High Capacity Radio LinksTobias Fröjdlund

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Future proof Backward compatibility today

Fast time to market

Complement to Fiber

Scalable

High Capacity

MINI-LINK typical application and compatibility

microwavefiber

MINI-LINK PT 2010MINI-LINK

SP 210MINI-LINK

SP 210

MINI-LINK TN 2p

MINI-LINK CN

MINI-LINK TN 6p

MINI-LINK TN 20p

MINI-LINK SP 210MINI-LINK PT 2010MINI-LINK PT 2010

Smooth migration from TDM to Packet only configurations

Native Ethernet

Native TDM

Perfect for network evolution

Native Ethernet and native TDM

SW configuration

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Planning Tools›

MLPerf

–

User friendly availability and hop length tool

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Microwave vs

Fiber calculation tool–

Use your own values to calculate on the business case

High Capacity Radio Links

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Spectral Efficiency (bits/Hz) Modulation Scheme

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Going from 2 bits per symbol (4QAM) to 9 bits per symbol›

(1024QAM) results in a capacity increase of more than 5 times

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Microwave

capacity EVOLUTIONSpectral efficiency

Spectrum

Adaptive modulation

High order modulation

Meeting future Backhaul NEED0,001

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0,1

1

10

100

3.5 7 14 28 56 112 250 500 1000

4 QAM1024 QAM1024 QAM & XPIC1024 QAM & XPIC & 2x2 LoS MIMO

CapacityLine rate [Gbps]

Channel Bandwidth [MHz]

Multi Carrier Radio Link Bonding

One Fat Packet Pipe

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Hitless Adaptive Modulation

Link throughput*

233 Mbps

402 Mbps

114 Mbps

500 Mbps

352 Mbps

455 Mbps

99.999%99.995%99.99%99.95%

Time

Availability

99.9%99.5%

Maximum link throughput

Utilized Best effort throughput

Utilized Guaranteed traffic throughput

Received signal

4 QAM ReceiverThreshold

16 QAM

128 QAM64 QAM

256 QAM512 QAM

Received signalover 6 months:

<9 hour/yearmissing

<1 hour/yearmissing

5 minutes/yearmissing

Utilized Best effort throughput

*Max Line interface capacity

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Spectral Efficiency (bits/Hz) XPIC

Double your capacity in a cannel with XPIC

XPIC:

2 X capacity

per channel

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Multi Carrier Solutions Radio Link Bonding -

The Fat Pipe

approach

Radio link bonding use all capacity perceived as a single

resource (delay , QoS..)

Single QoS

handling point secures correct priority handling

Radio Link Bonding

RNC

Typical RLB efficiency in LRAN: 95%

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MINI-LINK MIMO CONCEPT2011:

Worlds first

Microwave MIMO technology demonstrator

1 Gbps

in 28 MHz5 Gbps

in E-band

2012: MINI-LINK MIMO concept in one Box

10 Gbps

in E-band

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Increasing Available Spectrum

71 ‒

76

Long range-15 GHz

Short range30-55 GHz

Ultra-short

range55-70 GHz

Short range70-

GHz

74 5 L6 8 11 13 15U6

18 23 26 28Medium range15-30 GHz

10

32 38 42

56 58 61 6563

Unlicensed

5049 52

81 ‒

86

Future candidates

Supported

1 GHzScale:

High oxygen attenuation in 55-65 GHz => ultra-short range

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quick and easy small site roll-out

Quick mounting Easy alignmentAutomated

commissioning

Pre tested site solutions with RAN and backhaul

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TCO An area today with very high

priority

TCO a prioritized field

ODUPower Consumption

MTBF

IDUPower Consumption

ECO-mode

15

17

19

21

23

25

27

29

31

33

35

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Output power [dBm]

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[W]

RAU2 X 6LRAU2 X 10RAU2 X 11RAU2 X 13RAU2 X 15RAU2 X 24RAU2 X 26RAU2 X 32RAU2 X 38RAU2 X 6L HPRAU2 X 13 HPRAU2 X 15 HP

Ease ofUse

COST SAVINGSVodafone request MINI-LINK CN 510 Figures

ODU MTBF Greater than 50 y 80/100 y (depending on RAU types)

IDU MTBF 1A, 2A: 80 y 140 y

3A: 60 y 140y

1B, 2B: 70 y 70 y

3B: 50 y 70 y

IDU MTBF traffic

affecting

1+0 configuration 200 y 230 y

1+1 configuration 100 y 115 y

1+0 link MTBF (2A) Greater than 20 y 25/30 y (depending on RAU types)

1+1 link MTBF (3B) Greater than 50 y 35/40 y (depending on RAU types)

›Optimized for OPEX–Easy configuration and ordering

›Remote upgrading of capacity –

no site visit necessary–Easy installation and commissioning–No fans needed –

install and forget–Several interfaces -

serving several RBS’s

–High MTBF: 230 years–Low Power consumption: 27W–Small foot print: perfect fit in fully equipped RBS

›Easy repair: 1+0 / 1+1 / 2+0–No Craft needed at repair–Configurations stored on RMM card

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ECO Mode even Further savingsR

TPC Output power

margin

Output power margin & link condition reduction

Time

ATPC

Power Consumption

Output Power (RF)

Traditional Implementation

RTP

C

Output power margin

Output power margin & link condition reduction

Time

ATPC

ECO Mode Implementation

ECO Mode: Up to 40% power consumption reduction

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Reducing the output power from maximum to optimize link performance (Interference)

›

Power consumption is reduced.

Max Output Power (RF)

Power Consumption

Output Power (RF)

Max Output Power (RF)

Pmax

Pmax

Pmax

Pmax

MINI-LINK Small cell concept

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MINI-LINK PortfolioC

onne

ctio

ns

Time

Hybrid networkNative TDM, Native Ethernet

Ethernet transport TDM

transportTDM transport

TDM NetworkPDH, SDH, NG-SDH, Ethernet/PDH

Packet NetworkNative Ethernet, CES(TDM), Abis over IP

MINI-LINK TN

MINI-LINK E

Marconi LHMINI-LINK LH

ShortHaul

LongHaul

MINI-LINK CN

MINI-LINK SP MINI-LINK PT

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Summary

Scalable›

Modular solution from end sites and single hops up to high capacity aggregation nodes

Secured investment-

Smooth migration towards packet only supported by existing platform

Technology Leadership -

Combined microwave and packet functionalities to secure the best implementation and lowest TCO

Radio link Capacity-

Up to 1 Gbps over the hop in one frequency channel with XPIC