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Cisco Mobility Architectures LTE Asia, Singapore

September 2013

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RADIO TECHNOLOGY 2G/3G/LTE/Wi-Fi 2G/3G

RAN VENDOR Multi-vendor Single E2E

TRAFFIC Unpredictable

and Viral Predictable

DEMAND >80% Indoors Outdoors

DOMINANT SERVICE Data Voice

DEPLOYMENT Hierarchical and ad-hoc

Macrocells and DAS

OPTIMISATION Automated Manual

COMPLEXITY 30x Nodes, 4 RATs/10 carriers 2 RATs/6 carriers

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Facilitates rapid network

expansion through Plug & Play

Manages & harmonizes all RAN

technology layers

Protects network performance

during its transition to RAN 2.0

Orchestrates traffic to lower cost

to serve (SDN)

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Data Collection Analysis Implementation Feedback

Reactive,

manual, partial

Proactive, frequent,

automatic

Manual, labor

intensive, expertise

Automatic, RT

Manual

Automatic

Manual validation,

complaints

Instant, continuous

Existing

Approach

Cycle: days to weeks one size fits all optimization

Cycle: 15 minutes dynamic optimization

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Cisco Quantum

SON

UMTS

OSS

LTE

OSS

MME

NodeBs

RNC RNC

eNBs

dSON

Centralized SON

functions

Small Cell

Gateway

Small Cells

dSON

Cisco Universal Small

Cell dSON

dSON dSON

dSON

dSON dSON

Multi-Vendor

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Market size - 24,476 cells Loaded Cells Improvement = 57% less overloaded cells

Baseline Week SON Week

156

428 459

549 555

505

272

92

148

212

156

250

276

126

0

10000000

20000000

30000000

40000000

50000000

60000000

70000000

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

6/3/2012 6/4/2012 6/5/2012 6/6/2012 6/7/2012 6/8/2012 6/9/2012 6/10/2012 6/11/2012 6/12/2012 6/13/2012 6/14/2012 6/15/2012 6/16/2012

23 24

TOT_MOU Loaded Cells

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UE Wi-Fi Core Network RAN

Content

optimization

PCEF/

DPI

LTE

eNodeB UMTS

NodeB

Small

cell

Carrier

Wi-Fi

QoE &

load info

Load and performance information Radio conditions

Mobility

Connection types

UE capabilities

Real-time data collection

Real-time policy enforcement & optimization, per-UE

Offload

ANDSF

Steer traffic across het-net

3GPP RRM Shape / throttle Optimize

Multi-layer RAN

analytics engine

Rules engine (policy)

Real-time dynamic

optimisation

Extending Mobile SDN use cases into the RAN with Quantum SON

& Cisco ONE (Open Network Environment)

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Radio Access Networks need to scale, with drastically lower cost/bit

Factor increase in complexity (Multi: Technology, Vendor, Layer)

Automation is mandatory and can provide benefits Now

Centralised and distributed SON techniques

Part of the Cisco ONE SDN framework

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Thank you.