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Impact of LTE Small

Cells and Backhaul

Scalability

David Chambers

Director of OSS Solution Marketing

May 2012

Agenda

● The impact of 4G on network topology

● How Backhaul Networks are changing

● How Backhaul Network management will evolve

● Implications for tools and processes

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● Large company focussed on Telco

● 19,000 staff; $3Bn revenues

● Focussed on Telco and Cable operators

● Billing, Customer Care and OSS

● Customers include many major Tier-1 operators

● Comprehensive product and service portfolio

● Complete BSS/OSS stack from order capture to fulfilment

● Own products + SI + Consultancy + Managed Services

● Customer Experience Systems

● The “Intentional Customer Experience”

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Changing pattern of investment in Radio Access

● Conventional macro/

micro tailing off quickly

*Rethink Technology Research: Carrier Survey 2011. Investment in basestations (excluding backhaul, cellsites)

97% of wireless network

traffic today is data

– Hutchison 3UK

● Small Cell (Pico/Metro)

investment will be largest

share by 2015

● Metrocell most rapidly

growing type

Factors affecting Backhaul (1 of 3) Network Structure is changing

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Data Capacity

Network

Topology

Small Cells

HetNet

Many more links

Many more sites

Multi-RAT

2G/3G/4G

Single-RAN or

Multiple

basestations

per cellsite

Mix of new and old

transmission

technologies

High

Speed

Ethernet

IP

“4 Small Cells to 1 Macrocell is a

good ratio in dense urban LTE

environments”

- Hauwei (at LTE LATAM 2012)

“In 2011, US Wireless carriers

allocated roughly two-thirds of

their spend on OCx [50Mbps] &

higher bandwidth circuits”

- Atlantic-ACM (Analyst)

Factors affecting Backhaul (2 of 3) Growing focus on cost

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Cost Pressures

Network

Sharing

3rd Party

Leased Lines

Avoid backhaul bottlenecks

Avoid overbuild

Track 3rd party costs

Knowledge to make best decisions

Long term strategic planning

Factors affecting Backhaul (3 of 3) While still retaining high quality

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Quality

High Network

Resilience

Rapid Outage

Resolution

Timing &

Sync

View current/future network structure

Assess impact of planned/unplanned outages

“Quality in a product or

service is not what the

supplier puts in. It is what

the customer gets out and

is willing to pay for.”

- Peter F Drucker

Backhaul Planning Capabilities

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In-Stat predict

3 million small

cells by 2015

● Scale to large volumes

● Up to 10x number of cellsites in high traffic urban areas

● Many more backhaul links, including 3rd party

Backhaul

growing as

proportion of

RAN cost

● Cost requires capacity management

● Backhaul planning independent of cellsite capacity

● Strategic view of hubs/spoke, wireless/wireline

● Cater for priority traffic profile

Deploy a small

cell in 1 hour ● Speed of deployment

● Fast & flexible incremental small cell deployment

● Introduce new products & technologies quickly

Backhaul Operational Capabilities

● Filter out the noise

● Suppress alarms from planned/non-commissioned equipment

● Understand when alternate routes can be used

● Rapid Impact Analysis

● Determine scope of outage in seconds, not hours

● Identify partial vs full outages

● Visibility

● Of who did what, when and why

● Current and planned network configuration

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But today’s tools/processes aren’t suitable

● Often spreadsheets, Visio diagrams

● Poor data quality – planners don’t know

what’s there today

● At best, current view only – no idea

what’s coming next

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Knowledge is key

● Technical Inventory

● Physical equipment and logical connectivity/routing

● Current and future upgrade plans

● Configurable/futureproof to handle new technologies/products

● Automated design processes

● Automated design process for new/upgraded cellsites/transmission

● Unambiguous design instructions for staff and direct configuration

● Widely accessible but tightly controlled

● Web browser access by all engineering staff

● Open APIs to interwork/access via other applications

● Secure sign-on with read/write privileges by region and/or role

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Solution Description Comprehensive support across the operations department

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Network ERP

System

WFM

System

Inventory Configuration Management

Data Integrity

Management

Upper layer Program

Management Workflow

Microwave

Freq. Planning

Fault & Service

Management

Other

OSS/BSS

Geographical

Information

Data

Warehousing

Radio Network

Strategic Plan

Trouble

Ticketing

Implementation Plan

Management

Automated Technical

Design Workflow

Capacity Utilisation &

Optimisation Planning

Electronic

Activation

Core Network

Strategic Plan

Project

Managers

Network

Designers

NOC

Field Force

Engineers

Inventory Capabilities:

• RAN, Core & Transport

• Multi-Vendor

• Multi-Technologies

• Network Infrastructure

• Connectivity Configuration

• Capacity Trending

• Templates

• Lifecycle Management

• Future State Planning

• Site Planning

• Localisable

• Role Based Security

• Reporting

Benefits

● CAPEX

● Avoid wasted equipment, overbuild, orphaned capacity

● Just-in-time deployment to match network capacity growth

● OPEX

● Avoid wasted truck rolls

● Prioritise fault resolution

● Quality

● Higher network resilience to faults

● Reduced backhaul capacity bottlenecks

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Thank You

David Chambers

Director of OSS Solution Marketing

david.chambers@amdocs.com

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