Alcatel Lucent: The LTW Necessity – Ensuring high performance indoor experiences v3 - post

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COPYRIGHT © 2015 ALCATEL-LUCENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

The LTE Necessity Ensuring High Performance Indoor Experiences

Nasir Kafai Mobile World Congress 2015


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Agenda

1. The need for LTE in the home & enterprise

2. Home and enterprise small cell innovation

3. Small cell feature enablement – intro. LTE-U/LAA and Wi-Fi boost

4. Small cells references


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• Improve coverage

• Ensure quality isn’t dictated by Wi-Fi alone

• Smooth migration of customer base to 4G – support

WCDMA and LTE customers with the same hardware

• Acquire new customers or break in to wireless (CLECs)

• Facilitate move to VoLTE – offer superior voice and

enable network consolidation (opportunity to refarm

2G/3G spectrum)

• Offer new features/services – “blend” Wi-Fi and cellular

for a wireline experience, wirelessly

The move to 4G

The importance of LTE in the home and enterprise


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Introducing the 9961 multi-standard home cell

Simultaneous W-CDMA and LTE or LTE only

• Announced Sept. 2014 at CTIA (Vegas), Launched MWC15

• Qualcomm SoC – 3G/4G software definable

• 16 users (8 simultaneous W-CDMA voice and data + 8

simultaneous LTE voice and data)

• Output power:

• 1x100mW W-CDMA (5 MHz = 21 Mbps DL, 5.7 Mbps UL)

• 2x100mW LTE (2x2 MIMO) (20 MHz = 150 Mbps DL, 75

Mbps UL)

• Power consumption: <22W

• Hardware supports up to 20 MHz bandwidth

• Omni-directional antenna

• <1.5L


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• Deliver exceptional wireless home experiences

• Extend wireless coverage and services throughout the home

• Support 3G & 4G users simultaneously or offer LTE only

• Superior voice and video quality (IMS enabled VoLTE).

• Offload macro network by reusing licensed LTE and W-CDMA

spectrum in the home

• Streamline 4G migration

• Improve Wireless performance by blending LTE and Wi-Fi to

ensure strongest possible wireless connections

• Compact design using single SOC solution

• OPEX saving with plug and play capabilities

Multi-Standard Home Cell

Value proposition / benefits


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In-building cellular addressed by three architectures

There is no “one size fits all”


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• W-CDMA, 2x2 MIMO LTE, Wi-Fi in a single box (LTE-only mode)

• Software definable 3G/4G technology and remote RF bands configuration

• VoLTE with CSFB and SR-VCC, CMAS, MFBI, Prioritized E911

• CA and eMBMS hardware ready

• SON, Secure Plug-n-Play, TR-069 management.

• Common small cell and security gateway leverage 3G OA&M Systems

• Up to 32 W-CDMA plus up to 64 LTE simultaneous users (total = 96)

• Up to 128 simultaneous users in LTE-Only mode

• LTE 2 x 250mW (24 dBm) typical Tx power

• W-CDMA 1 x 250mW (24 dBm) typical Tx power

• Wi-Fi (2.4 & 5GHz concurrent, 2x2 MIMO, 100 mW Tx per path)

• Volume: range from 1.5L – 7+L depending on bands supported

• Peak throughputs 2x20 MHz LTE CA (HW capability): 300/150 Mbps DL/UL

• Power over Ethernet (4pPOE-compliant with Power over HDBaseT) with Alcatel Lucent OmniSwtich

6450 P10S or Mid span POE Injector

• Easily integrates with an end-to-end network including gateway, packet core, and common OA&M

Introducing the 9962 Multi-standard Enterprise Cell series (v1, v2, v3)

Key features

V1

V2 Large Enterprise

V2 SOHO

V3


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• Deliver exceptional In-building wireless voice and data

experience

• Supports Multi-Standard W-CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi in a single box

• Circuit switched voice & IMS-enabled VoLTE.

• Can be self installed for Small/Medium Enterprises

• Single, shared site, backhaul, power and OA&M

• Supports MOCN ( Multi-Operator Core Network)

• Software Defined 3G/4G Technology and RF Band Migration flexibility from 3G to 4G, or support a mix of technologies

Remote RF Configuration

Allows operators to reclaim spectrum for use in LTE networks

• Common small cell and security gateway leverage 3G/4G OA&M systems

SON, Secure Plug n Play, TR 069 management.

Multi-standard Enterprise Cell

Value proposition / benefits


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Alcatel-Lucent’s Wireless Unified Networks

Delivering new feature capability

Blending the BEST of Wi-Fi with Cellular (3G & 4G) to provide an unmatched experience

Cellular Boost Boost cellular by

adding unlicensed

spectrum capacity

Wi-Fi Boost Boost Wi-Fi by

adding in cellular

(3G & 4G)


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• LTE downlink transmission in unlicensed bands

• 3GPP R13 standards to support Wi-Fi co-existence and regional regulations

What if we brought the quality of LTE to the unlicensed?

Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) / LTE-U

Lic. UL

Lic. DL

LAA / LTE-U

LTE-U 5GHz

LAA / LTE-U

DL

LAA/LTE-U Value Proposition:

• Augment limited licensed spectrum

• Faster download rates (LTE & LTE-U aggregation)

• Better cell edge performance

• H-ARQ packet recovery advantage (~3dB) over Wi-Fi

Alcatel-lucent: Dynamic duty cycle demo on booth, trialing LTE-U in 2015, initial product offering early 2016


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What if we blended Wi-Fi with cellular?

Intro. Wi-Fi boost

Wi-Fi boost

Wi-Fi Cellular(3G or 4G)

DL UL

• 20% - 30% increase in Wi-Fi DL - Single User

• 70% increase in Wi-Fi DL – Multi User

• 10x or more (55x in lab tests) increase in UL (Far user)

• Wi-Fi range increased by 2x

• More consistent Wi-Fi performance (LTE DL always available on hot stand-by to respond to Wi-Fi congestion)

• Utilizes existing UE’s

• Applicable to 3G and 4G

• Works with existing Wi-Fi APs

• Adding value beyond basic coverage

• Upgrade from a user experience PoV


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Benefits of Wi-Fi boost with aggregation

Wi-Fi boost w/ aggregation

Wi-Fi

DL UL

DL

Cellular(4G)

• Same gains as Wi-Fi Boost

• > 10x (55x in lab test) increase in UL (Far user)

• Wi-Fi range increased by 2x

• More consistent Wi-Fi performance

• Aggregation: 2x or more (~250% gain in lab test) DL gain over LTE (indoor)

• Software upgrade to LTE femtos

• Re-use and extension of LTE mobility mechanisms

• Technology re-use: extends LTE dual connectivity method to LTE + Wi-Fi


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Enterprise use case with 100 Wi-Fi users

Significant improvement as a result of deploying Wi-Fi boost

WiFi Rate Map

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Wi-Fi TCP DL Throughput Wi-Fi Boost TCP DL Throughput

Wi-Fi APs LTE eNBs


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COMBINING Cellular boost (i.e., LTE-U/LAA) and

Wi-Fi boost with aggregation

Lic. UL

Lic. DL

LTE-U

DL

Value Proposition of Adding Wi-Fi boost (w/ agg.) and LTE-U:

• Increased capacity

• Greater range

• Higher peak rates (1.25 Gbps)

• More constant end-user experience regardless of proximity to the AP

Wi-Fi 5GHz,

Channel 149,

DL

Wi-Fi

LTE-U 5GHz, Channel 136,

• Wireless Unified Networks enables utilization of BOTH Cellular (e.g., LTE-U) and

Wi-Fi technologies simultaneously for an optimal end-user experience

Wi-Fi + Cellular Boost

Wi-Fi boost w/ aggregation + LTE-U

Wi-Fi boost (w/ aggregation) complements LTE-U. Wi-Fi boost (w/ aggregation) enables UL traffic across LTE and the aggregation of 3 DL paths


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Small cells references

76 Customer Deployment Agreements and Growing

133 Commercial Contracts across

all Segments

Deployed in 53 Countries

Jan.

2014

Jan.

2015

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Small cell references

....30 (24 – Jan. 2014) customer contracts for

metro cell deployments in 20 countries

....56 (47 – Jan. 2014) customer contracts for enterprise cell deployments in 42

countries

....47 (40 – Jan. 2014) customer contracts for residential cell deployments in 36

countries


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