Huawei Small Cell Solution

20-Mar-14

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Unbalanced Network Load Needs Small Cell

Unbalanced load needs accurate deployment

Unbalanced indoor/outdoor load need new solution

Outdoor

Macro over-dense area

Indoor

69.7%

Outdoor

30.3%

Indoor

90.0%

Voice Service

Tokyo Area

Outdoor

10.0%

Data Service

Indoor

Downtown Street

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Shopping Mall

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Massive Small Cell Deployment Forecast

Y2020 Mobile Traffic Distribution Anticipation
80% traffic with small cell solutions!

Dense urban needs massive small cells

Connected User per Macro Sector
1,000
900

1:12

Macro : Small Cell

800
700

1:7

600
500
400

1:2

300
200
100
0
2012Y

LTE Connection HotZone

Source Orange Group

2014Y

2016Y

LTE Capacity(Spectrum)

Dense urban area traffic forecast

2018Y
LTE Capacity(HetNet)

Source: Huawei simulation

Massive Small Cell Deployment are major solution for the best MBB user experience

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Small Cell Unleash Efficiency of Unlicensed Spectrum

More Unlicensed Spectrum Available
All spectrum(MHz)

5G band
Unlicensed (MHz)

3000
2500

300

2000
Unlicens
ed

1500
1000

Licensed + Unlicensed bring extra capacity

and consistent customers experience.

LTE over unlicensed spectrum is the hot trend

200

500

100

China
EU
NA
LA
Japan
India
APAC
Africa

5.2G 5.3G 5.6G 5.8G

Macro

Macro
Macro

Macro
WIFI

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Unlicensed LTE

WIFI

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Small Cell On Demand for Evolving MBB City

More Spectrum
On Demand

Indoor
On Demand

Outdoor

Enterprise
Application

On Demand

Hot spot
Capacity

Indoor
MBB

Coverage

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More
Capacity

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Huawei Small Cell Leading Commercialization and Innovation

Market Share of Vendors in Small Cell 2013 (by Shipment)

SAMSUN ZTE
G
7%
7%
NSN
13%

OTHER
2%

ALU
8%

Best Innovation Award from Small Cell Forum 2013

ERICSSO
N
29%

HUAWEI
34%

Source: DellOro Mobile

RAN Report , 2013

Best Innovation in Commercial Deployment

2013 Small Cell World Summit in London

Huawei Leading Small Cell Market

Spain

Germany

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Canada

Mexico

Hongkong

Japan

Korea

French

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More Spectrum On
Demand
Indoor
On Demand
Outdoor On Demand

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Challenge of Outdoor Small Cell

Deployment

Mass Deployment

To Match Various
Scenario

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Backhaul

Various OptionxPONMW
WiFi

Challenge

More Capacity10Mbps-1Gbps

NLOS Scenario consideration

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Easy Deployment - One Site, One Box, One Cable

Most Compact Micro BTS

UMTS or LTE

4*1W

U/L: 2 Cell/1*20MHz

Integrated/External Antenna

Integrated WiFi

Worlds 1st Wide Band Micro BTS

Multi-Mode, Multi-Band

2*10W

UL: 4 Cell + 1*20MHz

Integrated/External Antenna

Integrated WiFi

One Box: Baseband, RF, Antenna in one box

One Cable: One PoE for electronic Power and Transmission Port

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Crowd-sourcing Mode:
Innovative Site Solution Enables Mass Deployment
Massive site acquisition

Environment friendly design

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Multi-win
cooperation
Flexible backhaul
Solution
1000+ bus station
available

Full use of existing property

Full reuse of legacy

property
New site mode:WiFi
Hotspot + Small Cell
3000+ phone booths
available

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Comprehensive Backhaul Solution

Full-Band Wireless Backhaul Solution

Rich Transmission Interface Inside

1st LTE Relay

Rich Transmission Interface

LTE TDD 2.6/3.5GHz Released

2014Q4

LTE FDD 2.6GHz

NLOS,P2MP

Flexible NLOS,P2MP Backhaul

190Mbps

xPON SFP
Optical FE/GE
Electrical FE/GE
CPRI

500m

WiFi

Unlicensed NLOS,PTP/PMP Microwave

Wireless Backhaul

Wired Backhaul

xPON
Optical FE/GE
Electrical FE/GE
xDSL

450Mbps

4.9-6 GHz

<2Km

PTP 2014Q1
PMP 2014Q4

Unlicensed LOS Microwave

450Mbps
300m

60GHz
2014Q2

Lite licensed E-Band Microwave

4Gbps
3km

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WiFi
5GHz

80GHz
released

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Huawei AtomCell Family for HetNet

LampSite
AtomCell
BTS 3902E/BTS 3202E
Rhu
b

Rhu
b
AtomCell

AtomCell
BTS 3803E/BTS 3203E

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

pRR
U

UE
Rhu
b

UE

WiFi WA201DK-NE

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BBU

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AtomCell Micro Go to MKT

BTS3902E
850M
UMTS
2*5w

850M

BTS3203E
1.8G only for
1.8G LTE specific project
4*1W

1.8G
2.6G

AWS

BTS3202E
LTE 2*5w
2.6G
BTS3202E
LTE AWS
2*5w

BTS3902E
AWS UMTS
2*5W
BTS3202E
2.1G LTE
2*5W Korea

2.1G
BTS3902E
2.1G UMTS
2*5w

PCS

BTS3902E
1.9G UMTS
2*5W

2012,Q2
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BTS3203E
2.1G LTE
4*1W (2*1.7) Japan

Dual mode Micro is

on Planning stage,

BTS3911
2.1G U+L
2*5 W

BTS3803E
2.1G UMTS
4*1W
BTS3803E
1.9G UMTS
4*0.5W Pico

2013,Q2

PCS band 3902E used

for Micro
3803E used for Pico
scenario

2013,Q4

2014,Q2
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Case1 Small Cell is for Network Evolution

60% small cell / macro in 2013

Volum
e

Number of Small Cell will Surpass Macro in 2014

Small Cell

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Macro

2017

TELUS uses small cell to Break the

Frequency resource limitation

10,000+ pole acquisition for small cell deployment

U/L, Co-carrier deployment, 40+% traffic increase

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Eros Spadotto
TELUS EVP

Micro Number 3 times than

competitor.

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Case2 : Best MBB Experience for Big Event

Antenna

UMTS Micro

23,798 people in a big event

+200Kbps per active user

500% Traffic Increased by

Small Cell

120m

Flexible eRelay Solution

Real Event Performance

500%

Micro HSDPA
Macro HSDPA

Plaza Las Ventas

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More Spectrum On
Demand
` Demand
Outdoor
On
Indoor On Demand

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Heavier Indoor Traffic Needs Various Solutions

Indoor

69.7%

Coverage area

Indoor Takes Up 90% Data Traffic

Outdoor

30.3%

Large Buildings and Venues

LampSite
Medium-Large Buildings and Venues

Voice Service
Outdoor
Indoor

10.0%

90.0%

Small-Medium
Buildings and Venues
Pico

Data Service
Volume

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Indoor coverage Overall scenarios

Large Public building
Large Horizontal building

Area

(Area > 20,000m2)

Airport
Stadium
Shopping mall/car park

Stadium

Airport
MediumLarge Vertical
building
(20,000m2

>Area
>5 layers)
Office Building
Condo
Skyscrapers

Office

DAS,
SingleDAS

LampSite

>5000m2,

Condo
Small Area building
(area<5000m2, 15Layers)
Street shops
Residential Area
Small Office

Street shops

Villa

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Atom Micro
Pico

Single Operator

Very few
applications
Multi-Operator
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Large Buildings Indoor Coverage Solution - LampSite

pRRU

L
Wi-Fi

Cat5E/6
Ethernet
POE

Multi-Mode, Multi-Band
2x100mw MIMO
Only 2.6L, <3Kg

rHUB

CPRI Hub for pRRU

4 Level Cascade
8 pRRU/rHUB

Optic
Fiber

BBU

Transport
networks

Multimode
Share BBU with Macro
Single OSS

Service Anchor(Optional)

Gateway
WiFi AC
Interference Control
Service Open Platform (API)

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pRRU

pRRU

rHUB

pRRU

API
pRRU

pRRU

rHUB

pRRU

Service Anchor
pRRU

pRRU

rHUB

pRRU

BBU

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Huawei Indoor Coverage solution: LampSite

pRRU

pRRU

rHUB

pRRU Floor N

Fiber
(CPRI)

Ethernet cable
(Data/PoE)
pRRU

Big exhibition
center

Office
building

pRRU

rHUB

pRRU Floor 10

pRRU

pRRU

rHUB

BBU

pRRU Floor 1

LampSite= BBU+rHUB+pRRU

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IP Network
OSS M2000

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Small-Medium Buildings Indoor Coverage Solution - Pico

Pico
Pico

Pico

Multi-Mode, Multi-Band
WiFi inside
2*125mW MIMO
<3L, 2.5Kg

Ethernet

Transport
networks

Service Anchor(Optional)

Gateway
AG/ WiFi AC
Interference Control
Service Open Platform (API)

Transport
networks

API
Service Anchor

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Huawei Innovative Solution Enables Enterprise Services

Crowd-sourcing Mode
SDN Controller Data Center

Telco Public Cloud

Paa
S

Saa
S

Iaa
S Cloud Operating System
Pico
GW
AC

LampSite

Telco
Cloud

Micro
Cloud

3rd Public Cloud

Service Anchor
(NFV based)

Aggregation Layer

Smart Cloud
Pico

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Access Layer

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LampSiteGoing to indoor market

Tranditional DBS

LampSite

UMTS LTE
RF
RF

LampSite 4

HighLight

pRRU

Antenna

pRRU

RRU

pRRU with Antenna and POE port

(Cat5E Ethernet)
pRRU : UL dual mode
UMTS2100/LTE1800

Cat5E
Ethernet

2*100mW MIMO

High Capacity

Cell

Split as capacity increase

LTE

2*2 MIMO

Fast Deployment

3box,

Ethernet
Save

WiFi Optional

RHUB

fiber

Dual-mode + Wifi < 2L & 2kg

Ethernet+Fiber

replace RF cable

labor 60%

Manageable

E2E

OM share M2000

fiber
BBU

BBU

Easy Evolution

GUL

evolutionsupport refarming

Add

module like add light

LampSite 2013Q4 GA

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Cost effective and easy Engineering

LampSite

Conventional DAS
Splitter

WiFi

Combiner

Ant
Ant

RF cable

Splitter

N layer

Ant

Ant

Wi-Fi

Antenna

Splitter

G/U/L

Coupler

A layer

Combiner

Power supply for pRRU.

Connection between pRRU

and rHUB.

Ant
Ant

3 dB coupler

Combiner

Splitter

Load

Attenuator

Ethernet cable
(Cat5e/6e 100~150m)

Optical fiber
Connection between
rHUB and BBU.

Less network nodes than conventional DAS

x Many nodes bring more risk for network.

Cable deployment is cost effective.

x RF design is complicated.

Simple RF design

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Same OSS to manage Macro network and LampSite

Traditional DAS

LampSite
pRR
U

Coupler

rHU
B

Distributed antenna

BB
U

Power Splitter

RR
U
BB
U

Passive Components

Macro
Network

No OM for DAS

unified OSS

Monitoring all end nodes, no blind spot

Clear KPI traffic distribution, easy troubleshooting

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

LTE MIMO in one module

Antenna group I

Add LTE signal source

SISO
MIMO

20

Partially reuse existing DAS

Build new antenna group

10

LTE

Multi-system
Combiner

GSM
UMT
S

15

Coupler

MIMO

25

Rebuild DAS for LTE MIMO

Couple
r

Better user experience from

Antenna group II

Splitter

Antenna

Splitter

RF cable

LTE MIMO is inherent for LampSite pRRU

0
Near point Middle point

Far point

rHUB

pRRU

Indoor scenario simulation

One

Ethernet cable to get LTE MIMO

LampSite LTE MIMO saves TCO without complicate network rebuilding

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Upload/download performance improvement

Upload, 1T2R(UMTS)

DownloadCoMP
2

Download coverage area 30% larger

1.3

1.5
1

2
1.5
1

0.5

0.5

0
Without CoMP

Edge Download speed 90% higher

2

DL is improved 3dB with CoMP

100%

1.5
1

0.5

1T2R

Upload capacity 100% higher

2.5

200%

1.5
1

149%

1T1R

Download with CoMP

1.9

Upload coverage 49% larger

100%

0.5

0
Without CoMP

Download with CoMP

0
1T1R

1T2R

Better user experience: Higher speed, Larger coverage!

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Smooth Evolution For New RAT Mode

GSM/UMTS/LTE + WiFi Modular Design

Upgrade indoor G/U coverage to LTE coverage

GSM
UMTS

Add LTE RF Sub-Card

(GU RF Sub-Card support LTE re-farming)

G/L
U/L
LTE
WiFi
Option

G/U BBU

Add LTE baseband board

GU& LTE BBU

Flexible multi-band /standard for different stage of deployment

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Soft Expansion By Remote Configuration

Cell 1
Cell 1
rHUB

Cell split

Cell 2

Indoor capacity
Double instantly

Cell 3
Cell 2
OSS

Cell 4
Cell 5

Cell 3

Cell 6

BBU

RF engineering
Zero touch

Cell re-planning/re-configuration can be done by O&M remotely

New HW/cabling isnt needed excluding potential demand on
baseband card

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

BBU coordinates indoor and outdoor coverage

Benefits

One BBU , pRRU share

capacity with Macro
Macro
Cell

Collaborate to control
indoor signal leakage

Commercial buildings

pRRU

pRRU

Avoid ping pong

handover at building gate

BBU
rHUB

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Allow inter-pRRU and

pRRU-macro interference
cancellation

SON : neighbor
optimization, pilot control,
handover

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Deployment

performance

Evolution

Coordination

Indoor and outdoor automatic coordination

Automatic Neighbor cell configuration

Automatic pilot and power adjustment

OSS

Update neighbor information

Delete neighbor

Add neighbor

Dynamic adjust parameters

Early handover

Late handover

Ping pong handover

Self-Configuration , Self-Optimization , Self-healing

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LampSite: the right solution for indoor coverage

High Performance

Effective Deploy

Smooth Evolution

coordination

Ethernet and fiber

LTE MIMO w. one cable

GSM/UMTS/LTE + WiFi

Seamless handover

Unified OM

High capacity

Soft cell split with OSS

In/outdoor
Coordination

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Small Cell Hardware Roadmap---Lampsite

(L)pRRU3901
1.8G 2x100mW
eRAN6.0

(U/L)pRRU3901
U 2.1G 1x200mW
L 2.1G 2x100mW
SRAN8.0

pRRU

(U/L)pRRU3901
U 2.1G 1x200mW
L 1.8G 2x100mW
SRAN8.0

13Q4

13Q4

pRRU3901
WiFi integrated
SRAN10.0

13Q4

Released
Ready for Contract
Planned
Planning

14Q4

2013

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2014

2015

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Case1: LampSite Significantly Improved Indoor User

Experience

Telenor Office Building

46Mbps on average

3 hrs quick deployment per

pRRU, including Site survey,
installation, commissioning,
put on air all steps.

LampSite UL Dual-Mode

All Floors Average DL Thrp

Weak signal penetration

with traditional DAS

46.22 Mpbs
37.31 Mbps

6000 sq.m., 2000

employees
6 floors in Telenor Fornebu,
Noway

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23%

30.19 Mbps

24%
Legacy DL Thrp

Lampsite DL Thrp
before optimization

Lampsite DL Thrp
after optimization

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Case2: LampSite Deliver Performance of Zhengzhou Railway

Station

150,000 people flow per day

144,000 sq.m.,

Biggest luggage&parcel
transfer station in China.

UMTS

LampSite Significantly Improved KPI and Capacity

Easy deployment

Smooth evolution

Big capacity

Visual on OSS

4.1Mbps

1.3Mbps

98%
65%

after
before
Throughput

after
before
RSCP>-85dBm

10+ LampSite Commercial Network Experience

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City Modernization progress

Huawei Small Cell: Evolving with City

More
Spectrum

Enterprise
Service
In-building

Capacity

Coverage

Outdoor

On Demand

Indoor

On Demand

More Spectrum

On Demand

MBB progress
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