Alvarion Carrier-grade Wi-Fi Offering February 2013.

Alvarion Carrier-grade Wi-Fi Offering

February 2013

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Proprietary and confidential.

Outline

• Alvarion carrier-grade Wi-Fi offering

• Case studies

• Summary and open discussion

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Latest WBSn Release V1.3 – News!

• New firmware v1.3.2• Market leading radio performance

• Up to double the capacity and the reach than competition

• Up-to 20Km with outdoor CPE

• New FCC products

• CPEs• WCPEn-5000-O – outdoor CPE

• WCPEn-2400-I – best-in-class, dual-zone indoor CPE

• Enhanced service flexibility• Router / NAT-Router

• Web Authentication

• MAC Authentication

300m

Alvarion w/ BF Competitor w/o BF

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Wi-Fi Market Dynamics

Operator

• Mobile

• Fixed

• Wi-Fi ISP

• …

• $0.6M (2012)

• $4M (2015)

Applications

• Hot zones, offloading, rural access, wholesale,...

Vertical Markets

• Education

• Oil and Gas

• Smart City

• Healthcare

• …

• $4M (2012)

• $6M (2015)

Applications

• Intranet, video surveillance, M2M…

Cleveland Research Company 1/2013

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Public Wi-Fi Expands

• Street coverage is seen as one of the areas of greatest deficit for Wi-Fi coverage. By 2013, the percentage of service providers planning to deploy Wi-Fi for street coverage jumps to 79%Global Service Provider Survey, April 2012, Infonetics Research

• “…sales of outdoor APsdoubling over the past year.”Mathias Machowinski, December 2012Infonetics Research

http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/press-releases/infonetics-wireless-lan-gear-star-networking-industry-tops-1-billion-quarte

• Next is 802.11ac, ~2014• Additional capacity…







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Hot Zones and 3GO – PLDT Philippines

Tier #1 Incumbent Carrier

• Nationwide

• Hot zones

• Bundling, DSL + Wi-Fi

• Web-portal authentication

• 1,000 WBSn under deployment now

• 80% indoor & 20% outdoor

• 1:10 – One WBSn replaces10 indoor radios

Network Architecture

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Performance at Customer Sites

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LocationVendor1 WBSn Vendor3

UDP(Mbps)

UDP(Mbps)

UDP(Mbps)

1Inside Reception Non-LOS 30m 7 25 1

2 Outside Reception Clear LOS 35m 27 65 25

3Loc3 Near LOS,

behind truck 50m 24 50 45

4Mango Tree Near LOS,

behind the trees 80m 25 50 40

5 Street End Non-LOS 120m 12 35 15

6 BLD 2 Outside Non-LOS 45m 15 45 0.5

7BLD reception Non-LOS 50m 1.5 12 2

8 Drive Test Car Non-LOS 98m 0.2 25 0.2

9 Fire Station Non-LOS 160m No 15 No

Colombo, Tier #1 Operator

Point Measurements

• Installation: 3 floor building

• Suburban, foliage

• End device: Acer laptop

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Nepal, Wi-Fi SP, 11/2012

Site Survey

• Sector radio comparison

• Urban, narrow streets, foliage

• 30% interference

• End device: USB 11n dongle

• Up to 36Mbps at 100m with WBSn

Alvarion Competitor

300m

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Pardes Hanna Israel, 12/2012

Site Survey

• Omni radio comparison

• Sub urban, foliage

• Low interference level, 30%

• End device: 11n CPE

• Close to 70Mbps near the WBSn base station

Alvarion Competitor

Alvarion300m

200m

100m

300m200m

100m

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Okinawa Japan, Tier#1 operator, 12/2012

Site Survey

• Sector radio test

• Urban, LOS and near-LOS, low interference

• Base station at 1st floor height installation

• End device: dual-stream laptop

• Up to 200m while competition could do up to 50m

200m

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Multi Users Performance

• Indoor test scenario• Office environment

• 2.4 GHz

• 110 ACTIVE users

• Laptops

• Handhelds

• CPEs

• WBSn outperforms• Higher capacity

• Faster user rates

• Better airtime fairness

WBSn

Competitor

WBSn Competitor


Alvarion Carrier Wi-Fi Offering

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Alvarion WBSn Solution Components

Industry’s first two-way Beamforming with 802.11n outdoor

• WBSn – Wi-Fi base stations

• WCPEn – Wi-Fi CPE• Outdoor and indoor

• WavionNet – NMS

• WCC – Wi-Fi Cloud Controller• Wi-Fi manager

• Cellular GW

• WSP – Service Provisioning• AAA and billing solutions

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Outdoor Wi-Fi Radio Challenges

Outdoor Wi-Fi ≠ Indoor Wi-Fi

• Reach, Non-Line-of-Sight

• Heavy interference

• Regulation power limits

• High multi-path delay spread

• Extremely dynamic

• Foliage

• Indoor penetration

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Beamforming Explained

Two-Way Spatially-Adaptive Beamforming

• Multiple radios

• High Gain Diversely Polarized(HGDP) antenna array

• Focus the energy, Tx and Rx

• Track movements and noisevariations – adaptable

• Exploits multipath, coherentlycombine reflections

SignalStrength

HGDPAntenna Array

8 dB Beamforming gain and12 dB HGDP antenna array gain

8 dB Beamforming gain and12 dB HGDP antenna array gain

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Field Proven Interference Immunity

Over a Decade of Outdoor Wi-Fi Experience

• Essential for large scale Wi-Fi networks (Outdoor & Indoor)

• Interference Immunity Suite• Beamforming inherent 5dB interference suppression

• Patented Dynamic Interference Handling (DIH)

• Automatic Channel Selection (ACS)• Offline

• Online with continuous scanning

• Rate Adaptation (WARA)• Optimizes performance in noisy environments

• Down Tilted Antennas (DTA)• Suppresses noise outside antenna

field-of-view

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Indoor Penetration, 50% Less CAPEX/OPEX

50mSite (Hanoi Vietnam) Alvarion Other vendor

ATI lobby 50 Mbps 15 Mbps

K.R o Café 5 Mbps No Access

Xe May Moto bike Garage 15 Mbps 2 Mbps

Under construction House 20 Mbps 3 Mbps

Computer Shop 7 Mbps No Access

M&V Shop 20 Mbps No Access

Grocery Shop 15 Mbps No Access

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Key Features and Specification

• Concurrent operation in 2.4GHz & 5GHz

• Flexible antenna field of View

• AC and DC feeding

• Total capacity of up to Gbps • 3x3:3 MIMO

• Smart antenna • Beamforming 802.11n

• High gain diversely polarized

• Dual band

• Down tilted

• Up to 512 connected users

Capacity and Coverage

2.4 GHz: 7.5dBi gainup to 43 dBm EIRP

5 GHz: 8.5dBm gain up to 43 dBm EIRP

2.4 GHz: 12dBi gainup to 48 dBm EIRP

5 GHz: 14dBi gainup to 49 dBm EIRP

Omni 2.4GHz &Sector 5GHzorOmni 5GHzSector 2.4GHz

Combined above specifications

Omni

Sector

Sector & Omni

Versatility

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WCPEn Family of CPEs

Best-in-Class Wi-Fi CPEs

• The only 2-way Beamforming indoor CPE on the market

• Extended reach

• Highest speeds

• Improved indoor signal penetration

• Fast ROI for access services

• Excellent user experience

• Interoperable with any standard Wi-Fi certified devices in both 2.4 and 5 GHz

USB Adaptor

Outdoor CPE

Indoor CPE

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Best “Wireless xDSL” Service

Wi-Fi and LAN for Residential and SME

• Extended coverage

• Indoor penetration

• High throughput

• Easy setup

CPE

WBSnWWW

WCPEn-2400-I

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Efficient Indoor Building Coverage

Innovative approach (mix outdoor & indoor radios)

Traditional approach(indoor APs only)

• Few outdoor and indoor base stations

• Minimum wiring hassle

• Easy and fast installation

• Indoor and outdoor coverage

• Reduced radiation

• Reduced power consumption

• Low TCO

• Many indoor AP’s

• Complex wiring

• Indoor only coverage

• Expensive backend switch required

• High maintenance cost

Internet

Internet

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Abuja Nigeria, Sheraton Hotel

Full wing coverage, two base stations

Suihua, China

12 residence buildings, Indoor coverage

Mumbai, India

16 floor building covered with a single

base station

Outdoor to Indoor Coverage Examples


Networking Features

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Main Networking Features

Rich Set of Features for Core Integration and Private Networks

• Quality of service (prioritization and classification)

• Bridge and router + NAT

• Wholesale business model support (multiple SSIDs)

• Built-in access controller

• Security, encryption and authentication

• RADIUS, core integration

• PasspointTM (roadmap)

• SNMP and web management

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3G/LTE Data Offloading

Indoor and Outdoor Wi-Fi

• Seamless user authentication• AAA integration, unified user profile, 802.11u

• End-to-end security• 802.1x, EAP, tunneling

• PasspointTM *

• Minimize backhauling and core loads

• Leverage on cellular core components

• Roaming and mobility* Roadmap

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Hot-Zones and Cellular Offloading GW

WCC-1000 Wi-Fi Cloud Controller (demo)

• Focal point of Wi-Fi control• RADIUS GW

• Passpoint GW

• Hides Wi-Fi complexity from cellular core• AP registration, Zero-IT (configuration and firmware), scalability

• Wholesales business model support

• In-band/out-band

• 3rd party integration• Aptilo, Aradial, Inventum, EliteCore, …

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Embedded Access Controller*

Distributed, Scalable, No Single Point of Failure

• RADIUS Authentication• EAP-SIM/AKA, web portal

• RADIUS Accounting, time and volume based

• RADIUS Authorization, limit and disconnect• Per session traffic shaping at the base station (roadmap)

• Effective SLA enforcement “at the edge”, minimized backhauling requirements

• Web redirect

• Walled garden

* License required to activate


Case Studies

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Philippines

• 549 WBSn-2450 base stations• 183 cellular towers co-location

• Dual-band access

• Multiple services• SIM authentication

• Web-portal authentication

• Integration with NSN core

Network Architecture

Tier #1 Cellular Operator

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Case Study: Russia

Tier #1 (CDMA) Cellular Carrier

• Four cities covered in project

• Cellular offload • Wi-Fi service to existing customers

• Authentication via SMS + portal

• Above 500 WBSn-2400 base stations• Distributed Access Controller

• Base station in Bridge mode

• Wireless client isolation across base stations

• NMS (WavioNet)

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Case Study: China

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom

• CAPWAP based architecture • 3rd party CAPWAP controller

• Over 10,000 Wi-Fi base stations shipped, expanding

• Metro zones and 3G offloading• Campuses, railway stations, parks,

airports and business districts

• Co-location with cellular• Minimum costs

China, numerous cities

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Case Study: South Korea

Tier #1 Cellular Operator

• 27 Wi-Fi base stations, full coverage of all airport terminals

• Multiple services• SIM authentication

• Wholesale, 2nd operator

• Terminal staff

• Free Wi-Fi service, low speed

Seoul International Airport

- - - - - - - - - - Wi-Fi Base Stations - - - - - - - - - - -

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San Pedro Day, Philippines,11/2012

Free Wi-Fi Zone to Over 100,000 People

• Excellent 2-3 Mbps user service

• Blanket service with10 WBSn-2400-S Wi-Fi base stations• Down tilted 30 deg., reducing noise level

• 100 Mbps fiber connection per AP

• 80-100 concurrent users per AP

• Mainly Apple and Android smart phones

Cebu Island, Philippines

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University of Nigeria Nsukka Campus

• The Customer• University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)

• The Project – Digital University • Wireless Internet & Intranet for students,

staff and visitors

• E-learning

• 40,000 students, 8,000 staff, 10,000 laptops

• E2E solution including Access,Backhaul, Solar Power and NMS

Google University Access Programfirst successful deployment

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Wrap-up

Main Points

• Carrier Wi-Fi is growing tremendously fast• Hotspots, hot zones, rural broadband

• Offloading

• Backhauling

• New services

• Alvarion offers a complete carrier-grade Wi-Fi offering -• Leading radio technology

• Robust

• 50% CAPEX and 50% OPEX savings

• Rich and flexible core integration

• Field proven


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Alvarion Carrier-grade Wi-Fi Offering February 2013.

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