Alcatel-Lucent

GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Radio Offering
An All-Inclusive Cost-Effective
Offering for your Current and
Anticipated Needs
 Turn Challenges into Opportunities
The Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/
EDGE Radio Offering can help you:
• Expand quickly while minimizing
site costs and the number of sites
to deploy
• Gain real competitive advantages,
such as high quality of service
(QoS) and the ability to offer
attractive new mobile services
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The Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/
EDGE Radio Offering provides a full
range of Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) radio
access products, solutions and
services, customized to your specific
constraints and deployment needs.
From pico coverage to macro
coverage, indoor or outdoor deploy-
ments, this network delivers general
packet radio service/enhanced data for
GSM evolution (GPRS/EDGE) data
services, including a unique optimi-
zation tool chain.
Turn Opportunities into Revenue
Alcatel-Lucent has set up more than
170 networks around the world. This
unique experience empowers the GSM/
GPRS/EDGE Radio Offering, so you
benefit from maximum investment
protection and easy evolution towards
new technologies.
No hardware modifications are
required on any of your radio sites
when introducing GPRS, EDGE and
GERAN Evolutions. In addition, you
can easily upgrade your network from
GSM to wide band carrier division
multiple access (W-CDMA) or world­
wide interoperability for microwave
access (WiMAX) by simply plugging in
corresponding modules in your
Alcatel-Lucent cabinets.
The Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/
EDGE Radio Offering incorporates
advanced technologies and delivers a
fast return on your investment (ROI).
You can now introduce new mobile
services and differentiate from your
competition at a minimal investment.
Optimize Your Network Investment
Alcatel-Lucent GSM Products help you optimize the trade-off
between coverage and capacity to minimize the number of
sites you need.
In addition, you can significantly reduce
your network operating costs using:
• Alcatel-Lucent Twin TRX
— offering a power consumption
of 40 to 60 percent lower
consumption than classic solutions
with a direct impact on the total
energy bill
• Alcatel-Lucent 9153 Operation
& Maintenance Center Radio
• Alcatel-Lucent optimization tools
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Alcatel-Lucent Offerings can Reduce by
30 percent the Number of Required Sites
Reduce the Number
of your Radio Sites
The higher the radio performance,
the fewer sites you need, and the
higher the QoS you can offer to
your customers. Whatever your
environmental/climatic (rural or
urban, indoor or outdoor) and site
constraints, Alcatel-Lucent has the
solution to fit your specific needs.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9100 Base
Station GSM/EDGE (BTSs)
support all frequency bands and
extreme climatic conditions, with
a temperature range from – 45°C to
+ 55°C without an air-conditioning
system. Various transceiver output
powers are available, including high
power (60 W) and very high power
(up to 175 W using transmission
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[Tx] diversity), with sensitivity up Figure 1. Increased Performance of Uplink and
Downlink Paths to Reduce the Number of Sites
to –121dBm (in urban area with
you Deploy
four-way receive [4-way Rx] diversity).
As an example, the Alcatel-Lucent
Higher Output Power
offering enables you to reduce the
number of sites to deploy in rural
areas by more than 30 percent.
Benefit from Fully
Scalable Solutions
Higher Sensitivity
When voice and data traffic gets
heavy, the Alcatel-Lucent 9100
Base station GSM/EDGE supports
up to 24 transeivers: a one-cabinet
solution even for very dense areas.
Both indoor and outdoor upgrades
are performed without service
interruption. And a large set of
capacity features enable network
customization.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9130 Base Station
Controller and the Multi-BSC Fast
Packet Server (Packet Control Unit)
Evolution (also called 9130 BSC/MFS
Evolution) is based on an Advanced
Telecom Computing Architecture
(ATCA). As an innovative platform
based on compact hard­ware, the 9130
BSC/MFS Evolution offers:
• Site costs reduction with a
compact design — only one
rack with two sub racks;
ATCA-based
• High capacity — up to 2800
transceivers and more than
12,000 Erlangs in one rack
• High flexibility and support for
diverse network configurations,
— You can mix base station
controllers (BSCs) and the packet
control unit for GPRS/EDGE in
the rack, and one or two BSCs in
the rack
• Reduced OPEX — minimum
power consumption, minimum
footprint reducing site rentals
• Time-to-market advantage —
IP and GERAN-evolution ready
Optimize Performance
The full range of Alcatel-Lucent base
stations support a unique common
set of three GSM modules, enabling
a drastic reduction of spare-parts
management and OPEX:
• Transceiver module (TRX)
• Antenna network combiner
(ANC) — ensures the combiner
and duplexer functions
• Station unit module (SUM)
— ensures the control functions
of the base station
Get the most from your radio sites
with a unique range of all-in-one
equipment. All Alcatel-Lucent base
stations can integrate a battery back-
up unit. Components easily integrate
in all outdoor versions to enable
efficient microwave or satellite
backhauling, and offer optimum
solutions for external power supply,
such as solar panels.
The innovative and compact Alcatel-
Lucent 9125 Compact Transcoder
has an astounding capacity of up to
192 A interfaces and up to 5600
erlangs, making it ten times more
compact than other leading models.
Moreover, all Alcatel-Lucent GSM
radio access products are fully
IP-ready, in response to new market
trends toward IP transformation.
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 Deployment: Smooth, Fast and Seamless
Easy Installation and Evolution
With the Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/EDGE Radio Offering, installation
is quick, reliable and cost effective. You don’t need highly-skilled personnel
because the design is modular, easy to configure and lightweight. Each new base
station module is recognized automatically as soon as it’s plugged in.

Portfolio Product Feature

Alcatel-Lucent base stations Expandable hardware and fully scalable, up to 24

transceivers per cabinet with the Alcatel-Lucent Twin
TRX. Ready to support GSM, GPRS, EDGE, all GERAN
evolutions, and IP Transport
Alcatel-Lucent 9130 BSC/MFS Evolution GSM, GPRS, EDGE and all GERAN evolutions,
Easy to plug into the Alcatel-Lucent Base Station
and IP readiness
Alcatel-Lucent 9125 Compact Transcoder Adaptive MultiRate (AMR) and Tandem Free
Operation (TFO), and IP readiness
Alcatel-Lucent 9153 Operation & Maintenance Run an entire region with up to 20,000 transceivers
Center Radio

Further, you can introduce GPRS/EDGE/GERAN evolution data services

smoothly and easily with no hardware upgrade.

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Smoother Operations
Put your Network at your Fingertips
Network operations and maintenance (O&M) should not distract you from
focusing on your customers. The fully scalable Alcatel-Lucent 9153 Operation
& Maintenance Center Radio offers you a smooth, predictable, simple and
cost-effective way to run your voice and data network.

The Alcatel-Lucent Toolchain

With Alcatel-Lucent products your network is under constant monitoring
to ensure the best QoS to your end users. The Alcatel-Lucent Optimization
Toolchain complements the 9153 OMC-R, enabling efficient monitoring,
checking, diagnosing and tuning of the network.

Alcatel-Lucent 9156 Radio Network Optimization Tool

From day one, you get all of the support you need to optimize your GPRS/
EDGE network. Since 1997, the 9156 RNO tool has successfully helped
operators optimize their GSM networks. Today, the 9156 RNO tool provides
the same benefits for GPRS/EDGE. Its checking feature enables you to ensure
correct parameter settings on the whole network, and you can monitor,
diagnose and tune the GSM QoS by looking at in-depth reports for all
indicators available in the numbering plan area (NPA database).

Alcatel-Lucent 9156 RNO Snapshot

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Figure 2. Expected Operating Expense Savings with the RNO Application Modular and Scalable Tools
The Alcatel-Lucent Optimization Toolchain is modular
and scalable as your network grows. It allows you to capitalize
on your own expertise and methods by providing custom­
45% Saved
ization facilities. For example, users can create their
own reports. This tool is already used today by more than
Tuning 5% 60 mobile operators worldwide.

15% Save on your Everyday Costs

20%
Analysis/
QoS
Information
Transmission can account for up to 30 percent of your
Diagnosis 15%
Recovering operating expenses. The Alcatel-Lucent portfolio gives
you a complete choice of options for integrated A-bis
Resource
Configuration
transmission — twisted pair, microwave, xDSL, IP/
Ethernet or satellite. — enabling you to select the
best and most cost-effective solution for your network.
Alternatively, you can leverage Alcatel-Lucent
experience and expertise to optimize your network
with our field-proven Alcatel-Lucent services offering —
as many of our customers do.

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 Add EDGE —
Boost your Bit Rate
at Minimal Cost

Drive Mobile Data

Services Usage
The Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/
EDGE Radio Offering can be tailored
to your network to offer a flexible,
scalable and cost-effective solution
to help you meet the high demand
for mobile data services.

GPRS/EDGE/GERAN Evolution
Inside: Mobile Data Services
The Alcatel-Lucent approach offers
you top-quality services to deliver the
Differentiate from your Competition speed you need, now. There’s no need
to make hardware changes to your
Satisfy your Customers, Generate New Revenue Opportunities base station infrastructure. You can
In a fiercely competitive market, you must offer subscribers the quality and the just add the 9130 Multi-BSS Fast
services they really want. You must differentiate yourself from your competition Packet Server (MFS) Evolution,
to offer customers a good reason to stick with your network. The Alcatel- comprising all GPRS/EDGE/
Lucent GSM/GPRS/EDGE Radio Offering can help you attain these capabilities GERAN Evolution-specific
in a way that is both cost-effective and easy for you to implement. hardware and functions.

Enhance the Quality of your Service

Call accessibility and retainability are important to your customers. The
Alcatel-Lucent GSM/GPRS/EDGE Radio Offering provides you expertise
that can increase your capacity while improving QoS to your customers.

Alcatel-Lucent Voice Quality Program

Our Voice Quality Program offers several key benefits, including:
• High call quality, managed transparently by the network
• An easy way for you to enhance end-user satisfaction, and your image,
reducing churn

In addition, all main features, including those in the following table,

are introduced through software upgrades only.

Feature Benefit

Adaptive MultiRAte (AMR) and Wide Band AMR Delivers wire-line speech quality even under very
bad radio conditions
Tandem Free Operation (TFO) Provides better voice quality for mobile-to-mobile calls

Alcatel-Lucent 9130
BSC/MFS Evolution

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Since 2001, all Alcatel-Lucent
standard transceivers have the
hardware capability to support
not only GSM and GPRS, but
also EDGE. So when you want EDGE
on air on an Alcatel-Lucent radio
access network, a simple software
download is all that’s required. In
addition, Twin TRX is able to support
GERAN Evolutions.
On the core network side, all you
need is a simple software upgrade to
enhance system capability to EDGE.
Alcatel-Lucent Twin TRX
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Integration Expertise
To enable you to develop and enrich
your voice and Internet services,
Alcatel-Lucent offers a full range
of applications and platforms,
encompassing your needs for calling,
messaging, multimedia content,
payment, mediation, use profile
and location.
In addition, Alcatel-Lucent can
provide you with applied solutions
integration, supporting your business
through a full set of services in GSM/
GPRS/EDGE turnkey projects and
vertical solutions.
Alcatel-Lucent can address many
of your business segments, such as
corporate voice, short message service
(SMS) premium, multimedia messag­
ing service (MMS) premium, location-
based services, gaming, video and
payment.
Climb the Broadband
Wireless Ladder
To go mobile with multimedia,
Alcatel-Lucent offers W-CDMA and
WiMAX modules that can plug into
any existing Alcatel-Lucent Base
Station. These modules can co-exist
in the same cabinet with your existing
GSM modules and can help upgrade
your network from 2G to 3G or
WiMAX smoothly and painlessly.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9100 Base Station
GSM/EDGE offers unique, multi-
standard capacity and can host any
of the following:
• 24 GSM/EDGE transceivers
• 3x4 GSM/EDGE transceivers +
W-CDMA or WiMAX
The Alcatel-Lucent Advantage
• Leading 2G radio offering
• High level of investment protection: All equipment
is ready to support IP and all GERAN Evolutions
• Easy and cost-effective operation to optimize your total
cost of ownership: The Twin TRX module offers you
a power consumption reduction that is thirty to fifty
percent lower than other top macro solutions, therefore
reducing your associated CAPEX and OPEX (power
supply and backup equipment, and total energy bill),
The Alcatel-Lucent EDGE-
and enabling deployment in areas where power supply ready infrastructure is already
is scarce.
• Extensive coverage at a lower cost: While maintaining deployed in more than 170
QoS and data services support, Alcatel-Lucent GSM
products provide extensive coverage to reduce the networks worldwide.
number of radio sites you need by up to 30 percent —
minimizing your network investment.
• High modularity and capacity: Alcatel-Lucent GSM
products offer the capacity to support up to 24 TRXs
per outdoor or indoor BTS cabinet, and up to 2800
TRXs in one rack for the BSC.
• Interoperability with all existing network elements.

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