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Light Radio

Ing. Edgar Velarde

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Agenda

1. Market Evolution
2. Light Radio Products
3. Economics
4. Key Takeaways

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Resulting in massive traffic growth

Forecast Worldwide Aggregate


Mobile Traffic
Petabytes/Month
7,000

6,000
30x growth
5,000 over 5 years!
4,000
Smartphone density
32x increase per km2 by 2015 3,000

2,000

1,000
Internet over mobile
70% of mobile data by 2014 0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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Current Radio Access Networks are not sustainable
Need to exponentially Grow Networks Capacity and Coverage

3 technologies Base Stations needed in a city


5 bands
# Base
Stations
2,500

3 000 000 Based on Downlink BW


Based on Uplink BW
towers 2,000
Based on Erlangs
Based on Signaling
1,500

15 000 000 1,000

cars
500

5 000 000 000 -


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
people Excluded from
Any Broadband

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3 Technologies / until 5 bands: whats next ?

2G 2G 2G

3G 3G
?
LTE

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lightRadio
A radical new approach is needed

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Radio Architecture 2G/3G/4G

2G/3G/4G

ANTENNA

RADIO
MODULE

BASEBAND
UNIT

Networ
k

Expensive elements: cost, maintenance and power consumption


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Light Radio Architecture

2G/3G/4G Light Radio

Antenna element stack


ANTENNA

RADIO
MODULE

BASEBAND
UNIT

Networ Networ
k k

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Light Radio Architecture

2G/3G/4G Light Radio

ANTENNA

Making antennas invisible


RADIO
MODULE

BASEBAND
UNIT

Networ Networ
k k

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Light Radio Architecture

2G/3G/4G Light Radio

Radically changing how we


ANTENNA design mobile networks

RADIO
MODULE

BASEBAND
UNIT

Networ Networ
k k

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Addressing a Mounting problem

2G
Cellular
2G+3G+LTE

3G 3G+LTE

Fiber
Fiber
Fiber
Coax

LTE
Wideband RRH Wideband
w/Dual Band Active Array
Antenna Antenna

1990 2000 2010 2012 2013

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lightRadio
Underlying Products & Technology

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Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a new product family

lightRadio
1 Light Radio Wideband Active Array Antenna
2 Light Radio Multiband Remote Radio Head
3 Light Radio Baseband Processing
4 Light Radio Network Controller
Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio Cube
5 Common Management (5620 SAM)

Co-created with operators


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1 Light Radio Wideband Active Array Antenna
With simultaneous multi-band

RADOME

Macro Cell

SNAP
Metro Cell

Beam forming reduces interference


Individual, multi-band, field-replaceable
and puts power where needed
Fully Converged RAN compatible
Reduces # of antennas required/site Improved reliability
Loss of single element does not
impact entire band

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Operator use case example

High Band AAA: 2G High Band AAA: 2G + 4G


XX XX Band 1 XX XX
XX XX 1900 MHz
XX XX
2G
Band 1 XX XX XX XX
1900 MHz
XX XX XX XX
XX XX 2G XX XX
Band 2
XX XX 2.6 GHz
XX XX
4G
XX XX Same HW XX XX
XX XX XX XX

Low Band AAA: 2G + 3G Low Band AAA: 3G + 4G

XX Band 1 XX
XX 2G
850 MHz
XX 3G
Band 1 XX XX
850 MHz
XX XX
XX Band 2 XX
XX 3G Same HW
700 MHz
XX 4G
XX XX
XX XX
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Light Radio Multiband Remote Radio Head (MB-RRH)
2 Compact, green

Industry First Product Announcement Dual Band Antenna

Dual band supporting multiple technologies


Software Defined Radio-on-a-chip design
Fully compatible with Converged RAN
Multiband RRH

Same size and weight as todays single band


RRH
Less mass and wind loading

Dual Band RRH in a Single Band Package


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Light Radio Baseband Processing (BBU)
3 Integrated and fully programmable

Multi technologies
HW supports 2G, 3G and 4G processing
SW Defined Radio-on-a-chip design
Deployment Flexibility
Conventional, clustering, or pooling
SoC - System On a Chip
Less components on a board
Smaller size

Multi-technology, platform with deployment flexibility


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Light Radio
4 Light Radio Controller 5 Management Solution

Converged and End-to-End Network


Applications are Management: SAM 5620
virtualized to
conserve resources
W-CDMA RNC
GSM BSC
Small Cells gateway

Multi-technology, Bringing all functions together


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Economics

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Light Radio has a dramatic impact on operational expenses
The impact of pooling / clustering

Light Radio
Product family

Legacy
Single RAN

66%
60%
51%
25%

Power Operations &


Site Rental Civil Works Maintenance
Consumption

50% Average Cost Reduction with Light Radio


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Key Takeaways

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Key Takeaways: Why is Light Radio different?

Todays RAN Light Radio


Monolithic Dynamic components
boxes & boards distributed in the network
Design

One for One Three in One


2G
Versatility 3G 2G / 3G / 4G
4G

Network Conventional Conventional or Cloud

A new way to reduce the cost 50% !!

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