Spidercloud Wireless - Small Cell enterprise deployment

© 2015 SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc.

A Scalable Small Cell System Practical Medium–Large Enterprise Deployment & Case Studies

Mobile World Congress 3 March 2015 Art King SpiderCloud, Director of Enterprise Services Benoit Fleury iBwave, VP Products & Innovation


SpiderCloud Wireless

Sells Scalable Small Cell Systems for Mobile Operators to Address Enterprises & Venues with Coverage, Capacity & Managed Mobility Services

@SpiderCloud_Inc www.spidercloud.com

§  Based in Silicon Valley (USA). Founded in early 2008

§  $125 Million in funding as of February, 2015

§  Mobile Operator customers: Verizon, Vodafone UK & Netherlands, Warid Telecom & more

§  3 Years Experience with Scalable System Deployments

§  First to market with dual-band 3G/4G and 4G/4G Radio Nodes (June 2014)

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Services Node

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Scalable Small Cell Systems

(1U in the enterprise data center)

One System of 1 Services Node and 100 PoE-powered Radio Nodes Can Scale to Cover 1.5 Million Square Feet

3G

Dual-Band 3G/4G and 4G/4G

Portfolio of Radio Nodes

LTE


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First Commercially Available Dual-Band 3G/LTE Small Cell

SCRN-310: Concurrent 3G and LTE Radio Node •  3G Radio

–  32 3G channels –  21 Mbps HSPA+ –  250 mw peak transmit, receive diversity

•  LTE Radio –  32 active LTE users (64 w/upgrade) –  150 Mbps LTE (300 Mbps w/carrier aggregation) –  2x2 MIMO with 250 mW peak transmit power

–  Single Ethernet cable, Power and Data over Ethernet –  > 99% accessibility and <0.5% dropped calls in scalable deployments

§  Each Radio Node is a full sector 3G (or 3G and LTE) cell, not just a radio head §  Deployed over Enterprise Ethernet LAN

§  SCRN-310 can be upgraded to two carriers of LTE §  RN operating at 250 mw covers ~ 15,000 ft2

§  Single Services Node supports up to 100 RNs; systems can serve building as large as 1.5 million ft2

Services Node


Easy to Install in Enterprise Environment

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Services Node is Installed in 19” Rack

Radio Nodes are Mounted on Ceiling or Wall

3 RU 110V AC

•  Single Cat5e cable pull from nearest PoE source •  Front-panel LED provides feedback to installer

Space & Power Efficient


SpiderCloud Radio Nodes

Power-Over-Ethernet LAN Switches

Category 5 Ethernet Cables

Ethernet Backbone

SpiderCloud Services Node

Ethernet LAN

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Deployed over Gigabit Ethernet LAN

Option to share existing enterprise

LAN (using VLANs) or deploy

on a dedicated Ethernet LAN.


Services Node Solves Challenging Interference, RF and Deployment Challenges

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§  3-dimensional RF interference §  Flat fading §  Rapidly changing channel §  Reliable voice handovers

difficult §  SON is critical


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Site Walk Open for Subscribers Maintenance Package •  Rack Elevations •  LAN Design •  Circuit and Access Information •  Floor Plans •  Floor Plans w/iBwave Sim •  Equipment BOM

Post-SON Ready for Service (Live system topology)


Enterprise Customers


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§  Services Node installed in Telecoms Center to serve site §  65 Radio Nodes installed in the site §  Utilizing separate enterprise LAN Architecture to support

installation §  Onsite installation completed in 4 days

§  Happy Customer §  Excellent 3G coverage throughout building §  Offloads 100’s of Gigabytes per month of data from macro

network §  1,700 Voice calls + 287,000 Data sessions per day

Solution

Results

Large Global Financial Institution

1 Services Node

16 Floors

3,000+ Subscribers

65 Radio Nodes


Large Ad Agency w/Multiple Buildings

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§  Services Node installed in Data Center to serve all three sites §  68 Radio Nodes installed in the sites §  Utilized LAN/VLAN and MAN Architecture to support installation

§  E-RAN flexibility overcame Communications Room space issues

§  A Very Happy Customer §  Immediate improvement in services levels and customer

satisfaction

§  2,800 Voice + 175,000 data sessions per day

Solution

Results 1 Services Node

3 Buildings

1,700+ Subscribers

68 Radio Nodes


Accelerating and Improving Deployment

Software Applications


E-RAN Estimator § Mobile Operator requested tool

§  Estimates radio count

–  Pre-design process

§  Use before RF design to screen projects (go/no-go)

§  Preserve precious RF Engineering resources

§  Available for download:

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–  https://itunes.apple.com/sr/app/e-ran-estimator/id811655301?mt=8

–  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spidercloud.SpiderCloud.ERAN


E-RAN Site Manager App for Field Technicians

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On-Site Access –  RN Boot Status –  RN Inventory –  Pre and Post

Site Analysis –  On-Site

Services

Radio Node with Low Power Bluetooth

E-RAN Site Manager App Supports iOS and Android

2015-02-03 Small Cell Network 15

§  Higher volume of sites versus macro & DAS §  Shorter deployment cycles (days versus months) §  Simpler process without requiring RF experts §  Engineering still involved without being bottleneck §  Tools still needed to ensure quality, consistency & scaling


Webinar: Site Surveys

ASSESS & SURVEY

DIMENSION & PLAN

DETAILED ENGINEERING

INSTALL & COMMISSION

OPERATE & MAINTAIN

§  Digitize notes, pictures & drawings into .ibw file

§  Integrate RF data collection into the same file

§  Designs can be now created in the field from mobile device


•  Android app to plan, design & document small cells and Wi-Fi access points right from the site

•  Create new plans or access from an existing design •  Use prediction maps based on interference from macro & other cells

•  Integrate with RF collection tools to automatically import RF data •  Document site surveys, place geo-located annotations & create markups •  Modify & update design information in the field (as-built documentation)

Simplifies and accelerates deployments


CREATE FLOOR PLAN AND ENVIRONMENT ZONES

STEP 1 STEP 2

COLLECT RF, SELECT SMALL CELLS

AND RUN PREDICTION

STEP 3

ADD NETWORK EQUIP’T & INCLUDE

ANNOTATIONS


FIELD TECHNICIAN

UPLOAD MOBILE FILE

TO CLOUD/UNITY

SEND PROJECT LINK BY EMAIL

Store projects centrally and control integrity

RF ENGINEER

DOWNLOAD MOBILE FILE FROM CLOUD/UNITY REVIEW ON DESIGN

Access any project and review as needed

As-Built Documentation


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Spidercloud Wireless - Small Cell enterprise deployment