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2. LTE overview
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Drivers for LTE deployment
Market Trend: Next Generation Wireless Broadband
Pbytes/Month
7,000
Dongle/tablets
6,000
Smartphones
iPhone Blackberry 5,000 Feature phones
Android Air Card
4,000
Other 30x growth
3,000 over 5 years!
2,000
80%-85% of packet switched calls
are originated from smartphones 1,000
Source: Alcatel-Lucent measurements using 9900 WNG within live networks and Bell Labs analysis
20MHz 2.6GHz
326Mbps
1.4MHz 700MHz
10ms RTT
Excellent
performance for Wide spectrum and
outstanding Quality bandwidth range
of Experience
cost effective IP
Smooth interaction
architecture and
with legacy
transport
10 ms
Gaming
More
173
DL
86
55
UL
UL
High peak throughput enables rich
42 36
5
UL
14
DL
11 DL
9 DL content applications over LTE
UL UL
HSPA HSPA+ WiMAX LTE MIMO 2x2 LTE MIMO 4x4
(5MHz) (5MHz) (10MHz) (20MHz) (20MHz)
2G/3G
controller
LTE
End-to-end IP (All-IP)
Clear delineation of control plane and data plane
Simplified architecture: flat-IP architecture with a single core
Backhaul (TDM/ATM)
PS Core
Node B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Radio RNC bearer MCS voice and
Backhaul SGSN CS and PS
intelligence mobility Best effort
transition packet evolve into a
moving to evolves to evolves to
to IP/Ethernet mobility unified all-IP Internet
eNodeB the SGW E2E QoS
evolves into domain
RNC control the SGW
distributed
into SGSN control
the MME/eNB evolves into
the MME
LTE Multimedia
Backhaul (IP/Ethernet) Services
PCRF
MME
Service and mobile aware
all-IP network
eNodeB PDN GW
SGW
EUTRAN EPC
LTE-Uu
S1-MME
eNodeB
UE
MME PCRF
S1-U S1-MME S11
S1-MME S7c Gx
X2
S5 SGi
LTE-Uu X2 S1-U
SGW PDN GW
S1-U
X2 PDN
eNodeB
eNodeB Gateway
UE AP AP AP
AP AP
IP Transport Network (IP Cloud)
AP