Unraveling the Mysteries of

the Next Generation RAN

Todd Mersch
Director of Product Marketing
October 25, 2011

At a Glance
Single Solutions Source

World Wide Customer Base

Protocol Software

COTS Platforms

Embedded
Wireless
Infrastructure
Solutions

Media Server

Professional
Services

Embedded Wireless Infrastructure Solutions

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Recent News & Awards

Radisys Acquires Continuous
Embedded wireless infrastructure
solutions

BTS
3G & LTE Battlefield Communications

Winner:
World Vendor Awards
Femto Forum Awards
Informa LTE Awards
World Mobile Awards

Finalist:
GSMA Awards
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Telecom Today
Demographics

Devices

Demand

Internet
Generation

Mobile Internet Devices

Internet Applications
& Content

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Data Remains The Growth Engine

Capacity

Mind The Gap

Revenue vs. Traffic Growth

Traffic
Revenues &
Traffic Gap
Widening

Voice Era
Revenues

Data Era

Traffic doubling every 12 months

Increase ARPU

VideoText
Operators Albatross

Lower cost per bit

Source: Cisco VNI

Source: Heavy Reading

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Demand Supply Challenge

Shannon Moore Divide

Moore

Divide
Shannon

LTE

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4G Deployment

Solutions

Demands
Operator
Challenges

Core

Customer
Experience
Intelligent
Traffic
Management

Core
Network
Scaling

Power
Management

Access
HetNets

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Access Side
BTM

Energy SON

Network Mutation
Macro Topology

Hierarchical Cell Structure

Courtesy AirHop Communications

Coverage Era
1990

Capacity Era
2010

The need for 4G picocells and femtocells to enhance coverage and boost
capacity in hotspots is one of the important principles for Verizon's LTE Network
-- Verizon Wireless CTO
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Cell Diversification

New Focus: Small Cells

Capacity

Macrocell

Microcell /
Picocell
Greater
Femtocell
Femtocell
Coverage
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Spectrum
The Spectrum Challenge

700MHz
2.6GHz
Digital Dividend
900 / 1800MHz re-farming

2.6 GHz
2.6 GHz

2.6 GHz

Frequency Impacts Network Costs

Increases with frequency

Cell radius ~ 30 300m

TD-LTE = Opportunity

700 MHz

FDD for Macros

TDD for Femtos

Multi-Band Deployment
2.6GHz for Femtos
700MHz for Macros

Cell radius
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~ 1 3km
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Multi-Mode Small Cells

Multi-Mode
Small Cell

Small Cell Controller

SEG

HNB GW

Core Network

Iu

3G Core

Iuh
Gn / Wm
Wu

SEG

TTG

S1
S1

SEG

HeNB GW

EPC

Increase 3G and LTE capacity and coverage in single device

Upgrade path from 3G to LTE
Convergence with operator managed WiFi (Hotspots / Enterprise)
Support for mixed subscriber base
Leverage same IP backhaul
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Operator Driven Access Side BTM

Policy Enforcement solutions supporting Broadband
traffic segregation, mobility across available networks
and aggregation to service provider

3G

Bandwidth
Management
Client

WiFi

Policy Control

QoS and
Analytics

Flow
segregation
& Mobility

Policy
Engine

Aggregation
& Protocol

LTE

IP layer

Bandwidth Management
Functions & Policy

IP Flow Segregation (different flows on different networks)

(in service provider network)

IP Flow Mobility (moving an IP flow across networks)

Context-aware Policy
Enforcement

Bandwidth Aggregation across multiple networks

(Location, battery life, speed,

application requirements, cost, etc)

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Age of HetNets
Capacity

LTE-TDD /
Femto
2.6GHz

LTE TDD
Femto
2.6GHz

LTE - TDD
Femto
2.6GHz

MultiMode
(LTETDD
2.6GHz /
3G
2.1Ghz)

Demand-based
Capacity &
Coverage

LTE FDD Networks, 700 MHz

Nationwide
Network

3G / HSPA Networks, 2.1GHz

GSM / GPRS / EDGE Networks, 900MHz / 1800MHz

Coverage
Rural

Low

Sub-urban

Urban

Broadband Proliferation
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Dense Urban

High
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HetNet Considerations
Where
Finding the hot areas
Targeted deployment

What
Hotspot vs. Hotzone

Spot

Single Dual Multi Mode

Zone

How
SON, Interference, IOT
SON

Logistics
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Logistics

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HetNet Opportunities for Innovation

Local IP
Access
Multi-Mode
RRM
Multi-Mode
Small Cell
Local 3G
Fallback
WiFi
Offloading

Internet

IP to CN
Multi-Mode
Small Cell

Hub

Multi-Mode
Small Cell

Power

Energy SON

Wireless
Backhaul
Multi-Mode
Small Cell

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DPI = Control

Video Conference
Platinum

Operator VoIP
Gaming
Bronze

Gold

Video on Demand
Email
Business Class VPN

Silver

Browsing
P2P

Tiered
SLAs

Appbased
QoS

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Maximum
Network
Monetization

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Not All Cells Are Loaded Equally!

Top 5% utilized
cells heavy on
P2P

Average cell
HTTP
Streaming
grew to 27%

Source: Allot Mobile Trends, Global Mobile Broadband Traffic, H2/2009

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Adaptive Traffic Shaping

Dense Urban
#1

Radio
Access
Network
(RAN)

RAN-Aware Traffic Shaping

- Congestion Aware
- Femto Aware
- Dynamic Network Policy
Signaling Information

Suburban
#2

RNC
ATS
Platform

Femtocell

Residential
#3

SGSN

GGSN

Femto
Gateway

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Framework

RAN
Congestion
Aware

Femto
Aware

Tiered SLA
Aware

Policy
Enforcement
Point

Application
Aware

DPI Key to Real-Time, Line-Rate, Multi-Aware Policy Enforcement

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Internet Offload Network Architecture

Offloaded data traffic to PDN
CGF

CRF

OCS

Internet
Gi
Ga
Gx
Gy

Iub
Node B

Iu
RNC

Gi

Iu
IOG

SGSN

GGSN

Legend
Signaling

Non-offloaded data traffic

Offloaded data traffic

Offloading
Bump-in-wire device
DPI application / protocol
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Minimize traffic to CN
Reduce CN OPEX / CAPEX
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IOG Anatomy
Control Plane Software
Application

Processor # 1
IuPS

Charging Stack Monitoring Stack

SGSN

Gi
Internet

IuPS

Data Plane Software

Application
Offload
Decision Block
DPI
Classification

Processor # 0
RNC

Packet
IP

~ 10 Gbps Line
Rate

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Failover RTM
Fail-towire

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Video Streaming & Optimization

384
768
kbps

768 kpbs
3Mbps

3 Mbps+
(HD)

3D?

Multi-format
Pre-store

64Kbps

Real-time
Transcode

Internet
Iub
Node B

Iu
RNC

SGSN

GGSN

Video
Optimizer

Gi

Legend
Signaling

Non-optimized data traffic

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Optimized data traffic

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Isolated RAN or Core Solutions

Not Enough for 4G
UL Traffic Flow
Aggregates

Backhaul BW
Fluctuations

DL Traffic Flow
Aggregates

Bearer

Bearer

Bearer

QCI /
QoS

QCI /
QoS

QCI /
QoS

UE
Highly Time
Sensitive
Air Interface

SGW

eNodeB

IP
Services

PDN
GW

QoS Policy &

Session Info
Signaled E2E

PCRF

Line rate traffic management from EPC

Coordinated with air interface scheduling
Adaptable to changing backhaul bandwidth limitations

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Summary
Next Generation RAN = HetNet
Multi-mode providing flexibility
Small cells for capacity & coverage

Topology alone is not enough

Blending of DPI & Wireless a must
Delivering the promise of SON

Still resource limited

Embedded
Wireless
Infrastructure
Solutions

Operator-controlled WiFi offload

Congestion, Femto, SLA, applicationaware

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23 LTE
31 Femto
21 DPI Wins!
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