HUAWEI iMaster NCE Data Sheet

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HUAWEI iMaster NCE is the industry's first Product Description

network automation and intelligence
platform that integrates management, With the advent of the all-optical network era and the next-generation passive
control, analysis, and AI functions. It optical network (NGPON), service providers are looking for innovative networks to
effectively connects physical networks prepare for the rapid traffic growth in the future. The software-defined networking
with business intents and implements (SDN) technologies are used to improve network agility for diversified new services.
centralized management, control, and The network infrastructure must be ultra-broadband, simplified, open, agile, and
analysis of global networks. It enables intelligent, of which, the access network consists of optical network terminals (ONTs),
resource cloudification, full-lifecycle multi-dwelling units (MDUs), and optical line terminals (OLTs). The access
network automation, and data analytics- management and control O&M system simplifies network deployment, improves
driven intelligent closed-loop management O&M automation, reduces network capital expenditure (CAPEX), and improves O&M
according to business and service intents efficiency.
and provides open network APIs for rapid
integration with IT systems. Mainly applied NCE is an integrated platform for network management, control, and analysis. It
in data center, enterprise campus, provides NE and ONT connection management capabilities in the Access Manager
enterprise private line, and carrier network and Controller scenario. Limited by carriers' business and O&M costs, it provides
scenarios, it accelerates service automatic network management processes and manages abstraction models of NE
transformation and innovation for carriers universal interfaces. This implements visualized management of legacy networks and
and enterprises by improving the simplicity, NETCONF/YANG NEs and helps carriers simplify O&M, improve O&M efficiency, and
intelligence, openness, and security of reduce field visits.
networks.

As the smart brain of the entire network, Architecture and Key Components
NCE effectively connects the physical
network to the business intent. It has the Based on a cloud architecture, NCE utilizes service-based module design and
following four key capabilities: supports distributed virtualization deployment. The overall architecture consists of
• All-cloud platform with ultra-large modules such as common services, Manager+Controller, scenario-based apps, and
system capacity southbound and northbound openness.
• Full-lifecycle automation
• Intelligent closed-loop management
based on big data and AI
• Scenario-based application ecosystem
enabled by open programmability

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 3rd-party App/OSS/Orchestrator Highlights
RESTful CORBA MTOSI/XML
NCE Open API
Common SNMP TL1 PONTL1 xFTP (Perf)
Service
Service Automation
Build-in Apps Network Management Access Controller • Automatic FTTH service activation: Service data is
SysMonitor
Manager+Controller automatically configured, improving service configuration
HA Ethernet Multicast Protocol Diagnostic view OLT ZTD efficiency.
management

Layer 2 VLAN NE management ETHOAM ONT ZTP

• OLT ZTD: OLTs do not require software commissioning onsite.
Installation &
Deployment Simulation test OLTs are automatically registered and initialized after being
Site management
Voice Template
ONT powered on, reducing field visits and costs.
ONT management maintenance
Security
Line ACL & QoS
Order management PON leased line

Log
Capability Openness
Distributed
Resource Management Based on the unified open architecture of the controller, NCE
License management Resource Orchestration
Topology
framework
Alarm Inventory
pool framework provides standard RESTful NBI open network capability models to
accelerate service innovation.
SBI SNMP SSH NETCONF xFTP HTTPS
NETCONF/YANG SBIs and legacy interfaces are supported,
Network infrastructure
DSLAM MSAN OLT MDU ONT
enabling network convergence management.

Common service module: provides basic network services such PON Leased Line O&M
as alarms and logs and product engineering capabilities such as PON leased line views can be customized.
disaster recovery (DR) and backup. Allows users to view the overall information of ONUs, and details
and alarm details of any ONU in the view.
Manager+Controller: provides access network management and
control services, including: Key Features
• Provisioning services on the access network, including
provisioning Ethernet, multicast, and voice services, and ONU Access Network Deployment
managing VLANs, profiles, access control list (ACL) & quality
of service (QoS), and lines corresponding to the services. ONU PnP Fast Deployment
• Managing access devices, including the management of the NCE provides a PnP solution. You can configure the PnP policy on
central office (CO) devices and terminals such as the BITS, NCE, including allocating IP addresses, adding ONUs and
MSAN, DSLAM, OLT, and ONT, and managing the management service channels, upgrading software, configuring
environment monitoring sites corresponding to the CO scripts, and configuring ONUs, and then bind the policy to the
devices. related OLT. When an ONU goes online for the first time and
• Access network diagnosis and maintenance management, reports traps to NCE, NCE automatically invokes the PnP policy
including FTTH service diagnosis views, circuit and loop line and performs related operations defined in the policy to
tests and emulation tests for access media, and remote ONT complete ONU PnP policy deployment. In this manner, the
maintenance and management. deployment efficiency is greatly improved and the network
• Access network automation: OLT zero touch deployment (ZTD) construction cost is lowered.
and automatic ONT zero touch provisioning (ZTP).
OLT Access Network Deployment
Scenario-based app: provides network management and
automatic access capabilities for different business scenarios. NCE provides an automatic configuration solution for OLT
deployment. This solution aims to achieve the following
Northbound and southbound openness: provides NBIs and SBIs objectives: After the on-site OLT hardware installation, the
for quick interconnection and integration with third-party software commissioning is not required onsite, or fewer skills is
applications and other management and control systems and required for the software commissioning and configuration of the
devices. hardware installation engineers.

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 7. Replace
OLT Going Online Through Pre-deployment (Semi- temporary IP NCE 1. Configure device
automatic) address. planning data.

Configuration before installation: Plan the IP address of the NE

first. After on-site installation, you only need to manually
5. Call Home 6. Deliver planning data.
configure the IP address of the OLT. This simplifies the on-site
configuration and the interaction between the system and
Hardware 3. DHCP request
personnel, and subsequent manual operations for adding commissioning DHCP
OLT
resources on the OSS and RMS. engineer 2. Install the server
OLT. 4. Assign a temporary
OSS IP address.

OLT ZTD builds a zero touch provisioning PON network to

2. Deliver OLT
Administrator implement PnP and automatic deployment of network devices.
planning data.
3. Add NEs in • NCE: Provides the function of configuring the initialization
advance.
template (in JSON format, including at least the IP address,
NCE
Software system name, board configuration, time zone, Syslog global
commissioning
4. Commission switch) and SNMP management template. Users can create
engineer 5. OLT 6. Deliver
the OLT.
goes service an OLT pre-deployment task and configure the IP address and
online. configurations. equipment serial number (ESN). After the OLT goes online,
Hardware NCE applies the initial configuration file to the OLT.
commissioning OLT
engineer • DHCP server: Allocates a temporary IP address to the OLT and
1. Install the OLT.
notifies the OLT of the NCE server IP address.
• OLT: Supports the NETCONF Call Home (RFC 8071). After the
• OSS: The planned data includes the device ESN, device IP
OLT is powered on, it initiates a call home request. After
address, and device identifier (OLT name). After the OLT goes
receiving the information indicating that the OLT goes online
online, the OSS allocates these parameters to NCE,
for the first time, NCE matches the OLT information
authenticates the OLT based on the received ESN, and
automatically discovered with the ESN in the pre-deployment
allocates an OLT name.
task and adds the OLT through ESN verification.
• NCE: Provides the functions of adding NEs in advance and
• Field engineers: The hardware engineer obtains the
configuring the initialization template. After the OLT goes
corresponding OLT according to the ESN, installs the
online, NCE applies the initial configuration file to the OLT.
hardware onsite, and powers on the OLT.
• Field engineers: The hardware engineer obtains the
corresponding OLT according to the ESN, installs the
hardware onsite, and powers on the OLT. The software
commissioning engineer configures the OLT IP address and
management channel parameters (SNMP channel).

OLT Going Online Automatically Through DHCP

(Automatic)
Installation before configuration: Deploy the OLT based on the
DHCP server. The DHCP server is used to obtain the temporary IP
address of the OLT to be installed and notify NCE. In this mode,
no configuration is required onsite, and only hardware
installation is required.

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 Automatic FTTH Service Activation Remote Diagnosis

In the FTTH service automatic activation scenario, service data FTTC/FTTB diagnosis view: This view displays E2E links from
can be automatically and efficiently configured without using the CPE UNIs to OLT upstream ports to implement one-stop NE
and link status monitoring and fault diagnosis. With this view,
OSS, which does not require any manual operations and
FTTC/FTTB troubleshooting is simplified.
improves the service configuration efficiency.
After a user configures an ONT whitelist and enables the ONT FTTH diagnosis view: This view displays E2E links from ONT
activation policy, NCE delivers the policy file to the ONT after it UNIs to OLT upstream ports to implement one-stop NE and
goes online and automatically activates ONT services based on link status monitoring and fault diagnosis. With this view,
the defined policy file. FTTH troubleshooting is simplified.
NCE supports logical division of physical resources (such as
devices, boards, and ports) to divide ONTs into regions. You can Remote emulation test: Maintenance personnel can
configure region information in the policy file so that different remotely diagnose faults on voice, broadband, and other
policies can be applied to different physical resources. services.

Intelligent alarm analysis: Alarm compression, correlation

analysis, and other methods are provided to reduce the
alarm quantity and help users identify root causes.

NE data verification: NE configuration data is verified against

the data planned by carriers to avoid data inconsistency and
the resultant service problems.

ONT video quality diagnosis: Faults of IPTV + cooperated OTT

videos can be quickly diagnosed and demarcated. NCE
collects quality indicators in real time, displays them in a
visualized manner, and compares them to quickly demarcate
Intelligent FTTx Site Management faults.

The intelligent site management solution can be used for FTTx

sites. Sensor components are used to avert black-box
management, remotely monitor site status in a visualized way,
simplify door lock rights management, and remotely detect
batteries. Site asset management, visualized site monitoring, and
remote operations reduce the number of site visits, facilitate NCENorthbound
supports the new and Southbound
RESTful Openness
NBI and traditional NBIs such
remote site maintenance, and save on maintenance costs. as XML, CORBA, and SNMP for compatibility with new and
existing evolvable networks. It covers all scenarios such as
network performance monitoring, automatic service
configuration, and network monitoring. The NBIs provide
various atomic APIs and scenario-based APIs, greatly
simplifying the integration of the northbound OSS/IT system
and shortening the TTM. The unified API gateway provides a
secure and reliable entry point for access.

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 Scenario-based App
Access Controller

Access Controller provides automation capabilities for access

devices and preferentially builds automation capabilities for SD-
OLTs (next-generation OLTs), including automatic installation and
deployment (OLT ZTD), and automatic network adjustment
(device replacement).

PON Leased Line O&M

You can customize a PON private line view by configuring the

ONU type, ONU name matching rule, and ONU name keyword.
After the configuration is complete, you can view the overall
information about ONUs (including the total number of ONUs,
number of online ONUs, number of offline ONUs, and number of
ONUs that contain alarms) in the PON private line view. In
addition, you can view the details and alarm details of any ONU in
the view.

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Specifications

Category Description

Management and control of NEs Basic network configuration and access service provisioning

Simplified access device installation and PnP ONU ZTP/OLT ZTD

Service provisioning
Automatic recovery of ONU after replacement

Automatic FTTH service activation No OSS required

Automatic ONT service activation

E2E diagnosis and remote repair E2E diagnosis view

Remote emulation test
Video quality diagnosis

Programmable NBIs Design state and running state capability of Design Studio

Operating Environment
On-Premises Deployment

Hardware Configuration Requirements of TaiShan 200 (Model 2280)

Hardware Model Requirement

128 GB server standard model TaiShan 200 (Model 2280) CPU: 2 x Kunpeng 920 (2.6 GHz, 64 cores)
RAM: 4 x 32 GB DDR4
Hard disk: 8 x 1200 GB HDD
RAID controller card: Avago3408
NIC: 2 x 4 GE electrical ports

TaiShan Servers Required

Service Scenario Network Scale Hardware Number of Servers

Manager+Controller < 1,000 equivalent NEs 128 GB server standard model 1

Hardware Configuration Requirements of 2288X V5

Hardware Model Requirement

128 GB server standard model 2288X V5 • CPU: 2 x Xeon Silver 4210 (2.2 GHz, 10 cores)
• RAM: 4 x 32 GB DDR4
• Hard disk: 8 x 600 GB SAS
• RAID card: 9460-8i (2 GB cache)
• NIC: 2 x 4 GE electrical ports

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2288X V5 Servers Required

Service Scenario Network Scale Hardware Number of Servers

Manager+Controller < 1,000 equivalent NEs 128 GB server standard model 1

Resource Configurations (SUSE, for Product Only)

Hardware resources required for physical machine deployment

Service Scenario Network Scale CPU RAM Storage IOPS NIC

(GB) (GB)

NCE-FAN Manager < 1,000 equivalent NEs 2.0 GHz, 16 cores 64 500 1000 1 x 4 GE

VM resources required for private cloud deployment

Service Scenario Network Scale VMs vCPUs RAM Storage IOPS

(GB) (GB)

NCE-FAN Manager < 1,000 equivalent NEs 1 2.0 GHz, 16 cores 64 500 1000

Software Configuration Requirements

Item Type Version Remarks

Delivered OS EulerOS V2.9 Used on the TaiShan server in the on-

software premises scenario.
Used on the x86 server in the on-premises
scenario and in the private cloud scenario.

Database GaussDB T V3 (also called Gauss100 OLTP 1.1.0) Used by the Manager to store manager data.

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