Embarking on the Road to LTE?

TIF Nov 19 2009 Helene Graham, Meteor

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Agenda LTE Rollout Status Drivers The Question of Spectrum WiMax<>LTE eircom Group and LTE

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Committed LTE Operators

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Initial LTE commercial deployments

Operator Verizon Wireless AT&T Mobility TeliaSonera - Sweden Telia Sonera - Norway Tele2 Sweden
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Band 700 MHz 700MHz 2.6 GHz 2.6 GHz 2.6 GHz 2.6 GHz 1.5 GHz 1.5 GHz 1.5 GHz 1.7 GHz

Bandwidth (MHz) 2 x 11 2 x 12 2 x 20 2 x 20 2 x 20 2 x 20 1 x 15 1 x 10 1 x 10 1 x 10

Spectrum cost $9.36 Billion $9.14 Billion 60 Million 6.2 Million 59 Million 58 Million
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Commercial Deployment 2010 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2012 2011 2010

Telenor Sweden

NTT DoCoMo Japan KDDI Japan Softbank Japan eMobile Japan

1: Includes 700 MHz spectrum purchased from Aloha

2: Tele2 Sweden and Telenor Sweden are jointly building an LTE network. The joint venture includes spectrum sharing in the 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands. 3: Spectrum was awarded based on deployment plans. The four operators will deploy 65,000 base stations by 2015 at a cost of over $11 Billion

Many European countries awaiting availability of 2.6 GHz and 800 MHz spectrum
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Agenda LTE Rollout Status Drivers What is required The Question of Spectrum WiMax<>LTE eircom and LTE

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Drivers

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Indicative timelines only, for the purposes of scenario planning

BB demand to grow to >1 Gbps by 2014

Expected Evolution of Fixed Bandwidth Requirements - Demand-Driven Applications Evolution of Data Rate Requirements Super Broadband
New Applications Advanced cloud computing Full LAN access HDTV quality Tele Working Video Streaming

Data Rate

1 Gbit/s 100 Mbit/s

Online Gaming
VHS quality Basic remote access to LAN Audio Streaming Multichannel CD-quality Complete DVD download of a game

10 Mbit/s

1 Mbit/s

Narrow Band

100 Kbit/s

Web-based e-mail access

CD-quality

BB needs to stay ahead of demand and be uncontended to meet the needs of video traffic Blu-Ray popularity is further driving expectations of quality which TV/VOD downloads over BB will need to match Seamless multi-channel (small-screen/big-screen interplay) by 2014 is foreseen over converged smart-phone/ netbook devices

Mid Broadband

10 Kbit/s
2000 Year (indicative) 2010 2020

1990

Source:

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Video Will Dominate Mobile IP Traffic by 2013

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Inbuilding coverage will be a key requirement

Analysis suggests that in the
future, as data traffic volume grows rapidly, an increasing % of this smart-phone and MBB data traffic will be indoor and home based. This suggests that home Wifi and new technologies like femto-cells will play a key role in future network configurations

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Agenda LTE Rollout Status Drivers A Questions of Spectrum WiMax<>LTE eircom and LTE

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Strategic and progressive regulation is required

Band

HSPA ready

LTE ready

Max Bandwidth

Max Download rate

Availability in Ireland

2600 2300 2100 1800 900

2010 / 11 2011/12 Yes 2009/10 Yes

2010 / 11 2011/12 Yes 2009 / 10 Yes

20 MHz 20 MHz ? 20 MHz 20 MHz 15 MHz

>100 Mbits/sec > 100 Mbits/sec >100 Mbits/sec >100 Mbits/sec >75 Mbits/sec

Constrained by MMDS usage regulatory action required

Consultation on potential award in advance of ITU plan extreme caution required Fully awarded and utilised for 3G / HSPA Ideal source in near term for LTE deployment regulatory action required Proportionate liberalisation required to facilitate national provision of HSPA services regulatory action required Additional spectrum required to facilitate national LTE deployment. No national policy on digital dividend or clear DTT migration timescales regulatory action required

800

DD 2010 / 11 Yes for US 850

2009 / 10

15 MHz ?

>75 Mbits/sec

More mobile spectrum capacity required to enhance competitive provision of high speed mobile services. LTE Advanced 40-100MHz bandwidth requirements.
PRESENTATION NAME eircom

Sites Depending on Spectrum

5,000 4,500 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0

4,679 # of LTE 900 band sites 2,354 913 598 533 240 361 33 48 3,913 3,367

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Indicative timelines only, for the purposes of scenario planning

Site Numbers

1,301

981

1,375

1,662

2,037

56 75 85 % of Population

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Agenda LTE Rollout Status Drivers A Questions of Spectrum WiMax <>LTE eircom and LTE

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WiMAX <> LTE

Parameter Duplex Channel BW Downlink Uplink DL Peak data rate (Mbit/s)
(2x2) MIMO and 2 x 20 MHz

LTE FDD and TDD Up to 20 MHz OFDMA SC-FDMA 144

Mobile WiMAX Rel 1.5 FDD and TDD Up to 20 MHz OFDMA OFDMA 144

DL Spectral Efficiency (bps/Hz/Sector)

(2x2) MIMO

1.6

1.6

Mobility Support Frame Size HARQ Link Budget

Target: Up to 350 km/hr 1 millisec Incremental Redundancy Typically limited by Mobile Device

Up to 120 km/hr 5 millisec Chase Combining Typically limited by Mobile Device

Advanced Antenna Support

DL: 2x2, 2x4, 4x2, 4x4 UL: 1x2, 1x4, 2x2, 2x4

DL: 2x2, 2x4, 4x2, 4x4 UL: 1x2, 1x4, 2x2, 2x4

WiMAX is predominantly TDD and found in 2.3, 2.6 and 3.4 GHz bands
WiMAX and LTE - very similar characteristics and advanced features

WiMAX or LTE Commercial/Strategic decision

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Indicative timelines only, for the purposes of scenario planning

WiMax<>LTE
For the eircom group these are some of the considerations that are being taken into account:

Industry momentum and history of delivering Securing future development Securing a large variety of terminals Securing a large eco system Ease to integrate with existing systems

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WiMax<>LTE
Current status for the eircom Group:

Currently the eircom group have no plans using WiMAX as

a mobile Broadband solution. 3G/HSPA/LTE is the preferred solution.

eircom fixed has used fixed WiMAX (with external antenna)

to assist with DSL infill for a limited number of customers.

The use of WiMAX for fixed Broadband applications is

currently under review.

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Agenda LTE Rollout Status Drivers A Questions of Spectrum WiMax <>LTE eircom and LTE

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HSPA+ and LTE

HSPA+ 21Mbps DL Enablers 64 QAM & Enhanced Layer 2 Handset Dependencies PRAN Enhanced Uplink 2x2MIMO Multi Carrier EUL 16QAM &IC & MUD MIMO + Multi Carrier 2x2 MIMO 42.5 Mbps 85.7 Mbps 128.9 Mbps 172.1 Mbps 4x4 MIMO 81.6 Mbps 163.2 Mbps 224.8 Mbps 326.4 Mbps
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5.76Mbps UL 28Mbps 42 Mbps DL 10Mbps UL 84Mbps UL LTE 5MHz 10MHz 15MHz 20MHz
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SIMO 22.8 Mbps 45.6 Mbps 68.4 Mbps 91.2 Mbps

National Bandwidth Delivery

National Ethernet Coverage
4 Core sites (8 routers) 30 Edge nodes in 15
pairs/domains - 23 unique sites

238 Ethernet proposed

aggregation nodes

917 Ethernet DSLAMs

connected over fibre

Direct fibre customer

connections
Ethernet Aggregation Nodes

Product Sets for E-LAN and ELine

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LTE backhaul and QOS

By the time LTE gets deployed, the NGN Core will be fully deployed
(2011).

There will be extensive IP and Ethernet reach that will meet the capacity
requirements for LTE backhaul.

The eircom group has been running very successful IP RAN trials and the
Core meets the stringent quality of service parameters required for mobile services

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What is SDR and MSR?

900 MHz
GSM WCDMA LTE

1800 MHz

2100 MHz

MSR

SDR

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High capacity Multi Standard RBS

Radio Units GSM/WCDMA/LTE - GSM 3x4 900MHz - WCDMA 3x2 2100MHz - LTE 20 MHz 2x2 MIMO 1800MHz

RBS 6201
Today MSR single mode MSR multimode

RBS 6102

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 Impacting Spectrum Scenarios:

900 MHz 1800 MHz 2100 MHz 2600 MHz 2G 5 5 0 0 2G 0 0 0 0 3G 5 0 15 0 Today LTE 0 15 0 20 MBB Speed 28 Mbps 130 Mbps 42+ Mbps 150Mbps MBB Speed 42 Mbps+ 150 Mbps 42 Mbps+ 150 Mbps

900 MHz 1800 MHz 2100 MHz 2600 MHz

Future 3G LTE 10 0 0 20 15 0 0 20

LTE Initially seen as over lay network on HSPA/HSPA+ for increased

capacity/speed.

Backhaul capacity and configuration mix needs understanding.

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HSDPA to HSPA+ Evolution

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LTE Introduction

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Thank You

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