A Light Reading Webinar

LTE
Technology & Components
Hosted by

Simon Stanley
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sponsored by:

Speakers
Ian MacMillan
Sr. Product Marketing Manager Interphase Corporation

Simon Stanley
Analyst at Large, Heavy Reading Principal Consultant, Earlswood Marketing

Agenda
Market trends and requirements LTE technology and systems LTE devices and modules

Implementation examples
Q&A

Telecom Market Conditions

IP-based services driving exponential data traffic growth
Mobile Broadband

High focus on rich user experience and service delivery Carrier focus on revenue growth and opex reduction Average revenue per mobile user (ARPU) growing slower than data
Carriers need to dramatically reduce cost per bit

Average Data per User

Average Revenue per User (ARPU)

LTE is Significant Step Forward

LTE provides 2 to 5 times greater spectral efficiency than most advanced 3G networks,
Lower cost per bit

Affordable wireless broadband

LTE base station cost <1/5 HSPA cost per user per month (based on 10Gbit/s per month)

Faster downloads
Up to 100Mbit/s initially Better user experience

LTE Challenges
Much Lower Cost CAPEX and OPEX Reducing Processing Time (1ms) More Frequency bands

Faster Time To Market

LTE

Lower Power

More Complex Algorithms Increasing Data rates

Soft Data More Data

LTE Commitment Growing

64 operators across 31 countries committed to LTE (Source GSA; April 2010)
22 LTE networks to be in operation by the end of 2010 Further 24 operators evaluating LTE

Verizon rolling out LTE network in Q4 2010

Planning to have 25 to 30 markets up and ready at launch

Rapid growth expected

$11.4Billion LTE infrastructure market by 2014
(Source: Infonetics Research April 2010)

136 million subscribers expected by end 2014

(Source: Pyramid Research May 2009)

$70 Billion service by 2014

(Source:Juniper Research)
Source: AT&T

LTE Bands
Key FDD LTE Bands
700MHz Americas (Verizon, AT&T? etc.) 2.6GHz Europe, Hong Kong (eg. TeliaSonera, Telenor) 900MHz (shared with GSM) 800MHz (Digital dividend spectrum from analog TV)

Other FDD LTE Bands

850MHz, 900MHz, AWS 1700/2100MHz 2.1GHz

TDD LTE Bands

2.3GHz China 2.6GHz

Audience Poll No. 1

When do you plan to develop or deploy LTE systems?
Already in progress Within 12 months 1-2 years 2-4 years No plans at the moment

3G/LTE System Architecture

OFDMA
S1-u Serving Gateway S11 MME HSPA SGSN luPS NodeB HSPA RNC Gr HLR / HSS S5 PDN Gateway

eNodeB

Radio Access Network

Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

IMS / Internet

LTE Equipment
Base stations and EPC
Initial trials underway
T-Mobile Verizon Vodafone and China Mobile

Many trial systems using off the shelf components Production systems shipping from 2010

Subscriber Units
Evaluation systems shipping
Single band LTEUSB dongles available for trial networks

Multi-band LTE dongles in development

General availability from 2011

Multi-protocol handsets in development

GSM, WCDMA/UMTS, LTE General availability from 2012

LTE Radio Interface Architecture

RRC PDCP RLC MAC PHY
Radio Resource Control
Admission control, handover Header Compression Ciphering and integrity protection Segmentation Retransmission handling In-sequence delivery Link scheduling Hybrid-ARQ

Packet Data Convergence Protocol

Radio Link Control

Medium Access Control Physical Layer

Coding Modulation (OFDM) Multi-antenna mapping

LTE Subscriber Unit

WiFi
Applications Processor

DAC

Ethernet

Network Interface

RLC
MAC

OFDM PHY

Analog

PDCP

JESD207

DAC

Filter + Control

ADC ADC

Filter + Control

Memory

Handset Module

Network Interface

Base Band

AFE

RF Front End
Source: Earlswood Marketing

LTE Subscriber Baseband Chips

Altair FourGee-3100 Comsys ComMAX LT8000 End 2011 Qualcomm MSM8960 Mid 2010 Sequans SQN3010 May 2010 ST-Ericsson M700 Sampling Wavesat Odyssey OD9010 Sampling

LTE RF Chip Vendors

Altair FourGee-6200
700MHz-2.7GHz

Lime Microsystems 6002

375MHz-4GHz

Analog Devices
AD9354/55 CPE AD9356/7 - Basestation

Beceem BCS500 Q4 2010 BitWave BW1112

698MHz-2.7GHz

Maxim Qualcomm Semtech (Sierra Monolithics)

SMI7335/7336

Fujitsu

ST-Ericsson Texas Instruments

eNodeB
Control Processor
Backhaul GE, 10GE

PDCP

(NAT, ACL, IPv4, IPv6, VLAN)

RLC
MAC

OFDM PHY

Analog

Network Interface

RRC

CPRI/JESD207

DAC DAC

Filter + Control

ADC ADC

Filter + Control

Network Interface and Backhaul

Memory Base Band AFE

RF Front End
Source: Earlswood Marketing

DSP/HW Baseband Chips

DesignArt DAN3000 Q3 2010 Freescale MSC8156 Mindspeed Transcede 40xx picoChip PC203 Texas Instruments TCI6487

Packet Processing Chips

Cavium Networks OCTEON Plus/II Freescale QorIQ Mindspeed Transcede 40xx Netlogic XLR/XLP Tilera Tile64/Pro Wintegra Winpath 3

eNodeB Software Architecture Example

eNodeB (Femto/Pico/Micro/Macro) Application
Intercell RRM RB Control Connection Mobility Radio Admission Measure, Config & Provision Dynamic Resource Allocation

Management Application

RRC PDCP RLC X2-AP S1-AP eGTP Management Toolkit

MAC
Silicon Convergence Layer PHY
LTE-Uu

SCTP
IP (IPsec)

X2, S1

Base Station Scale

Coverage Enterprise Femto Pico In home Indoor - Hot Spot Users 8-32 32-128 Architecture Small Appliance MicroTCA Appliance MicroTCA Appliance ATCA Packet Processor Blade Processor Blade with AMC Carrier with AMC MicroTCA ATCA Packet Processor Blade Processor Blade with AMC Carrier with AMC

Pico Micro

Outdoor - Street (Light Pole) Suburban Rural

32-128 400-600

Macro

High density urban areas

1000+

4G Applications

Public Picocell (indoor/ outdoor)

Macrocell

Microcell

Enterprise Femto

4G Applications
Private Remote Radio Heads Public Rapidly Deployable Networks Enterprise M2M Macro/ Microcell Picocell Enterprise Femto

Public Safety

Cruise Ships

Media Downloads

Military

Oil Platforms

Meter Reading

Aircraft

Asset Management

Prisons

Audience Poll No. 2

What type of eNodeB are developing or planning to deploy?
Enterprise Femto Pico - Indoor Pico - Outdoor Micro Macro Private

AMC eNodeB
Control Processor
Backhaul GE, 10GE

PDCP
RLC MAC

(NAT, ACL, IPv4, IPv6, VLAN)

OFDM PHY

Analog

Network Interface

RRC

CPRI/JESD207

DAC DAC

Filter + Control Filter + Control

ADC ADC

Network Interface and Backhaul

Memory
Base Band AFE

RF Front End
Source: Earlswood Marketing

eNodeB Baseband
Up to 3 sectors Integrated control processor LTE MAC and ODFM PHY

Network Interfaces
Support for up to three Remote Radio Heads through CPRI GE to the EPC and adjacent eNodeBs PCI Express, GE, and Serial RapidIO to the backplane

Source: Interphase

Compact eNodeB
S ingle Sector to other eNodeB to core network S1 (SyncEGE) +12V power supply

Radio Head

GE GE CPRI

Complete single sector eNodeB

100+ users 1-3 Remote Radio Heads 1 single eNodeB / EPC AMC Module

Scaling Performance
to other eNodeB 3-sector x2 (GE )
Multicore SFP SFP SFP

network S1 (G E)

GE

P acket Processor

GE
CPRI CPRI

3-sector R /MAC/PHY LC TCLKA/B/C/D

R adio Head

One or more eNodeB AMC Modules EPC AMC Module with multicore processor Optional T1/E1 or an ATM processing AMC provide an interface with legacy network environments.

High Capacity Example

MCH1 eNodeB Modules System Management eNodeB Modules MCH2 Control and User Traffic

36CA / 36MC2

36CA / 36MC2

Storage

Storage

3670x

3670x

3670x

3670x

3670x

MCH

3670x

CPRI

Direct Radio Connect

O&M S1AP / X2

CPRI

Direct Radio Connect

500+ users 3 (or more) Remote Radio Heads Multiple eNodeB AMC Modules 3670x 1 EPC AMC Module

MCH

Integrated MicroTCA Solution

Source: PT (Performance Technologies)

1u rack mount MicroTCA Chassis Support for 6 AMC modules Integrated carrier hub with PCIe and Ethernet switching Integrated power supply and cooling

Audience Poll No. 3

For eNodeB, are you using or considering off-the shelf (COTS) solutions?
AMC only AMC and MicroTCA Other COTS hardware solution COTS software only Considering COTS solution Proprietary design

Conclusions
LTE and SAE will be the unified 4G wireless network
Backwards compatible Multiple upgrade paths Significant carrier commitment

Established LTE component supply chain

Many solutions initially developed for WiMAX Baseband and RF chips DSPs and Packet processors COTS components (AMC modules, ATCA blades) Off-the-shelf software

Rollout Starting
Trials and early deployment underway Carrier rollout 2011-2015

Q&A
Please submit your questions to the speakers

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