4G Network Architecture Challenge

Doug Wolff

VP & GM, LTE Solutions

Alcatel-Lucent

Oct 18, 2010

Global wireless connectivity growing at a fast pace
By 2015
Mobile 7.6
7.6 5 Billion in July 2010
Connections billion
billion (source GSMA, Informa)

Smartphones ½
½ 2015: ~1/3 phones shipped
will be smartphones
billion
billion

Netbooks 300
300 2013: 300m netbooks and
million
million
UMPCs will be shipped

Mobile Internet 650 2015: 650 MIDs (UMPCs,

650 Navigation, gaming, ereader
Devices million
million device etc) sold

Machine to 615
615 2015: 615m M2M devices
Machine million
million connected

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 Increasing demands on the network

2010+
4G
High LTE

3G Real-Time
Multimedia
Network Impact

- 50-100 Mb/s peak

- High Capacity
2G Video
-
-
Low Latency
Concurrent V & D
Streaming - QoS
- Security
1G 2 Mb/s to 14.4 Mb/s
- Always ON
Web - All-IP
Browsing
Short
Messaging 128 to 384 kb/s
Low
9.6 to 240 kb/s
Low Device and Service Sophistication High
…As penetration of increasingly sophisticated devices and bandwidth-
hungry applications rises
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… requires a smooth evolution to a Wireless IP Network

Mbps/cell site
(bandwidth wholesaler)
300
Scalable Bandwidth
…at the lowest cost per bit
40

2007

7X Growth
2013
Flexible
Business

Embedded Intelligence
rules

…to enable new services

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Packet Core and Backhaul convergence
A wireless IP network for dynamic service creation and delivery

9 Common IP network for transport and wireless packet core

9 Separation of user and control planes
9 Common and/or integrated platforms

Multi-standard
BTS/NodeB/ Fiber/ Copper / Microwave
eNodeB
GSM / GPRS MME/SGSN
EDGE Wireless Packet
UMTS Core

CDMA/EV-DO Ethernet, IP and MPLS PGW/SGW/GGSN

HSPA+ Mobile Backhaul

LTE

E2E wireless IP service, policy, and network management

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 Service providers are building for new ecosystem and business models
One converged wireless IP network in support of application enablement

Subscriber Monetize content

Management and partnerships
Application Exposure Suite Exposure of APIs to
Identify and
optimize users, Control Application Enablers Context 3rd-party developers
applications, and Content Comms in a secure and
services reliable way
Converged
Service
Control

Identify & Policy-based

Analyze Enforcement

MME/SGSN PCRF

Ultimate Wireless
Packet Core
SGW/PGW/GGSN

Common IP & MPLS Network

Great opportunity for innovative players

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 Application enablement – Network control in LTE (Turbo Boost Example)

Step 1: User downloads a large

file while web browsing

Web Browsing
FTP

Required Bandwidth
Best Effort Pipe

Required Bandwidth < Available Bandwidth

QoE

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 Application enablement – Network control in LTE (Turbo Boost Example)

Step 2: User connects to Livestream to watch

a match, but the video starts to suffer!

Web Browsing
FTP

Video Streaming

Best Effort Pipe

Required Bandwidth
Required Bandwidth > Available Bandwidth

QoE

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 Application enablement – Network control in LTE (Turbo Boost Example)

Step 3: The PCRF instructs the HLN to create a dedicated

bearer channel with QoS differentiated for video

Best Effort Pipe

QoE differentiated Pipe

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 Application enablement – Network control in LTE (Turbo Boost Example)

The user is Happy!

Web Browsing
FTP

Best Effort Pipe

Video Streaming

QoE differentiated Pipe

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With wireless going multimedia…. The game has changed.

¾ To play in this game service providers require:

9 A cost effective, high-bandwidth-scalable,

intelligent network

9 Tools to monetize the broadband data

explosion

9 Minimal productivity and service

disruption as they adjust their business
and network to accommodate wireless
multimedia

9 A partner with experience in both

wireless and IP multimedia solutions

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