An Introduction

to Ruckus
Carrier Solutions
Telekom Srbija Workshop

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About Ruckus
Markets Carrier Wi-Fi, Enterprise WLANs
Customers 12,000+
APs Shipped 3 million
Patents 43 granted, 76 pending
Capital Raised $76m
Employees 430+, 24+ countries
Sample Customers

43%

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Industry’s biggest portfolio
• CPE • wall switch • indoor APs • outdoor APs • strand mount • smart
meshing • PtP/PtMP backhaul • single & dual band 802.11b/g/n • 360°
and 120° coverage • standalone and controller mode • POE switch •
scalable EMS • wireless services gateway • BeamFlex adaptive antennas •
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 Full range of carrier Wi-Fi apps
Wi-Fi Zone (3G Offload) — Operator Infrastructure — Wireless Broadband Access

NOC

Managed Enterprise
WLAN Services

SMB Healthcare Hospitality Retail Education Venues

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Why Wi-Fi.

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New world of mobile networks

▪ Exponential traffic growth

▪ Linear capacity improvements —
AND not OR
▪ Wi-Fi now a peer to LTE in most
operators’ minds
▪ Subscribers now expect Wi-Fi
▪ Extensive mobile device support
▪ Wi-Fi infrastructure costs a small
fraction of incremental 3G or 4G
RAN
▪ Integrated multi-function devices are
a natural evolution

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Does more. Costs less.
Small-cell Infrastructure Capex, US$/Mbps/km2 and Availability
0 1,000 2,000 3,000

HSPA Now

LTE 2012?

802.11n Now

802.11ac Year-end 2012

Source: operator and TEM benchmarking, Ruckus back-of-the-envelope analysis.

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 ...but not necessarily everywhere
Capital cost of deployment, US$/Mbps/km²
16,000
HSPA
14,000
12,000
10,000
8,000
LTE
6,000
4,000 802.11n
2,000
0
Dense Urban Urban Suburban Rural

Source: operator and TEM benchmarking conversations, Ruckus back-of-the-envelope analysis.

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Key carrier Wi-Fi requirements

▪ Great connectivity in challenging

environments
(high client density, pervasive
interference, NLoS)
▪ Seamless subscriber experience
(authentication first, session continuity
later)
▪ Clean, efficient integration into
existing mobile core entities / data
plans / marketing

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Great connectivity.

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Clarity

▪ Radio performance matters more than ever

(high density, interference, ubiquity)
▪ Conventional approach (70-90% of the market):
off-the-shelf Wi-Fi chipset
+ reference design implementation
+ nice marketing about channel changing
▪ Result: Pervasive view that Wi-Fi is flaky and mediocre
(50% of Cisco’s customers report dissatisfaction
with radio performance. The other 50% don’t know
what they’re missing.)
▪ It doesn’t have to be like that

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 Radio performance innovation

BeamFlex™ Off-the-shelf Digital switch Large number (n) of small, Optimized packet-by-packet
optimization engine 802.11 chipset inexpensive antenna elements selection from 2n patterns

Patented BeamFlex Adaptive Antenna Technology

▪ Ample customer experience

Them
shows...
▪ 2x better range, capacity,
Us reliability, and self-adapting
autonomy
▪ 1/2 the capex and
operating costs

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Test results
Non Line of Sight Beating Interference
Ruckus Ruckus
Meraki Meraki
HP HP
Cisco Cisco
1 client, 100’ 1 client, 70’
Aruba 2.4 GHz Aruba 5 GHz
Apple No interference Apple Line of sight
0 20 40 60 80 0 20 40 60 80
Downlink Mbps Uplink Mbps

60 Clients, Bi-Directional 60 Clients, Uplink

Ruckus Ruckus
HP HP
Aruba Aruba
Cisco Cisco
5 GHz
Meraki Failed to Finish 75% downlink Meraki
Apple Failed to Finish 25% uplink Apple 5 GHz
0 20 40 60 80 100 0 20 40 60 80 100
Aggregate Bi-Directional Mbps Aggregate Uplink Mbps
AP models:
Ruckus 7363, Cisco 3500, Aruba 125,
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HP 460, Meraki 24, Apple Extreme.
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Seamless.

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 Wi-Fi / cellular integration model
Wi-Fi Radio Access and Key ▪ Packet data offloaded to best-efforts network (voice,
Smart Mesh Backhaul Network Features: SMS stay on licensed spectrum)
▪ Automatic authentication with cellular credentials,
802.11u (HS 2.0) support
▪ Integration with existing mobile core for authentication,
policy definition/enforcement, and billing
▪ WLAN control & management for 10,000 nodes per 2U
chassis

Mobile Operator’s Core Network

Metro
Network EMS
Example Integration
(Approaches Vary) PDG/PCEF

Packet Data
HLR/HSS AAA PCRF
Wireless Services
Gateway (WSG)

Charging

Voice,
SMS/MMS RNC/S-GW SGSN, GGSN/PDSN, P-GW

3G/4G RAN
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References

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Unprecedented deployments
~10,000 APs in Hong Kong since 2007
IPTV over Wi-Fi; 20% average, 80% peak offload

45,000 APs in 38 cities

pioneering wireless
broadband access in India
Designing The Future Self-build 3GO
120,000 APs in Tokyo (part 1 of 3)
WiMAX backhaul

Wholesale 3GO from

4,000 points of presence
in top 10 US cities

Retail/wholesale 3GO in London

30,000+ APs upgrade for >20 Mbps service

Project underway to
cover 30 million people

+
in Chongqing province
Many more coming soon...
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 The distributed intelligence imperative
Bandwidth
Mobile per node
As aggregate mobile Internet bandwidth
Core demands skyrocket, and RAN capacity is 1 Tbps
2015 expanded rapidly to keep pace...

100 Gbps
2012 ...wire-speed processing for policy
enforcement, location-based services,
and
caching will need to move to 10 Gbps
intelligent
devices at the edge to scale

2010 1 Gbps

LTE Macro LTE Small

2008 100 Mbps

802.11ac
3.5 G

802.11n 10 Mbps
2.5 G
1 10 100 1k 10k 100k
Infrastructure nodes per metro area
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Thanks. Questions?

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Industry roadmap
2011 2012 2013
Offloading what  packet data, via  (UE work happens  selective offload with
“hard offload” here) more operator control
Authentication  802.1x (EAP-modes)  more 802.1x, some
widely available now, I-WLAN
but limited use
Inter-RAT handoff  not a priority  discussing  implementation via
architectures xMIP or GTP
Back-end  limited; WLANs  802.1x-based  more sophisticated
integration usually still separate (primarily), fitting into functionality for HS2.0
existing mobile core support etc.
Hotspot 2.0  802.11u plugfests,  802.11u WFA certs  rolling out into hotspot
marketing  attending to higher networks and UEs in
layers and operator the market
control
MNO focus  thinking, budgeting,  getting started  more large-scale
RFIs (with notable deployments,
more-aggressive integration with LTE
exceptions) hetnets
Wholesaler focus  land grab for sites  establishing multi-
MNO integrations
Wi-Fi  3-stream APs  802.11ac
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Roadmap

▪ 3-stream 802.11n + BeamFlex (including Tx

beamforming where it’s beneficial)
▪ 802.11ac with module upgrade
▪ Small cell backhaul for NLoS situations, with resilient
mesh connections, Wi-Fi optimized for low latency/jitter
▪ Multi-function small cell devices (LTE + Wi-Fi)
▪ More advanced mobile core integration models and
subscriber management functionality

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