alvarion carrier-grade wi-fi offering february 2013
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Outline
• Alvarion carrier-grade Wi-Fi offering
• Case studies
• Summary and open discussion
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Latest WBSn Release V1.3 – News!
• New firmware v1.3.2• Market leading radio performance
• Up to double the capacity and the reach than competition
• Up-to 20Km with outdoor CPE
• New FCC products
• CPEs• WCPEn-5000-O – outdoor CPE
• WCPEn-2400-I – best-in-class, dual-zone indoor CPE
• Enhanced service flexibility• Router / NAT-Router
• Web Authentication
• MAC Authentication
300m
Alvarion w/ BF Competitor w/o BF
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Wi-Fi Market Dynamics
Operator
• Mobile
• Fixed
• Wi-Fi ISP
• …
• $0.6M (2012)
• $4M (2015)
Applications
• Hot zones, offloading, rural access, wholesale,...
Vertical Markets
• Education
• Oil and Gas
• Smart City
• Healthcare
• …
• $4M (2012)
• $6M (2015)
Applications
• Intranet, video surveillance, M2M…
Cleveland Research Company 1/2013
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Public Wi-Fi Expands
• Street coverage is seen as one of the areas of greatest deficit for Wi-Fi coverage. By 2013, the percentage of service providers planning to deploy Wi-Fi for street coverage jumps to 79%Global Service Provider Survey, April 2012, Infonetics Research
• “…sales of outdoor APsdoubling over the past year.”Mathias Machowinski, December 2012Infonetics Research
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/press-releases/infonetics-wireless-lan-gear-star-networking-industry-tops-1-billion-quarte
• Next is 802.11ac, ~2014• Additional capacity…
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Hot Zones and 3GO – PLDT Philippines
Tier #1 Incumbent Carrier
• Nationwide
• Hot zones
• Bundling, DSL + Wi-Fi
• Web-portal authentication
• 1,000 WBSn under deployment now
• 80% indoor & 20% outdoor
• 1:10 – One WBSn replaces10 indoor radios
Network Architecture
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LocationVendor1 WBSn Vendor3
UDP(Mbps)
UDP(Mbps)
UDP(Mbps)
1Inside Reception Non-LOS 30m 7 25 1
2 Outside Reception Clear LOS 35m 27 65 25
3Loc3 Near LOS,
behind truck 50m 24 50 45
4Mango Tree Near LOS,
behind the trees 80m 25 50 40
5 Street End Non-LOS 120m 12 35 15
6 BLD 2 Outside Non-LOS 45m 15 45 0.5
7BLD reception Non-LOS 50m 1.5 12 2
8 Drive Test Car Non-LOS 98m 0.2 25 0.2
9 Fire Station Non-LOS 160m No 15 No
Colombo, Tier #1 Operator
Point Measurements
• Installation: 3 floor building
• Suburban, foliage
• End device: Acer laptop
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Nepal, Wi-Fi SP, 11/2012
Site Survey
• Sector radio comparison
• Urban, narrow streets, foliage
• 30% interference
• End device: USB 11n dongle
• Up to 36Mbps at 100m with WBSn
Alvarion Competitor
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Pardes Hanna Israel, 12/2012
Site Survey
• Omni radio comparison
• Sub urban, foliage
• Low interference level, 30%
• End device: 11n CPE
• Close to 70Mbps near the WBSn base station
Alvarion Competitor
Alvarion300m
200m
100m
300m200m
100m
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Okinawa Japan, Tier#1 operator, 12/2012
Site Survey
• Sector radio test
• Urban, LOS and near-LOS, low interference
• Base station at 1st floor height installation
• End device: dual-stream laptop
• Up to 200m while competition could do up to 50m
200m
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Multi Users Performance
• Indoor test scenario• Office environment
• 2.4 GHz
• 110 ACTIVE users
• Laptops
• Handhelds
• CPEs
• WBSn outperforms• Higher capacity
• Faster user rates
• Better airtime fairness
WBSn
Competitor
WBSn Competitor
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Alvarion WBSn Solution Components
Industry’s first two-way Beamforming with 802.11n outdoor
• WBSn – Wi-Fi base stations
• WCPEn – Wi-Fi CPE• Outdoor and indoor
• WavionNet – NMS
• WCC – Wi-Fi Cloud Controller• Wi-Fi manager
• Cellular GW
• WSP – Service Provisioning• AAA and billing solutions
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Outdoor Wi-Fi Radio Challenges
Outdoor Wi-Fi ≠ Indoor Wi-Fi
• Reach, Non-Line-of-Sight
• Heavy interference
• Regulation power limits
• High multi-path delay spread
• Extremely dynamic
• Foliage
• Indoor penetration
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Beamforming Explained
Two-Way Spatially-Adaptive Beamforming
• Multiple radios
• High Gain Diversely Polarized(HGDP) antenna array
• Focus the energy, Tx and Rx
• Track movements and noisevariations – adaptable
• Exploits multipath, coherentlycombine reflections
SignalStrength
HGDPAntenna Array
8 dB Beamforming gain and12 dB HGDP antenna array gain
8 dB Beamforming gain and12 dB HGDP antenna array gain
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Field Proven Interference Immunity
Over a Decade of Outdoor Wi-Fi Experience
• Essential for large scale Wi-Fi networks (Outdoor & Indoor)
• Interference Immunity Suite• Beamforming inherent 5dB interference suppression
• Patented Dynamic Interference Handling (DIH)
• Automatic Channel Selection (ACS)• Offline
• Online with continuous scanning
• Rate Adaptation (WARA)• Optimizes performance in noisy environments
• Down Tilted Antennas (DTA)• Suppresses noise outside antenna
field-of-view
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Indoor Penetration, 50% Less CAPEX/OPEX
50mSite (Hanoi Vietnam) Alvarion Other vendor
ATI lobby 50 Mbps 15 Mbps
K.R o Café 5 Mbps No Access
Xe May Moto bike Garage 15 Mbps 2 Mbps
Under construction House 20 Mbps 3 Mbps
Computer Shop 7 Mbps No Access
M&V Shop 20 Mbps No Access
Grocery Shop 15 Mbps No Access
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Key Features and Specification
• Concurrent operation in 2.4GHz & 5GHz
• Flexible antenna field of View
• AC and DC feeding
• Total capacity of up to Gbps • 3x3:3 MIMO
• Smart antenna • Beamforming 802.11n
• High gain diversely polarized
• Dual band
• Down tilted
• Up to 512 connected users
Capacity and Coverage
2.4 GHz: 7.5dBi gainup to 43 dBm EIRP
5 GHz: 8.5dBm gain up to 43 dBm EIRP
2.4 GHz: 12dBi gainup to 48 dBm EIRP
5 GHz: 14dBi gainup to 49 dBm EIRP
Omni 2.4GHz &Sector 5GHzorOmni 5GHzSector 2.4GHz
Combined above specifications
Omni
Sector
Sector & Omni
Versatility
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WCPEn Family of CPEs
Best-in-Class Wi-Fi CPEs
• The only 2-way Beamforming indoor CPE on the market
• Extended reach
• Highest speeds
• Improved indoor signal penetration
• Fast ROI for access services
• Excellent user experience
• Interoperable with any standard Wi-Fi certified devices in both 2.4 and 5 GHz
USB Adaptor
Outdoor CPE
Indoor CPE
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Best “Wireless xDSL” Service
Wi-Fi and LAN for Residential and SME
• Extended coverage
• Indoor penetration
• High throughput
• Easy setup
CPE
WBSnWWW
WCPEn-2400-I
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Efficient Indoor Building Coverage
Innovative approach (mix outdoor & indoor radios)
Traditional approach(indoor APs only)
• Few outdoor and indoor base stations
• Minimum wiring hassle
• Easy and fast installation
• Indoor and outdoor coverage
• Reduced radiation
• Reduced power consumption
• Low TCO
• Many indoor AP’s
• Complex wiring
• Indoor only coverage
• Expensive backend switch required
• High maintenance cost
Internet
Internet
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Abuja Nigeria, Sheraton Hotel
Full wing coverage, two base stations
Suihua, China
12 residence buildings, Indoor coverage
Mumbai, India
16 floor building covered with a single
base station
Outdoor to Indoor Coverage Examples
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Main Networking Features
Rich Set of Features for Core Integration and Private Networks
• Quality of service (prioritization and classification)
• Bridge and router + NAT
• Wholesale business model support (multiple SSIDs)
• Built-in access controller
• Security, encryption and authentication
• RADIUS, core integration
• PasspointTM (roadmap)
• SNMP and web management
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3G/LTE Data Offloading
Indoor and Outdoor Wi-Fi
• Seamless user authentication• AAA integration, unified user profile, 802.11u
• End-to-end security• 802.1x, EAP, tunneling
• PasspointTM *
• Minimize backhauling and core loads
• Leverage on cellular core components
• Roaming and mobility* Roadmap
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Hot-Zones and Cellular Offloading GW
WCC-1000 Wi-Fi Cloud Controller (demo)
• Focal point of Wi-Fi control• RADIUS GW
• Passpoint GW
• Hides Wi-Fi complexity from cellular core• AP registration, Zero-IT (configuration and firmware), scalability
• Wholesales business model support
• In-band/out-band
• 3rd party integration• Aptilo, Aradial, Inventum, EliteCore, …
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Embedded Access Controller*
Distributed, Scalable, No Single Point of Failure
• RADIUS Authentication• EAP-SIM/AKA, web portal
• RADIUS Accounting, time and volume based
• RADIUS Authorization, limit and disconnect• Per session traffic shaping at the base station (roadmap)
• Effective SLA enforcement “at the edge”, minimized backhauling requirements
• Web redirect
• Walled garden
* License required to activate
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Philippines
• 549 WBSn-2450 base stations• 183 cellular towers co-location
• Dual-band access
• Multiple services• SIM authentication
• Web-portal authentication
• Integration with NSN core
Network Architecture
Tier #1 Cellular Operator
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Case Study: Russia
Tier #1 (CDMA) Cellular Carrier
• Four cities covered in project
• Cellular offload • Wi-Fi service to existing customers
• Authentication via SMS + portal
• Above 500 WBSn-2400 base stations• Distributed Access Controller
• Base station in Bridge mode
• Wireless client isolation across base stations
• NMS (WavioNet)
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Case Study: China
China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
• CAPWAP based architecture • 3rd party CAPWAP controller
• Over 10,000 Wi-Fi base stations shipped, expanding
• Metro zones and 3G offloading• Campuses, railway stations, parks,
airports and business districts
• Co-location with cellular• Minimum costs
China, numerous cities
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Case Study: South Korea
Tier #1 Cellular Operator
• 27 Wi-Fi base stations, full coverage of all airport terminals
• Multiple services• SIM authentication
• Wholesale, 2nd operator
• Terminal staff
• Free Wi-Fi service, low speed
Seoul International Airport
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San Pedro Day, Philippines,11/2012
Free Wi-Fi Zone to Over 100,000 People
• Excellent 2-3 Mbps user service
• Blanket service with10 WBSn-2400-S Wi-Fi base stations• Down tilted 30 deg., reducing noise level
• 100 Mbps fiber connection per AP
• 80-100 concurrent users per AP
• Mainly Apple and Android smart phones
Cebu Island, Philippines
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University of Nigeria Nsukka Campus
• The Customer• University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)
• The Project – Digital University • Wireless Internet & Intranet for students,
staff and visitors
• E-learning
• 40,000 students, 8,000 staff, 10,000 laptops
• E2E solution including Access,Backhaul, Solar Power and NMS
Google University Access Programfirst successful deployment
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Wrap-up
Main Points
• Carrier Wi-Fi is growing tremendously fast• Hotspots, hot zones, rural broadband
• Offloading
• Backhauling
• New services
• Alvarion offers a complete carrier-grade Wi-Fi offering -• Leading radio technology
• Robust
• 50% CAPEX and 50% OPEX savings
• Rich and flexible core integration
• Field proven