ip.access introduction to nanoGSM

Agenda

– Introduction

– nanoGSM

– Architecture

– BTS

– BSC

– Why Pico?

– Use cases

– OMCR

– Product Demonstration

– A world leader in Small Cell Infrastructure for mobile operators

– Our technology gets mobile signals inside buildings and other hard-to-reach places

– Picocells & femtocells

– For business and domestic users

– Fast, low cost coverage, capacity & quality

– Half the cost of traditional methods –

sometimes much less

– In days or weeks instead of months

– No one does small cell better

– We are the specialists – it’s all we do

– More small cell deployments than any other vendor

ip.access provides small cell solutions for MNOs

Live in over 60 networks today

Confidential

ip.access picocell & femtocell solutions

Residential

femtocells

(C Class)

Picocells

(E Class)

Office

femtocells

(S Class)

End-to-end

picocell &

femtocell

solutions for

mobile network

operators

Core femtocell

technology for

OEMs & System

Integrators

2G

3G

3G

Optimised for business customers and public access

Optimised for large scale residential deployments

Case Study – AT&T largest femtocell network in the World

– Proven, real world experience– Over 350,000 femtocells deployed

– Growing at over 21,000 per week

– Macro offload incentive program targeted at top 7% of subs

– Over 1 million voice calls/day and growing

– Performance that out performs macro layer– CS and PS dropped call rate less than 1% across whole network

– UL CS speech quality BLER 99.92%

– DL CS speech quality BLER 99.6%

– RAB establishment success CS 99.95%

– RAB establishment success PS 99.25%

– Key technology benefits– Low backhaul bandwidth (8 calls in 176kbps)

– 4 calls in 112kbps inc IPSec

– Low idle traffic overhead (<20MB/mth)

– Optimised interference management

nanoGSM System overview.

“The world’s most

deployed picocell”

nanoBTS™ EDGE/AMR Key Features

– Complete GSM/E-GPRS BTS including

– Broadcast channel and control functions

– 1 TRX Transceiver 850, 900,1800 or 1900MHz

– Integral Omni Antennas

– Up to 4 nanoBTS can be used in a higher capacity 1TRX,

2TRX, 3TRX or 4TRX cell

– Output power

– 23dBm (200mW) 1800 and 1900MHz

– 20dBm (100mW) 850 and 900MHz

– coverage up to hundreds of metres inside a building

– Flexible voice

– Dynamic AMR Full-rate and half-rate

– Use of half rate AMR can double voice capacity of nanoBTS

to 14 simultaneous voice calls

– E-GPRS functionality

– Full GPRS and E-GPRS support up to MCS9

– Demonstrated throughput of over 200kbit/sec (4-slot mobile)

– Fully backward compatible with GPRS handsets

– Simple IP Configuration

– BTS only requires 2 config items

– All parameters downloaded from the BSC

– Single CAT5 Ethernet connection

– Carries both data and power over Ethernet

– Enables rapid and low cost installation

– Uses existing IP infrastructure for backhaul

– Efficient network planning through Network

Listen™ feature

nanoGSM Circuit BSC

– Base Station Controller for all variants of nanoBTS

– Full GSM BSC control functions

– Signalling gateway

– Media gateway (TRAU)

– Frame relay gateway

– Abis over IP interface to BTS

– Integrates with existing circuit-switch MSC and SGSN

– Circuit based A interface to MSC over E1/T1

– 4 ,8, 12 or 16 E1/T1 options

– Circuit based Gb interface to SGSN over T1 (4T1)

– IP based Gb interface up to 8Mbps

– Successfully integrated against all of the world’s leading MSCs

– Compact PCI chassis for easy installation

– 4U height

– AC and DC versions

– High capacity, small footprint

– 4U height

– Standard 19” rack

– Supports up to 200 BTS (rising to 512 with SR5.0 due Sept 11)

DSL Modem

Small Enterprise

MSC SGSN

A E1/T1 Gb E1/T1

Gb over IP

Private/Public IP

Network

Existing Core Network

Large Enterprise Router

Cisco etc

Router

Cisco etc

OMC-R Server

OMC-R

BSC

…

A-bis over IP

nanoBTS

nanoGSM system architecture

Operator Switch site

IP Backhaul Options

– Use customer’s existing IP connection

– Quick to deploy

– No ongoing OPEX costs

– Requires customer co-operation

– Outside operator control

– Dedicated DSL line

– Within operator control

– Takes time to install

– Ongoing cost

– Other types of IP connections

– Wimax

– Wifi

– HSxPA

– Satellite

– Bandwidth Requirements

– All voice channels in use <150kbps

– Heavy EDGE data use could increase to 300kbps

– With full half rate AMR 210kbps

DAS versus distributed nanoBTS

-Distributed Capacity

-Macro offload

-No feeder runs

-No Combiner loss

-23dBm at AE point

-Resilience via IP

-Hardware resilience

-Low backhaul costs

-Simple installation/design

-Fully Alarmed/Performance

managed100m

Case study: a high rise building

– SFR France

– 8 floors of this building are

rented by a bank

– (19th floor to 26th)

– Cost of DAS estimated at

over $150,000

Case study: a high rise building

– 2BTS per floor

– Negates Landlord permission issues

– Highly resilient design

– Time to revenue was less than half the

estimated would have taken to deploy

the DAS system

Operator Retail Stores

– Excellent signal essential for demonstrations

– Location inside shopping mall may have poor signal

– Shopping centre owner seeks to charge for rights to cover

– Coverage may be worse at rear of store

– Need high data performance for demonstrations

– Existing IP connection for point of sale terminals

– Picocells can provide coverage

– Makes use of exiting IP connection

– No involvement from shopping mall owners

– Output power can give coverage in mall

– Capacity can be reserved for data channels

– 4 time slots for EDGE can give 164k throughput

Underground car parks

– GSM signal does not penetrate underground

– Coverage may be required for safety or network quality concerns

– Low GSM traffic area

– Access for donor antenna may be limited

– Difficulty in routing thick coax cables for passive system

– Requires very cost effective solution

– Picocells only require Ethernet cabling

– No need for dedicated equipment room

Service for VIPs

– Providing VIP coverage can be difficult

– Large properties

– Low density of buildings

– Do not want masts in their area

– Require good coverage

– Personal and staff use

– Will not tolerate blocking

– Need dedicated capacity

– nanoBTS is a good solution

– Reuse existing backhaul

– Small and discrete

– Provides capacity

Using nanoBTS for temporary coverage

– One-off events that demand extra capacity are expensive

– Traditional approach: CoW (cellular on wheels)

– Each deployment may cost many tens of thousands of dollars

– Picocells

– Highly targeted capacity & coverage

– Small & easy to deploy

– Can be used far from mains power (PoE)

– Example

– Picocells in trees for music festivals

– Picocells were used in the press office

at the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix

Integrating with an existing DAS

– Major Hospital in Florida

– Newly Constructed Hospital

– Poor Macro coverage

– This hospital made a decision to ensure

that patients and visitors to the hospital

have coverage in all areas of the

hospital to include patient rooms

– Neutral hosted system

– The hospital owns the DAS

– All carriers were allowed to connect

– Most opted for repeaters

Integrating with an existing DAS

– Install time for other carriers using

repeaters

– Approvals: 6 weeks

– Construction: 3 weeks

– Tuning: 3 days

– Excluding work on macro donor

configuration

– Install time for picocells

– Hospital ordered and installed DSL

– Plugging in preconfigured BTS:

45 minutes

– Verifying the RF levels throughout the

hospital: one afternoon

N

N

N

N

N

N

6:1

N

4:1

Master

Slave

SS

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

N

N

N

NN

RX Combiner

TX Combiner

Network Listen on Master

N

N

N

NN

4:1

N

N

N

NN

4:1

N

N

N

NN

DAS

N

LGC Equipment

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

TIB Cables are not shown

but need to be installed

Labeled DL

Labeled UL

Duplexer

Customer/Employee homes

– Pico cell coverage where planning

permission is difficult

– Low cost (rent free) via employee

approval or contract incentive

– Quick to install

– Low cost/free transmission

Case study Copenhagen Railway station

– Problems seen on 2 macro cells

– Installed 2TRX nanoBTS

– On Telia owned store on concourse

– USed telia backhaul

– nanoBTSs carried 7 Erlangs of traffic

– Steady traffic load throughout day

– No change in traffic on macro

Case Study –Hotel

– Large Building

– Rural located

– Sturdy construction

– Too large to consider full

Uplift

– High revenue/perception

potential

– Influential guests

– Hosts many international

golf tournements

– Lots of roaming

customers for nearby

Liverpool/Manchester

Football clubs

Case Study – Hotel

– Decision to target key areas

– Bar

– Conference Suite

– Reception

– Low cost/Fast delivery via

Picocell

– 10 days. Go ahead - delivery

– Single BTS

– Taking 1000 calls per week

Out of town business parks

– Out of town sites with zero or marginal coverage

– May be a long distance from nearest macro BTS

– Outdoor coverage may be sufficient but building construction can block RF signal

– New macro deployment uneconomic, or not possible quickly

– Customers will not take service if their phone does not work where they do

– Picocell provides coverage direct to the customer

– Direct coverage of customer’s location

– Makes use of existing IP infrastructure

– High quality coverage inside building

Case study: Business park covered with 14 BTS

Case study: Business park covered with 14 BTS

OMC-R

– The OMCR manages the whole network from one interface.

– Server

– connects to all BSCs in the network

– Supports Active / Standby configuration

– Clients

– connect to the server in order to work with the management information

– The client has three main functional areas:

– Fault Management

– Configuration Management

– Performance Management

– Interfaces

– The BSC exposes a CORBA based management interface to the OMC-R server

– Management traffic is communicated over an IP network connection to the OMC-R

server

– SNMP interface for the umbrella Fault Management System.

– PM counters fully exportable to third party operator systems.

Fault Management

– Alarm management

– Captures alarms from BTS and BSC

– Can be integrated with existing

alarm system

– Configurable alerts and alarm

grouping

– Alarm Filtering

– Transaction Journal

Configuration Management

– Configuration Management

– Remote provisioning of network

configuration

– Multiple BSS configured

simultaneously

– Copy Site for quick site creation

– BSC – OMC-R File Transfer

Performance Management

– Performance Management

– Performance Management aggregation

– “Quick look” KPI visualised as graph

– Export individual KPI as CSV file

– PM filtering by time and BSS

– Export raw PM data as a CSV file

Product demonstrations

Summary

– ip,access are the worlds leading small cell provider

– The ip.access solutions brings a low cost alternative to DAS/Micro BTS

installations.

– All our products use IP for backhaul which brings huge OPEX and CAPEX

savings.

– In-building coverage issues can be delivered in days rather than weeks/months

for a fraction of the cost.