Post on 18-Apr-2020
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5G
From hype to reality – when and
where are the satellite
opportunities?
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So what is different with 5G?
• The use cases for wireless is expanding outside the traditional
use cases of telephony and mobile broadband.
• 5G is envisioned to one day become the network of networks
and will touch and potentially disrupt many industries.
• 3GPP has a clear goal that in Release 16 and onwards that the
scope shall increase.
• Many industries seems to agree as participation is increasing
and development of new use cases are accelerating. It is a clear
that there are strong forces that are driving 5G to be much more
than a wireless standard. Industry 4.0…
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Building blocks for 5G user cases
3Source: Ericsson
Subscriber growth
• 5G Network deployments
commencing through
2019.
• Handset availability and
subscribers growth to
start taking off in 2020.
• Tier 1 operators and
equipment vendors are
ready with mature set of
tools to deploy 5G ASAP.
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5G rollout – It’s a journey as well
as a race• Race to roll out services: Evolution vs revolution
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Source: Ericsson
5G over Satellite … not right away
• 5G rollout over satellite is
predicted only to come into play
in 2024.
• 4G will continue to see strong
levels of deployment and will
become mainstay of bandwidth
and revenue growth over the
next decade.
• By 2024, 5G solutions will have
matured with MNO deploying
White Box solutions maximizing
their 5G performances. Will
MNO push these tried and
proven solutions over satellite?
• How will MNO choose to deploy
5G over satellite?
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5G over satellite
• Roll of satellite in 5G?
– Traditional roll of backhaul?
– Featured roll as service enabler (multicast media, etc)?
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FR1 FR2
Satellite .. Where is the innovation?
• Tier 1 operators leading the charge and developing new white
box (WB) concepts: 5G RAN intelligent controller, Dedicated
Internet WB, Network Cloud (WB).
• Satellite ground station vendors have traditionally rolled out
proprietary network solutions focused on internet or mobile
backhaul.
• Satellite service providers have traditionally focussed on selling
Mhz and capacity.
• There is a big opportunity for tighter integration of satellite
services with terrestrial networks and adopt open standards and
frameworks.
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5G is the industry catalyst pushing the satellite community
to evolve as a full partner into the 5G Unified Network
Infrastructure (wired, wireless, terrestrial, and satellite).
Satellite innovation examples
1. White box interoperability: Satellite evolution should
seamlessly support and interoperate with key
networking infrastructure used to support 5G (SD-
WAN, Network Slicing, hybrid multi-path backhaul).
2. Networks of Networks: 5G provides framework not
only to connect mobile services but also to create
new type of connections back to the 5GC. New
satellite based enterprise connectivity offering based
on 5G framework.
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Mobile Backhaul and 5G
May 2019
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• Recognized as the market leader in mobile backhaul
• > 20 years experience
• > 10000 sites in service
• > 3.5 Gbps to a single site supporting LTE cluster –
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Offer a complete portfolio to serve the mobile industry
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• About OI:
– Largest telecom service provider in
Brazil
– Over 50 millions subscribers
– Biggest MNO in LATAM in terms of
satellite usage: > 1.5GHz
• Two separate Heights networks
in service:
– Network 1: Manaus – Amazon
Region
▪ 2 Service Areas with over 500Mbps
of traffic (mainly LTE sites)
– Network 2: Rio de Janeiro
▪ Smaller network starting out with 1
transponder
▪ Remotes for 256Kbps to 10Mbps
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Case Study OI Brazil
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