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Arne Schlicke LTE Product Marketing Nokia Siemens Networks arne.schaelicke@nsn.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks in LTE

LTE supplier to 15 out of 28 operators who have commercially launched LTE networks Selected by 44 operators for commercial LTE networks LTE-ready Flexi Multiradio Base Station at more than 200 operators worldwide Worlds first 1Gb/s over the air demonstration (2004) Worlds first standard compliant LTE call on commercial HW (2009) Worlds first dynamic LTE-A demonstration on commercial HW (2011)
Canada Finland Latvia Sweden Denmark Sweden South Korea

Liquid Radio for efficient mobile broadband capacity evolution Flexi NG and Flexi NS evolved packet core with 4D-capacity scaling Global, experienced and certified professional services for LTE

Agri-Valley Communications

USA

USA

Germany

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

South Korea

USA

USA (IMS)

Portugal

Azerbaijan TD-LTE

Finland

Estonia

Japan

36 LTE radio deals, incl. 2 TD-LTE 22 LTE EPC deals

commercially launched networks

Italy

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Bahrain

Japan

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What will the world want from wireless by 2020?

Support up to 1000 times more traffic
Mobile data traffic
1000 EB

1000x

Rock solid, ubiquitous connectivity

1 EB

2010

2015

2020
2011 Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

Apps bandwidth demand

3D HD Ultra HD 3D SDTV Super HD HD
0Mbps 100Mbps 200Mbps 300

Gbps peak speeds

Millisecond latency for true local feel

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Expect the unexpected

Mobile broadband grows in step changes when the last piece falls in place

Data volume

Data volume grew with HSPA dongles Signaling grows with smartphones Subscriber volume will explode with M2M

Users have experience from the fixed internet. When the same applications appear in mobile the applications meet a prepared, ready-to-go audience
Past Today Future

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LTE development during the last 12 months

Typical European frequency scenario
2.6GHz unpaired 2.6GHz 2.1GHz 1800MHz auction auction continue auction refarm
TD-LTE 2600 LTE 2600

September 20, 2011 28 commercial LTE networks launched First networks already running LTE on 2 bands FDD mode and now also TD-LTE USB modems, smartphones, tablets,

HSPA

HSPA 2100

GSM

LTE 1800 GSM 1800

900MHz 800MHz

GSM

refarm auction

HSPA 900 GSM 900 LTE 800 2015

2009

150 100

September 20, 2010 5 commercial LTE networks launched Networks running LTE on one frequency band FDD mode USB modems (dongles)
5 Nokia Siemens Networks

50 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

121,400 LTE subscribers in first 6 months after commercial launch

15 of Nokia Siemens Networks 44 LTE customers have already commercially launched LTE , Sweden
Peak data rates
Radio Radio Radio EPC EPC Radio

Canada

Latvia
Radio

Sweden
Radio

Estonia
Radio EPC

Downlink: 102 Mbps Uplink: 40 Mbps

Average throughput (drive tests)

Finland
Radio EPC

Denmark
IMS

Japan
Radio

Downlink: 48 Mbps Uplink: 30 Mbps

Latency (drive tests)
Mobile round trip time: 21 ms (~500km distance to EPC) Handover success rates: 100 %
Drive tests performed in Gothenburg by Nokia Siemens Networks, March 2011

TD-LTE
Radio

Finland
Radio

USA
Radio

Germany
Radio

Saudi Arabia

South Korea

South Korea

Germany

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The LTE-Advanced toolbox for delivering more data efficiently to wide areas and hotspots
Enhance macro network performance
Capacity and cell edge performance enhancements by active interference cancelation Heterogeneous Networks Enables focused capacity enancement with small cells by interference coordination

Relaying

Peak data rate scaling with antenna paths for urban grid and small cells

Coordinated Multipoint

Enables focused coverage extensions with small cells by self-backhaul

Peak data rate and throughput scaling with aggregated bandwidth

8x

MIMO

MIMO

4x

Carrier Aggregation
up to 100 MHz
Carrier1 Carrier2

100 MHz Carrier3

Enable efficient use of small cells

Carrier5

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By 2020 1000 times more capacity

10x
Performance

10x
Spectrum

10x
Base stations

1000x
capacity

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By 2020 - radio can improve in spectral efficiency 10x

Spectral efficiency [bps/Hz/cell]

8 6 4 2 0

Spectral efficiency can be improved by managing inter-cell interference.

HSPA today

LTE

LTE Advanced

+ CoMP

+ UE interference cancelation

+ further innovations

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By 2020 - there can be 10x more spectrum available

Evolution of available radio spectrum

1500MHz Unlic 5GHz Unlic 2.4GHz 3700 MHz 3400 MHz 2600 MHz 2300 MHz 2100 MHz TDD 2100 MHz 1800 MHz 900 MHz 800 MHz 700 MHz 450 MHz 2010 2012 2015 2020

1000MHz

10 times more spectrum can be made available if we drive for it. Cognitive radio enables optimized spectrum usage over multiple operators

500MHz

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Four broadband challenges in an increasingly dynamic world

Location and context matter

Unlimited and unpredictable broadband growth

The revenue potential of the digital economy awaits realization

The value of traditional telco HW and SW architecture is disintegrating

Software

Hardware

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Demand is unpredictable

Different times, various locations

City

Suburbs

Sudden peaks

Residential

12am

Time

12am

25-80% overcapacity

30-50% overcapacity

User

Radio

Core

Content

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Liquid Net Unleashing the broadband opportunities of existing networks

What?
Network solution from Nokia Siemens Networks that unleashes capacity frozen within a the network adapts fluidly to unpredictable broadband demand

How?
Liquid Net: self-aware, self-adapting software-defined applications multi-purpose hardware interlinked architecture evolutionary

Why?
Enhance networks capital efficiency, releasing unused capacity up to 80% in radio up to 50% in core Superior customer experience New business potential

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How to make existing communication networks flexible

Self-aware self-adapting

Software-defined applications on multi-purpose hardware

Inter-linked architecture

Evolutionary

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Liquid Net: immediate business impact

Enablers
Self-aware Self-adapting

End-to-end network capabilities

Liquid resource allocation for enhanced capital efficiency

Software-defined apps on multi-purpose hardware

Inter-linked architecture

Liquid Net
Intelligent Broadband Management for superior customer experience

Evolutionary

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Liquid Net offers value in each network domain

Enhanced capital and operational efficiency
Radio Core Up to 80% footprint reduction Up to 65% lower energy consumption GSM/3G data to LTE with 100% reuse of HW investments Transport Backbone Up to 60% TCO savings

Liquid resource allocation

Unleash up to 80% of unused baseband capacity Providing up to 65% capacity gain in the cell

Superior customer experience and new revenues

Intelligent Broadband Management

Reduce risk of churn of 25% high-end users Explore premium revenue potential of more than 50% Increase average cell user load by more than 10%

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Liquid network solution components

Liquid Core
Intelligent Broadband Management Baseband Pooling Core Virtualization

Multi-Layer Optimization

Active Antenna System

Unified Heterogeneous Networks

Liquid Net

Flexible Optics

Intelligent Control

Liquid Radio

Liquid Transport

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The Liquid effect Fluid user demand by time and location

As traffic peaks, both capacity and bandwidth demands dramatically rise
Time of Day Usage**

High-end devices multiply traffic

Smartphone Handheld game console Tablet Mobile Phone Projector Laptop = = = = = x 24* x 60* x 122* x 300* x 515*

This internet is now mobile and so is the demand by people and things
Location Usage

* Monthly basic mobile phone data traffic Source: Cisco VNI Mobile, 2011 ** Source: Sandvine, 2010 Mobile Internet Phenomena Report

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Liquid radio Key elements

Baseband pooling Active Antenna Systems Unified & SON enabled Heterogeneous Networks
TD-LTE 6-sector sites LTE HSPA+ HSPA+ Femto LTE Femto WiFi

RRH

Active Antenna

3-sector RF model High load Beamforming, CoMP Low load

Over 10 GBPS baseband

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Liquid Core Core Virtualization

Core Applications Core Applications
Core 1 MSS MGCF Simplification and consolidation of core network

Core 2

CSCF

Decoupling hardware and software

Virtualization Software

Core n

GGSN

Open Core SW in cloud computing environment

Legacy hardware COTS ATCA multi-purpose hardware Other multi-purpose hardware

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Liquid Core Intelligent Broadband Management

End-to-end Quality of Service

CDN/ Caching

PCRF (PCS)

Browsing GW (NBG)

Content delivery, adaptation & optimization

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Liquid Transport key elements

Flexible Optics
WDM
SW-configurable bandwidth SW-configurable reach Colorless-directionless-contentionless Gridless

Multi-Layer Optimization
NPS10 & TransNet planning tools
Multi-Vendor IP with best in breed partners

Intelligent Control

MPLS-TP G-MPLS IP Ethernet OTN WDM

OTN
Sub-Lambda grooming & switching

NGOA
100 km 1000 users 1 Gbit per user

NSN Optics
Maximum efficiency, lowest TCO
Services in seconds everywhere on the network

Zero-constraint optical networking

The right balance between layers

The right mix of packet and optical

Highest capacity

Greatest flexibility

Lowest costs

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Liquid Net components proven Use what exists - build even on multi-vendor installed base
Europe: Extension from radio to E2E QoS solution EMEA: CDN for multinational carrier with e2e integration

Europe: Active antenna system for hotspot coverage and micro movement

Liquid Net

APAC: Policy control with multi-vendor enforcement points

Europe: Multi-Layer Optimization with European CSP

APAC: R99 swap with Liquid Core MSS and extension to SGSN, GGSN and MGW

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With Liquid Net we innovate todays network to meet the forthcoming broadband wave
Unleash frozen network capacity Fluidly adapt to meet unpredictable broadband demand Enhanced network capital efficiency Superior user experience and new revenues

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Thank You

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