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WEB | www.smallcellforum.org EMAIL | [email protected] TWITTER | @SmallCell_Forum POSTAL ADDRESS | Small Cell Forum, PO Box 23, GL11 5WA, UK © Small Cell Forum Ltd 2016. Registered in the UK no. 6295097 RELEASES PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AT www.scf.io 7.25 7.11 7.08 7.06 7.03 7.02 7 6.75 6.69 6.63 6.38 6.25 5.3 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 % of enterprises Scale 1-10 Interest level Adopted or planning small cells RELEASE 6 – SMART ENTERPRISE At MWC we published a comprehensive toolkit for the enterprise small cell market. Release Six: Smart Enterprise provides technical, commercial and practical guidance, tools, and data for operators, vendors and businesses looking at the small cell market. We even reached out to enterprise IT with a how-to deployment guide [http://scf.io.doc/010] 78% growth in non-residential shipments from 1Q2015 to 1Q2016 Non-residential small cell shipments www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT Enterprise femtocell deployment guidelines December 2013 032.06.01 SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 6.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle 17:25 scf.io www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT Enterprise femtocell deployment guidelines December 2013 032.06.01 SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 6.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle scf.io 2015-16 Achievements EXTENDED REMIT HETNET INTEGRATION AND 5G THE YEAR OF THE ENTERPRISE ACCELERATING GLOBAL ROLLOUTS WITH LOCAL CARRIERS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS SCF AWARDS 2016 THE YEAR AHEAD – LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR 5G In June 2015 SCF broadened its remit. As part of our efforts to drive the wide-scale adoption of small cells, we are now working to accelerate the deployment of integrated HetNets. The aim here is to provide a unifying framework for a strong platform for 5G, which will be inherently based around small cells and dense HetNet. DRIVING BETTER STANDARDS HetNets and 5G have dominated our standards outreach with contributions to 3GPP RAN TG’s kick-off meeting for the 5G standardization activity, plus HetNet and 5G-related collaborations with ETSI, GSMA and NGMN Alliance. DRIVING ROBUST STANDARDS At MWC 2016 we published our HetNet roadmap to 5G AMBITION “Based on the current and future business requirements, we aim to define and drive the foundations of the ultra-dense HetNet, in order to future-proof network investment and lay a robust foundation for 5G.” SMALL CELL CHAMPIONS At our Rome Plenary we established six new work items, each championed by vendors and an operator, targeted at key enablers of the HetNet. DELIVERING INTEGRATED HETNETS At SCWS 2016 in London we published HetNet & SON Foundations: a blueprint of architectural framework for fully integrated multi-vendor, multi-technology HetNets. We defined the characteristics, components, and enabling technology requirements that will underpin 5G. Release 7: HetNet & SON was completed for MWC Shanghai to include the role of SON technologies and techniques and our nFAPI specifications for virtualized small cells.Visit http://scf.io Small cells in Enterprise License-exempt spectrum HetNet and SON Virtualization of small cells Multi-operator support The role of small cells in 5G, IOT and M2M GSMA ETSI CCA CableLabs Broadband Forum 3GPP WBA OMA OGC NGMN MEF GVF Radio technologies SON Virtualization Neutral host/ Multi-operator API Architecture Automation Orchestration Business models Applications MOBILE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY PILLAR SERVICES USE CASES >> ENABLERS >> Enabling mass market deployment through smart workflow, configuration, and quality management New markets opened up through system agility and performance Simple network evolution to next generation technologies and capabilities New service revenue and business efficiencies delivered through open APIs Flexible resource sharing enabling new network efficiencies and opportunities Residential Enterprise Rural & Remote Urban 85% small cells / 15% macro THE HETNET DEFINED “HetNet is of a multi-x environment – multi-technology, multi-domain, multi-spectrum, multi-operator and multi-vendor. It must be able to automate the reconfiguration of its operation to deliver assured service quality across the entire network, and flexible enough to accommodate changing user needs, business goals and subscriber behaviors.” www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT SMALL CELL FORUM 70 Solving the HetNet puzzle 17:25 scf.io Integrated HetNet architecture framework January 2016 172.07.01 www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 7.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle scf.io Integrated HetNet architecture framework January 2016 172.07.01 www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 7.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle scf.io Integrated HetNet architecture framework January 2016 172.07.01 www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 7.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle 17:25 scf.io Integrated HetNet architecture framework January 2016 172.07.01 A high level of awareness of enterprise small cells among IT managers in medium and large enterprises. A high degree of interest in deploying small cells in these enterprises. Strong interest in managed services and functions based on an enterprise small cell solution. Most interested Neutral Not interested Employee size of company 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 5000+ 1000–5000 500-900 Crossing the Chasm: Small Cells Industry November 2015 Solving the HetNet puzzle 17:25 www.smallcellforum.org STATE OF THE MARKET REPORT 2015: enterprise small cells crossed the chasm. The Forum’s work on common APIs and interoperability, and on simplified deployment, played a significant role in driving scale. 75% of large and medium US enterprises are aware of small cells, and up to two-thirds are interested in deploying them. The iGR research also studied a wide variety of enterprise typesin one of the most dynamic markets, the US. Overall, its findings demonstrated that there was: www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT Enterprise femtocell deployment guidelines December 2013 032.06.01 SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 6.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle 17:25 scf.io www.scf.io/ www.smallcellforum.org DOCUMENT Enterprise femtocell deployment guidelines December 2013 032.06.01 SMALL CELL FORUM RELEASE 6.0 Solving the HetNet puzzle scf.io Largest enterprise small cell survey by Nemertes (over 500 responses) found that: 60% of respondents have deployed small cells or plan to do so by end of 2017; a further 23% are evaluating Average level of interest (on a scale of 1 to 10) in small cells, by sector, compared to actual deployment or plans to deploy small cells. NON-RESIDENTIAL RAMPS UP Small cell revenue: $6 billion in 2020 2011 2015 2020 Residential Non-residential Small cell revenue forecast Latest Market Statistics – 14 million small cells shipped to date; 78% growth in non-residential in year to Q116; revenues will hit $6 billion in 2020 (Mobile Experts): Overall small cell revenue growth: 41% CAGR through to 2020 Enterprise small cell revenue growth: 61% CAGR through to 2020 Urban small cell revenue growth: 25% CAGR through to 2020 SHARING BEST PRACTICE We’re collecting dozens of real-world commercial small cell deployments from every region and a huge range of use cases. These show that the Forum is bridging the gap between operators and enterprise. AT&T wows Fidelity with high speed connectivity across their Rhode Island campus using Ericsson Radio Dot Find out more>> http://scf.io/case/032 “For the first of its kind project and launch, we are very pleased with the Ericsson collaboration and Fidelity seems to be in agreement. I look forward to closing this one out and moving to the Fidelity World Trade Center project.” Jennifer W Dupuis, ASG C&E PM AT&T Fidelity Campus, Rhode Island “Techs that did speed tests were very impressed by the results of the download/upload speeds. I believe the word ‘wow’ was used. That’s awesome folks. Congratulations All! Nice job.” Teri Watkins & team, Director, Technology Fidelity iBwave’s tablet based tools reduce small cell planning to a single site visit of 2 hours for a 7 floor building http://goo.gl/3Z1h6o SCF/Case/001 Rapid Deployment in LA warehouse Brazilian operator achieves rapid 3G coverage of Hotel by upgrading existing Cisco Wi-Fi APs with a plug in module cisco.com/go/smallcell http://scf.io/case/029 Windsor Hotel with Brazilian Operator Cisco USC 5000 Cisco Aironet 3700 36,000 m2 over 11 floors Deployed by building IT operator ($0 MNO cost) Deployed over existing LAN Time to install: 2 days Time to optimize: ~60 minutes M1 & Parallel Wireless deliver seamless mobility with high throughput to public transit riders via on-Bus HetNet High Throughput Seamless Mobility Consistent QoS “Wi Go” successfully seamless connectivity multi- media carrier- aggregation for backhaul, intelligent traffic steering, traffic prioritization and offload Small Cell vRAN Architecture to Enable In-Vehicle Unit Delivering Seamless Connectivity CommScope small cells provide great user experience @Sprint with low-cost self-service deployment model http://bit.ly/1rwGnlp http://scf.io/case/031 Designed for small/medium business locations 6X download speed improvement “Demand-pull” puts capacity where it is needed most Low-cost deployment model Serving high usage indoor business premises S1000 LTE/Wi-Fi Small Cells Delivering superior user experience & increasing revenue in Beijing Airport. An example of MBB on-load with Huawei LampSite and CUCC Huawei Small Cell Solutions http://scf.io/case/015 Driving Revenue by MBB onload in Beijing Airport High Performance Mobile Broadband enabled by LampSite The Venue: The largest airport in China. 80M passengers per year Total Area1.4M square metres The challenge: Excellent user experience critical in this key venue DAS LTE-MIMO too expensive and time consuming Complex building layout requires flexible solution The Solution: LampSite deployed throughout the airport within 3 months: Only 4 working hours/day 2,200 pRRUs Excellent user experience has increased MBB traffic and user numbers by more than 25X in 1 year View all SCF deployment stories on our website Scott Bicheno, telecom.com “Higher frequencies are going to play a major role in 5G and that will require a major rethink by the whole industry. Releases such as this are a significant contribution to that effort and will hopefully help move things along as 2020 draws ever closer.” LATAM – working with GSMA TECT on dense deployments project and regulator outreach aimed at accelerating roll out and preparing the way for 5G Americas – working with 5G Americas on two co-branded white papers on small cell deployment and on neutral host Middle East – supporting MENA carriers with regular outreach highlighting social and economic value of dense networks and supportive regulation The year has seen the Forum forge still deeper relationships with regional carriers to ensure its roadmap reflects the major differences between operators’ concerns in different parts of the world. It is actively participating in initiatives geared to regulatory change and simplified, more cost-effective deployment in key markets. Asia – driving deployment best practice to support carriers as biggest deployments in world kicked off, from Jio’s huge small cell network in India to China Mobile’s nanocells to Singapore’s smart city Europe – SCF driving carrier requirements and interoperability through partnerships with ETSI and GSMA Martyn Warwick, TelecomTV “The small cell serving several operators, with all the various generations of spectrum, together with carrier unlicensed, and Wi-Fi together are THE key components of the future network – and Small Cell Forum is currently mapping out how the industry gets from here to there in as an efficient and painless way as possible. It deserves recognition and plaudits for that.” Small cells are becoming more and more central to the whole mobile platform so there are numerous cooperations with other industry bodies, to share best practice and align roadmaps. The Forum hosted an LTE plugfest in June in cooperation with ETSI and Telecom Italia Mobile. It has evolving requirements and specifications with WBA, Broadband Forum, 3GPP, NGMN and GSMA. Caroline Gabriel, Chair of Judges and a founder and senior analyst at Rethink Research “The standard of entries for the Small Cell Forum awards is always very high, but this year the judges’ task was harder than ever. As the small cell evolves to become the heart of the HetNet, there are many new technologies driving the platform forward, and this was apparent in the diversity of the entries.” Deploying Hyperdense Networks, championed by AT&T and Jio Enabling Digitalized Enterprise, championed by Orange and Vodafone A ROBUST FOUNDATION FOR 5G SCF has a unique opportunity to influence the critical 5G decisions which the industry will make in 2016. We believe our work program can help combat fragmentation and position us to provide key enablers for 5G – and ensure it emerges interoperable and fit for purpose. To that end, the SCF Board has agreed work items that fall under two work streams, which will provide the critical enablers for HetNets now and in the future, and will define many of the elements of 5G. Each is championed by two operators and two vendors. The two streams are: CEO, SUE MONAHAN, IN INDUSTRY POWER LIST SCF CEO, Sue Monahan, was recognized as one of the wireless industry’s most powerful players when named on the “Women to Watch” list published annually by Fierce Wireless. Accelerating global roll outs with local carriers

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WEB | www.smallcellforum.org EMAIL | [email protected] TWITTER | @SmallCell_ForumPOSTAL ADDRESS | Small Cell Forum, PO Box 23, GL11 5WA, UK © Small Cell Forum Ltd 2016. Registered in the UK no. 6295097

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DELIVERINGINTEGRATED HETNETSAt SCWS 2016 in London we published HetNet & SON Foundations: a blueprint of architectural framework for fully integrated multi-vendor, multi-technology HetNets. We defined the characteristics, components, and enabling technology requirements that will underpin 5G. Release 7: HetNet & SON was completed for MWC Shanghai to include the role of SON technologies and techniques and our nFAPI specifications for virtualized small cells. Visit http://scf.io

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• Enterprise small cell revenue growth: 61% CAGR through to 2020

• Urban small cell revenue growth: 25% CAGR through to 2020

SHARING BEST PRACTICEWe’re collecting dozens of real-world commercial small cell deployments from every region and a huge range of use cases. These show that the Forum is bridging the gap between operators and enterprise.

AT&T wows Fidelity with high speed connectivity across their Rhode Island campus using Ericsson Radio DotFind out more>> http://scf.io/case/032

“For the first of its kind project and launch, we are very pleased with the Ericsson collaboration and Fidelity seems to be in agreement. I look forward to closing this one out and moving to the Fidelity World Trade Centerproject.” Jennifer W Dupuis, ASG C&E PM AT&T

Fidelity Campus, Rhode Island

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The Venue: •  The largest airport in China. •  80M passengers per year •  Total Area:1.4M square metres

The challenge: •  Excellent user experience critical in this key venue •  DAS LTE-MIMO too expensive and time consuming •  Complex building layout requires flexible solution

The Solution: LampSite deployed throughout the airport within 3 months: • Only 4 working hours/day • 2,200 pRRUs

Excellent user experience has increased MBB traffic and user numbers by more than 25X in 1 year

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✓ LATAM – working with GSMA TECT on dense deployments project and regulator outreach aimedat accelerating roll out and preparing the way for 5G

✓ Americas – working with 5G Americas on two co-branded white papers on small cell deploymentand on neutral host

✓ Middle East – supporting MENA carriers with regular outreach highlighting social and economic value of dense networks and supportive regulation

The year has seen the Forum forge still deeper relationships with regional carriers to ensure its roadmap reflects the major differences between operators’ concerns in different parts of the world. It is actively participating in initiatives geared to regulatory change and simplified, more cost-effective deployment in key markets.

✓ Asia – driving deployment best practice to support carriers as biggest deployments in world kicked off, from Jio’s huge small cell network in India to China Mobile’s nanocells to Singapore’s smart city

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Small cells are becoming more and more central to the whole mobile platform so there are numerous cooperations with other industry bodies, to share best practice and align roadmaps. The Forum hosted an LTE plugfest in June in cooperation with ETSI and Telecom Italia Mobile. It has evolving requirements and specifications with WBA,Broadband Forum, 3GPP, NGMN and GSMA.

Caroline Gabriel, Chair of Judges and a founder and senior analyst at Rethink Research

“The standard of entries for the Small Cell Forum awards is always very high, but this year the judges’ task was harder than ever. As the small cell evolves to become the heart of the HetNet, there are many new technologies driving the platform forward, and this was apparent in the diversity of the entries.”

Deploying Hyperdense Networks, championed by AT&T and Jio

Enabling Digitalized Enterprise, championed by Orangeand Vodafone

A ROBUST FOUNDATIONFOR 5G

SCF has a unique opportunity to influence the critical 5G decisions which the industry will make in 2016. We believe our work program can help combat fragmentation and position us to provide key enablers for 5G – and ensure it emerges interoperable and fit for purpose.

To that end, the SCF Board has agreed work items that fall under two work streams, which will provide the critical enablers for HetNets now and in the future, and will define many of the elements of 5G. Each is championed by two operators and two vendors. The two streams are:

CEO,SUE MONAHAN,IN INDUSTRYPOWER LISTSCF CEO, Sue Monahan, was recognized as one of the wireless industry’s most powerful players when named on the “Women to Watch” list published annually by Fierce Wireless.

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