ip.

access introduction to nanoGSM

Agenda

Introduction

nanoGSM
Architecture
BTS
BSC
Why Pico?
Use cases
OMCR

Product Demonstration
ip.access provides small cell solutions for MNOs

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 its all we do
More small cell deployments than any other vendor
 Confidential

Live in over 60 networks today

ip.access picocell & femtocell solutions
Office Residential
Picocells
femtocells femtocells
(E Class)
(S Class) (C Class)

Optimised for
End-to-end 2G business customers
picocell & and public access
femtocell
solutions for
mobile network
operators 3G

Core femtocell
Optimised for large
technology for 3G scale residential
OEMs & System deployments
Integrators
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.
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
The worlds most
Dynamic AMR Full-rate and half-rate deployed picocell
Use of half rate AMR can double voice capacity of nanoBTS
to 14 simultaneous voice calls Single CAT5 Ethernet connection
E-GPRS functionality Carries both data and power over Ethernet
Full GPRS and E-GPRS support up to MCS9 Enables rapid and low cost installation
Demonstrated throughput of over 200kbit/sec (4-slot mobile) Uses existing IP infrastructure for backhaul
Fully backward compatible with GPRS handsets Efficient network planning through Network
Listen feature
Simple IP Configuration
BTS only requires 2 config items
All parameters downloaded from the BSC
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 worlds 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)
nanoGSM system architecture
Small Enterprise
A-bis over IP
DSL Modem
Operator Switch site OMC-R

Router Private/Public IP Router

Large Enterprise Cisco etc Network Cisco etc
OMC-R Server

BSC

A E1/T1 Gb E1/T1
Gb over IP

nanoBTS MSC SGSN

Existing Core Network

IP Backhaul Options

Use customers 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
100m -Fully Alarmed/Performance
managed
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
Network Listen on Master Labeled UL
RX Combiner

Install time for other carriers using N

N
Master
N N
N
N
S LGC Equipment
N
N
S N
N
N

4:1
6:1
N

repeaters
N
N
N
N N
Duplexer

Approvals: 6 weeks S
S
S
TX Combiner
Labeled DL

N N
N N

Construction: 3 weeks NN
N

4:1
N

4:1
Slave NN N
NN

Tuning: 3 days N

Excluding work on macro donor S

S
S
S N

DAS

configuration TIB Cables are not shown

but need to be installed

Install time for picocells

Hospital ordered and installed DSL
Plugging in preconfigured BTS:
45 minutes
Verifying the RF levels throughout the
hospital: one afternoon
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 customers 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.