Part of a series of 7 ebooks explaining varrious aspect of LTE deployment and marketing in plain English for marketeers, business planners, network planners and mobile Operator management teams etc

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Guide to radio access
placement for better
coverage & capacity
everywhere

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LTE express
MOVE FAST AND OUTCOMPETEMeet QoE expectations fast
Deliver widespread coverage and capacity
Bring the network indoors, closer to your users
Provide capacity in crowded spaces
Densify the network by building a HetNet
with metro cells
Rural/remote communities also deserve
excellent coverage and capacity
Provide coverage and capacity pop-up service
for temporary events or emergencies
Alcatel-Lucent LTE/LTE Advanced wireless
access product portfolio
Ready for virtualized RAN and 5G
Why Alcatel-Lucent LTE express

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Hotel
Concert Hall
Hospital
Train StationShopping MallRestaurant
Outdoor Event
Fire Station
Convention Centre
Oil Rig
Mining
University
Campus
Airport
CONCERT TONIGHT
SPRING FESTIVAL
Meet QoE expectations fast
Mobile data usage is soaring. Approximately
80 percent of data use occurs either in-building
where getting quality wireless service is often
challenging, or at large public events where
capacity cannot keep up with demand. Users
expect an excellent quality of experience
(QoE) wherever they are, so you need a cost-
effective way to deliver ultra-broadband
communications everywhere fast.
With Alcatel-Lucent LTE express you can
deliver 4G wireless services everywhere —
outdoors, indoors, at crowded locations and
to remote communities. Alcatel-Lucent LTE
express solution is built on products that use
Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio™ technology.
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Users want 4G services
everywhere
• Deliver coverage and
capacity outdoors, indoors
and to rural/remote
communities.
• Ensure massive capacity
at crowded public venues.
• Meet demands quickly.
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And it provides a cost-effective solution for
deploying coverage and capacity fast, where
it is needed most, so you can keep your
subscribers happy and increase revenues from
high margin mobile data.
To get you to market quickly, Alcatel-Lucent
also provides complete, customized wireless
LTE deployment services. We have deployed
the world’s largest wireless networks in
record time, beating time to market forecasts.
The wireless experience and expertise we
have gained, combined with our proven
methodologies and innovative Bell Labs tools,
enable us to deliver tailored, differentiated
services to any operator in any market.

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Deliver widespread
coverage and capacity
Indoor deployment
To deliver the QoE users expect, your network
has to provide widespread coverage and
capacity. Macro cells are an ideal solution for
urban and suburban areas and along highways.
They can be deployed indoors and outdoors
and on towers and rooftops.
For indoor deployments, Alcatel-Lucent offers
a new generation of integrated 9711 Indoor
Base Stations that meet the requirements of
any standard band macro cell site. Available in
small and compact form factors with minimal
footprints, these base stations provide optimal
flexibility for capacity deployments. They
can scale easily to meet low to very high
requirements, and they are configured for fast
and easy installation and commissioning.
For very space constrained areas, Alcatel-
Lucent offers the zero-footprint 9926
Distributed Base Station, which can be
deployed as an alternative to the 9711 Indoor
Base Station. This compact, high-capacity
baseband connects via an optical fiber and
Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) to
distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) or active
antennas. It is ideal for fast integration into any
standard 19-inch rack.
Indoor base stations
• Small footprint with small,
compact form factors
• Flexible capacity scaling
• Available in integrated and
distributed configurations
• Fast and easy installation
and commissioning
DISTRIBUTED
BASE STATION
WITH RRHS
INTEGRATED
BASE STATION
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6. TOWER
DEPLOYMENT
ROOFTOP
DEPLOYMENT
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Outdoor deployment
To withstand the rigors of the outdoors, which
include low and high temperatures, high
humidity, sun, sand, dust, and even vandalism,
Alcatel-Lucent offers the integrated 9712
Outdoor Base Stations. Built specifically for
deployment on rooftops, ground towers, and
other outdoor venues, these base stations
deliver cost-effective and unrivaled coverage
and capacity.
Available in small and compact form factors,
9712 Outdoor Base Stations offer next-
generation options for standard band macro
cell sites and provide optimal flexibility to
meet low to very high capacity requirements.
They are stackable for smooth capacity
evolution within the same footprint. And
they are available in integrated or distributed
configurations, with the distributed
configuration using fiber to provide power
and baseband signaling to the RRHs or
active antennas. Like the 9711, these base
stations offer a minimum footprint and are
configured for fast and easy installation and
commissioning.
Outdoor base stations
• Built for any outdoor
requirement
• Small footprint with small,
compact form factors
• Flexible low to high capacity
scaling
• Stackable units for capacity
growth within same footprint
• Available in integrated and
distributed configurations
• Fast and easy installation
and commissioning
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Bring the network indoors,
closer to your users
Eighty percent of mobile usage occurs within
buildings, yet many users experience poor
service indoors. Glass, brick, concrete, and
other building materials weaken cellular signals
and reduce coverage. To create an excellent
in-building user experience, you need coverage
and capacity solutions that bring the cellular
signal indoors. Alcatel-Lucent offers Distributed
Antenna System (DAS) and small cell solutions
engineered to extend the reach of your
network.
DAS
DAS solutions are widely deployed because
they support multiple operators and
technologies. A DAS network can be used
to provide coverage for large indoor areas,
including public spaces with strong neutral
host requirements, such as airports, train
stations, parking garages, underground tunnels
and most sports venues. These networks are
also ideal for “sponsored” public spaces, such
as sports venues and shopping malls, which
allow for operator differentiation or operator-
unique systems to be deployed in parallel to
a neutral host solution. And DAS networks
can be deployed in large private or enterprise
spaces, like corporate campuses, hospitals,
manufacturing plants and universities, which
allow for single vendor deployments.
To address all requirements, Alcatel-Lucent
offers enhanced DAS solutions built with
unique innovations. Our basic neutral host
DAS solution allows you to dynamically shift
capacity from one part of a building to another
depending on demand. The Low Power Radio
Head (RH) DAS improves RF performance and
reduces footprint, power consumption and the
cost of radio equipment by using low power
RRHs (for example, 1W small cells) instead of
40W RRHs and attenuators.
80% of mobile use occurs
inside buildings
• Deliver coverage and
capacity where your
subscribers expect it
• Provide higher QoS and
QoE indoors
• Choose from DAS and
small cell technologies
• Get to market quickly
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Our Direct Baseband Unit (BBU) DAS eliminates
the need for RF processing and attenuation
panels on site by integrating the RH into the
DAS head end. Developed jointly with TE
Connectivity, this DAS option reduces the
amount of physical equipment required by
more than 50 percent, and the cost of materials
by 40 percent. Additional cost savings are also
achieved because each unit uses less power
for operation and cooling, and requires less
space and fiber. By deploying a Direct BBU DAS
in large, high-traffic venues, you can deliver
more coverage and capacity while lowering
your total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much
as 48 percent over a five year period.
Small Cells
Our small cells are low-power, small form
factor devices that can be placed almost
anywhere that people gather — indoors and
out. They provide targeted coverage, high
capacity and improved end-user QoE wherever
needed.
The 9962 Multi-Standard Enterprise Cell
with integrated Wi-Fi® is ideal for private
and enterprise spaces, such as offices,
hotels, restaurants, medical complexes, and
warehouses. For indoor public venues where
there are no strong neutral host requirements
and operator differentiation is allowed through
sponsorship, Alcatel-Lucent offers the 9764
Metro Cell Outdoor (MCO) and the 9768
Metro Radio Outdoor (MRO), as well as the
9962 Multi-Standard Enterprise Cell. All three
solutions are ideal for deployment in shopping
malls, performance halls and convention
centers.
With their different RF power output and
capacity capabilities, our small cells can cover
a variety of space and user requirements. They
enable you to deliver the quality of service
(QoS) and QoE your users expect in any indoor
environment.
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Provide capacity in crowded spaces
Providing good coverage in crowded public
spaces, like stadiums, sports venues, and
concert halls is usually not a problem. But
getting enough capacity to satisfy all the
people that want to upload photos and
videos is.
Our 9768 MRO Distributed Radio System
(DRS) solution provide massive capacity for
these applications that enable you to meet
user expectations with a differentiating
service. These all-in-one radio head and
antenna modules communicate to a centralized
baseband unit, and make it easier for you to
deliver the entire bandwidth of a base station
to any location so you can ensure people
attending an event have enough capacity to
do what they want.
Deliver massive capacity
where people congregate
• Give your customers the
capacity they need to do
what they want
• Provide higher QoS and
QoE in crowded places
• Easy and fast deployment
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10. 4G LTE MACRO
SMALL CELLS
AND Wi-Fi
2G/3G MACRO
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Densify the network by building
a HetNet with metro cells
After your LTE network has been deployed,
you’ll want to densify the network in areas
where more capacity is needed or in locations
where coverage is not sufficient. This can be
achieved by deploying more macro cells, metro
cells, and other small cells in targeted locations
and/or by deploying carrier Wi-Fi. Using two or
more of these flexible network access options
creates a heterogeneous network (HetNet)
A HetNet built with Alcatel-Lucent metro cells
provides cost-effective, ubiquitous coverage
and high capacity to deliver the superior QoE
your customers expect. Incremental capacity
for hotspots can be delivered quickly by
placing the 9764 MCO 1W or 2x1W directly
where needed. The 9764 MCO can be deployed
outdoors, either on the side of a building or on
street furniture, to provide capacity to either
outdoor or indoor hotspots. For large public
venues, you can also deploy the high capacity
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9764 MCO 2X5W or the 9768 MRO 2X1W. And
because some Alcatel-Lucent MCOs and MROs
also support carrier Wi-Fi, you can deploy
carrier Wi-Fi from the same site and use the
same backhaul by simply securing the 9764
MCO integrated Wi-Fi module to the bottom of
a unit.
Alcatel-Lucent metro cells can also be used to
extend coverage to areas of the network that
macro cells do not reach. The 9764 MCO 1W
and 2x1W are ideal for reaching canyon-like
urban areas between high rise buildings. And
the 9768 MRO 2X5W is ideal for beaming
coverage into floors of high rise buildings from
an outdoor location.
Build a HetNet with metro cells
• Meet users’ expectation
everywhere for coverage,
capacity and QoE
• Leverage both licensed
and unlicensed spectrum
by deploying carrier Wi-Fi
integrated metro cells
• Offload macro cells
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Rural/remote communities
also deserve excellent
coverage and capacity
Rural and remote communities, such as villages,
camp grounds and retreats, as well as logging,
mining and oil rig camps are usually small and
not close to other communities. Getting cellular
coverage to these sites is a challenge.
Alcatel-Lucent metro cells, 9926 Distributed
Base Stations with RRHs, and 9768 MROs
can all be used to provide LTE coverage and
capacity to a remote population. Our all-in-
one metro cells are ideal for small to medium
remote communities, and our macro cell
options are well suited for medium to large
communities.
And, some units can be powered with
alternative energy, such as solar panels or
wind power, if getting electricity to a site is
difficult.
Deliver cost-effective
ultra-broadband coverage
• High power RRH for
wide coverage
• Easy deployment with
metro cells
• Alternative energy
to overcome power
challenge
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Provide coverage and
capacity pop-up service
for temporary events or
emergencies
Annual events, such outdoor music and
art festivals, parades, Independence Day
celebrations, and street racing attract
thousands of people who want to take and
upload photos and videos of the event to share
with their families and friends. This requires
much more bandwidth than the towers around
these locations can provide.
Alcatel-Lucent makes it easy to deliver the
temporary coverage and capacity you need
for these occasions with mobile metro cells
mounted on trailers or trucks. Mobile metro
cells can be deployed easily and removed
when no longer needed. And you can reuse
the same metro cells to provide temporary
capacity at different events throughout the
year in the same city. By delivering the extra
capacity users need at events, you can ensure
that your subscribers always get the QoE they
expect, whenever they need it.
Deliver ultra-broadband
coverage to where it’s needed
and only when needed with
mobile metro cells
• Ensures excellent QoE
• Easily deployable and
removable
• Reusable at different events
throughout the year
• Cost-effective solution
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Alcatel-Lucent LTE/LTE Advanced
wireless access product portfolio
Alcatel-Lucent Macro Cell Portfolio Alcatel-Lucent Small Cells Portfolio
9711 INDOOR
BASE STATION
9962 ENTERPRISE CELL9712 OUTDOOR
BASE STATION
9764 METRO CELL OUTDOOR9926 DISTRIBUTED
BASE STATION
9768 METRO
RADIO OUTDOOR
LTE
LTE
W-CDMA, LTE,
and Wi-Fi
2 x1W
2 x1W
TD-LTE
2 x5W
9745 ACTIVE
ANTENNAS
TD-LTE LTE
LTE
Integrated
WI-Fi AP
2 x5W 2 x5W 2 x5W
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Ready for virtualized RAN and 5G
Virtualized RAN (vRAN) is where network
functions at the RAN level are reorganized
and virtualized using Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) to enable them to run
on General Purpose Platforms (GPPs). With
virtualization, functions, like base band
processing in the BBUs, go from being highly
distributed to being more centralized and
pooled. Other functions, such as video caching,
go from being highly centralized to be being
more distributed by moving closer to the
network edge. By virtualizing functions,
you can improve the performance of your
networks, increase network efficiency and
adaptability, lower TCO and improve QoE.
Alcatel-Lucent is at the forefront of vRAN
development with the first radio network
controller (RNC) function to be virtualized
and ported onto a GPP platform. Our Wireless
Cloud Element (WCE) has been running live in
the Etisalat network since the spring of 2014.
We also showcased our live virtualized BBU
(vBBU) prototype, which was developed in
conjunction with China Mobile, and announced
a strategic partnership with Intel to boost
vRAN development and adoption at MWC
2014. The first customer trial for our vRAN is
targeted for 2015.
Although 5G has not yet been defined by
any standard body, work on the first steps
to building 5G has already started. Alcatel-
Lucent is contributing to the IMT-2020
recommendations being developed by the
ITU-R and actively contributes to 3GPP, which
is expected to start a 5G study in 2015 with
release 14 and have the final specification
(release 15) ready by 2018-19. Plus, Bell
Labs is researching a new 5G air interface,
virtualization of network functions, and other
ways to optimize mobile communications.
As 5G will build on 4G LTE, Alcatel-Lucent
is also continuing to work on LTE-A, the
implementation of HetNets with small cells,
and requirements for transitioning to a cloud
architecture, which we believe are stepping
stones to 5G.
5G
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16. Why Alcatel-Lucent LTE express
Your destination is LTE, and we’ll get you there on an LTE overlay route that is faster, simpler and future
proof. We have the products, the experience and the services to help you rapidly deliver the outstanding
LTE experience your consumer and enterprise customers are demanding
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To learn more about how Alcatel-Lucent LTE express takes you
to LTE sooner, contact your local Alcatel-Lucent sales representative.
Faster
Available now: We deliver the fastest and
furthest-reaching high capacity network.
Faster time to market: We have the right
wireless and IP experience, expertise and
services gained from deploying the world’s
largest LTE networks. Our complete LTE
overlay solution can be deployed in record
time, beating all market estimates.
Simpler
Turnkey solution: Market and network
planning, site selection, network design,
integration, backhaul, power, maintenance,
SON and more.
Expertise of the world’s specialist in IP
Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access
with a leading portfolio spanning macro,
small cells, backhaul, packet core and
applications. We have built — and continue
to build — the largest , highest capacity LTE
networks in the world.
One throat to choke: We worry about
project dependencies so you don’t have to.
Future-proof
Scalable architecture: LTE overlay
architecture designed for huge signaling
and data plane scale.
Scalable networks: Near invisible and
low power small cells increase network
capacity up to 10x.
Scalable operations: Build, Operate,
Transfer (BOT) delivers massive near term
turn-up of resources when and where
needed.
Ongoing Innovation: Backed by our
innovation powerhouse Bell Labs, Alcatel-
Lucent continues to bring advanced
lightRadio™ technologies and products to
market. Our LTE investment is shaped by
the world’s largest and most aggressive
FDD and TDD operators deploying Carrier
Aggregation, VoLTE, eMBMS, virtualized
RAN and small cell HetNets.
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