SOLUTIONS FOR FUTURE

CAPACITY CHALLENGE
2016

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 Agenda

1. Street Connect Solution

2. K-BOW Solution

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 1.
STREET CONNECT ANTENNA
SOLUTION

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 Outdoor Small Cells for Traffic Hot Spots

Small cell problem:

 Availability of sites and transport connection was
crucial for a large scale deployment of micro
cells.

Most innovative solution:

Street Connect Antenna
 Installation in-ground
 BTS can be located in an existing manhole of
the fixed network infrastructure Street Connect Antenna (left) – BTS in
Manhole (right)
 Special antenna is placed into the ground
nearby

Source: Swisscom / Kathrein

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 Building Blocks

 Top cover and frame

Top cover
 Load bearing capacity 400 kN
 Antenna radiation system in casing Antenna module
 IP Class 68 with radiating
system
 Damping and horizontal adjustment
element Damping and
horizontal adjustment
element

Top frame

Street Connect – Building Blocks

Source: Kathrein internal

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 Radiation System
Four radiators

Azimuth
adjustment
in 10° steps

Side and top view of street connect antenna module

Source: Kathrein internal

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 Specifications

Type No. 80010235

Frequency Range MHz 1695 -2690
Gain dBi 5-8
Horizontal Pattern Quasi Omni
Max. deviation from circularity approx. ±6 dB
Vertical Pattern Several main lobes above ground level
Cross-Polar Isolation dB > 27
Max. effective power per port W 20 W (at 50°C ambient temperature)
VSWR < 1.5
Passive Intermodulation dBc < -153 (2 x 43 dBm carrier)
Polarization Dual vertical
Connector 2 x 4.3-10 female, bottom
Top Frame Outer / Inner Diameter / Height mm 425 / 315 / 100

Preliminary data

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 Radiating Pattern
1.7 GHz 2.1 GHz

2.5 GHz 2.7 GHz

Preliminary 3D antenna patterns

Source: Kathrein internal

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 First Site for Proof of Concept

Bern, Switzerland
Kornhausplatz
Source: Google Street View

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 Proof of Concept in Live Network

UE-RSRP (dBm) UE-Rank 2 (%) UE-MAC-TP (Mbps)

100 m

70 m

Street connect antenna

Influenced by
other small cell in
4m height

Measure for coverage Measure for MIMO capability Measure for data throughput

UE-RSRP = UE Reference Signal Receive Power

UE-Rank 2 = UE indication to use 2x2 MIMO
Source: Swisscom UE-MAC-TP = UE OSI Layer 2 throughput

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 Proof of Concept in Live Network

Measurements @ 2600 MHz

 Median UE-RSRP: -90 dBm

e.g. an UE-RSRP > -100 dBm means up to 70 m coverage distance

 Median UE-Rank 2 utilization: > 90%

i.e. 2x2 MIMO can be used in more than 90% of cases

 Median UE-MAC-Throughput: 70 Mbps

i.e. very good data throughput can be achieved

Integrated horizontal adjustment mechanism:

 Adaption of radiating directions to environment leading to best MIMO performance

Source: Swisscom

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 Effect of Obstacle on Top of the Antenna

UE-MAC-TP (Mbps) without UE-MAC-TP (Mbps) with obstacle

obstacle

Effect of car parking on top of Area with > 50 Mbps is reduced by 40%
the antenna
Source: Swisscom

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 Extended Pilot in Switzerland

Zurich Lausanne Basel

Target: Gain more experience in different location installation scenarios

Pilot with 17 sites

Implementation start end of 2015
Source: Swisscom

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K-BOW SOLUTION
2.
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 Growing demand

The motivation for a in-building mobile

infrastructures are versatile
 increase of customer experience in hotels,
venues and public places
 modern economic buildings with
 metalized windows
 thermal insulation
 concrete walls
 reputation of network operator
 business contract of network operator with
corporations
 serve capacity to growing demand locally
DAS Report Nov. 2014

Source: Mobile Experts

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 Micro C-RAN: Managing Dynamics

Typical modern
enterprise city building
• Traffic develops differently over the day
per building area
• Micro C-RAN saves up to 20% capacity
compared to legacy DAS solutions

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 System Architecture
Power adjustment per Optimization
band per RU Layer

Up to 64 E-Hubs and Distribution

2048 RUs, up to 3 Layer
coverage areas per E-
Hub

Up to 42 analog BTS Aggregation

sectors per C-hub Layer
subrack, multiple
subracks possible

Basestation
Pool

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 Remote Units

K-BOW Compact RU with integrated

antenna
1800MHz MIMO , 2100MHz, 2600MHz
MIMO
GSM, UMTS, LTE
21dBm EIRP per band

K-BOW Compact RU K-BOW Conntect RU

with integrated Antenna with external Antenna
K-BOW Connect RU with external antenna
900MHz, 1800MHz MIMO , 2100MHz,
2600MHz MIMO
GSM, UMTS, LTE
22dBm outputpower per band
Optional Ethernet connectivity for WiFi APs,
Building sensor networks,
Video surveillance,
Small Cells, etc.

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 The cellular data challenge

From the mobile coverage challenge to

the mobile capacity challenge
 Every two years the traffic demand
doubles
 Smartphones ae the main data consumer
 Security-guidelines requires data-traffic
over cellular for business and banking

  need to redesign the DAS every two

years

Cellular data traffic growth

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 Future proof solution to double capacity

2016

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 Future proof solution to double capacity

2016 2018

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 Future proof solution to double capacity

2016 2018 2020

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 Future proof solution to double capacity

2016 2018 2020 2022

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 Fixed-Mobile K-BOW solution
Operator Interconnect Operator Interconnect Room Business Customer: e.g. Hotel 1
Room

Fiber optical patching

Business Customer: e.g. Hotel 2

• Total fiber distance up to est.
20km (point to point connection
required (dark fiber))
• Pending on capacity demand,
MNOs can serve multiple
BTS BTS locations with a single BTS
• Carriers can be routed per MNO Business Customer: e.g. Hotel n
BTS BTS
individually
BTS BTS BTS • Sectorization per MNO individually
MNO 1

MNO 2

MNO 3

Analog coax
Digital optical
Analog optical

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 Example: City of Munich

Example Case: European

Hotel Group

• Max 20km fiber

distance from
interconnect room to
the hotel– easily
reaching the hotels city
of Munich
• For initial coverage, 1
BTS per operator could
serve e.g. 8 hotels or
even more sites of
other clients

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 K-BOW Summary

• OEM basestation vendor agnostic

• Multi-operator, multi-band, multi-standard solution

• Future proof: MIMO integrated, LTE-A feature

prepared

• Installation benefits compared to DAS

• Flexibility to remotely manage capacity demand

• Power saving options

• State of the art virtual O&M concept for easy

integration in MNOs umbrella management systems

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 THANK YOU

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