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MAY 2012, Issue 23

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Dear All,

For this month’s issue, we feature the relatively new standard for wireless communications LTE-Advanced and its key benefits. We have to keep ourselves abreast with the latest trends in the telecom industry in our commitment to help our valuable clients build new competencies and maintain relevance in the market.

We are also proud to announce that the 3C Technologies website is now live! Check out the details on page 5.

Straight Talk is back! We invite our readers to keep dropping in questions, comments and suggestions to be addressed by our CEO.

This May, Zargham Ghazi is In the Spotlight. Get up close and personal with him on page 7.

Regular employee-centric sections Employee of the Month, Mr. Whiskers, Birthday Celebrants and New Hires are once again featured in the Networker.

Another Train Your Brain riddle is perfect with your afternoon coffee. Put on your thinking caps and head to page 15.

Enjoy reading.

The Networker Editorial Team

Geek Speak Made Simple .............. 3

3CT Website Launch .......................... 5

Q&A with CEO ................................... 6

Mr. Whiskers ......................................... 9

Train Your Brain ................................... 15

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LTE-Advanced: what it is and what it is not

ByPamela Garcia

Marketing Engineer

First off, why should I spend the next 5 minutes reading this article?LTE-A is the natural upgrade path for carriers with GSM/UMTS networks and is anticipated to become the first truly global mobile phone standard.

We market ourselves as offering scalable end-to-end solutions, products and services catering to service providers’ ever-increasing requirement for capacity, coverage and competitive edge. We often say that we can help potential clients build new competences to maintain relevance in the more open and aggressive industry (source: 3wnetworks.com). It comes with the territory that we should keep ourselves abreast with the latest trends in the telecom industry.

What is LTE-Advanced?

LTE-Advanced is a standard for wireless mobile communications supporting 1 Gbps download data rates and higher cell throughput and lower cost per bit as compared to LTE Release 8. It was developed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and is based on GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies.

LTE Release 8 LTE-Advanced

Peak data rate DL: 100 Mbps, UL: 50 Mbps DL: 1 Gbps, UL: 500 Mbps

Transmission bandwidth wider by approximately 70 MHz in DL and 40 MHz in UL

Latency

Peak spectrum efficiency

Capacity

<100 ms

DL: 3 to 4 times Release 6 HSDPA, UL: 2 to 3 times Release 6 Enhanced Uplink

200 active users in 5 MHz bandwidth

<50 ms

DL: 30 bps/Hz, UL: 15 bps/Hz

300 active users in 5 MHz bandwidth

What are the key benefits of LTE-A?

Optimized heterogeneous networks

Small cells such as pico and femtocells bring the network closer to users and greatly improve performance. LTE-A brings more out of small cells by using range expansion, which increases the utilization of small cells to increase overall network capacity.

Very high data rates for all users

Simply adding small cells to a network only benefits users close to those cells. But LTE-A enhances the experience for all users with higher data rates, even when the small cells are not positioned in optimal locations. This ensures user fairness. Added to that, advanced receivers allow devices to discover small cells early and further increase performance of range expansion.

Flexible resource allocation

Network load is inherently uneven, continuously changing with time and location. The adaptive interference management feature of LTE-A dynamically allocates resources between the macrocells and small cells to balance network load, enabling more simultaneous users per cell.

Carrier aggregation of contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum allocations

LTE-A can aggregate up to 5 carriers (up to 100 MHz) to increase user data rates and capacity for busty applications such as web browsing. Aggregation (multicarrier) when combined with higher order MIMO can provide extremely high peak data rates, theoretically up to 1Gbps.

Is it technically correct to call it “4G LTE”?LTE Release 8 was often seen as 4G standard which is not true for the simple reason that LTE does not fulfill all requirements of ITU 4G definition. 3.9G is more acceptable for LTE.

In the feasibility study for LTE-A, the results of which are published in Technical Report (TR) 36.912, 3GPP determined that LTE-A would meet the ITU-R requirements for IMT-Advanced or 4G, which include:

Seamless global interoperability and intersystem handovers• Enhanced peak data rates of up to ≈ 100 Mbit/s for high mobility and ≈ 1 Gbit/s for low mobility• All-IP packet switched network• Dynamic sharing and use of network resources• Scalable channel bandwidth of 5–20 MHz, optionally up to 40 MHz• Peak link spectral efficiency of 15 bit/s/Hz in the downlink and 6.75 bit/s/Hz in the uplink• System spectral efficiency of up to 3 bit/s/Hz/cell in the downlink and 2.25 bit/s/Hz/cell for indoor usage• High quality multimedia support service•

For all intents and purposes, it is technically correct to call LTE-A as 4G LTE. In fact, in late 2009, it was formally submitted as a candidate 4G system to ITU-T and was subsequently approved into ITU IMT-Advanced and was finalized by 3GPP in March 2011.

Geek Speak Made Simple


ANNOUNCING

3CT WEBSITELAUNCH

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Let us know what you think!

For any feedback (good or bad), comments and suggestions,

write to us at: [email protected]

Straight TalkQ&A with the CEO

Drop in your questions for our CEO, Walid Gamali, to be published on next month’s issue of The Networker. The drop box is located at the pantry for this purpose. Questions may be tagged with your name and position or printed anonymously depending on your preference and can be about anything you have wanted to ask our CEO. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Honest questions. Honest answers.

DROP BOX

IN THE PANTRY


in the Spot light

Zargham Ghaziproject manager

A brief introduction about yourself, education and hobbies? A very pleasant personality personally, and a true professional officially who is equally respected by colleagues and customers. I did Masters in Internetworking from Canada and top industry certifications and worked in the field of network engineering. Gradually moved to Project Management and managed multi-million dollar complex IT/Telecom Projects in different sectors including Telecom, Oil & Gas, Banking, Government, Sea Ports and supply chain automation, etc. I’m PMP Certified by PMI and have more than ten years of extensive experience. I’m currently managing one of the biggest projects at 3W.

I like travelling and have visited the tourist attractions in Canada, UAE, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Egypt and Seychelles to name a few.

Your Favourite Actor/Actress? Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie

Fav Dish? Steaks (well done)

Fav Drink? Coffee from Tim Hortons

Fav Car? Terrafugia, Flying Car...

Your Idol? Bill Gates, who changed the world

If you were written about in the newspaper, on the front page, what would the headline say?“Back in Dubai!!”

If you won a million dollars what would you do with all the money? Spend a part as charity on others and a part on myself and family

One place you would love to visit? Seychelles. By the way, I had my honeymoon there and the next visit won’t be a honeymoon for sure..

Your Funniest Moment? During my studies in Canada, I offered my class fellow who wasn’t aware of the coffee chain “Second Cup” and was new in Canada “Hey, I have a “Second Cup” free coffee coupon for you” and he replied “Thanks Ghazi, but do I’ve to pay for the first cup?”. I still start laughing when I go to “Second Cup” because it reminds me of my friends and the student life when each dollar counts....

Your Happiest Moment? When I was blessed with my kids, a daughter and a son

If you had a choice of getting a superpower what would you want?

Power to convince superpowers of the world to focus on sharing the world resources amongst people without discrimination rather than wasting the resources on developing lethal weapons to monopolize the world resources. This will minimize the sufferings of the people worldwide.

If you had to describe yourself in three words they would be? Honest, Friendly, Professional

What would you wear for a party in Antarctica? For indoor party, normal dress and for outdoor party I’ll go with Long Down Filled Jacket with Hood and snow shoes. I’ve tried this in Canada at -40 C and survived....

Would you work for free for a year, if your salary was to double every year after? Yes, if guaranteed

Would you rather be here, in this workplace, or on a sunny Caribbean beach? I think beach is better than ANY workplace...

Where on Earth would you scream NO WAY if you learned you had to travel there? War zones (safety first)

Rate yourself on a scale from 1-10, 1 being the best, how close are you to a superhero? 10, I’m the superhero of my wife because whatever she wish to buy, I get it for her (Just kidding)

What can you never eat for breakfast? Meat

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be? “Great Zargham Ghazi”, Not “Late Zargham Ghazi” for sure...

Your experience with 3W so far? So far, so good. Enjoying to work with a hardworking team

Employee of the MonthAPRIL 2012

Pamela GarciaMarketing Engineer

Performance Beyond Expectations3W Networks and 3C websites are both live and running! I am very happy to say that both these sites have been totally designed and developed in house. Website development is not an easy task even for experienced people and when the website needs to be developed and designed by a beginner it can be a bit daunting.

This month the EOM goes to Pamela Garcia. Like they say, one man’s loss is another person’s gain. In this case, proposal’s loss is marketing’s gain! Pamela Garcia was working as a Proposal Engineer before she joined the Marketing team in Nov last year. In few months of being with the team, she has already developed 2 websites for the company completely from scratch. Both these websites are fresh, user friendly, have a very intuitive user interface and very structured content.

A lot of hard work and diligence has gone into the site development and I appreciate Pam’s proficiency in handling the tasks assigned to her. Well done Pam. Cheers!


I go to Thushara because ...

“We used to award staff based on how good they are and how they exceed our expectations. This month is different. It is not about one’s expertise but about what one can do to make a difference.

Thushara has shown that he is capable of doing something beyond his normal daily work by volunteering to perform a task outside his comfort zone, proving that he does not only care about his work but for the company meeting the target as well.

He asked a simple question that is worth recognition—“Sir, I am free. What can I do to help?” It is not easy for a person that performs office cleaning work to ask this question, especially if he does not know integration works, but he did anyway.

This is the kind of attitude that we hope will spread among us like wildfire. This is a perfect example of something worthy of recognition and of being awarded Mr. Whiskers.

I am Mr. Whiskers,the 3W Networks Core Values mascot

I know I am a cool cat and you wouldlove to keep me company but I am very

choosy and will go only to the person who demonstrates the company Core Values.

Hi there!

Honesty & Sincerity

Good People

Rewarding Relationships

Accountability

Teamwork

Demonstrated core value: Good People

Thushara PathiranageOffice Assistant

Mr. Whiskers

May all your wishes come true!

Mohammad Shakil SamaniMay 10

Noraini Binte HassanMay 6

Dinesh Vyankatesh PrabhuMay 19

Shijo ChakoMay 12

Bindu PillaiMay 25

Raju ValappilMay 30

Razna RazackMay 14

Richard FamisMay 13

Biju MathewMay 26

Jeevaraj VCMay 31

Muhammad Ali ChalilMay 28

Santosh PaulMay 31

Sumesh SukumaranMay 29

Srinivasulu GaddamMay 31

May Celebrations

Arnold FloresMay 12

Dileep JosephMay 25


Safety Meet Mr. Joe

Monthly Safety Award Criteria

Prevent an accident or injury

Hazard Spotting

Promoting Safety

Demonstrate safety leadership

For example: employee prevents an immediate injury / accident to a fellow employee during work-in-progress

For example: employee recognizes a recurring safety hazard at work area, and communicates the hazard to their supervisor and others, and takes action appropriately.

For example: employee always ensures they and fellow employees are aware of safety hazards, wear correct personal protective equipment as an exemplary role model.

For example: employee actively raises safety issue(s), concern(s), or improvement idea(s) to supervisor, or Safety Committee and develops implementable solutions to improve safety; and follows through on safety issues until resolved.

3W’s Commitment to Safety

Ambassador

3W’s commitment to safety depends on the willingness of every individual to pursue a safe, healthful, and environmentally sound work place. Environment, Health & Safety (HSE) recognizes employees who are making 3W a safe workplace with the Monthly Safety Award.

The Monthly Safety Award celebrates 3W employees who excel in creating and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

HSE selects winners from nominations received from the 3W departments across all offices. Winners receive a trophy, certificate and a gift. The Safety Mascot / ambassador visits the winner for a month.


Welcome onboard everyone!

NEW HIRES

Sany SamProject Engineer Oman

Sikandar Sethi Procurement Officer - Dubai

Malchel FatalloIntegration Supervisor- Singapore

3W Babies

Baby HanaaMuhammad Ali, our Draftsman, Dubai Office

has been blessed with a baby girl


Train Your BrainBy

Pamela GarciaMarketing Engineer

Two cops walk into a room with no windows

Solution to March’s riddle:The young racer’s mother is also a brain surgeon.

and find a dead man hanging from the ceiling. After a thorough investigation, they rule out murder. But, with nothing beneath the dead man (no chair, no table to jump off from) save a puddle of water, how could the man have committed suicide?

Answer to this riddle on next month’s issue

The Story of Unemployed Entrepreneur

An unemployed man applies for the position of a janitor at Microsoft. He is interviewed by the HR Chief and subjected to a battery of employment tests.

The HR Chief tells him: Congratulations, you got the job! Just give me your e-mail address so that I can send you an employment package and let you know when to start work.

The man is distraught. He has no choice but to tell the HR Chief that he has no computer and therefore no e-mail

The HR Chief tells him that, if he has no e-mail address, he virtually does not exist and therefore cannot hold a job.

The man leaves in a desperate mood.

He is down to his last $10 with no job in sight. He sees a supermarket and decides to buy a 10 lb box of strawberries.

He starts out making door to door calls, selling those strawberries by the pound. Within 2 hours, he manages to double his capital. He repeats the deal 3 times more and goes home with $60 in his pocket.

He comes to see that he can survive this way. He starts every day earlier and goes home later every day, tripling or quadrupling his money every day.

Before long, he buys a wheel barrow so he can buy and sell more strawberries. After a while, he is able to buy a truck and eventually becomes the owner of a fleet of delivery trucks with several employees working for him.

He adds other produce items to his deliveries. Five years go by.

The man is now the owner of one of the largest food chains in the United States.

He starts thinking about the future for him and his family and decides to buy some life insurance. He calls an agent and selects a good policy. The agent asks him for his e-mail address to send him a confirmation of the policy.

The man tells him that he doesn’t have an e-mail address! That is incredible, says the agent. You have no e-mail but you built this large empire! Can you imagine where you would be if you had an e-mail address?

The man briefly thinks and then answers: I WOULD BE A TOILET CLEANER AT MICROSOFT!

Moral 1 of the story: The internet does not solve all the problems in our lives!

Moral 2 of the story: When you have no e-mail but work hard, you can become a millionaire!

Moral 3 of the story: You received this story by e-mail. Therefore you are closer to cleaning toilets than to being a millionaire!

ByNorbert PaisContracts Manager

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3W is hiring!Keep our organization strong by being a talent ambassador and referring people you think will fit

our culture.

Available positions:

3W is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment that embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage.

By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging and have the opportunity to maximize his or her own potential.

Honesty & SincerityTeamwork

Good People

AccountabilityRewardingRelationship

Please email the CVs to [email protected] “NETWORKER“ and the position

applied for in the subject line.

You will get rewarded for every successful candidate you refer.So send those CVs now!

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