For App Coverage drives network evolution
Delivering Best
App Coverage
mobile
subscriptions
growth in smartphone traffic
by the end of 2020 between 2014 and 2020
of mobile data traffic will
come from video in 2020
Source: Ericsson Mobility Report June 2015
MULTI-LAYER
GSM
HSPA
5.0 GHz
LTE
MULTI-STANDARD UNLICENSED
2600 TDD
MULTI-BAND
CARRIER
AGGREGATION
2100
1800
900
MACRO & SMALL
CELLS COORDINATED 800
IN ONE NETWORK
DRIVERS CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS
› MBB introduction/expansion Spectrum & cost › Thin layer GSM
› GSM Spectrum Refarming efficiency, and minimum › Ericsson Radio System
site impact
› Devices ecosystem › Ericsson Network Manager
Maintain network
simplicity & add
flexibility
Thin layer & Automation Mass market MBB and seamless Meeting high capacity demand
smartphone experience and better performance
~95%
~90%
~90%
>70%
WCDMA/HSPA
~65%
GSM/EDGE ~40%
LTE
2014 2020 2014 2020 2014 2020
WORLD POPULATION COVERAGE BY TECHNOLOGY
Source: Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2015
Free up more spectrum for MBB
COMPETENCE
SPECRTUM
POWER
OPEX
HW
900 MHz 1800 MHz
GSM GSM
GSM NETWORK NO GSM GSM
EFFICIENCY UNIQUE HW AUTOMATION
GSM + WCDMA GSM + LTE
From Radio Base Station to Radio System
ERICSSON NETWORK MANAGER
ERICSSON NETWORK MANAGER
HARMONIZED
OPERATIONS
4G WIFI 4GIP Edge IMS VoLTE
CONVERGED
PROCESSES
3G 2G uW Opto CS EPC
EFFICIENCY
Macro Pico Dot Ethernet SDN NFV & QUALITY
DRIVER CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS
Spectrum LTE Carrier
Aggregation
HSPA Multi
Carrier
User experience
MBB Growth
High capacity
Cost-efficient site for site
MBB expansion
LICENSE ASSISTED ACCESS (LAA)
LTE Primary Carrier LTE Secondary Carrier
Licensed Spectrum Unlicensed Spectrum
FDD/TDD CONVERGENCE GSM REFARMING
TDD UL 900 MHz
GSM GSM + WCDMA
TDD DL
FDD UL+DL
1800 MHz
GSM GSM + LTE
NEW BANDS
Psi AIR 4RX CA/MC
Cost-efficient coverage expansion Matches mid band to low band Matches downlink to low band
High band AIR 4RX High band LTE CA/HSPA MC
Mid band AIR 4RX Mid Band LTE CA/HSPA MC
Low and medium capacity area Low band Low band
CELL COVERAGE AREA CELL COVERAGE AREA CELL COVERAGE AREA
cat-x 5CC
Chipset support today
cat-11 3CC + 256QAM (20+20+20)
Commercial devices Q3-15
cat-9 3CC (20+20+20)
31 commercial networks
cat-6 2CC (20+20) Same baseband for
TDD/FDD CA
cat-4
2CC (10+10)
Multicarrier & Data Acceleration
MULTICARRIER DATA ACCELERATION
RNC Up to 6x higher user
throughput in uplink
3C-HSDPA EUL-MC
(downlink) (uplink)
F1 F2 F3 F1 F2
DOWNLINK
UPLINK
Up to 3x higher user
throughput in downlink
15 MHz 10 MHz
downlink uplink
VERY HIGH CAPACITY HIGH CAPACITY
Power Pooling Power Pooling Power Pooling
F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F1 F2 F3 F4
4x 2100 MHz 2x 900 MHz 3x 2100 MHz 1x 900 MHz
BBP1 BBP3 BBP2 CE Pooling BBP1 BBP3 CE Pooling
DRIVER CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS
Cell edge performance
Best
Bedownlink
st downlink
Best
Bestuplink
uplink
Coordinated small cells
Improve Indoor coverage Outdoor Indoor
User experience
Cost-efficient small RBS
6302
RBS mRRUS RBS RBS Wi-Fi Radio
6501 6401 6402 Dot
cells deployment System
Complete small cells portfolio
AREA TRAFFIC DENSITY
IMPROVE
DENSIFY
ADD
IMPROVE
IMPROVE
DENSIFY
DENSE URBAN IMPROVE
DENSIFY
URBAN
SUBURBAN
RURAL ADD
Hotspot Capacity
Kiosks and medium
size buildings
World first mixed mode
mRRU targeting extreme
hot spots
Pico in operator shop
10% Macro offload
Focus on end user
performance Large
scale Micro RBS + RRU
Indoor HSPA localized
capacity Pico + DAS
on same spectrum
Spectrum utilization
Large scale Micro RRU & Pico Stadium WiFi Offload
3G data with WiFi
Micro RRU and RBS 6302
Street cell installations
Auto-integration
RBS 6302 RBS 6501 mRRUS RBS 6401 Wi-Fi Radio Dot System
Iub supporting
Internet-grade
backhaul, IP-Sec
Coordinated Small Cells
Best downlink Wireless
Up to 70% TCO reduction
Backhaul LOS
Best uplink NLOS
Services Strategic analysis Small cell design Prime Deployment
Key to the User Experience and TCO
Split Spectrum (Basic Mobility) Shared Spectrum (Full X2 Mobility) Common Baseband (CoMP)
cells for 2X capacity cells for 2X capacity cells for 2X capacity
Limited User High Good User Reduced Great User Reduced
Experience TCO Experience TCO 50% Experience TCO 70%
HSPA LTE
Soft Handover elCIC over X2
Iub supporting Internet grade Coordinated scheduling (slow)
RADIO
Softer Handover UL CoMP
CAPACITY UL CoMP DL CoMP, Coordinated scheduling (fast)
Combined Cell Combined Cell
Smartphone Retainability for HN Reduced Handover Oscillation
TRAFFIC ANR Mobility Multi-target RRC re-establishment
MANAGEMENT Inter-frequency load sharing Inter-frequency load balancing
Load sharing at downswitch Service-based load balancing
Automatic integration / provisioning
Automatic PSC / PCI selection Centralized Baseband
SON Automatic Neighbor Relations Distributed Baseband
Mobility robustness & optimization
Key to success
Fully utilizing all
Additional
spectrum assets
bandsMM WAVE
5g Additional standards NX
One Network
LTE EVOLUTION
SPECTRUM
Approach
TIME
Having the
right partner
Centralized RAN Spectrum Refarming Multi Standard
Mixed Mode
Baseban GSM network
Multi-standard Pooling efficiency
No GSM
Ericsson
unique HW
GSM
Single
standard
Multi
standard Radio System
automation
LTE Carrier HSPA Dual Band Load
Aggregation Multi Carrier Management
Multi-band
Small Cell Small Cell Coordination Integrated Small Cells
Portfolio
Multi-layer
RADIO SYSTEM
TRAFFIC RADIO
MANAGEMENT COORDINATION
NETWORK
MANAGEMENT
In 2020 operators will need
up to 150 MHz spectrum, in
up to 10 frequency bands.
Innovation
TCO 5G
#1
in Radio
Field
Services
Performance
Insights
