TEMS Capacity Manager

Wireless Capacity Planning and Management Solution

(Brief Introduction)

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Brief Introduction to Capacity Management

4 Variants to Capacity Management:

1) Network Dimensioning Variant

Capacity Planning / Initial Capacity Planning

Dimensioning of network elements according to targeted

expected traffic and service KPIs (eg: how network elements
needed)

Network Planning Tools: Infovista (Mentum), Forsk, TEOCO

2) Traffic Shaping Variant (Services eg: streaming video, web

browsing)

Real-Time Traffic Shaping / Adaptive Traffic Management

Uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to identify make of traffic

Policies and advanced techniques (caching TCP optimization,

etc) to optimize traffic

Solutions: Vasona Networks, ByteMobile, BroadHop, Aircom

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4 Variants to Capacity Management:

3) Traffic Flow Identification Variant

Real-time traffic flow mapping or identification

When and where network congested, what type of traffic

What applications, users, devices contributes to congestion

Congestion Management reactive method

Solutions: Sandvine, Guavus

4) Just-in-time network augmentation through accurate forecasting

variant

Just-in-time capacity Augmentation Management

Accurate predictions of when a given carrier on a given cell

sector will need to be expanded

Inputs taken from the OSS and Operators growth forecasts

Solutions: TEMS Capacity Manager

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Key Network Capacity Planning and Management Challenges

A) Operational: Right sizing in time network capacity investment
Forecasting Traffic
Growth - across
multiple services
For each service
Sales forecast
Usage forecast
Data performance
requirements
Capacity impact

Scenario Analysis

Translating
Forecast Traffic into
Network Load

Working Across
Multiple Networks &
Capacity Options

Combining different
traffic types
Modeling network
loading
Identifying resource
bottlenecks

Comparing impact of
different capacity
growth options (and
timelines)
Managing load
across networks
4G, 3G, Wifi,

Complex
Simulation

What if Scenario
Analysis

B) Strategic: Spectrum utilization and technology migration

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Capacity Planning Challenges Across Technologies

LTE
TDMA/FDMA
One
Frequency/Timeslot per
user
Fixed Capacity

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WCDMA
One Frequency,
shared users by
code
Soft Capacity

OFDMA/SC-FDMA
One/Multiple Frequencies,
shared uses by sub
bands/carriers
Soft Capacity

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Plan Network Expansion Just-in-time

Improve CAPEX and OPEX Efficiency

Avoid premature expenditures in network

expansion

3 months

Optimize Capacity Management

Efficient management of existing network

resources/elements

Eg: unbalanced sector, relocate low usage

elements

Forecasting Traffic growth

Perform Element Level Trending to estimate the

date when capacity will be exhausted

Prioritize expansion based on revenue contribution

per cell/ Network or regional level top N

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Manage User Experience

Network Capacity focus on achieving and

maintaining User Experience KPIs (eg: to achieve
1Mbps Data & 2% blocking Voice-RRC)

Provide consistent User Experience across

different equipment vendors and technologies

What-if Analysis

Experiment effect of configuration changes,

varying traffic loads, constraining resources, and
other special events on a network, and determine
how to best remediate a capacity problem

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Add
New
Carrier
Cell

Balance
Sectors
Indoor
Cell

The User Interface

Data and Reports are Accessible via a Web Based Interface.

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Admission Regions
Easily Visualise Cell Performance

Green dots are hourly traffic samples. Samples within the blue surface
are meeting their user experience KPIs.
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Weekly Headroom Chart

Charts Displaying Historic Data Show How Available Capacity Has
Decreased Over Time.

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Headroom Report
Generate Reports showing which sites/cells need to be investigated in more detail.

Reports can be customized to only include nodes with headroom below a custom
threshold, or nodes that are forecast to run out of capacity within a given
timeframe.
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Identifies Impacted Services & Limiting Resources

Quickly Identify Resources that are Limiting Performance

Impacted Services shows which services are (in danger of) exceeding KPIs.
Limiting Resources indicate which resource is causing the service to exceed KPIs.
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Time to Expansion Report: Prioritized by Revenue

Including revenue per site enables prioritization based on potential revenue impact

Revenue per site calculation

factors in revenue per MB or
Erl per service and traffic mix

Customizable calculations
so carriers can match their
ARPU and way they relate
per service traffic to revenue

Can also be weighted to

favor different services ie
support a marketing driven
focus on video

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Forecasts - Element Level Trending

Quickly Identify when a Cell will run out of Resources

The dashed lines show traffic forecasts for different traffic types. When the dashed
line crosses into the red region KPIs are no longer being met.
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What-if Analysis Use Case: Designing Site Capacity Expansion

TEMS Capacity Manager establishes a set of models customised to each cell/site.
These models can also be used in what-if experiments to determine how configuration
changes, or different traffic loads will impact per service performance.

RAN engineers can use this experimentation capability to investigate how best to remediate a capacity
problem.
TEMS Capacity Manager will:
Identify the constraining resource(s)
Allow the engineer to compare solution options by re-running
the analysis as if each capacity expansion solution had
already been implemented.

This capability is also useful for special event planning:

experimentation on individual network elements can be performed
to understand impact of predicted load

Any combination of configuration changes, environmental changes, KPI changes and

traffic changes can be made in each experiment.

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What-if Analysis Use Case: Understanding KPI targets vs Capacity

Example:
With a median downlink user throughput KPI target of 3 Mbps this LTE Cell is operating
with 25% spare capacity for a KPI.
Modifying the KPI to a 10 Mbps median has a severe impact.

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What-if Analysis Use Case: Predicting Impact of Traffic Growth

Example: Model impact of doubling LTE Traffic

Clicking the submit

button will launch
experiments of the
changed traffic
conditions in the
unique models for
each macro cell in
the network.

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Identifying the Need for Small Cells, Hetnets, or Re-Farming

Comparing element level trending (in blue) with spectrum (capacity) availability
(in red) allows for a micro layer strategy to be evolved just in time and assists
in devising spectrum re-farming strategies that can maintain user experience.

When total WCDMA & LTE payload

at this site reaches this level, macro
layer spectrum will be exhausted.
The operator has knowledge of when
more spectrum is required and/or
when a micro layer capacity offload
solution needs to be implemented.

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