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LTE expressMOVE FAST AND OUTCOMPETE Meet QoE expectations fast

Deliver widespread coverage and capacity

Bring the network indoors, closer to your users

Provide capacity in crowded spaces

Densify the network by building a HetNet with metro cells

Rural/remote communities also deserve excellent coverage and capacity

Provide coverage and capacity pop-up service for temporary events or emergencies

Alcatel-Lucent LTE/LTE Advanced wireless access product portfolio

Ready for virtualized RAN and 5G

Why Alcatel-Lucent LTE express



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Meet QoE expectations fastMobile data usage is soaring. Approximately

80 percent of data use occurs either in-building

where getting quality wireless service is often

challenging, or at large public events where

capacity cannot keep up with demand. Users

expect an excellent quality of experience

(QoE) wherever they are, so you need a cost-

effective way to deliver ultra-broadband

communications everywhere fast.

With Alcatel-Lucent LTE express you can

deliver 4G wireless services everywhere —

outdoors, indoors, at crowded locations and

to remote communities. Alcatel-Lucent LTE

express solution is built on products that use

Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio™ technology.

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Users want 4G services everywhere

• Deliver coverage and capacity outdoors, indoors and to rural/remote communities.

• Ensure massive capacity at crowded public venues.

• Meet demands quickly.


And it provides a cost-effective solution for

deploying coverage and capacity fast, where

it is needed most, so you can keep your

subscribers happy and increase revenues from

high margin mobile data.

To get you to market quickly, Alcatel-Lucent

also provides complete, customized wireless

LTE deployment services. We have deployed

the world’s largest wireless networks in

record time, beating time to market forecasts.

The wireless experience and expertise we

have gained, combined with our proven

methodologies and innovative Bell Labs tools,

enable us to deliver tailored, differentiated

services to any operator in any market.


Deliver widespread coverage and capacity

Indoor deployment

To deliver the QoE users expect, your network

has to provide widespread coverage and

capacity. Macro cells are an ideal solution for

urban and suburban areas and along highways.

They can be deployed indoors and outdoors

and on towers and rooftops.

For indoor deployments, Alcatel-Lucent offers

a new generation of integrated 9711 Indoor

Base Stations that meet the requirements of

any standard band macro cell site. Available in

small and compact form factors with minimal

footprints, these base stations provide optimal

flexibility for capacity deployments. They

can scale easily to meet low to very high

requirements, and they are configured for fast

and easy installation and commissioning.

For very space constrained areas, Alcatel-

Lucent offers the zero-footprint 9926

Distributed Base Station, which can be

deployed as an alternative to the 9711 Indoor

Base Station. This compact, high-capacity

baseband connects via an optical fiber and

Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) to

distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) or active

antennas. It is ideal for fast integration into any

standard 19-inch rack.

Indoor base stations

• Small footprint with small, compact form factors

• Flexible capacity scaling

• Available in integrated and distributed configurations

• Fast and easy installation and commissioning

DISTRIBUTED BASE STATION WITH RRHS

INTEGRATED BASE STATION


TOWER DEPLOYMENT

ROOFTOP DEPLOYMENT


Outdoor deployment

To withstand the rigors of the outdoors, which

include low and high temperatures, high

humidity, sun, sand, dust, and even vandalism,

Alcatel-Lucent offers the integrated 9712

Outdoor Base Stations. Built specifically for

deployment on rooftops, ground towers, and

other outdoor venues, these base stations

deliver cost-effective and unrivaled coverage

and capacity.

Available in small and compact form factors,

9712 Outdoor Base Stations offer next-

generation options for standard band macro

cell sites and provide optimal flexibility to

meet low to very high capacity requirements.

They are stackable for smooth capacity

evolution within the same footprint. And

they are available in integrated or distributed

configurations, with the distributed

configuration using fiber to provide power

and baseband signaling to the RRHs or

active antennas. Like the 9711, these base

stations offer a minimum footprint and are

configured for fast and easy installation and

commissioning.

Outdoor base stations

• Built for any outdoor requirement

• Small footprint with small, compact form factors

• Flexible low to high capacity scaling

• Stackable units for capacity growth within same footprint

• Available in integrated and distributed configurations

• Fast and easy installation and commissioning



Bring the network indoors, closer to your usersEighty percent of mobile usage occurs within

buildings, yet many users experience poor

service indoors. Glass, brick, concrete, and

other building materials weaken cellular signals

and reduce coverage. To create an excellent

in-building user experience, you need coverage

and capacity solutions that bring the cellular

signal indoors. Alcatel-Lucent offers Distributed

Antenna System (DAS) and small cell solutions

engineered to extend the reach of your

network.

DAS

DAS solutions are widely deployed because

they support multiple operators and

technologies. A DAS network can be used

to provide coverage for large indoor areas,

including public spaces with strong neutral

host requirements, such as airports, train

stations, parking garages, underground tunnels

and most sports venues. These networks are

also ideal for “sponsored” public spaces, such

as sports venues and shopping malls, which

allow for operator differentiation or operator-

unique systems to be deployed in parallel to

a neutral host solution. And DAS networks

can be deployed in large private or enterprise

spaces, like corporate campuses, hospitals,

manufacturing plants and universities, which

allow for single vendor deployments.

To address all requirements, Alcatel-Lucent

offers enhanced DAS solutions built with

unique innovations. Our basic neutral host

DAS solution allows you to dynamically shift

capacity from one part of a building to another

depending on demand. The Low Power Radio

Head (RH) DAS improves RF performance and

reduces footprint, power consumption and the

cost of radio equipment by using low power

RRHs (for example, 1W small cells) instead of

40W RRHs and attenuators.

80% of mobile use occurs inside buildings

• Deliver coverage and capacity where your subscribers expect it

• Provide higher QoS and QoE indoors

• Choose from DAS and small cell technologies

• Get to market quickly



Our Direct Baseband Unit (BBU) DAS eliminates

the need for RF processing and attenuation

panels on site by integrating the RH into the

DAS head end. Developed jointly with TE

Connectivity, this DAS option reduces the

amount of physical equipment required by

more than 50 percent, and the cost of materials

by 40 percent. Additional cost savings are also

achieved because each unit uses less power

for operation and cooling, and requires less

space and fiber. By deploying a Direct BBU DAS

in large, high-traffic venues, you can deliver

more coverage and capacity while lowering

your total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much

as 48 percent over a five year period.

Small Cells

Our small cells are low-power, small form

factor devices that can be placed almost

anywhere that people gather — indoors and

out. They provide targeted coverage, high

capacity and improved end-user QoE wherever

needed.

The 9962 Multi-Standard Enterprise Cell

with integrated Wi-Fi® is ideal for private

and enterprise spaces, such as offices,

hotels, restaurants, medical complexes, and

warehouses. For indoor public venues where

there are no strong neutral host requirements

and operator differentiation is allowed through

sponsorship, Alcatel-Lucent offers the 9764

Metro Cell Outdoor (MCO) and the 9768

Metro Radio Outdoor (MRO), as well as the

9962 Multi-Standard Enterprise Cell. All three

solutions are ideal for deployment in shopping

malls, performance halls and convention

centers.

With their different RF power output and

capacity capabilities, our small cells can cover

a variety of space and user requirements. They

enable you to deliver the quality of service

(QoS) and QoE your users expect in any indoor

environment.



Provide capacity in crowded spaces

Providing good coverage in crowded public

spaces, like stadiums, sports venues, and

concert halls is usually not a problem. But

getting enough capacity to satisfy all the

people that want to upload photos and

videos is.

Our 9768 MRO Distributed Radio System

(DRS) solution provide massive capacity for

these applications that enable you to meet

user expectations with a differentiating

service. These all-in-one radio head and

antenna modules communicate to a centralized

baseband unit, and make it easier for you to

deliver the entire bandwidth of a base station

to any location so you can ensure people

attending an event have enough capacity to

do what they want.

Deliver massive capacity where people congregate

• Give your customers the capacity they need to do what they want

• Provide higher QoS and QoE in crowded places

• Easy and fast deployment


4G LTE MACRO

SMALL CELLS AND Wi-Fi

2G/3G MACRO


Densify the network by building a HetNet with metro cellsAfter your LTE network has been deployed,

you’ll want to densify the network in areas

where more capacity is needed or in locations

where coverage is not sufficient. This can be

achieved by deploying more macro cells, metro

cells, and other small cells in targeted locations

and/or by deploying carrier Wi-Fi. Using two or

more of these flexible network access options

creates a heterogeneous network (HetNet)

A HetNet built with Alcatel-Lucent metro cells

provides cost-effective, ubiquitous coverage

and high capacity to deliver the superior QoE

your customers expect. Incremental capacity

for hotspots can be delivered quickly by

placing the 9764 MCO 1W or 2x1W directly

where needed. The 9764 MCO can be deployed

outdoors, either on the side of a building or on

street furniture, to provide capacity to either

outdoor or indoor hotspots. For large public

venues, you can also deploy the high capacity



9764 MCO 2X5W or the 9768 MRO 2X1W. And

because some Alcatel-Lucent MCOs and MROs

also support carrier Wi-Fi, you can deploy

carrier Wi-Fi from the same site and use the

same backhaul by simply securing the 9764

MCO integrated Wi-Fi module to the bottom of

a unit.

Alcatel-Lucent metro cells can also be used to

extend coverage to areas of the network that

macro cells do not reach. The 9764 MCO 1W

and 2x1W are ideal for reaching canyon-like

urban areas between high rise buildings. And

the 9768 MRO 2X5W is ideal for beaming

coverage into floors of high rise buildings from

an outdoor location.

Build a HetNet with metro cells

• Meet users’ expectation everywhere for coverage, capacity and QoE

• Leverage both licensed and unlicensed spectrum by deploying carrier Wi-Fi integrated metro cells

• Offload macro cells



Rural/remote communities also deserve excellent coverage and capacityRural and remote communities, such as villages,

camp grounds and retreats, as well as logging,

mining and oil rig camps are usually small and

not close to other communities. Getting cellular

coverage to these sites is a challenge.

Alcatel-Lucent metro cells, 9926 Distributed

Base Stations with RRHs, and 9768 MROs

can all be used to provide LTE coverage and

capacity to a remote population. Our all-in-

one metro cells are ideal for small to medium

remote communities, and our macro cell

options are well suited for medium to large

communities.

And, some units can be powered with

alternative energy, such as solar panels or

wind power, if getting electricity to a site is

difficult.

Deliver cost-effective ultra-broadband coverage

• High power RRH for wide coverage

• Easy deployment with metro cells

• Alternative energy to overcome power challenge



Provide coverage and capacity pop-up service for temporary events or emergenciesAnnual events, such outdoor music and

art festivals, parades, Independence Day

celebrations, and street racing attract

thousands of people who want to take and

upload photos and videos of the event to share

with their families and friends. This requires

much more bandwidth than the towers around

these locations can provide.

Alcatel-Lucent makes it easy to deliver the

temporary coverage and capacity you need

for these occasions with mobile metro cells

mounted on trailers or trucks. Mobile metro

cells can be deployed easily and removed

when no longer needed. And you can reuse

the same metro cells to provide temporary

capacity at different events throughout the

year in the same city. By delivering the extra

capacity users need at events, you can ensure

that your subscribers always get the QoE they

expect, whenever they need it.

Deliver ultra-broadband coverage to where it’s needed and only when needed with mobile metro cells

• Ensures excellent QoE

• Easily deployable and removable

• Reusable at different events throughout the year

• Cost-effective solution



Alcatel-Lucent LTE/LTE Advanced wireless access product portfolioAlcatel-Lucent Macro Cell Portfolio Alcatel-Lucent Small Cells Portfolio

9711 INDOORBASE STATION

9962 ENTERPRISE CELL9712 OUTDOOR BASE STATION

9764 METRO CELL OUTDOOR9926 DISTRIBUTEDBASE STATION

9768 METRORADIO OUTDOOR

LTE

LTE

W-CDMA, LTE, and Wi-Fi

2 x1W

2 x1W

TD-LTE

2 x5W

9745 ACTIVE ANTENNAS

TD-LTE LTELTE

Integrated WI-Fi AP

2 x5W 2 x5W 2 x5W



Ready for virtualized RAN and 5G

Virtualized RAN (vRAN) is where network

functions at the RAN level are reorganized

and virtualized using Network Function

Virtualization (NFV) to enable them to run

on General Purpose Platforms (GPPs). With

virtualization, functions, like base band

processing in the BBUs, go from being highly

distributed to being more centralized and

pooled. Other functions, such as video caching,

go from being highly centralized to be being

more distributed by moving closer to the

network edge. By virtualizing functions,

you can improve the performance of your

networks, increase network efficiency and

adaptability, lower TCO and improve QoE.

Alcatel-Lucent is at the forefront of vRAN

development with the first radio network

controller (RNC) function to be virtualized

and ported onto a GPP platform. Our Wireless

Cloud Element (WCE) has been running live in

the Etisalat network since the spring of 2014.

We also showcased our live virtualized BBU

(vBBU) prototype, which was developed in

conjunction with China Mobile, and announced

a strategic partnership with Intel to boost

vRAN development and adoption at MWC

2014. The first customer trial for our vRAN is

targeted for 2015.

Although 5G has not yet been defined by

any standard body, work on the first steps

to building 5G has already started. Alcatel-

Lucent is contributing to the IMT-2020

recommendations being developed by the

ITU-R and actively contributes to 3GPP, which

is expected to start a 5G study in 2015 with

release 14 and have the final specification

(release 15) ready by 2018-19. Plus, Bell

Labs is researching a new 5G air interface,

virtualization of network functions, and other

ways to optimize mobile communications.

As 5G will build on 4G LTE, Alcatel-Lucent

is also continuing to work on LTE-A, the

implementation of HetNets with small cells,

and requirements for transitioning to a cloud

architecture, which we believe are stepping

stones to 5G.

5G


Why Alcatel-Lucent LTE expressYour destination is LTE, and we’ll get you there on an LTE overlay route that is faster, simpler and future

proof. We have the products, the experience and the services to help you rapidly deliver the outstanding

LTE experience your consumer and enterprise customers are demanding


To learn more about how Alcatel-Lucent LTE express takes you to LTE sooner, contact your local Alcatel-Lucent sales representative.

FasterAvailable now: We deliver the fastest and furthest-reaching high capacity network.

Faster time to market: We have the right wireless and IP experience, expertise and services gained from deploying the world’s largest LTE networks. Our complete LTE overlay solution can be deployed in record time, beating all market estimates.

SimplerTurnkey solution: Market and network planning, site selection, network design, integration, backhaul, power, maintenance, SON and more.

Expertise of the world’s specialist in IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access with a leading portfolio spanning macro, small cells, backhaul, packet core and applications. We have built — and continue to build — the largest , highest capacity LTE networks in the world.

One throat to choke: We worry about project dependencies so you don’t have to.

Future-proofScalable architecture: LTE overlay architecture designed for huge signaling and data plane scale.

Scalable networks: Near invisible and low power small cells increase network capacity up to 10x.

Scalable operations: Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT) delivers massive near term turn-up of resources when and where needed.

Ongoing Innovation: Backed by our innovation powerhouse Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent continues to bring advanced lightRadio™ technologies and products to market. Our LTE investment is shaped by the world’s largest and most aggressive FDD and TDD operators deploying Carrier Aggregation, VoLTE, eMBMS, virtualized RAN and small cell HetNets.

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