Brochure Converged Radio Access Network

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Alcatel-LucentConverged Radio Access NetworkSolution

To build converging wireless networks

(GSM, CDMA, W-CDMA and LTE)


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Alcatel-Lucent Converged Radio Access Network Solution2

Your mobile subscribers are

adopting 3G services but the tra-

ditional 2G subscriber base keeps

growing too. You ace the need

to expand both network layers

or more capacity and coverage

to improve both the quality o

service and availability. And with

the onset o LTE, you must urther

develop your networks and ratio-

nalize your investments to deliver

protable services. You need to

grow your capacity today and

re-allocate resources based on

subscribers demand tomorrow.

The Alcatel-Lucent Converged

Radio Access Network (RAN)

solution delivers Sotware Dened

Radio (SDR), IP transport and

other building blocks you need

or fexible deployment and

simple management o both

your existing and new networks.


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Alcatel-Lucent Converged Radio Access Network Solution

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In the ever-evolving wireless mobile commu-

nication world, subscriber loyalty is driven by

handsets, services and prices. As an operator,

your ocus is on providing services at the lowest

price and at the lowest Total Cost o Ownership

(TCO) to maintain your prots.

Technology evolution has led to the deployment

o 2G (GSM) and 3G services (W-CDMA/HSPA

or CDMA2000 1X and CDMA 1xEV-DO),

which needs to keep growing. Long TermEvolution (LTE) is the next mobile broadband

carrier and will allow over 100 Mb/s download

transers. Operators must balance development

strategy, subscriber behavior, terminal availability,

the competitions next move and investment costs.

How will your mobile networks evolve?How should you allocate your investments?

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Multilayertransport andaggregation

Cell siteaccess

Internet

CDN

Packet core andevolved packet core

2G, 3G & LTE networkand service manager

Converged transport

The converged RAN

Converged managementConverged mobilityConverged hardware

Circuit core

Control

Ethernet

SDR

To remain competitive and sustain your network

growth at reasonable investment costs, you need

to limit expenditures or new equipment, network

management, site acquisition, site rental,

installation, backhauling and power supply.

Evolving technologies lead to more compact

and power-ecient products, capable o

handling more trac, which can be leveraged

to rationalize the radio access and transport

layers. The Alcatel-Lucent Converged RANincludes them all: Sotware Dened Radio

(SDR), mobility eatures, converged transport,

converged management center and converged

controller. Converged RAN is the key to a

smooth and cost-ecient network evolution.


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Converged RAN: hardware versatility andsotware fexibility or complementary layers

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A multistandard approach allows part o a system or equipment within a

network to host several standards, such as GSM and W-CDMA or CDMA

and LTE, with a unique management and control interace. This is currently

achieved by the Alcatel-Lucent Multistandard Base Station (MBS), whichintegrate GSM, UMTE and LTE modules or CDMA and LTE modules

within a single rack, and is managed by the Alcatel-Lucent OMC Portal.

Since 1999, multistandard design has driven the development o Alcatel-Lucent

radio indoor/outdoor products to let your network evolve smoothly as new

technologies emerge: rom GSM to GPRS, EDGE, GERAN evolution, W-CDMA,

HSPA, LTE and similarly CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev.0, Rev.A,

Rev. B and LTE the Alcatel-Lucent Multistandard Base Station adapts to your

requirements. Distributed or integrated inside the cabinet, the Alcatel-Lucent

modules include a Baseband Unit (BBU) and RF modules.

A 2 G / 3 G m u l T i s T A N d A R d s i T e

p R o V i d e s 4 0 p e R C e N T T C o s A V i N G s

C o m p A R e d T o T R A d i T i o N A l

m A C R o d e p l o y m e N T

Alcatel-Lucent nets four awards in CTIAs 2009 Emerging Tech Awards

including the best Network Infrastructure Wide Area Network Solution:

Alcatel-Lucents Converged Base Stations Strategy allows operators to

smoothly evolve their Alcatel-Lucent CDMA installed base to LTE with maximum reuse o existing

equipment. The products, part o Alcatel-Lucents Converged Radio Access Network portolio,use Alcatel-Lucents existing Sotware Defned Radio (SDR) technology to enable operators to

deploy both CDMA and LTE at the same time.

Since 1999, to enable a smoother transition or operators, Alcatel-Lucent has ocused itsdevelopment eorts on a multistandard approach or our indoor and outdoor radio products.

And on February 5th 2009 we have marked this success by shipping our 620,000 th

Multistandard Base Station (MBS).

Alcatel-Lucent introduced the Multistandard approach or Indoor and Outdoor Base

Stations; it allows 2G operators to upgrade their networks to 3G technologies, such as

W-CDMA; and urther to LTE, simply by adding additional modules inside the existingcabinet. The same principle applies or CDMA operators moving towards LTE.

This approach can help operators save up to 40% o Total Cost o Ownership (TCO) when

compared with installing additional cabinets and allows a aster deployment because noextra space is required.

B A S E B A N D U N I T ( B B U )

R A D I o F R E q U E N c y ( R F ) M o D U l E S

Alcatel-Lucents BBU and RF modules

are to be installed within your existing

BTS and achieve high integration o

several layers within a single cabinet.

M U l T I S T A N D A R D B A S E S T A T I o N S


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Are you planning to deploy or expand W-CDMA/LTE

over GSM? Or LTE over CDMA?

The Alcatel-Lucent BBU will t in your existing MBS

to provide the processing capacity or W-CDMA or LTE.

You can connect it using a CPRI link to either o the

RF modules:

Theself-cooledAlcatel-LucentRemoteRadioHead

(RRH), located close to the antenna

OrtotheTRDURFmodulecontainedwithinthe

compact smart shel, hosted inside the MBS or any

other 19-inch rack

Similarly, you will deploy LTE over GSM, CDMA or

W-CDMA with the complete range o Alcatel-Lucent

modules.

Because the BBU and RF modules are based on Sotware

Dened Radio technology, they oer the agility to reshufe

your network layers among GSM, CDMA, W-CDMA and

LTE, according to your subscribers behaviors. You may also

optimize your revenue by choosing to avor high-end services

such as CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, HSPA+ or LTE, rather than

traditional voice services on GSM or CDMA2000 1X.

You can remotely recongure your network rom the

Alcatel-Lucent OMC portal, a client that connects to

existing management interaces. It lets you operate your

network rom one single point to acilitate complex

operational tasks and reduce your operational expenses.

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XMSEXtended

ManagementSystem

2G/3Gconverged

managementsystem

Value-addedtool chain

Plan

Deploy

Operate

Optimize Stabilityand call trace

analyzer

Wirelessquality

analyzer

Networkperformance

optimizer

Wireless

provisioningsystem

Radionetworkplanning

Every vendor claims to have the bestOAM solution, what we have seen romNPO, WQA and RFO shows that thetoll capabilities were specifed by realusers to match their day to day work

requirements. This is the type o toolsthat we need.N e T w o R k m A N A G e R , N o R T h A m e R i C A o p e R A T o R

As your network grows, it becomes more complex,

so Alcatel-Lucent has developed powerul tools to ease

your global network operations:

RadioNetworkPlanning

WirelessProvisioningSystem

NetworkPerformanceOptimizer

RFoptimizer

WirelessQualityAnalyzer

StabilityDataAnalyzer

These tools are within the eXtended Management System

(XMS) and as a result, you can greatly improve and

accelerate your network conguration and administration

workload, which can lead to a signicant reduction in

your OPEX.


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intgnt bt acr t arCommon management o 2G, 3G and 4G resources increases your overall

capacity. Alcatel-Lucent intelligent mobility eatures (Intelligent Multi Carrier

Trac Allocation, unied Radio Resource Management, among others) ensure

trac is intelligently distributed across 2G, 3G and 4G carriers, and at the

same time prevents inter-layer handovers towards already congested cells. Your

multi-layer network capacity is automatically optimized when you activate these

eatures; additionally your handover perormances are increased by 50 percent.

Alcatel-Lucent is also leading the way to seamless handos between CDMA

and LTE: providing options such as eHRPD, Circuit Switch Fall Back and

other interworking eatures to ensure excellent service continuity or operators.

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2G, 3G, 4G

3G layer

2G layer

4G layer


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To meet the growing demand or mobile broadband services and maximize

protability, your mobile transport networks must evolve to deliver increased

bandwidthatalowercost,whileprovidingreliabilityandthecurrentQuality

OfExperience(QoE)

The Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META)

provides an end-to-end network architecture that enables you to migrate

and scale your network protably (Figure 4). This architecture oers 2G, 3G

and 4G services aggregation rom the access network to the core network; it

handles any type o transport protocol: IP, ATM, Hybrid (E1 over DSL). You

can successully serve the massive growth o mobile broadband services demand.

Coupling the optimal cost points o Ethernet with the proven scalability,

availability and service-aware capabilities o multiprotocol label switching

(MPLS), META enables mobile service providers to leverage existing inra-structure investments and evolve to all-IP networking at the pace o cus-

tomerdemand,andwiththeQoEcustomershavecometoexpectfrom

traditional transmission services.

With META you can achieve up to 44 percent TCO savings and increase scal-

ability and availability to enable broadband service delivery over any media

ber, copper or wireless.

Cbnatn cntrr: BsC, RNC, mme

To complete the Converged RAN, Alcatel-Lucent delivers capacity fexibility o

its 3GPP BSC and RNC within a single unit, thus reducing ootprint requirements,easing the integration in the platorms and simpliying the migration rom

one technology to another. The synergy among the controllers will be urther

developed with the introduction o a single and common hardware platorm to

load BSC, RNC and MME sotware.

T h e A l C A T e l - l u C e N T m e T A e N d - T o -

e N d A R C h i T e C T u R e , s p A N N i N G F R o m

C e l l s i T e s T o T h e C o R e , e N A B l e s

s e R V i C e p R o V i d e R s T o s i m p l i F y T h e i R

o p e R A T i o N s T h R o u G h i N T e G R A T e d

N e T w o R k A N d s e R V i C e m A N A G e m e N T .

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C O R EIP/MPLS and Optical Core

Network andService Management

TDM/Ethernet

TDM/Ethernet

TDM/EthernetOptical, Microwave or IP/MPLS Backhaul

A C C E S SA G G R E G A T I O N

IMS Internet

BSC/RNC

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IP/MPLS

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TDM/Ethernet

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9500 MPR

DSL/GPON

CellsiteAggregator

ISAM

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End-to-EndServices and

NetworkIntegration

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SDR makes it possible to use your

network management center to

remotely allocate the modulation o

your choice in the radio modules.

GSM, CDMA, W-CDMA, or LTE:your network re-conguration will

not require costly on-site intervention

and you will enjoy the fexibility o

reshufing your network layers at will

to adjust your resources according to

your customers behaviors. You may

also optimize your revenue by choos-

ing to avor high-end services such

as CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, HSPA, or

LTE rather than traditional voice on

GSM or CDMA2000 1X.

1. The Alcatel-Lucent SDR baseband

unit (BBU) supports W-CDMA or

LTE, and provides up to 20 MHz

bandwidth management to oer

maximum LTE capacity to your

subscribers.

2. For the RF part, the Alcatel-

Lucent SDR approach oers

maximum integration and fexibil-

ity not just simple SDR modules

with selectable modulation but

also SDR multimode where a

single module includes several

power ampliers or carriers and

can congure each to the technology

o your choice.

TRUplug-inmodule

Integrated high eciency

amplier

Reduces cell power

consumption up to 75%

Supports CDMA and LTE TRDUplug-inmodule

Fits in the Compact Smart

Delivers 60 Watts

Includes a duplexer and lters

Allows three carriers

Oers multimode

W-CDMA/LTE

RRHmodules

Available in 40W and

60W versions

Allow two or three carriers

Oer multimode W-CDMA/LTE

MIMO-RRH

Includes a twin power amplier

Delivers 2x40W

Oers either single technology

(CDMA, W-CDMA, or LTE) or

multi-technology (W-CDMA/

LTE or CDMA/LTE)

MC-TRXplug-in

Equipped with one poweramplier (up to six carriers)

Delivers a total o 90W (67W ToC)

Can be combined among GSM,

W-CDMA and LTE to deliver

multimode

MC-RRHmodule

Delivers MIMO 2x40W

Up to 8 carriers available

Can be combined among GSM,W-CDMA and LTE to deliver

multimode

Micro-RRHmodules

Enhance W-CDMA or LTE

hotspot/in-building coverage

MCRBplug-inmodule

Multi-Carrier Radio B Module

Already deployed in CDMA

networks

Supports CDMA and LTE with2x2 MIMO operation

Choose TeChNoloGy

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A l c A T E l - l U c E N T S F U l l R A N g E o F S D R M o D U l E S :

R A D I o M o D U l E S ( U p )

B A S E B A N D U N I T ( D o w N )

The ull range o Alcatel-Lucent SDR modules


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Let your network evolve withConverged RAN: scenarios

Alcatel-Lucent delivers Converged RAN, whatever your

environment, since our modules are available or a wide

set o requencies and are compatible with any type o

cabinet: indoor, outdoor, compact or distributed. You can

extend, upgrade or even renew your inrastructure with

a limited number o modules and reuse your existing

assets to their maximum. For any site coniguration,

Alcatel-Lucent Converged RAN oers a suitable and

optimized solution.

The evolution o your network is partly driven by

subscribers adopting new services, but your capacity is

constrained by your available requency spectrum. The

ollowing examples show how the Alcatel-Lucent portolioenables typical network evolution, without the need

or additional spectrum.

D E N S E U R B A N

U R B A N

R U R A l


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UMTS BBU

LTE BBU

UMTS

and

LTE

2100

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

UMTS

900

GSM

900

UMTS BBU

LTE BBU

UMTS

and

LTE

2100

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

Pool

of

modules

UMTS

900

GSM

900

UMTS BBU

UMTS

2100

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

GSM

900

GSM

900

UMTS BBU

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

UMTS

900

GSM

900

Frequency band GSM UMTS LTE

10 MHz

10 MHz

15 MHz

900 MHz

1800 MHz

2100 MHz

UMTS

2100 Activated

Added

Added

Spectrum for

GSM UMTS LTE

5 MHz 5 MHz

10 MHz

15 MHz

Spectrum for

GSM UMTS LTE

5 MHz 5 MHz

10 MHz

10 MHz 5 MHz

Spectrum for

GSM UMTS LTE

5 MHz 5 MHz

10 MHz

5 MHz 10 MHz

Spectrum for

Installed base 2009 2010 2012

w i T h A l C A T e l - l u C e N T , F R o m T o d Ay u N T i l T h e

e s T A B l i s h m e N T o F l T e , y o u w i l l R e u s e A l l o F y o u R

e X i s T i N G e Q u i p m e N T A N d i N T R o d u C e o N l y A V e Ry

l i m i T e d N u m B e R o F m o d u l e s T o A d A p T y o u R N e T w o R k

T o T h e e V o l V i N G T e C h N o l o G i e s .

Figures 5 to 8 represent a network view o the installed base, with each block

representing a pool o modules. This macro view o the resources shows how

Converged RAN, with multistandard and SDR capabilities, allows you to

protect your investments and reduce the need or additional CAPEX.

This rst network matches existing network conditions. The requency

spectrum is assumed to be already available and it will remain over time:

850MHzor900MHz:10 MHz bandwidth or coverage (country wide)

1800MHz:10 MHz bandwidth or GSM capacity (urban area)

2100MHz:15 MHz bandwidth or UMTS and LTE capacity


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Each colored block represents a pool

o modules o a given type or a given

requency.

2009: As a rst step, rearming the

900 MHz band to extend yourW-CDMA coverage requires

deploying a module with UMTS

900 capability. It is managed by the

existing UMTS BBU and causes no

other impact on your network.

2010: Next, with the advent o LTE

and availability o end-user devices, a

dedicated BBU is introduced and the

existing SDR UMTS/LTE modules

will be reshufed to match your

bandwidth requirements.2012: Finally, whenever demand or

LTE services grows, you simply need

to reorganize your layers within the

existing SDR modules.

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UMTS and LTE BBU

UMTS

and

LTE

2100

GSM

900

UMTS and LTE BBU

UMTS

and

LTE

2100

GSM

and

UMTS

900

Frequency band

900 MHz

1800 MHz

2100 MHz

Activated

GSM UMTS LTE

10 MHz

10 MHz 5 MHz

Spectrum for

GSM UMTS LTE

5 MHz 5 MHz

5 MHz 10 MHz

Spectrum for

2010 2012

Pool

of

modules

This example demonstrates the tremendous fexibility and reuse made possible

with the Alcatel-Lucent Converged RAN solution. With it, you can reuse

all o your existing equipment and introduce only a very limited number

o modules when adapting your network to evolving technologies. Figure 6

demonstrates the case o a greeneld deployment, such as an area not yetcovered with your current technology. The requency spectrum is assumed to

be already available and will remain over time:

850MHzor900MHz: 10 MHz bandwidth or coverage (country wide)

2100MHz: 15 MHz bandwidth or UMTS and LTE capacity

2010: GSM remains the widest subscriber base, and UMTS keeps growing

while LTE devices become available: you can maintain GSM 900 (or 850)

countrywide and share the 2100 MHz among UMTS and LTE.

2012: The distribution among 2G and 3G subscribers is inverting: your

installed base can adapt accordingly.

This example shows that when deploying Alcatel-Lucent products, you wont

need additional hardware to evolve your network layers when introducing and

increasing LTE capacity.


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The third network example demonstrates the case o a GSM network evolution towards LTE,

without introduction o a 3G layer. The requency spectrum is assumed to be already available

and will remain over time:

850MHzor900MHz: 10 MHz bandwidth or coverage (country wide)

1800MHz: 10 MHz bandwidth or GSM capacity (urban area)

Each colored block represents a pool o modules o a given type or a given requency.

2010:To cope with the still growing GSM demand in the network, you extend your capacity

with SDR modules, used in GSM only.

2012: LTE devices are widely available or your subscribers and you decide to oer them a

service. Since rearming has been made possible by your regulator, LTE introduction is possible

based on the radio modules deployed earlier. You need to roll-out processing capacity or LTE:

a BBU will be installed in each o the site targeted.

This example demonstrates how, with Alcatel-Lucent, you leverage your investments to oer newservices at low cost.

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GSM

900

GSM

900

GSM

900

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

GSM

1800

GSM

900

LTE BBU

GSM

900

Frequency band

900 MHz

1800 MHz

GSM LTE

10 MHz

10 MHz

Spectrum for

GSM LTE

10 MHz

5 MHz 5 MHz

Spectrum for

2010 2012

GSM LTE

10 MHz

10 MHz

Spectrum for

Installed base

GSM

and

LTE

1800

Activated

Added

Pool

of

modules


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CDMA

PCS

LTE

AWS

LTE BBU

Frequency band

PCS

AWS

CDMA LTE

10 MHz/7

7 MHz/5 3 MHz

Spectrum for/Carriers for

CDMA LTE

10 MHz/7

10 MHz


Phase 1 Phase 2

CDMA LTE

10 MHz/7

10 MHz/7


Installed base

LTE BBU

CDMA

PCS

CDMA

and

LTE

AWS

CDMA

PCS

CDMA

AWS

Activated

Added

Pool

of

modules

The last network example demonstrates the case o aCDMA network transition towards LTE. The requency

spectrum is assumed to be already available and will

remain over time:

PCS: 10 MHz bandwidth or coverage and capacity

(country wide)

AWS: 10 MHz bandwidth or coverage and capacity

(country wide)

Each colored block represents a pool o modules o a given

type or a given requency.

Phase1: At rst, within the existing CDMA cabinet,you will deploy an LTE BBU and activate the SDR

modules to introduce LTE capability to your network,

within the available AWS band.

Phase2: Whenever demand or LTE services grows, you

simply leverage your asset rom step one to deliver the

services required.

These scenarios refect current availability o end-user

LTE devices. And layer reshufing across the requency

spectrum requires RF optimization at each site, with or

without new hardware introduction.


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Alcatel-Lucent has developed the Converged RAN, anend-to-end approach to enable resources optimization, to

accelerate your radio access network deployments together

withQoScontinuityoveracheapertransportnetwork.

With Alcatel-Lucent Converged RAN you not only

protect your GSM, W-CDMA or CDMA investments,

but also ensure a simple path as you evolve your network

to LTE.

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4G access layer

700 MHz

900 MHz

1800 MHz 1700/2100 MHz

1900 MHz 2100 MHz

2600 MHz850 MHz

3G access layer

2G accesslayer

SDR

Converged BTS Converged transport

Inter-technosmobility features Converged O&M

TheConvergedRANbyAlcatel-Lucent:do not manage one layer per technologybut one layer and a set o requencies,

with agility and with no compromise on

backward compatibility.


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