Altobridge is a leading provider of 2G/3G soluti ons for remote communiti es. With over one billion people worldwide not connected to a mobile network or an electrical grid, the solar powered Altobridge lite-site™ enables mobile network operators to deliver cost-eff ecti ve, commercially viable remote community connecti vity.

Meeti ng the needs of up to 1200 subscribers with traffi c capacity of 18 Erlang per altoPod™ (no limit with clustering), the Altobridge lite-site™ has been specifi cally designed to opti mise satellite bandwidth and minimise power consumpti on.

Data congesti on in wireless networks is a growing challenge for operators globally. Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge™ delivers aff ordable mobile broadband connecti vity for remote communiti es by reducing mobile network operators’ backhaul requirements by at least 50%.

Combining 2G/3G and VSAT technologies, the Altobridge lite-site™ provides:

Lowest backhaul bandwidth uti lisati on: 50 kbps for 2 TRX >(4kbps per call)

Lowest power consumpti on: 90W typical for 2 TRX (10W >RF output power per TRX), enabling solar-power-only sites (100% renewable energy) or lowering the cost of diesel generati on (lower genset CAPEX, lower fuel consumpti on)

Lowest site cost: the all-in-1 compact altoPod™ enables >a simpler, quicker to deploy and lower cost site than with traditi onal BTS

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Altobridge lite-site™ Architecture

Altobridge lite-site™

Satellite Backhauled, Solar Powered, 2G/3G Soluti on for Remote Communiti es

Commercial deployments to date include:Orange, Niger>Maxis, Malaysia>Indosat, Indonesia (Qtel group)>Asiacell, Iraq (Qtel group)>Safaricom, Kenya (Vodafone group)>Oman Mobile, Oman>Our Telekom, Solomon Islands>Cable & Wireless, Falkland Islands>TCC, Tonga>Mobicom, Mongolia>

Features & benefi ts4kbps bandwidth per acti ve call>Zero bandwidth required when altoPod™ is in idle mode >during off peak traffi c periodsLocal Connecti vity™ switches local calls at the altoPod™ or >within the cluster, thereby removing backhaul requirement for all local calls (also meets ETSI Lawful Intercept requirements). Intra Cluster Local switching switches calls between sites in a cluster locally, further reducing backhaul requirementChannel Quenching / Ringtone Suppression reduces >satellite backhaul requirements by allocati ng the calling party’s audio path, only when the called party answersConfi gurable AMR codecs on the backhaul minimise >bandwidth requirement and confi gurable AMR codecs on the air interface maximise quality and capacityaltoPod™ remote Radio Resource Management eliminates >latency, signifi cantly improves call set-up success rates and increases mean holding ti mes90 Watt average power consumpti on and intelligent >dormancy of non-traffi c bearing TRX during off -peak periods makes the altoPod™ the most effi cient, solar powered soluti on of its kind for remote communiti esThe all-IP outdoor altoPod™ is a 2 TRX passively cooled >BTS with built-in 10 Watt carriers, providing up to 10km coverage radius

Altobridge lite-site™ architecture is transparent to the core >network. Billing, rati ng and subscriber management are controlled by the operator’s existi ng core network at all ti mesThe network management feature, altoManager™, >provides bandwidth and network-wide monitoring capability plus BSS performance indicator stati sti cs through a single user interface

altoPod™ traffi c management features include:Handover between 3G and 2G and vice versa>Ability to force voice calls to 2G>Ability to force data calls to 3G>Using 3G for 2G voice traffi c overfl ow>

Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge™ enables mobile network operators to maximize the effi ciency of their existi ng mobile data network infrastructure by reducing mobile data backhaul requirements by over 50% through:

HTTP accelerati on for improved performance over high >latency backhaulIn-line data compression>User data caching at the remote site>Header compression>Data traffi c management (QoS, congesti on control)>Least cost-routi ng including offl oad to Internet>3G user experience>

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