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Huawei eLTE Success Stories
I n the Mobile Broadband (MBB) era, enterprise customers need to
improve quality of communications and enhance competitiveness. With
industry-leading wireless technologies and a solid understanding of
customer needs, Huawei provides the eLTE solution to improve operational
efficiency and enable network deployment in harsh environments, while
helping to build a safer society and enrich people’s lives.
In the government sector, Huawei deployed the world’s first broadband
trunking solution for the Nanjing government, greatly improving city
management, increasing government operational efficiency, and enhancing
public safety.
In the metro sector, Huawei deployed an eLTE solution with Closed-
Circuit Television (CCTV) and Passenger Information System (PIS) service
for Zhengzhou Metro Co., Ltd. (Zhengzhou Metro) in China. The
solution features highly reliable bilateral radio transmission channels
for train-to-ground voice, data, and video transmissions, improving
overall communications and operational efficiency of rail transportation.
In the future, the eLTE solution will provide broadband trunking and
Communications-Based Train Control System (CBTC) services for
Zhengzhou Metro.
In the energy sector, Huawei deployed the world’s first offshore LTE
network, providing broadband communication services for Norway’s
Tampnet oilfield — which encompasses a radius of 37 km.
In the electric power industry, Huawei extended its leadership and worked
extensively with China Southern Power Grid and State Grid, providing
convenient eLTE wireless broadband communication services through
private networks. Huawei also achieved breakthroughs in the port and
airport sectors.
01 Nanjing Municipal Network World's First eLTE Smart City
02 Lijiang Police To Build a Safe Lijiang
03 Shanghai Police To Secure Major Events
04 UK Broadband To Construct Emergency Communication Network
05 Shuohuang Railway World’s First LTE Network in a 20,000-ton Heavy
Haul Railway
06 Zhengzhou Metro First LTE Metro Network in the World
07 Port of Tianjin World’s First LTE Network for Ports
08 Ożarowice, Poland World’s First LTE Broadband Deployment in the Public Administration Sector
09 IB-RED UWB Coverage in Spain’s Rural Areas
10 Northern Michigan University First LTE Campus Network in the U.S.A.
11 China Southern Power Grid World’s First LTE Network
for the Power Industry
13 Norway Tampnet World’s First LTE Network for
Offshore Oilfield
14 Xinjiang Oilfield Company Laying a Foundation for Internet of Things
15 Weijiamao Coal Mine World’s First LTE Network in the Coal Industry
Contents
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P06 P08 P11 P14
Enterprise eLTE:
61 Contacts
19 Commercial Networks (As of Q2 2014)
Carrier LTE:
290+ Contracts
126 Commercial Networks
(GSA, as of Q1 2014)
The Li River flows over 83 kilometers from Guilin to Yangshuo, bordered by beautiful mountains. The river is one of the world’s top ten Golden Waterways and a national 5A-class scenic area that now has 179 boats to accommodate millions of tourists each year from every corner of the Earth.
As more tourists visit the Li River, an insufficient police force and a lack of real-time monitoring along the waterway have posed challenges to security and ecosystems. For example, unauthorized bamboo rafts and swimming in the river have caused about 30 drowning deaths every year, and peddling has seriously hindered management of scenic locations. In addition, fishermen unintentionally killed juvenile fish and negatively affected some species. Therefore, Guilin Police needed a solution to strengthen monitoring and management in the scenic areas to control public order and strengthen law enforcement.
Among the available solutions, optical networks would be hard to deploy due to the rugged terrain surrounding the river (for example, the river travels through numerous caves), and WiMAX falls short of the high-Asian Youth Games used the TD-LTE
trunking solution to provide both
professional trunking services and
mobile video surveillance. This
solution has played a significant
role in dealing with emergencies
and guaranteeing safety for sports
events. I believe that this system
will be enhanced to make a greater
contribution to the upcoming Youth
Olympic Games.
Li Nan, Manager of the
Communication and Network
Department, Technology Operation
Center, Asian Youth Games
Our system is so beneficial that
we can conduct both onshore and
offshore monitoring to reduce illegal
and criminal acts and enhance law
enforcement. Now we employ less
than 60 people to secure up to 83
km of Li River waterways.
Huang Lan,
Head of Lijiang Police of Guilin
Nanjing holds a prominent position in China’s history, having been the capital of China for six dynasties. It is now the second largest city in Eastern China after Shanghai, with a permanent population of about 8 million people, covering an area of 6,582.31 sq. km. To boost its comprehensive governance, provide better services, improve the living quality of its citizens, create favorable conditions for developing smart industries, and attracting high-end talent, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided in 2013 to invest in building a wireless broadband municipal network to providing a secure and ubiquitous broadband services.
Solutions such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, public 3G networks, and TETRA-based network expansion cannot satisfy requirements of the municipal network in terms of performance, reliability, high bandwidth, and scalability. Therefore, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided to use the Huawei eLTE solution — a mature End-to-End (E2E) solution that provides rich functions over a single network, from traditional trunking to voice and video dispatching and real-time video distribution. This solution helps transform a purely “listening” trunking system to a “clearly watching” one and, therefore, provides visualization at the command center.
During the 2013 Asian Youth Games, this solution provided reliable, high-quality communications, and helped guarantee the success of the event. Fixed and mobile surveillance helped capture live information on traffic between athlete residences and stadiums, inside and outside of stadiums,
Nanjing Municipal NetworkWorld’s First eLTE Smart City
Lijiang PoliceTo Build a Safe Lijiang
speed mobility required for patrol boats. Therefore, Guilin Police decided to use the Huawei eLTE solution to provide wireless broadband coverage for voice, video, and data services over a single network across the river. High-resolution cameras are used in key areas for real-time monitoring. Meanwhile, multimedia video trunking is employed to allow visualized dispatching, accurate decision-making, quick police operations, and task-specific deployment. The network permits the command boat to communicate with the onshore control center and patrol boats on the river, which helps Lijiang Police to provide joint, quick responses. This network also interoperates with the existing 350 MHz voice communication system to maximize the use of resources.
After the eLTE broadband network was deployed in 2013, the accident rate dropped by 50 percent and emergency response efficiency rose by 30 percent. This contributed to the Security Guard award to Lijiang Police by the Guilin Municipal Government. The Lijiang Police Department also has built a digital information system, further contributing to tourists’ enjoyment of Guilin.
audience entrances, and nearby areas around the stadiums. The eLTE trunking dispatch system helped the command center coordinate with the Event Organization Committee, Security Department, and Transportation Department, enabling timely on-site dispatching to maintain order at the game sites. This system also protected previous investments by communicating with other systems like TETRA.
After a year of improvements, the eLTE solution has helped ensure the 2014 Youth Olympic Games to be successful and demonstrate Nanjing’s charm and strength to the world. As planned, the Huawei eLTE solution will provide network coverage across the entire city, converge fixed and mobile networks, and integrate the currently fragmented information systems by taking advantage of eLTE’s excellent performance, open platform, and flexible interfaces. This solution will help build a unified information platform for public security, traffic policing, fire fighting, medical and public health, power supplies, and hydrology to permit information sharing as well as unified video and voice dispatching. Serving as the information backbone, the eLTE network will lay a solid foundation for creating a “Smart Nanjing.” For example, it will allow the Nanjing Municipal Government to quickly coordinate resources for disaster relief and anti-terrorism operations.
Based upon the success of the Nanjing Municipal Network, Huawei believes that the eLTE solution will help governmental sectors improve their information systems and enhance their emergency communication capabilities on the journey towards safer and smarter cities.
Voice of Customers
Voice of Customers
UK Broadband is the U.K.‘s largest commercial
holder of national radio spectrum suitable
for 4G mobile services and fixed wireless
solutions. It mainly provides data capacity,
equipment, and services to the public sector.
This data-only business operation without
voice services puts a cap on its further
growth, although the U.K. government
plans to promote LTE technology in its
emergency communication network. At the
same time, enterprise customers ranging
from airports to harbors to railway sectors
are expecting their networks to support
voice and Big Data services.
In February 2014, UK Broadband, in
collaboration with Huawei, piloted an
Multimedia trunking based on TD-LTE
networks is an inevitable trend in
the development of command and
dispatch systems!
Wei Yu, Vice General Manager,
Shanghai 3G Electronics
Engineering Co., Ltd.
UK Broadband released an eLTE
video on its official website with
comparison test results, and
included the following remarks:
Using a Huawei "embedded"
network solution rather than An
Over The Top (OTT) one, providing
a greater level of functionality than
can be achieved with OTT. We
believe our service is the only one
which provides the security and
functionality of the current TETRA
solution that our emergency services
users value today, together with
the added benefits that LTE 4G
technology can bring such as video
calling and advanced data services.
www.ukbroadband.com/eLTE
Shanghai Huangpu District is Shanghai’s economic, administrative, and cultural center. It covers an area of 20.5 sq. km and has a permanent population of 680,000 people. This district is also home to numerous world-famous landmarks, including the Bund, Xintiandi, East Nanjing Road, Middle Huaihai Road, and City God Temple. The Park Hotel and Shanghai Customs House Bell Tower in this district were once regarded as the center of Shanghai.
Along with the city’s development, Huangpu District is facing more and more security challenges. Due to complicated terrain, dense population, and buildings, existing police communication systems are constrained from achieving high efficiency and reliability. Specifically, the police communication system can no longer provide reliable communications services for major security tasks and emergencies. The 350 MHz trunking communication system does not permit an effective combination of voice and video services. Fixed-wire cameras do not enable all-dimensional, and blind-spot-free surveillance due to their limited number and monitoring angles. Therefore, Huangpu Police are eager to improve their law enforcement and management efficiency by optimizing the information system.
A joint effort with Shanghai 3G Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd., enabled Huawei to use the existing equipment rooms of the Huangpu District Police to build an private, eLTE broadband trunking network. This new network permits the Shanghai Police Department to exclusively use its downlink and uplink radio resources, free of interference from public users. Therefore, this network fully provides security and reliability with communication services for police sectors. In addition to the original functions and services
UK BroadbandTo Construct Emergency Communication Network
eLTE broadband trunking network in the
center of London to provide coverage
in the 3 sq. km financial area. With this
network, UK Broadband provides perfect
broadband trunking applications, with
network performance far exceeding its
competitors. Since the pilot network was
put into use, numerous visitors from sectors
like government, police, and municipal
administration came to experience the
network services and left satisfied.
With the success of London as a starting
point, UK Broadband plans to provide eLTE
coverage across the U.K. in collaboration
with Huawei.
of the 350 MHz TETRA network, Huawei’s solution provides services such as broadband video surveillance, video trunking dispatch, GIS positioning, and broadband data access. This solution facilitates police command and dispatch, and helps the Shanghai Police Department take a qualitative leap from “simply listening” to “clearly watching.”
During such major events as the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai International Tourism Festival, and Shanghai International Marathon, the eLTE private broadband trunking network enabled reliable, high-quality communication services, improved site command efficiency, and provided comprehensive information support. The communication system helped build a modern dispatch and command platform that allows the command center to “clearly view locations,” then “dispatch timely commands.” The eLTE private broadband trunking network supports high-capacity trunking voice services. It also collects onsite information through fixed wireless cameras, emergency communication vehicles, handheld terminals, and wirelessly uploads video and positioning information to the command center, eliminating all blind spots. With this system, command personnel also can distribute videos to personnel on-site at any time. With the aid of functions like instant voice communication and Multimedia Messaging Services, the command center can promptly dispatch personnel and deliver commands to the site.
Shanghai leads China in deploying an eLTE private broadband trunking network for its police organizations, opening a new chapter for more efficient police networks in China and the world at large.
Shanghai PoliceTo Secure Major Events
Voice of Customers
Voice of Customers
Zhengzhou, with a population of over 10 million, is the capital of Henan province and a major transportation hub in Central China. Zhengzhou Metro has 6 lines covering over 200 km and plays an important part in relieving the city’s traffic congestion.
To improve traffic conditions, ensure travel safety, enrich passenger experience, and build Zhengzhou Metro into the world’s first-class urban railway transport system, Zhengzhou Metro Company has been seeking a first-class communications system. The new system would provide high-speed mobility, wide bandwidth, short delays, and strong scalability to fulfill communication demands now and into the future. The traditional Passenger Information System (PIS) records data or transmits data through a WLAN. However, data recording does not deliver real-time services and, therefore, cannot fully utilize the PIS’s advantages. With the increasing popularity of Wi-Fi, PIS stability becomes a problem, especially for mobile applications where intermittent interruptions occur. Furthermore, due to limited uplink capacity for traditional wireless solutions, vehicle-mounted video surveillance can only record local data, and real-time videos cannot be captured by the command center. Under such circumstances, Zhengzhou Metro decided to implement the Huawei eLTE solution to
The LTE network has created a
good foundation for the future
transportation capacity of more than
350 million tons, with enhanced
communication and network security.
Cao Yanping, Vice General
Manager, Shuohuang Railway
Development Co., Ltd.
As the world’s first metro line to
use LTE, Zhengzhou Metro is an
example for future wireless network
construction on urban metro lines
and provides clear evidence that LTE
can meet the requirements of wireless
communication in urban metro. We
believe that LTE will be widely used in
the future for urban metro.
Liu Hongtai, Deputy General
Manager, Operation Branch
Company of Zhengzhou Rail
Transit Co., Ltd.
Invested and constructed by Shenhua Group
Corporation Limited, the world‘s largest
coal supplier and a Fortune 500 company,
the 588-km long Shuohuang Railway is the
longest heavy haul railway ever constructed
by Shenhua. To service the coal demands of
the Chinese economy, Shuohuang Railway
is required to increase annual transportation
capacity to 350 million tons; a single train
trip needs to increase from 5,000 tons to
20,000 tons.
Operating such huge, heavy haul trains
needs multiple-locomotive synchronization.
Meanwhile, dynamic operation of the
locomotive is required for the controllable
train tail to solve the longitudinal impulse
problem of heavy haul trains, and extend the
communication distance between the master
and slave locomotives to over 2,500m.
With such advantages as wide coverage, short
delay, and high bandwidth, the Huawei eLTE
Shuohuang RailwayWorld’s First LTE Network in a 20,000-ton Heavy Haul Railway
Zhengzhou MetroWorld’s First LTE Metro Network
provide ground-to-train wireless broadband services across Zhengzhou Metro Line 1, with speeds up to 120 km per hour, for services such as vehicle-mounted PIS applications, video surveillance, and fire warnings.
The Huawei eLTE solution provides a downlink bandwidth of about 20 Mbit/s for a single train, with flexible subframe configuration, and large uplink bandwidth in the case of limited frequencies, enabling the requirements of vehicle-mounted HD video surveillance. In addition, QoS mechanisms provide accurate priority management of services to minimize transmission delay, packet loss rate, and guarantee bandwidth demand for key services when the network is congested. The eLTE solution supports PIS and video surveillance services in one system to reduce network investment and pave the way in the future for Communication Based Train Control functions and trunking dispatch. With this solution, coverage of a single cell extends to 1,200m, significantly reducing equipment quantity, and improving O&M efficiency.
On November 29, 2013, Zhengzhou Metro powered up the world’s first eLTE urban metro solution, which gained wide recognition throughout the industry. This project lays a solid foundation for integrating metro resources, saving construction costs, and enhancing metro O&M efficiency.
solution tailored for Shuohunag Railway uses
a 1.8 GHz TD-LTE network to successfully
implement multiple-locomotive control over
the 20,000-ton trains, extending transmission
distance and reducing latency. To achieve high
reliability, the Huawei eLTE network provides
a full redundancy solution to ensure 99.999
percent system availability. Innovative dual-
network coverage and multiple-priority QoS
mechanisms contribute to zero interruption in
railway operations. Meanwhile, Shuohuang
Railway has also achieved whole-line
dispatch and driver room video surveillance,
significantly enhancing dispatch efficiency and
operation safety.
The success of the Huawei eLTE solution in
Shuohuang Railway marks a major innovation
in heavy haul railway communication and
embodies an exemplary role in heavy haul
railway development in China and the world.
Voice of Customers
Voice of Customers
Ożarowice is located in Silesia, east of Poland
and has a population of only 1,700. Due to
its geographic remoteness, sparse population,
and low profitability, operators are unwilling
to construct communication networks there.
Previously, wireless access was mainly provided
by local Internet service providers, leading to
poor IT infrastructure and low penetration of
broadband Internet services, which hindered
city development.
To speed up information communication
and bridge communication between the
government and its citizens, the Ożarowice
government decided to build a broadband
network independent from operators to
provide Internet, voice over IP, and mobile
video surveillance services.
To minimize project duration and costs,
the Ożarowice government decided to use
wireless solutions. Huawei is a major LTE
solutions provider and the first to support
TD-LTE for commercial applications in this
industry. Huawei’s eLTE solution supports
deployment on the 3.7 GHz band, and uses
lightweight equipment and special outdoor
terminals to permit efficient broadband
Since the LTE network was
implemented, it seems that our
container wharf can ‘see and hear’
beyond the range of ordinary
perception, while site management
and control effectiveness are
significantly strengthened.
Li Yan, Manager,
Consultation Department,
Tianjin Port Pacific International
Container Terminal
A broadband network competition
has already begun in Silesia
Voivodeship under the framework
of Regional Operational Program.
Till now, our communities have had
a few Internet service providers but
only 30% inhabitants have access
to broadband network. You can say
that we still have blank spots on the
network map.
Grzegorz Czapla,
Mayor of Ozarowice
Covering 132 square kilometers of land, the
Port of Tianjin handled 500 million tons of
cargo and 13 million TEU of containers in
2013, making it the world’s fourth largest
port in throughput tonnage and the largest
comprehensive port in Northern China.
Tianjin Port Pacific International Container
Terminal (the Terminal), lies in the southwest
of Dongjianggang District. It covers 2,300m
of quay shoreline and has six 150,000-ton
container berths with a yearly container
throughput of 4 million TEU. The storage yard
of 1.8 sq. km boasts a stockpiling capacity of
140,000 TEU containers.
The Terminal once used Wi-Fi-based TOS to
handle mobile data transmission, CDMA-
based voice trunking to deliver voice
communication, and optical networks to
implement video surveillance. This resulted
in substantial interference among networks,
coverage holes across the wharf, and huge
operation costs. For example, the CDMA-
based voice trunking network had a delay
longer than one second, creating low
dispatch efficiency; several types of UEs
complicated operations and lead to potential
safety hazards.
Ożarowice, PolandWorld’s First LTE Broadband
Public Administration Deployment
access. Because of these features, Huawei
eLTE became the final choice of the Ożarowice
government. The solution helped Ożarowice
build an efficient modern network to promote
mutual communication among government
sectors, provide more convenient and stable
broadband Internet access for its citizens, and
create a foundation for the application of
urban monitoring data pertaining to water,
electricity, and coal.
The Ożarowice project was recognized by the
European Commission (EC) for constructing
a next-generation access network. The EC
classifies LTE as a supported broadband
technology. Optimized costs of network
construction show that LTE is a solution
suitable not only for mobile operators, but
also is the perfect option for publicly-funded
networks. Synergy generated by cooperation
between these two sectors can promote
integrated solutions for creation of wireless
networks without complications caused by
technological incompatibility between systems
that are currently available.
To turn the wharf into a digital port and
an innovative, first-class container wharf,
Terminal management selected the Huawei
eLTE solution, which covers 95 percent, or
2.4 sq. km of the wharf, provides average
single-UE throughput of 7 to 11 Mbit/s
uplink, and 10 to 15 Mbit/s downlink. This
solution supports data services like TOS and
VCTS, video surveillance services, and SOLAS
functions to perform visualized, all-round
safety management and control. In March
2014, Phase II of the Terminal’s stockpiling
area had already begun to use a single eLTE
private network to implement trunking
dispatch, video of goods collection, and
logistic data services.
Compared to the previous TOS system based
on Wi-Fi, the eLTE network reduces time
delay to only 31 ms and a packet loss rate
to almost 0, enhancing overall performance
by 86 percent. The eLTE-based TOS was
completed within four months from October
2013 to January 2014. The Terminal increased
overall dispatch and command efficiency by
30 percent, and production line efficiency by
12 percent.
Port of TianjinWorld’s First LTE Network for Ports
Voice of Customers
Voice of Customers
Northern Michigan University (NMU), located
in Marquette, Michigan, is a dynamic, four-year
public university that has grown its reputation
based on its cutting-edge technology
initiatives and nationally recognized academic
programs. The university has a population of
about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate
students. Over the past 13 years, NMU has
been selected for numerous international
and national awards for its use of next-
generation technology for higher education.
NMU was the first U.S. university to own and
operate a WiMAX (4G) network. NMU’s work
with WiMAX technology was so innovative,
President Barack Obama chose the NMU
campus as the site to announce his national
wireless initiative in 2011.
To improve upload and download and
increase transmission reliability, NMU decided
We are very happy with LTE by
Huawei, best performance and best
people working in Huawei.
Alberto Navarro,
CEO, IB-RED
Students, faculty and staff are all
benefiting by being able to quickly
communicate and collaborate
via the Huawei LTE solution. The
benefits have been obvious and we
feel well positioned for our future
communications needs.
David Maki, CTO,
Northern Michigan University
IB-RED, a Wireless Internet Service Provider
(WISP) in Spain’s Balearic Islands, provides
broadband access and voice services for the
residents and enterprises in remote rural areas.
Due to limited coverage, poor performance,
and strong interference from 5.8 GHz WiMAX
and Wi-Fi networks, IB-RED leased the 3.5
GHz band to build a new broadband network.
IB-RED selected the Huawei eLTE solution
to build the first LTE network for large rural
areas in Europe. With this solution, the
wireless network can provide 40 Mbit/s
access rates, the same as fixed ADSL
networks — enabling rural residents and
companies to have the same broadband
access services as their urban counterparts.
Presently, this network has already covered
Mallorca Island. IB-RED said that the new
IB-REDUWB Coverage in Spain’s Rural Areas
Northern Michigan UniversityFirst LTE Campus Network in U.S.A.
to upgrade its WiMAX networks to LTE
networks.
NMU worked with Huawei to deploy an eLTE
network to provide 24/7 high-speed wireless
broadband services across its 360-acre
campus. With the eLTE network, laptops pre-
loaded with desired software have become
the new classroom communication vehicle on-
and off- campus. This technology is attracting
more talented students and faculty to NMU.
In addition, NMU shares its eLTE network
with the Marquette city government to
promote their partnership. By providing ever-
higher bandwidths, eLTE will support more
broadband services in the future.
The high-performance and scalable network
solution provided by Huawei allows NMU to
become technologically more competitive.
4G LTE network’s performance was 50 times
faster than conventional WiMAX and definitely
changed the ADSL system. The network can
reach every corner of the islands with blazing-
fast speed, unlimited download speed, lower
latency, and higher stability. IB-RED has already
made plans to expand the eLTE network and
complete network construction in Mallorca,
Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera in the next
two years.
In addition, distributed base stations with
an average coverage radius of up to 15 km,
and compact computer network devices
facilitate eLTE network construction with fast
deployment and lowered costs. This network
also supports evolution to LTE-Advanced
networks in the future, helping to maximize
the profit of the customer’s investment.
Voice of Customers
Voice of Customers
China Southern Power GridWorld’s First LTE Network for the Power Industry
This is the first successful case of
TD-LTE in the power industry. It
helps to overcome difficulties in
routing optical cables, improves
reliability and security in public
networks, and facilitates network
maintenance.
LTE also provides high-rate data
services, VoIP, and video surveillance
under NLOS applications, remarkably
improving overall performance,
efficiency of smart grids, and the
online rate of power distribution
terminals.
Huang Yuanfeng, Senior Engineer,
Zhuhai Power Supply Bureau
China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (CSG) is a large state-
owned enterprise that invests in, builds, and manages the
power grids of Southern China. CSG is responsible for power
transmission and distribution to 230 million customers in
a total area of over 1 million sq. km in Yunan, Guizhou,
Guangdong, and Hainan provinces, as well the Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region.
CSG defined clear goals for power distribution automation,
specifically, to research and implement a grid communication
system based on new wireless communication technologies.
CSG wanted to upgrade its grid automation systems in order to
turn them into an integrated data collection and optimization
platform. To build smart, efficient, reliable, and green power
grids, CSG has experimented with various communication
technologies during the past 10 years. For example, it once
tried the public GPRS network. The GPRS network provided
a device online rate of only 60 percent to 80 percent, which
could not guarantee highly efficient power grid operations. It
also implemented optical networks, only to find that these kinds
of networks required huge costs and could not easily identify
problems on power grids. CSG finally turned to the Huawei
eLTE solution, becoming the first power grid to implement
wireless power distribution in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.
Mbit/s and a coverage radius of 1.5 km, to handle the requirements
of the service radius of a type-A power supply substation. Therefore,
power distribution terminals around a substation can freely access
the base station, and high bandwidth requirements for power
distribution and metering automation can be fully satisfied. On the
other hand, power distribution and metering automation features
small data volume on individual field communicators and high total
volume. To allow the simultaneous access of numerous power
distribution and metering terminals (about 400 communicators per
square kilometer in dense urban areas) in Guangzhou, Huawei’s eLTE
solution uses an optimized access scheme that enables a single base
station to serve up to 3,000 online UEs.
CSG Zhuhai Power is the first to put LTE networks into operation in
the power industry, and CSG Guangzhou Power is the first to enable
LTE networks to create smart power grids in dense urban areas.
The two cases demonstrate that wireless solutions are applicable in
power distribution and metering automation, even in the densest
urban areas. They also fully integrate information-based services in
the power industry and pave the way to upgrade CSG power grids in
the future.
With the Huawei eLTE solution, a single base station can enable
up to 5,400 online UEs to access the power grid. At the same
time, this solution provides an average throughput of 20 Mbit/s
@ 10 MHz cell bandwidth in complicated urban situations, and
its coverage radius of 4 km can achieve a 100 percent device
online rate. In addition, eLTE reduces E2E delay to less than
100 ms, enabling power grids to provide accurate control,
particularly on short delays for remote Supervisory Control
And Data Acquisition (SCADA). The QoS policy also fulfills
power grid requirements by transmitting important data first.
What’s more, the Huawei eLTE solution maintained smooth,
normal operations of the Zhuhai power grids during the heavy
downpours of tropical storm Vicente in 2012.
Following the success of eLTE in the Zhuhai power grids, CSG
decided to deploy eLTE in the Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, for
power distribution automation. This district has the highest
population density (about 34,735 people per sqare mile) in
Guangzhou. In this area, power stations are sparsely distributed,
and base stations are located in low buildings amid high-density
high-rises. To address such issues, the Huawei eLTE solution
used MIMO, high-gain antennas, and high-power amplifiers to
increase transmission power and the coverage area. As a result,
a single base station can provide a bandwidth of more than 30
Voice of Customers
Xinjiang Oilfield Company, a unit of PetroChina Company
Limited, is the largest petroleum-producing enterprise in
western China and has always been a strong advocate
of using innovative information and communications
technologies to improve its oilfield productivity. It has now
become one of China’s benchmark enterprises with cutting-
edge oilfield solutions.
In the past, the company manually recorded, collected, and
summarized data for generating oil production reports, and
manually located and identified problems that occurred during
production. This method failed to deliver the large volumes of
oil well data to the management center in a timely manner,
and could not provide accurate support for prompt handling
of problems at production sites. In addition, patrol checks on
oil wells required a large staff, and frequent on-site visits to
deserted areas in the middle of the night sometimes caused
safety hazards.
To guarantee safe production and efficient exploration,
This is a milestone for us involving
one of the most innovative providers
in the telecommunication industry
into our business. The cooperation
with a market leader such as Huawei
is very exciting and we are intrigued
by their professional attitude
and ability to support us on the
deployment of their technology into
such extreme conditions.
Per-Helge Svensson,
CEO of Tampnet
Headquartered in Stavenger, Norway, Tampnet is a telecommunications operator providing leased high-bandwidth communications service to the oil and gas exploration industry in Norway’s North Sea area, including oil giants such as Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, and Statoil. Connecting nearly 68 percent of the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea area, Tampnet owns a majority of the submarine optical cables and microwave networks in the area. The company’s global presence extends to Norway, the U.K., and Australia.
In recent years, deep-ocean oil drilling has become more advanced, and drilling is completed mainly by drill ships in the waters around a drilling platform. Offshore data transmission and voice communication bottlenecks are historically common between oil drilling platforms, Float Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facilities, as well as oil tankers. In their North Sea locations, Tampnet had previously employed an intercom system for short-distance voice communication, satellite communication for long-distance voice communication, and helicopters to transport data on hard disks, all of which are inefficient and costly.
To achieve sustainable development, Tampnet turned to wireless solutions to build an end-to-end data transmission system between
Norway’s TampnetWorld’s First LTE Network for Offshore Oilfield
Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyLaying a Foundation for the Internet of Things
the company chose the Huawei’s eLTE solution to provide
tailored network coverage and service schemes for Xinjiang
Oilfield. eLTE provides a cell coverage radius of over 10 km,
and enables a single base station to serve up to 1,200 active
UEs, meeting the requirements of real-time management
of numerous UEs in a vast area. The eLTE solution’s
comprehensive information platform facilitates data collection
related to oil well reliability, SCADA, and video surveillance.
It enables automatic data collection and surveillance on
crucial procedures, visualized process display, and real-time
monitoring of production processes. As a result, the solution
strengthens safety management and process monitoring,
and optimizes organization, management, and company
profitability.
In addition, real-time monitoring of oil production, gas
production, oil and gas treatment, and transportation
effectively avoids environmental pollution caused by oil and
gas leaks.
offshore and onshore equipment in the North Sea area. They also wanted to offer new business growth by extending communication services, including voice and data services, to passing ships and travelers. Until now, no vendors have successfully delivered or implemented similar projects in the turbulent Norwegian waters, particularly with the frequent strong sea winds creating difficulties in delivery and maintenance of equipment.
Tampnet then selected Huawei, which resulted in successful deployment of the world’s first LTE-based offshore communication network.
This network delivers edge rates up to 1 Mbit/s uplink and 2 Mbit/s downlink. It provides a good solution for voice communications and data transmission between drilling platforms and FPSOs, oil tankers, and onshore stations within 37 kilometers. The advanced network design also supports wireless service expansion, including trunking services and video surveillance, creating a solid foundation for Tampnet’s future service expansion in offshore energy exploration.
Offshore oil and gas exploration will be key to global energy in the future, and this project has opened a brand-new chapter of wireless communication for offshore drilling.
Voice of Customers
Weijiamao Coal Mine is a new opencast coal mine in Zhungeer
City on the Ordos plateau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region, China. It covers an area of 55 sq. km and produces an
estimated 12 million tons of coal every year. To take advantage
of resources and sharpen its competitive edge, Weijiamao Coal
Mine planned to build a dispatch network that combines truck
dispatch, inspection, monitoring data transmission, and video
trunking to support its “smart mine” initiative.
The coal mine previously used a narrowband trunking system
that provided only voice services, but did not support data
services like video dispatch or interconnection with the wired
PBX dispatch system. This seriously affected dispatch efficiency.
Because of complex geographical conditions, fixed cameras
cannot be installed in many parts of the mine area, leaving
numerous “holes” in surveillance. The truck dispatch system
and side slope monitoring system were based on Wi-Fi
technology and, therefore, were extremely unstable and
unreliable. Also, the two systems were constructed separately,
which caused inefficient system expansion and land use, and
duplicated investment. This compromised the use of limited
Weijiamao Coal MineWorld’s First LTE Network in the Coal Industry
places for coal production and impeded the new Smart Coal
Mine program.
After in-depth analysis of the production system, Huawei
recommended an eLTE solution. This solution uses a
single network to provide voice services, video dispatch,
personnel positioning, mobile video surveillance, and data
uploading. Using a simple network architecture, the eLTE
solution facilitates maintenance and reduces overall costs.
The integration of wired and wireless dispatch and video
surveillance increases dispatch performance and monitoring
efficiency. Because of this, the Weijiamao Coal Mine will
become a digital smart mine with seamless wireless network
coverage, smart dispatch, intelligent production monitoring,
and intelligent emergency handling.
The Huawei eLTE solution will replace the Wi-Fi-based
network, and provide voice and data services on a single
network. This has industry-wide significance and will initiate
reforms in opencast coal mine production. This project sets an
example for future projects in the coal industry and will shift
development toward intelligent digital coal mines.
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