Cisco Mobility Architectures

LTE Asia, Singapore

September 2013

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DOMINANT SERVICE

Voice

Data

DEMAND

Outdoors

>80% Indoors

TRAFFIC

Predictable

DEPLOYMENT
RADIO TECHNOLOGY

Unpredictable
and Viral

Macrocells and DAS

Hierarchical
and ad-hoc

2G/3G

2G/3G/LTE/Wi-Fi

RAN VENDOR

Single E2E

Multi-vendor

COMPLEXITY

2 RATs/6 carriers

30x Nodes, 4 RATs/10 carriers

Manual

Automated

OPTIMISATION

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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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Existing
Approach

Reactive,
manual, partial

Analysis
Manual, labor
intensive, expertise

Implementation
Manual

Feedback
Manual validation,
complaints

Cycle: days to weeks one size fits all optimization

Proactive, frequent,
automatic

Automatic, RT

Automatic

Instant, continuous

Cycle: 15 minutes dynamic optimization

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Centralized SON
functions

Cisco Quantum
SON
Small Cell
Gateway
UMTS
OSS

LTE
OSS

Small Cells
Multi-Vendor
MME

RNC

RNC

dSON

dSON

dSON

eNBs

NodeBs

dSON

Cisco Universal Small

Cell dSON
dSON

dSON

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600

TOT_MOU

Loaded Cells

70000000

549

555
60000000

505

500
459

50000000

428
400

40000000
300

276

272
212

200
156

20000000

156

148

100

30000000

250

126

92

10000000

0
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

Baseline Week

SON Week

Market size - 24,476 cells

Loaded Cells Improvement = 57% less overloaded cells
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Real-time data collection

UE
Radio conditions
Mobility
Connection types
UE capabilities

Wi-Fi

RAN

Core Network

QoE &
load info

Load and performance information

Multi-layer
RAN
analytics
engine
Rules
engine
(policy)

Carrier
Wi-Fi

Offload
ANDSF

Small
cell

UMTS
NodeB

LTE
eNodeB

Steer traffic across het-net

3GPP RRM

PCEF/
DPI

Shape / throttle

Content
optimization

Real-time
dynamic
optimisation

Optimize

Real-time policy enforcement & optimization, per-UE

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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