ip.access introduction to nanoGSM
ip.access introduction to nanoGSM
Agenda
– Introduction
– nanoGSM
– Architecture
– BTS
– BSC
– Why Pico?
– Use cases
– OMCR
– Product Demonstration
– 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 – it’s all we do
– More small cell deployments than any other vendor
ip.access provides small cell solutions for MNOs
Live in over 60 networks today
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ip.access picocell & femtocell solutions
Residential
femtocells
(C Class)
Picocells
(E Class)
Office
femtocells
(S Class)
End-to-end
picocell &
femtocell
solutions for
mobile network
operators
Core femtocell
technology for
OEMs & System
Integrators
2G
3G
3G
Optimised for business customers and public access
Optimised for large scale residential deployments
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.
“The world’s most
deployed picocell”
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
– Dynamic AMR Full-rate and half-rate
– Use of half rate AMR can double voice capacity of nanoBTS
to 14 simultaneous voice calls
– E-GPRS functionality
– Full GPRS and E-GPRS support up to MCS9
– Demonstrated throughput of over 200kbit/sec (4-slot mobile)
– Fully backward compatible with GPRS handsets
– Simple IP Configuration
– BTS only requires 2 config items
– All parameters downloaded from the BSC
– Single CAT5 Ethernet connection
– Carries both data and power over Ethernet
– Enables rapid and low cost installation
– Uses existing IP infrastructure for backhaul
– Efficient network planning through Network
Listen™ feature
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 world’s 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)
DSL Modem
Small Enterprise
MSC SGSN
A E1/T1 Gb E1/T1
Gb over IP
Private/Public IP
Network
Existing Core Network
Large Enterprise Router
Cisco etc
Router
Cisco etc
OMC-R Server
OMC-R
BSC
…
A-bis over IP
nanoBTS
nanoGSM system architecture
Operator Switch site
IP Backhaul Options
– Use customer’s 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
-Fully Alarmed/Performance
managed100m
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
– Install time for other carriers using
repeaters
– Approvals: 6 weeks
– Construction: 3 weeks
– Tuning: 3 days
– Excluding work on macro donor
configuration
– Install time for picocells
– Hospital ordered and installed DSL
– Plugging in preconfigured BTS:
45 minutes
– Verifying the RF levels throughout the
hospital: one afternoon
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6:1
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4:1
Master
Slave
SS
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S
S
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S
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RX Combiner
TX Combiner
Network Listen on Master
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4:1
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4:1
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DAS
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LGC Equipment
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TIB Cables are not shown
but need to be installed
Labeled DL
Labeled UL
Duplexer
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 customer’s 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.