools
Planning Tools
Radio Access Location/Design
From Network
To Network
and OSS
Coverage and Interference
From Technology
From Data Bases
Dimensioning and Performance
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
Optimisation and Sensitivity
To Planners
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the radio access domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
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Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾
Modeling of new NGN services which do not fall in
the present service models and specially
multimedia service types
¾
Modeling of future NGN access network
equipment, including equipment parameters,
technological constraints, costs structures
¾
Extending of the forecasting models and methods
due to NGN service/customer requirements
¾
Adapting of the calculation modules to the NGN
access network requirements
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Core Radio Planning
Inputs
From other
Modular Functionalities
Outputs
To other
Traffic and Circuit Forecasting
Planning Tools
Planning Tools
Microwave Link Engineering
From Network
To Network
and OSS
Coverage and Interference
From Technology
From Data Bases
Dimensioning and Performance
To Data Bases
Protection and Reliability
To Planners
Optimisation and Sensitivity
From Planners
Network and Equipment Costing
Requirements for the core radio domain
GNPT for Developing Countries and Countries
with economies in transition, ITU, Geneva, 2005
ITU Regional Development Forum
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Requirements related to NGN and
corresponding new technologies
¾
Service demands characterisation and traffics for
VoIP and NGN multi-service flows
¾
Device catalogue covering most typical NGN
technologies
¾
Optimising locations and connections of network
gateways
¾
Estimation of investment costs for the rollout and
the extension of the investigated multi-service
network
¾
...
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Fixed Network Planning Tools
Fixed
FixedAccess
Access
Planning
Planning
Access
Accessradio
radio
planning
planning
Core
Coreradio
radio
planning
planning
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Fixed
FixedSwitching
Switching
and
and
routing
routingplanning
planning
Business
BusinessPlanning
Planning
Signaling
Signalingand
and
control
controlplanning
planning
IT,
IT,OSS
OSSand
and
Applications
planning
Applications planning
Transmission
Transmission
planning
planning
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Planning tools - OnePlan AccessTM
( VPIaccessMaker)
Provides geo-market forecasting, access
network design and dimensioning, and
economic analysis functionality
OnePlan Access plans access networks of any
technology and produces business cases for new
services by:
• Capturing sophisticated market forecasts
• Selecting the best access technology for a
geographic region
• Designing and dimensioning optimized access
networks with wireline and wireless technologies
• Providing detailed economic analysis based on
forecasts and infrastructure investments
• Visualizing geographic data such as area maps,
customer locations and network layout
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Planning tools - OnePlan DistributionTM
(VPIserviceMaker Distribution )
OnePlan Distribution supports users with
the following major planning steps:
• Calculating a traffic matrix based on input
data
• Equalizing unbalanced traffic demands
based on traffic measurement data
• Manipulating a traffic matrix (single,
hybrid or interconnect) through changing
values or interest factors
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Planning tools - OnePlan IP TM
(VPIserviceMaker IP )
Key Features
• Plans IP network capacity for best-effort
services (such as HTTP, FTP, e-mail, news
services, etc.) and other services in an access
IP network
• Provides Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
topology checks, effective bandwidth
calculation, bottleneck identification, export
and import of user-definable access profiles
and device libraries, detailed reports of all
planning data and more
• Optimally computes the Label Switched
Paths (LSPs) and allocates bandwidth for
the MPLS core transport to meet the QoS
requirements of different types of services
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Planning tools - OnePlan TransportTM
(VPItransportMaker )
Key Features
• Link/node failure analysis
• Network survivability studies
• What-if analysis and detailed reporting
• Hot-spot identification
• SDH/SONET/Ethernet/WDM modeling
• Equipment and Central Office (CO)
modeling capabilities
• Scripting interface
• Multi-Period modeling
• Greenfield and brownfield modeling
• Top-down and bottom-up routing plans
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Radio Planning Tools
Fixed
FixedAccess
Access
Planning
Planning
Access
Accessradio
radio
planning
planning
Core
Coreradio
radio
planning
planning
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Fixed
FixedSwitching
Switching
and
and
routing
routingplanning
planning
Business
BusinessPlanning
Planning
Signaling
Signalingand
and
control
controlplanning
planning
IT,
IT,OSS
OSSand
and
Applications
planning
Applications planning
Transmission
Transmission
planning
planning
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Radio planning tool - LStelcom MULTILINK
MULTILINK is a network planning tool for
• Interactive microwave link
engineering
• Planning of core radio network
• Design of radio access networks
• Planning wireless broadband
networks
• Frequency allocation and
coordination (ITU-R
recommendations are implemented)
MULTIlink could be used for case studies, as well as for the
planning, operation and optimization of real wireless networks
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LStelcom MULTIlink - Propagation Models
•
Information models
– Sight Check
– Sight Check (Fresnel)
•
Physical models
– Free space
– Epstein-Peterson
•
Empirical models
– Okumura-Hata
•
Mixed models
– Longley-Rice
– ITU-R P.370
– ITU-R P.1546
– GEG
– L&S VHF/UHF
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Propagation Prediction
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LStelcom MULTIlink – Network Processor
Network Processor
Maximum Field Strength
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ITU validation process for planning tools
Purpose: Validation of Network Planning Tools
for Developing Countries and Countries with
economies in transition
¾ Compliance with the technical requirements
specified in the ITU Guidelines for Network
Planning Tools
¾ Performance of the planning tool in terms of
size of the network and time to execute typical
planning cases
¾ Crating of Set of real data reference networks
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Case study of Planning Broadband Access
Description
¾
Broadband access
¾
Urban/suburban area
¾
Two different Scenarios
„
Scenario 1: xDSL
„
Scenario 2: BWA (WiMAX)
Presented on the ITU/BDT Regional Seminar
on Mobile and Fixed Wireless Access for
Broadband Applications for the Arab Region,
Algiers (Algeria) 19-22 June 2006
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Case study - Planning process
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Case study – services and customers definition
¾ Permanent BB
service –
BB connection at
1 Mbit/s
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Case study - Service Area definition
¾ Average BB
penetration from
10% to 70% and
strategy for 20% of
the market
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Case study - Technology Definition
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Case study – planning of DSL access network
Optimization of
access node
number/locations
and service areas
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Case study – planning of wireless access network
Planning of market/technology
and transfer of data to radio
planning tool
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Case study – planning of wireless access network
Max server
coverage :
calculation and
improvement
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Case study – planning of wireless access network
Transfer of results from
radio planning tool for
costing of the network
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Case study - Economic Analysis
Wireless access network
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Case study - Economic Analysis
Comparison of DSL and Wireless access network
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