Fibre to the Antenna

Eco-System and Market Drivers

 Agenda

Market Drivers

Deployment Scenarios

JDSU solutions

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Market Drivers
 4G Rollout Across EMEA – are we too late?

Germany O2 launched 07/11

T-Mobile launched 04/11
Vodafone launched 11/10

Denmark Teliasonera launched 12/11

Norway Teliasonera/Netcom launched 12/09

Sweden Tele2 launched 11/10

Netherlands Auction 2010 - rollout now

France Auctions late 2011

UK Auctions late 2012

Ireland Auctions planned 2013

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 Mobile Networks are Strained
Average Subscribers per Cell Site (US)

More Cells Required

• For example: a 700 MHz LTE network with 10
MHz, will deliver sector throughput of 15
Mbps.
• In the US alone there are on average 1000
subscribers cell site, or 333 subscribers per
sector.
• Each subscriber will be sharing 15 Mbps!

Too many users are simultaneously

using the same capacity.
• LTE/4G build out requires an order of
magnitude more cell sites.

More cell sites and Antennas Reduces the Number of Subscribers Per Cell
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 Mobile Internet Still Has Lots of Gaps

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 Multiple Radio Strategies Required

Lower cell site densities mitigate

radio spectrum efficiencies.

• Increased number of antennas, sectors.

• Fewer subscribers per sector. Macrocell Coverage Microcell Coverage

• Smaller sector sizes.

• Improve coverage & Capacities

Macrocells, Microcells, Picocells, Femtocells

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 Massive Antenna Expansion Required for 4G

An Order of Magnitude Increase Needed

– Increase capacity & coverage
– Reduce number of subscribers per sector
– Fill in coverage gaps

Macrocell expansion alone is not practical

– Costly
– Energy hungry
– Unsightly: Not In My Backyard

New Radio Access Strategies are Required

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Deployment Scenarios
 Rapidly Evolving Radio Access Networks

Radio Head
Macrocell
IP/Ethernet Mobile Mobile Switching Center
Backhaul

Baseband Unit

Mix of backhaul
Microcell methods: Copper,
Microwave, Fiber
Picocell

Compact Base Stations

RF over Fibre Base Station

“Fronthaul”
Distributed Baseband Unit

Compact Radio Heads

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 Traditional Mobile Base Station Deployment

A mobile Base Station consists of
two functional elements
– REC: Radio Equipment Controller; aka
the BBU: Base Band Unit.
2G networks: The base station is called the BTS,
– RE: Radio Equipment; aka the RRU: 3G networks: The base station is called NodeB.
Radio Remote Unit or RRH: Remote 4G networks : The base station is called eNodeB.

Radio Head

Traditional base station deployment

had RRH and BBU co-located
– Large equipment footprint, high power
consumption and high deployment costs.
– Coaxial cable connected the base station
to the antennas at the top of the tower.

Lower Cost, Simpler Deployment Options Were Needed

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 The Base Station Evolution

Physical separation of the
BBU and RRU
– Allows the RRH to be located next to
the antennas in Remote Radio Head
End (RRH) enclosures.
– Allows BBU to be optimized for size,
power and more conveniently
located.

The Start of Fiber to the Antenna

– Fiber replaces coax
– Lower loss, better performance.
– Easier to install

FTTA 1.0: Fiber Up the Tower

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 Remote Radio Head / FTTantenna

This is what they’re doing

with the fibre 100m in the air
Enclosure

RRU

Jumper

Antenna Trunk

Bring
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fibres up
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100m up
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Fully FTTA
for construction and maintenance

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 LightRadio

• New product from Alcatel Lucent

• Reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO)
of mobile networks up to 50%
• Bell Labs estimates that TCO spent by
mobile operators in mobile access in 2010
was 150 billion Euros).
• Ericsson has AIR (Antenna Integrated
Radio) – small versions arriving in 2012

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 LightRadio Creates Opportunities

A lot more fibre deployed.
More connections to terminate.

More points of failure.
Aerial and microtenched fibre.

More protocols to test.
Analog and Digital RF (e.g. CPRI).

More points to monitor.
New backhaul service revenue.

Installation, Troubleshooting, and Service Assurance Solutions Required

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 JDSU Solutions for Macrocell & Fiber BH

ONMSi

Mobile Switching Center

MTS-6000 supporting
Ethernet Testing
OTU-8000
Backhaul
monitoring

MTS-5800
Supporting Ethernet
Testing

OCC-5x OLP-35 HP2-60 FFL-050 T-BERD/MTS-2000

Optical Channel Test SmartPocket™ Inspection Scope Pocket VFL Measurement Platform SM,
w/ xWDM Apps Power Meter Power/Loss Meter Quad OTDR, Inspection, PM,
IL, ORL, VFL

End-to-End Solution Covering all Deployment Phases

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 JDSU FTTA Solutions for Macrocells

Copper Cable
Fiber Enclosure

Fiber Jumpers (3x 2f)

Fiber Trunk (24f)

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 JDSU FTTA Solutions for Microcells

Testing the “Fronthaul”:

RF over FIBER Backhaul between Radio Head and Baseband Unit

OLP-35
SmartPocket™
Power Meter

HP2-60
Inspection Scope
Power/Loss Meter

T-BERD/MTS-2000
Measurement Platform
SM, Quad OTDR,
Inspection, PM,
OCC-5x IL, ORL, VFL
Optical Channel Test
w/ xWDM Apps

1 Inspect and clean optical connectors.

FFL-050
Pocket VFL
2 Verify Power Levels

3 Perform end-to-end Loss, Return Loss and OTDR test to verify fibre continuity and link parameters.
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 Testing & Troubleshooting:
Protocol Simulation and Pre-Qualification

Qualifying the “Fronthaul”:

Validating the fibre network support for Radio over Fiber protocols.

MTS-5800 MTS6000
Layer 1 - 2.4G and 3.1G CPRI supporting CPRI
Protocol Testing

1 Qualify fibre links by running Bit Error Rate tests.

2 Validate end-to-end Digital RF protocol and data rate support.

3 Perform end-to-end Loss, Return Loss and OTDR test to verify fibre continuity and link parameters.

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 Who is the Customer?
Wholesale
Radio Head • Level3
•InterRoute Mobile Switching Center
IP/Ethernet Mobile
Contractors
RF Distributors •COLT Backhaul
• Ericsson
• RFServices
Com Carriers
Baseband Unit
• Link Mikrotek? Cable • EE
NEM • Virgin Media • O2
• Ericsson • Vodafone
• Nokia Utilities Mix of backhaul
• ALU • SP methods: Copper, Long Haul
Microwave, Fiber
• BG • BT
Carrier
Carriers
Compact Base Stations
• EE
• TIM
• Vodafone
• Vodafone Base Station
RF over Fiber
Utilities
“Fronthaul”
•? Baseband Unit
`
Neutral Host
Providers
•Arqiva
Compact Radio Heads
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