Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX
Making Universal Broadband a Reality
Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX offering:
A complete, integrated, portfolio
of products and services with
end-to-end quality of service.
There are five main reasons for choosing Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX:
• You can turn technology into revenue with a variety of applications for fixed,
mobile and Internet service providers.
• The IEEE 802.16e standard offers full mobility and sophisticated features
(i.e., SOFDMA, AAT) for optimal usage of radio resources.
• A compact and easy to deploy solution, Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX offers significant
CAPEX and OPEX savings.
• Alcatel-Lucent has a broad solutions portfolio paired with vast expertise
in end-to-end integration and project management.
• Alcatel-Lucent is strongly committed to ecosystem openness (i.e., applications
and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)) and this is demonstrated via our open
CPE program.
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Offering Broadband Everywhere
FIXED
Enterprise Leased Lines
Machine to Machine
Connectivity
and
Communication
FIXED and MOBILE
High Speed Internet Access
Multimedia
Video Services
Instant Messaging
Push to talk
VoIP
MOBILE
Moble Gaming
On Board Entertainment
Geo Location
Security Services
Mobile Office
WiMAX: Turning Technology into Revenues
Today, consumers demand ubiquitous, always-on
broadband connectivity at low cost, anywhere they are.
Leveraging a wealth of experience in broadband and
wireless communication, and based on the latest IEEE
802.16e-2005 standards, Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX
offerings are the answer. No other offer in the industry
so effectively addresses high-end users needing seamless
broadband mobility with a single subscription and device,
while at the same time serving users in remote villages
in emerging economies that are eager to connect to
the telephone and the Internet for the first time.
From an operator standpoint, Universal WiMAX
(802.16e-2005 or Rev-e) is a flexible broadband access
technology that opens new market opportunities in:
High growth economies, where WiMAX can deliver
High-Speed Internet (HSI) access and telephony services
— via voice over IP (VoIP) — in rural and urban environments where copper is not available, and also can meet
the needs of high-end users in urban settings.
Mature Economies marked by high penetration of
telecom services, where WiMAX allows operators
to offer their customers advanced broadband services
(video, gaming, office access) “on the go” and help
address holes in broadband coverage.
Mobile Services
• High-Speed Internet browsing on the move
• Mobile VoIP
• Mobile office, push mail, mobile e-mail
• Mobile Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Mobile video gaming
• Video services (unicast streams, video on demand,
and broadcast TV)
• Push to talk, push to view
• Instant messaging
• On-board automobile entertainment, geo-location
and security services.
Fixed Services
• High-Speed Internet (wireless DSL)
• Fixed VoIP
• Enterprise leased lines
• Fixed multimedia services
• Machine-to-machine connectivity and communication
Vertical markets can also benefit from WiMAX
technology with applications in various environments
such as airports, seaports, railway stations, large enterprises, power utilities, oil platforms and more.
WiMAX also offers new entrants an efficient way to
penetrate the telecom market and challenge incumbent
operators.
A wide variety of applications — fixed, nomadic
or mobile — can be run over WiMAX, addressing
the requirements of both fixed and mobile operators
as well as ISPs or new entrants.
For example, transportation facilities can use WiMAX
to track luggage and goods, law enforcement and security
companies for rapid and flexible deployment of surveillance equipment, utility companies for telemetry and data
communications.
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Deploying WiMAX at the Lowest Cost
According to business cases developed
with operators, Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX solution
allows typical breakevens of 36 to 60 months.
IEEE 802.16e-2005 is the Right Technology
The Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX solution is a complete, end-to-end system that is fully compliant
with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. This standard affords superior performance for all types
of usage: fixed, nomadic and fully mobile. Alcatel-Lucent’s natively IP solution can be seamlessly
integrated with any IP network and efficiently complements any fixed or mobile infrastructure.
The complete WiMAX portfolio consists of carrier-grade radio-access equipment that allows
operators to deliver voice and broadband services with or without mobility to a large number
of users.
• The WiMAX Base Stations: Alcatel-Lucent 9710 Compact WiMAX Base Station (C-WBS)
and Alcatel-Lucent 9715 Light WiMAX Base Station (L-WBS) facilitate site acquisition
and installation in a wide variety of environments, while offering cost-effective operation
and flexibility for future evolution.
• The Alcatel-Lucent 9740 WiMAX Access Controller (WAC) is designed to be positioned
at the aggregation level and handles subscriber access control and authentication. It is compact
and highly scalable.
• The Alcatel-Lucent 9753 WiMAX Operation and Maintenance Center (OMC) provides easy
and cost-effective network management, operation and maintenance as well as powerful network
optimization capabilities.
Moreover, the standardized Alcatel-Lucent solution is fully interoperable with any terminal
compliant with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. Operators can therefore choose from among
a wide selection of terminals to find the devices that best fit their subscribers’ needs.
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Deploying a WiMAX Network at the Lowest Cost
The Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX solution allows operators to cost-effectively deliver wireless voice
and broadband services in both dense urban areas and rural, sparsely populated regions.
CAPEX savings are achieved because the Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX solution:
• Uses standards-based, fully interoperable technology for easier integration
and investment protection
• Minimizes the number of sites required to cover a given area thanks to Advanced Antenna
Technology (AAT) and the Extended Cell feature*
• Provides enhanced scalability and upgradeability that optimizes and preserves operators’
initial investments.
*Extended Cell feature allows a longer reach — up to 50 km from the base station — in topographically flat areas.
OPEX savings are achieved as the Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX solution:
• Is a native IP solution, requiring fewer and more cost effective network elements
• Incorporates radio network optimization tools for easier and more efficient management
of radio parameters
• Is built with plug-and-play equipment, including self-installed CPEs
• Is designed with using base stations with minimal footprint and power consumption.
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Business Benefits: Advanced Antenna Technology
Makes the Difference
WiMAX base stations
and antennas
Fewer Radio Sites and Better Capacity thanks to Advanced Antenna Technology
The acquisition and operation of radio sites represents the huge portion of
an operator’s investment. It is also a major source of deployment constraints.
With Advanced Antenna Technology, WiMAX performance can be significantly improved thereby helping you offer better service with fewer base
stations. Beam forming and MIMO are standardized features of AlcatelLucent’s Advanced Antenna Technology.
Beam forming ensures that radio power is concentrated where
the terminal devices are located and the beam is automatically adjusted as
the terminal moves. This means, as compared to a single antenna system,
equipment and site acquisition costs are substantially reduced.
Beam forming also provides significant coverage and capacity gains in macro
cellular environments. By helping achieve coverage similar to GSM/UMTS
networks, mobile operators can reuse existing radio sites.
Table 1: Beam Forming Capacity and Coverage Gains
BEA M FORMING CAPAC IT Y G AIN (AVE RAG E) COV ERA GE GAIN (AVE RAG E)
Macrocell + 50% + 50%
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In addition, beam forming strongly reduces
interference and improves indoor penetration,
hence optimizing spectrum usage ―ultimately
re-using one single frequency ―and improving
quality of service.
MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output)
allows for additional increases in capacity
and/or coverage for a given cell versus single
antenna systems. For example, MIMO offers
additional capacity from 25 percent in macrocell environments, up to 80 percent in microcellular (i.e., indoor or hotspot) environments.
Combined, these capabilities not only
increase coverage, but also help ensure highly
efficient data throughput. As a result, AlcatelLucent’s WiMAX solution offers:
• Coverage enhancements: up to 40 percent
fewer sites required to cover a given area
Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX Advanced Antenna Technology implements
both MIMO and beam forming thus enabling you to benefit from the best
combination for your network roll-out.
Figure 1. Beam Forming Concentrates Radio Power where Terminals are Located
• Capacity increases: up to twice the capacity
versus single antenna systems
• Improved indoor penetration
• Powerful interference reduction
• The capability to reuse existing 2G/3G
radio sites
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A Scalable and Powerful Solution
The innovative Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX
solution is highly cost-effective making
for substantial CAPEX and OPEX savings.
Scalable in Multiple Dimensions
The Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX solution is designed to be
highly scalable in terms of:
• Number of cells (sectors)
• Number of users per cell
• Capacity per cell
The same base station equipment easily migrates from
omni-directional to sectorized coverage and easily
accommodates capacity increases thanks to Advanced
Antenna Technology. This modularity allows efficient
growth of capacity per area, both in terms of bandwidth
and number of supported users.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9740 WiMAX Access Controller
relies on a powerful modular architecture which
efficiently facilitates network growth while minimizing
OPEX.
Fully Scalable Carrier-Grade Management Solution
The Alcatel-Lucent 9753 WiMAX Operation and
Maintenance Center (OMC) is a cost effective, fully
scalable, carrier grade management solution for small
to very large access networks counting thousands of cells
per region. It offers, in a single product, a broad range
of services and optimization tools. Coverage extension
or densification is becoming fast and easy thanks to the
advanced radio provisioning system and base station plug
and play facility. All these different features and tools
contribute to a significant OPEX reduction and a faster
deployment.
Figure 2. Alcatel-Lucent 9753 WiMAX OMC user interface
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The Multi-Standard Solution with Software Defined
GSM Software
Upgrade
GSM/
WiMAX/
Multi-
frequency
GSM/
UMTS/
WiMAX/
Multi-
frequency
or or
GSM/
UMTS/
Multi-
frequency
Radio (SDR) Technology
To allow you to reuse existing sites, even when no space
is available, Alcatel-Lucent plans to integrate multiple
technologies into multi-standard cabinets: WiMAX plus
GSM or WiMAX plus 3G in the same rack.
In addition, a new generation of innovative transceiver
modules based on Software Defined Radio (SDR)
technology are being developed. The Radio Access Point
can then be remotely configured by software from O&M
to activate one or several radio technologies (i.e., GSM,
CDMA, UMTS, WiMAX).
Figure 3. Multiple technologies in the multi-standard cabinets
The benefit of this unique generation of modules will be
reduced investment and operating expenses when reusing
existing radio sites for WiMAX. In particular, you will be
able to:
• Have WiMAX and GSM or WiMAX and UMTS
or WiMAX and CDMA in a single cabinet
• Minimize maintenance spares
• Benefit from a better flexibility in terms of frequency
resources
• Minimize power consumption
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Benefiting from an End-to-End Solution
Ethernet
Media
Gateway
Call Server
Border Session
Controller
OMC
Operation and
Maintenance Center
WAC
AAA Firewall
Packet
Aggregation
Video Services
Public Internet
IMS Core
Ou tdoor
Indoor
End-User Devices Radio Access Network Core Network and Services
Base Station
PLMN/PSTN
IMS Services
IP Backbone
Easy Integration into an End-to-end IP Network
A native IP technology, Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX can be
easily integrated into an existing network, whether that
network is based on IMS or NGN (pre-IMS).
It gives you the ability to deliver comprehensive,
multi-service wireless broadband access and introduce
innovative value-added applications and content.
Figure 4. WiMAX end-to-end architecture
Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX Radio Access Network:
Fully Compliant with IMS Standards
All of Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX Radio Access Network
components are fully compliant with the 3GPP/IMS
and TiSPAN architectures. Main features are:
• Fully standard interfaces with fixed and mobile core
networks
• Over-the-air QoS, dynamically managed per application
type, thanks to Call Acceptance Control (CAC) in the
WiMAX access controller and the base station
• End-to-end QoS management from terminal-to-terminal
or from the terminal to the application server
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Manageable Quality of Service
In order to meet each customer’s Service Level
Agreement (SLA), the Alcatel-Lucent
WiMAX solution allows operators to create
permanent connections with different QoS
levels (SLAs) on terminal entry for High-Speed
Internet and VPN services.
In addition, Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX dynamically manages the QoS over the air, call
per call, for services such as video and VoIP.
Because of the low latency, WiMAX enables
real-time applications like online gaming.
It also enables the optimal use of radio resources.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Open CPE Program
for a fully interoperable solution
One of the main objectives of service providers
is to offer a wide range of CPE with different
features and form factors, all of which
interoperate predictably with their network
infrastructure.
Alcatel-Lucent has implemented an Open CPE
Program to meet our three main objectives:
• To drive new feature availability through
partnerships and joint development
agreements with leading chipset vendors,
• To facilitate the emergence of a broader
variety of devices to stimulate the CPE
eco-system
• To enlarge commercial CPE offerings
by turning technical collaborations into
commercial agreements
In order to achieve these objectives,
Alcatel-Lucent established WiMAX
interoperability (IOT) centers in several
regions and opened a global network of
Executive Briefing Centers (EBC) where
the end-to-end solution, including terminals,
is demonstrated alongside Alcatel-Lucent’s
broad solutions portfolio.
A variety of CPE devices
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