Packet Longhaul Deployment --The Experience One Year Later

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September 2014

PACKET LONG-HAUL MICROWAVE THE EXPERIENCE ONE YEAR LATER

MICROWAVE FOR THE BROADBAND ERA ALCATEL-LUCENT PACKET LONG-HAUL ONE YEAR LATER

Launched at this event last year

Trials started in every region have confirmed technical expectations

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Trials started in every region have confirmed technical expectations

Awards received — thanks to our customers!

DRIVERS FOR PACKET LONG-HAUL:MARKET ENVIRONMENT

FIXED: DEMAND FOR HIGHER SPEED BROADBAND

• On-demand video and more devices driving residential demand

MOBILE: TRANSITION TO LTE/LTE-A IS UNDERWAY

• Higher capacity requirements in aggregation and backbone

• IP orientation of LTE driving shift to packet-optimized transport

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• On-demand video and more devices driving residential demand

• Higher speed fixed access (PON, vectoring, bonding) moving bottleneck to backbone

TECHNOLOGY: PACKET EXCEEDS TDM/LEGACY TRAFFIC

• VoIP and emergence of VoLTE accelerating TDM decline

• Networks optimized for IP (not TDM) are driving efficiencies and reducing costs

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DRIVERS FOR PACKET LONG-HAUL:MICROWAVE SPECIFICS

FASTER TIME-TO-MARKET

LOWER

• No heavy civil engineering work (trenching)• No complex permit requests• Easy to re-allocate equipment when traffic patterns change

• Flat deployment cost regardless of distance

Microwave vs. fiber

Transform to packet

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CAPACITY AND LATENCY• MW provides enough capacity for today’s needs • MW offers a much lower latencyRELIABILITY • Better equipment reliability with very high MTBF• Link availability improved with advanced radio features

LOWER COST

GREAT PERFORMANCE

• Flat deployment cost regardless of distance• No recurring leasing or bandwidth charges• Easy maintenance, reducing OPEX

• Enough capacity for today’s (and tomorrow’s) needs

• Advanced radio equipment for reliability and high MTBF

• Microwave offers much lower latency

HOW TO DEFINE A LONG-HAUL PACKET MICROWAVE:CHARACTERISTICS

LEGACY

SERVICE CONVERGENCE• Transform services — the right way• One transport technology

CAPACITY SCALE• Packet and RF mechanisms toolset• Improved availability

PACKET

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IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, HIGHER FLEXIBILITY, MORE SIMPLICITY

• Improved availability

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY• Provisioning based on b/s• Equipment simplification

MULTICHANNEL CAPABILITY

FULL-INDOOR APPROACH

THE MULTICHANNEL MODEL:EFFICIENT SCALING, PROTECTION

Efficient distribution of flow contents over the

N+0 bundle

PACKET FLOWS

One logical pipe whose total capacity is available to all services:

• Adaptive modulation-aware• Any channel frequency/width• Any polarization• Any modulation level

Multichannel N+0 link

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Increased capacity and reliability over traditional

N+1 systems

SDH/SONET FLOWS

PDH FLOWS

Multichannel N+0 link

RELIABLY SCALE ALL SERVICES, INCREASE PROTECTION

THE FULL INDOOR APPROACH

Applicable to high-capacity systems• Split-mount also suitable if capacity <2–2.5 Gb/s

Equipment protected in case of difficult environmental conditions

Fully resilient and hardware protected• Easy upgradable, no traffic impact • Reduced maintenance cost, no need to climb on the tower and fewer people required

• Reduced out-of-service time

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• Reduced out-of-service time

Single waveguide vs. many cables for connectivity to the antenna

Waveguide losses compensated by highest system gain

FULL INDOOR IS REQUESTED IN HIGH-CAPACITY SYSTEMS

CUSTOMER CASE 1:EUROPEAN FIXED AND MOBILE OPERATOR

NETWORK PROFILE• Operator active in the Mediterranean area• Link over the sea (65 km)

TRANFORMATION OF AN EXISTING 2+1 SDH PLATFORM INTO A FULL PACKET

OPERATOR’S NEED

1E+1

1E+2

1E+3

1E+4

1E+0

Measured versus expected TX modulation scheme probability

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• SDH channelized (traffic optimization; only active VCs are carried)

• Multichannel with size 4

• Adaptive modulation up to 1024 QAM

OPERATOR’S NEEDIncrease capacity carried

1024 QAM PROVED HIGHLY STABLE WITH NO FADING

1E+4

1E+5

1E+6

1E+7

1E+81024 QAM 512 QAM 256 QAM 128QAM 64QAM 32 QAM 16 QAM

K Ch. 3 K Ch. 4 A Ch. 3 A Ch. 4 Th. values

CUSTOMER CASE 1:A NEW NETWORK DESIGN MODEL

2+13+1

4+1

SDH N+1 vs LAG M+01E-2

1E-3

1E-4

1E-5

Data rate prob. < abscissaa

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1+1

MULTICHANNEL IMPROVES CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE

1E-6

1E-79008007006005004003002001000

Data rate (Mb/s)

Data rate prob. < abscissaa

Single Div. 2 RX LAG 2+0 LAG 3+0 LAG 4+0

CUSTOMER CASE 2:EUROPEAN VERTICAL OPERATOR

NETWORK PROFILE• Two links in Canary Islands (109 and 120 km long)

ENHANCING RADIO PERFORMANCE OVER VERY LONG LINK

OPERATOR’S NEED

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RADIO-LAG EXPLOITED TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE

LAG with adaptive modulation is used on top of space diversity combiner

OPERATOR’S NEEDCapacity to be carried: 210 Mb/s

CUSTOMER CASE 2:NETWORK DESIGN CALCULATION

Mb/s (*LAG equivalent)

100.0000%

% of time w

ith capacity below abscissa

10.0000%

1.0000%

0.1000%

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LAG CAPACITY (4 CHANNELS) = 210 MB/S AT THE TARGET OF 0.5 S/KM

0.5 s/km

% of time w

ith capacity below abscissa

0.0100%

0.0010%0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900

Sel. no protected

CDF LAG 4+0 (30 MHz)

Total no protected


CDF LAG 4+0 (30 MHz) Po x 3

Flat no protected


CONCLUSIONS:LONG-HAUL PACKET MICROWAVE — THE RIGHT CHOICE

DRIVERS

• Better time-to-market

• Service convergence to packet• Operational simplification• Cost per bit reduction• TDM traffic still live

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FULL INDOOR LONG-HAUL PACKET MICROWAVE

A GOOD TECHNICAL CHOICE

HOW WE CAN HELP

• Better time-to-market• High performance • Flexibility

• Market-leading product portfolio• E2E management solution• Professional Services

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Packet Longhaul Deployment --The Experience One Year Later