B9 Release Feature Benefits

PCS B9 Seminar Stuttgart 2006

Market Forecasts: Voice And Mobile Data Evolution

Worldwide ARPU composition

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Voice market is expected to decrease

Despite a growing voice usage Due to price erosion

Source Pyramid

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Data: Growing proportion of ARPU and revenues. SMS, ringtones, downloads already advanced. MMS to grow up to ~25% of data revenue by 2006.

By 2007, Data Market exceeds half of Voice Revenue

Focus Session 2 January 2005

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EDGE Market Strong take-off !

Status of Deployments at November 29th 2005

172 operators commitments in 92 countries committed to deploy EDGE

More & More Handsets available 174 terminal models already launched !

Focus Session 3 January 2005

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Key Operators Challenges & Alcatel Answer With B9

Answer End-Users requirements Offer High Speed Data EDGE Data Performance Enhancement Improve Quality of Data Services

Data QoS Management

Improve 2G/3G QoS management 2G to 3G HO & 2G/3G load balancing

Increase network Coverage Cost Reduction & Optimisation

Full Support of E-GSM band Support of new BSC/MFS Evolution

Focus Session 4 Limit January 2005

2G Network Investments Facing Competition ! All rights reserved while 2004, Alcatel

> EDGE

> Data Performance Enhancement

> Data QoS management > Extended GSM (E-GSM) > 2G/3G QoS Improvements > Support of BSC/MFS Evolution
Focus Session 5 January 2005

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> EDGE

Focus Session 6 January 2005

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EDGE Benefits in 5 points

A mobile High Speed Data Bearer

Reminder
Increases Network Efficiency

On Top of GSM/GPRS Network Boost performances to over 200kb/s

Increases 2G network capacity

A Revenue Booster
Better multimedia applications/services Service differentiator for 2G subscriber base increase

A competitive Answer

An ideal complement to 3G

Versus 3G operators For churn rate reduction

Offering wide availability and good performances

UMTS EDGE

GSM/GPRS
Focus Session 7 January 2005

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Optimize Your EDGE Network Investment B9 Key Principles For EDGE Transmission
Global Target: To offer Full Flexibility to dimension & optimize your Abis consumption according to the data traffic
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BSC connectivity impact reduction

Basic Assumption for B9: in medium / low density areas:

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Few simultaneous users are using High EDGE traffic in a BTS:

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All TRXs dont perform Full Speed packet simultaneously !

Principle
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Underdimension terrestrial transmission resources, compared to full speed on Air interface on all TRX Minimum A-bis consumption All rights reserved 2004, Alcatel Maximum Data throughput

Focus Session 8 January 2005

A-bis Dynamic Allocation

Principle
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Abis
TRXs

Dynamic Abis performed at BTS level Pool of extra TS reserved for data on Abis and defined by the operator Dynamic allocation to a TRX, depending on the Packet traffic

Cell 1

TRXs

Cell 2
Cell N BTS (N Cells)

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TRXs

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Optimal usage of All Abis TS for EDGE (including Signalling TS)

Benefit ...
Less A-bis consumption ... to minimize your investments !
Focus Session 9 January 2005
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A-bis Packet Multiplexing

MCS-9 MCS-8 MCS-7 MCS-6 MCS-5 MCS-4 MCS-3 MCS-2 MCS-1 CS-4 CS-3 CS-2 0 16 32 48 64 80

EDGE data GPRS data header

With Abis Packet Multiplexing, no round up !

Aggregation of all data traffic of each TRX as one single big (bit) pipe

Throughput (kb/s)

Example: one GPRS session with 4 PDCHs in CS-3

Without Abis Packet multiplexing: With Abis Packet multiplexing:

1 PDCH = 2 GCH*
Total occupation : 8 GCH*

1 PDCH = 1.22 GCH*

Total occupation : 4.88 GCH*

* GCH = GPRS channel on Abis & Ater

Focus Session 10 January 2005
throughput (kbit/ s)

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Alcatel EDGE approach: Go for a smooth deployment

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Go for a progressive EDGE deployment:

Upgrade your BTSs to EDGE

Nb of extra Abis timeslots

30
24 18 12 6 TRX class2 TRX class4 TRX class3

Alcatel: first EDGE-ready TRX on the market ! (2001)

B8 TRX class5 B9

Deploy in high traffic hotspots to get highest revenues

Choose TRX class4 in B8

B9 allows serving more PS load

Extend EDGE coverage in areas with lower traffic

Choose TRX class2 or 3 if needed in B8 timeframe B9 allows serving highest PS throughputs with few extra Abis TS Focus Session 11
January 2005

0 PS load (nb of PS users * volume/user)

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With B9, Benefit from additional EDGE features ...

Support of 8-PSK modulation in Uplink Up to MCS9 = 59.2 kb/s per TS in UL
Take benefit from full EDGE High Speed in UL !
Scheme Modulation Rate [kbps] MCS-9 8PSK 59.2 MCS-8 8PSK 54.4 MCS-7 8PSK 44.8 MCS-6 8PSK 29.6 MCS-5 8PSK 22.4 MCS-4 GMSK 17.6 MCS-3 GMSK 14.8 MCS-2 GMSK 11.2 MCS-1 GMSK 8.8

Differentiate your data network by providing new premium services

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Emails, MMS, small video clips sending

... Send it with EDGE High speed ...

Take the picture!

Reception on screen!

Focus Session 12 January 2005

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> Data Performance Enhancement

Focus Session 13 January 2005

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Data performances enhancement To answer end-users expectations ...

GPRS Mobility Improvement ...

NETWORK ASSISTED CELL CHANGE (NACC)*

PACKET SYSTEM INFO STATUS PACKET (P)SI*

Reduce Time Duration from 4 to 1s for changing cell when a handset performs a GPRS transfer

* Supported by R4 Handsets

Improve end-user satisfaction by delivering non interrupted data communication over GPRS !
Focus Session 14 January 2005
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Data performances enhancement To answer end-users expectations ...

UL TBF* Data BSS Data DL TBF* GPRS transfer running ... *TBF = Temporary Block Flow: GPRS session

UL TBF*
BSS DL TBF*

UL & DL Connexions simultaneously maintained even for short GPRS traffic interruption

With Extended UL TBF mode

Complement feature Delayed DL TBF Release (available since B7 release) Supported by R4 handsets

Benefit:

Quick access to services (Web page, WAP service ) Gain up to 33% Ping time Estimated gain up to 30% for WAP first page
Focus Session 15 January 2005
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> Data QoS management

Focus Session 16 January 2005

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Quality Of Service: Key Market Drivers

(in Millions) Voice

only vs. Voice/Data Mobile users (WW)

Mobile data market is quickly growing

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Enabled by GPRS and now EDGE Network congestions will occur !

Source: Pyramid
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Add Quality of Service to your network Introduce different service classes

Differentiate between data services & their delivery quality

Create differentiation based on user subscriptions (gold/silver/bronze)

Face network congestions

Focus Session 17 January 2005

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Full Support of 3 Classes Of QoS... To Offer 3G Like QoS

Streaming

Audio, Video Streams

Interactive

Web Browsing, Gaming, WAP

Background
Focus Session 18 January 2005

Email download, FTP

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Full Support of 3 Classes Of QoS... Priority Management

Streaming

Interactive

Background Subscription

Focus Session 19 January 2005

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QoS Example: Data Bandwidth On The Mobile Network

Without QoS Management
MAX Video Stream 1 Web browsing MAX Video Stream 1 Video Stream 2 Video Stream 1 Web browsing Wap

With QoS Management

Web browsing
Wap Wap Email download Email DL

Service Congestion Video Streaming NOK

Video Streaming is ok!

Evolution
Focus Session 20 January 2005

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> Extended GSM (E-GSM)

Focus Session 21 January 2005

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Capacity Enhancing Features Full Support of E-GSM

G1 band benefits:
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Offers additional capacity Decreases the interference level of the P-GSM frequencies

G1-GSM band P-GSM band

880 890 E-GSM uplink 915

G1-GSM band P-GSM band

925
935 E-GSM downlink 960

Management of TCH in G1 band available since B7 release

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With B9 release: G1 band capability = primary band capability !
Signalling (BCCH/SDCCH) + Data (GPRS/EDGE) now supported in G1 band = Full Flexibility !

Focus Session 22 January 2005

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> 2G/3G QoS Improvements

Focus Session 23 January 2005

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2G/3G synergies Improve Quality of Service

Handover

2G to 3G Handover

CS call

3G camping

2G
For Voice Calls only

2G/3G load balancing

2G

3G

Avoid 2G overload due to incoming 3G to 2G HO

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camping

3G

Handover

CS call

Solution: filtering of 3G to 2G handover:

2G

CS call

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Incoming non critical 3G HO are rejected upon load in 2G layer

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SysInfo 2 Quater Scheduling

Reduce the number of times calls are established in 2G instead of 3G, due to too long messages (Sys Info) acquisition
Improve the QoS !

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Improve 3G camping strategy

Focus Session 24 January 2005
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> Support of BSC/MFS Evolution

Focus Session 25 January 2005

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BSC/MFS Evolution
Capacity up to 2,000 TRXs per rack High granularity of 200 TRX capacity per board MFS (PCU) stand up to 21+1 GP per rack

Combination in one rack for BSC-MFS solution with full flexibility Reuse of application SW between Hardware platforms
G2 BSC/ MFS can co-exist with BSC/MFS evolution: No need to replace installed base Installation & Maintenance costs optimized Enhanced O&M
Focus Session 26 January 2005

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B9 Main Features
EDGE throuput
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8-PSK & IR in Uplink

GPRS
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Support of BSC/MFS Evolution

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Access time Extended UL TBF Mode Mobility improvement NACC + (P)SI Status

Main
2G <>3G
2G to 3G HO > Load based 3G HO filtering > SI2quater scheduling
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Enhanced transmission

Telecom features

A-bis dynamic allocation GCH Statistical Multiplexing

GPRS QoS
R99 QoS and PFC > Streaming services...
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Improvement of E-GSM support

Focus Session 27 January 2005

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