The evolution

of indoor

cellular

networks

Ray WilliamsonDir. MBB EvolutionWN, Product Management, Europeray.williamson@huawei.com

The Perfect Storm Driving MBB Growth in Europe

90+ operators

offer unlimited packages15.8 EB/month by 2020

42% CAGR

24 23

1310 10

4 3 3

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

MBB Voice SMS

3Q16 3Q17

>300% increase

in EU MBB Roaming

+308%

+195%

+134%

Syniverse 2017 GSMA The Mobile Ecnoony Europe 2017

Increasing demand from subscribers, from EU roamers & through reduced WiFi usage

New services will drive demand for greater investment on indoor

GSMA & Huawei Wireless X-Labs

<1Mbps 10Mbps 100Mbps >1Gbps Data rate

>1s

100ms

10ms

1ms

Latency

Mobile VR

Mobile AR

Multi-person video call

Mobile Office in cloud

Real-time gaming

Disaster alert

NB-IOT Mobile HD video

Personal cloud

3D Live VideoBroadcasting

360 View Sync Video

Industrial Wireless Manufacturing

Remote Surgery (smarthealth)

Voice/VoLTE

EmailSNS

Outdoor services Indoor services Now available In future

70.15%75.64%

89.85%

79.10%

70.25%

91%87%

92%89%

82%

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ata

Q1 2017 Future (forecast 2021)

Huawei X-labs, 2017

Most services demanding the highest performance are localised

Gbps experience is the new benchmark

S8

XZ

Premium

P10 Plus

V30

MIX2

Note8

Mate 10

Pro

iPhonewill support in 2018

20+ 4RX Smartphones by 2017

2300MHz

2100MHz

1800MHz

1400MHz

900MHz

800MHz

2600MHz

X

More

Spectrum

&

Carrier

Aggregation

xTxR

&

256 QAM

X GbpsBandwidth x Spectral Efficiency

28 commercial networks, in 22 countries, are using a combination of Carrier Aggregation, 4x4 MIMO or above, & 256QAM - GSA 4Q2017 6000+ 4000+ 2000+4500+7500+

4T4R now the baseline for macro

102 Commercial Networks

50 Countries

400,000+ RRU Shipment

#1. Outdoor performance must be matched indoors

Expanding opportunities with varying requirements

Campus hospitalShopping mall

Office building Hotel

metroStadium airport

Parking lotsResidential area

Coverage Capacity

#2. The architecture must support flexible design, operation and configurationAND satisfy a range of cost points

User Density Topology

Variability Services

New business models are essential to address the market

Neutral host engages to secure service, negotiates fees etc

Neutral host sources the equipment & services

Landlords will get the E2E services and management of indoor coverage

solution from neutral host players.

Tenants will get a multi-operator indoor cellular coverage to improve

efficiency & support BYOD

Tenants will pay a premium to get multi-operator indoor cellular

coverage to landlords

Building owner will fund the network for the services provided

by neutral host player.

Neutral host connects, co-ordinates and may manage, own the system

Solution

& service

providers

MNOs

#3. The architecture must support a variety of business and operator sharing models

5G is around the corner

#4. The solution must support a smooth evolution to 5G and associated services

Smart Transportation Smart Building

Technology

Smart Water

Smart Waste

Smart Education

Smart Energy Smart Homes

Smart Healthcare

AR/VR

Smart WTTx AR/VR

LTE-V

HD Video

NB-IoT LiTRA

2020~2017

Industry4.0 Drone

Camera

uRLLCmMTC

Peak Data Rate User ExperiencedData Rate

Spectrum Efficiency

Mobility

LatencyConnection Density

Area Traffic Capacity

NetworkEnergy

Efficiency

eMBB

700M

800M900M

1400M

1800M

2100M

2300M

2600M

C-Band

(~100MHz)

mmWave

(~1GHz/

Band)

The foundation for small cell evolution

Indoor

Digitalization

Flexible

Architecture

Gbps

Experience

5G

Evolution

D-MIMO 256QAM Spectrum xTxR

Services

office

AirportMetro

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