Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX User manual

Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End
IP Wireless-Broadband
Solution for WiMAX
Delivering speed to market, scalability
and service evolution, cost effectively

Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End IP Wireless-Broadband Solution for WiMAX2
Operators deploying WiMAX need a reliable, streamlined way to roll out
broadband Internet and voice services today — while preparing for high-speed
growth and new mobile interactive multimedia services. Alcatel-Lucent provides
the industry’s first comprehensive package of WiMAX infrastructure and
services to meet these crucial requirements. Fully integrated and tested, the
solution includes:
•Allelementsrequiredforlaunchingessentialservices—qualityhigh-speed
Internet and voice — with minimal start-up pain and risk
•Anoptimizedend-to-endapproachthatmaintainsunrivalledQoSand
quality of experience for end users, even amid rapid expansion of subscribers
and traffic
•Thetoolsneededtointroducemobileinteractivemultimediaservices
at the right time for your WiMAX business

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Meeting the fast-paced challenges
of universal broadband
WiMAX offers operators the opportunity to capture the three main pieces
of the universal broadband industry trend in a single technology, regardless
of whether they are building on an existing business and subscriber base, or
starting from scratch:
•Ubiquity – untethering the broadband experience from fixed locations,
for access anywhere
•Always on – continuous broadband availability from the moment
the end user wakes in the morning until they retire at night
•All-IP – delivery of broadband over 100 percent IP networks offering
optimizedeconomics,simplicityandperformance
However, in deploying WiMAX today, operators find themselves in unfamiliar
territory.Theradiotechnologyisnewsostandardproceduresarenotestablished,
and even for experienced mobile service providers, the IP networking aspect is
awholenewworld.Thereisanelevatedneedforassurancesofafast,ready-to-
market approach, reduced risk and reduced network complexity — both for the
initialandsubsequentstepsinthebusiness.Signicantmarketchangesmust
be anticipated, as the arrival of mobile WiMAX devices and handhelds will soon
begin to change users’ needs from more classical PC-oriented services to more
personalizedones.Therapidramp-upinsubscribersandtrafcwillalsoputpres-
sure on service providers to maintain consistent, high-quality service delivery.
Figure 1. Today’s requirements for profitable service delivery
Strategic needs
• Move up value chain
• Make services more sticky, personalized
to leverage and monetize the
broadband connection
• New revenue streams,
business models
Operational needs
Despite rapid subscriber/
traffic growth:
• Maintain high QoS/QoE
• Control costs
Business-driver needs
• Rapid rollout
• Reliability: HSI and VoIP
• Solid terminal offer
Differentiate
offer, grow
revenue
Sustainable Expansion
3 Cs: cost-effective,
coverage and capacity
Start

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The requirements for launching a sustainable
WiMAX business play out in three steps:
Step 1: Cost-effective coverage and capacity – Theinitialneedistorollout
high-speed Internet and VoIP services quickly and economically, with a high
standardofQoSandqualityofexperience(QoE)forendusers.
Step 2: Sustainable expansion – In the next phase, as your subscriber base and
resulting network traffic grows rapidly, you must maintain this outstanding
qualityofexperienceandbeabletoscalethenetworkatoptimizedcost.
Step 3: Differentiated services that grow revenue – Finally, your competitive need
willbetodifferentiateyourserviceoffer,withpersonalizedmobilemultimedia
applications that enable you to leverage the broadband connection and move
up the value chain. Not only can these steps generate new revenue opportuni-
ties, but also allow you to take advantage of new business models.
The Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End IP
Wireless-Broadband Solution for WiMAX
Alcatel-Lucent provides the industry’s first comprehensive solution for launching
a WiMAX business and addressing the long-term challenges of rapid growth
and service evolution. It includes the essentials required for rolling out suc-
cessful high-speed Internet and VoIP services today, using a fully integrated
andtestedpackagethatacceleratestimetomarketandminimizesrisk.With
itsoptimized,end-to-endapproach,thissolutionsupportsexceptionalQoS
andQoEforendusersfromitsonset—andhelpsmaintainservicequalityas
the number of subscribers scales to mass subscriber levels. It is also designed
to give you an advanced start when you decide to introduce rich, interactive
multimediaservicesoveragrowingspectrumofmobiledevices.Thesedifferen-
tiated offerings can help increase revenues, maintain customer satisfaction and
reduce churn.

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Figure 2. Our comprehensive, end-to-end approach
Only Alcatel-Lucent offers a complete, pre-integrated package of products and
services, allowing you to fully benefit from the potential of WiMAX Rev-e
todayandthroughoutthenextwaveofmarketchallenges.Thestrengthofthis
solution is based on:
•Best-in-classWiMAXRev-etechnology
•Packet-optimizedbackhaulandtransport
•GlobalIPnetworkintegrationexpertise
•IPmasteryforunrivalledQoS/QoE
•Serviceenablersforrevenuegrowth
Subscriber
management
and payment
Backhaul and
transport
WiMAX
Rev-e access
Rev-e terminal
devices
Applications,
content
Network management
Only Alcatel-Lucent brings the complete package, allowing
operators to exploit the full potential WiMAX Rev-e
Services
Unrivalled end-to-end QoS/QoE

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Best-in-class WiMAX Rev-e
Alcatel-Lucent is the market leader
in WiMAX Rev-e access solutions
counting the number of commercial
network deployments and trials com-
pleted or underway worldwide. Our
hardened,industrializedbasestation
portfolio is in mass production, sup-
porting all frequencies — and strictly
in compliance with Rev-e standards.
Advanced antenna technology –
Alcatel-Lucent radio solutions incor-
porate beam forming and MIMO to
helpoptimizecoverageandcapacity.
Byreducinginterferenceandincreasing
spectral efficiency, beam forming offers
stable performance in all environments,
and coverage improvements can reduce
the number of sites required to estab-
lish coverage by up to 40 percent —
leading to significant reductions in
bothCAPEXandOPEX.Combined
with MIMO, capacity increases of
more than 40 percent become pos-
sible — a huge help as networks
dimension upwards.
Diversified base station portfolio – With
compact and light weight distributed
remote-radiooptions(andsoonmacro
formfactors),theAlcatel-Lucent
portfolioallowsforoptimizedcover-
age and capacity in any environment,
especially as the subscriber population
increases in density.

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WiMAX Devices – Alcatel-Lucent is a leading player in
the emergence of an open WiMAX ecosystem. We are
driving the early availability of key features by investing
inanaggressiveinteroperabilitytesting(IOT)program,
runinWiMAXIOTcentersworldwide,aswellasby
working with over 16 partners — including all major chipset
vendorsandagrowinglistofCPEsuppliers.Wearealso
reinforcingcommercialCPEofferingsthroughmultiple
go-to-market partnerships and promotional agreements
withdevicepartners.Thegoalistostimulatecompetition,
making the widest possible array of affordable device choices
availabletooperators.Tothisend,Alcatel-Lucentisactively
involvedintheWiMAXForumstandardizationandcertica-
tion process and was a founding member of the Open Patent
Alliance, formed to bring transparency to WiMAX-related
intellectual property rights.
Packet-optimized
backhaul and transport
As broadband wireless technologies like WiMAX
bring unprecedented capacity burdens, backhaul and
transport networks are becoming more critical than
ever.Theindustryislateinrealizingthisarearepre-
sents one of the highest costs in deploying a WiMAX
network.Withawiderangeofpacket-optimized
technology options, Alcatel-Lucent offers valuable
waystooptimizeboththecostofinitialdeployment
and scaling up capacity over time.
Chiefamongthesepacket-optimizedtechnologies
is microwave backhauling, where Alcatel-Lucent has
options for WiMAX — the 9500 Microwave Packet
Radio,forexample,isfullIPwithhighcapacity(2Gb/s),
andscalability.Theentiremicrowaveportfoliointe-
grates directly into the WiMAX base station cabinet
fortotalcostofownership(TCO)reductionsofupto
18 percent. Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership in fixed broad-
bandalsobringscutting-edgetechnologyIP/MPLS
aggregation and leverages any existing packet optical
infrastructure for transport.
Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR)

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Global IP network integrator expertise
Alcatel-Lucent services capabilities help provide the expertise and global
support needed to cope with the many challenges of implementing WiMAX
network and business plans. Initially, this means shorter time-to-market and
later,itmeans,growthwithoptimizedcostefcienciesanddimensioning,as
well as new service introduction.
Unparalleled global presence and experience – Alcatel-Lucent has a network of
20,000professionalsdeployedworldwide,includingcertiedprojectmanagers,
as well as 400 radio and over 300 WiMAX engineers to provide unmatched
planningandpre-launchoptimization.Alcatel-LucentoperatesthreeIPTrans-
formation Centers on three continents, which facilitate end-to-end solution
validationandpre-integration.BackingthisisunmatchedexperiencewithIP
networks, derived from leading roles in several of the world’s largest network-
transformation projects.
A broad portfolio of services–Theseofferingscanassistyouthrougheverystage
ofserviceplanning,deploymentandmaintenance.Theyinclude:
•End-to-endintegration,leveragingexistinginfrastructurewhereverpossible
tooptimizeeconomies.
•WiMAXbusinessandnetworkconsultingtohelpyouevaluatedifferent
approaches to new opportunities
•Sitelocation/acquisitionandconstructionresourcestoturnyourwireless
network plans into reality
•Managedoperationsandmaintenance,whichallowsyoutofocusonthemarket

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Tomaintainreliableperformancefor
real-time applications, such as voice
over IP and video, the Alcatel-Lucent
WiMAXsolutionmanagesQoSdy-
namically,withtrafcprioritization
acrossallnetworklevels.Starting
with the request from the end-user
device, each network level commu-
nicates with the others to determine
therequiredQoSlevelforthesession.
Thenitdynamicallychecksthenetwork
resources available, based on the
rights of the subscriber. And finally,
packets are tagged accordingly, estab-
lishingend-to-endows.Theresultis
outstandingQoS.TheAlcatel-Lucent
WiMAX solution has recorded a
voice-qualityMeanOpinionScore
of 4.1 out of 5.0 in urban field deploy-
ments – a higher level of quality than
demonstratedwithtop-qualityGSM
codecs under ideal radio conditions.
However, IP traffic is much less predict-
able than in past wireless or cellular
networks.TheAlcatel-Lucent
End-to-EndIPWireless-Broadband
SolutionforWiMAXgoeseven
further, incorporating latest innova-
tionsfromBellLabstogiveunprec-
edentedQoS/QoEguarantees.The
Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network
Guardianistherstproductonthe
market providing simultaneous, real-
time visibility over every link of the
wireless broadband network where
overload could cause the network
to crash.
IP mastery for unrivalled QoS/QoE
WiMAX access
network
DSCP/802.1p
tagging in UL PEF
Transport plane
WACBase
station
D
C
B
Application
client (SIP
user agent,
RTSP client)
WiMAX radio
interface
Session border
controllerDevice
A
Application
proxies (SIP,
RTSP proxies)
Access border
gate function
HA
Policy
function
IMS Video
streaming
NGN
DSCP/802.1p
tagging (DL/UL)
DSCP/802.1p
tagging in DL
Figure 3. Dynamic QoS managed across the network

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Whereas operators are often attentive
to high IP bandwidth consumption
suchasP2Ple-sharingbehaviors,
airtime and signaling resources can
also become exhausted. Leaving VPN
connections open for hours when
totally unused, for example, can
eat up scarce airtime resources in
the cell, and mobile e-mail deliv-
ery devices create signaling loads
disproportionate to the light IP
capacitytheyrequire.TheAlcatel-
Lucent 9900 Wireless Network
Guardianprovidesfullvisibilityinto
how real end-user behaviors impact
networkutilization,enablingQoS
adjustments in real-time and better
networkplanning.Thisrepresents
a first step into deep packet inspec-
tiontechnology.TheAlcatel-Lucent
End-to-EndIPWireless-Broadband
Solutionroadmapcallsforintegrating
application-assurance capabilities,
such as tiered service quality, into
the solution using Alcatel-Lucent
service-edge routers in the near future.
Figure 4. Innovative radio resource visibility, Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian
Airtime
E-mail devices
9900 Detector
9900 Central
IP bandwidth
APP #2 devices
WAP
HTTP
Other
Point-to-point
Packet
core
RNC
Airtime exhaustion
Base station
Signaling exhaustionBandwidth exhaustion

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Service enablers
TheAlcatel-LucentEnd-to-EndIPWireless-Broadband
SolutionforWiMAXprovidesthetoolstosupportboth
yourinitialservicerollouttoday(typicallyhigh-speed
Internetandvoice)andlaythegroundworkforrapid
launch of mobile multimedia services whenever the business
opportunitycallsforit.TheAlcatel-Lucent8610Instant
Convergent Charging software suite enables flexible options
forgrowingasubscriberbase:prepaidaccounts(scratch
cardorvoucher),instantonlinesign-up,aswellastradi-
tional post-paid accounts from its onset. For existing
operators, it allows federation of all charging platforms
intoasingleeasy-to-managedatabase,loweringOPEX.
Thereal-timechargingplatformalsoallowsoperatorsto
reduceOPEXoncustomer-carecallcenters,withWeb-
basedself-care.Thispaymentsystemisreadyforservice
evolution to interactive media and Web-based self-service,
andtheAlcatel-LucentEnd-to-EndIPWireless-Broad-
bandSolutionroadmapincludesfutureoptionstointroduce
content-based charging.

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WiththeAlcatel-LucentEnd-to-EndIPWireless-BroadbandSolutionarchitecture,
you can activate more advanced mobile multimedia services whenever the time
isright.TheAlcatel-Lucent5910MobileInteractiveTVsolutionenablesvideo
ondemand(VOD)andstreamingmusicwithaconsistentend-userexperience
across both PC and handheld terminals. It provides the required content
management, streaming, encryption and digital rights management in a single
package,alongwithaninteractiveportal.Theend-to-endsolutioncanalso
incorporateInteractiveMultimediaSubsystem(IMS),eitherimmediatelyor
as a later step. Once in place, operators can introduce rich multimedia commu-
nications services beyond consumer VoIP — for example, presence, multimedia
instantmessaging,push-to-talk/share/showandonlinedirectory.Alcatel-Lucent
IMSsolutionsalsoenableefcientcollaborationwiththird-partydevelopersto
quickly introduce differentiated, sticky new applications.

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KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
The industry’s first comprehensive end-to-end WiMAX solution,
fully integrated and tested
Helps you accelerate time to market, while minimizing costs and risk
An end-to-end IP approach, with full professional support Enables outstanding performance from onset — and helps maintain both
service quality and cost-effectiveness as the number of subscribers grows
to mass-market levels
Diverse BTS portfolio integrating advanced radio features, such as MIMO
and beam forming
Cost-optimized radio coverage and capacity
Alcatel-Lucent’s active engagement with a global device ecosystem Broadest choice of affordably priced terminal devices
Scalable, high-capacity packet microwave that integrates into WiMAX BTS
cabinets, complemented by IP/MPLS aggregation and optical transport op-
tions.
Backhaul and transport that optimize costs in both short and long term
Advanced end-to-end QoS/QoE capabilities woven into the entire network Unmatched quality of experience for end users across a full spectrum of
services, higher customer loyalty
Solution offers ability to easily launch new and differentiated mobile multi-
media services at the right time for your business
Increase revenues and customer satisfaction, reduce churn
Session
border
controller
(Home
Agent)
PSTN
PLMN
IP/MPLS
IP/MPLS backbone
Hybrid
optical packet
Devices Backhaul and transport
Subscriber management
and payment
WiMAX access control
Access Aggregation
9740
WAC
AAA server
8950/8650 Internet
DHCP/DNS
Vital QiP
7705 SAR
971x
WBS
971x
WBS
7450 ESS
(7710 SR,
7750 SR)
P2P Radio
Packet
microwave
IP/
Ethernet
Packet
microwave
971x
WBS
Network management
9900 Wireless
Network Guardian VoIP and
IP session
control (IMS)
Service
enablers
and
application
servers
9753 OMC-R
9755 RNP
9759 NPO
Prepaid
8610 ICC
Services
P2P Radio
Figure 5. The fully integrated end-to-end solution architecture

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The Alcatel-Lucent advantage
As the world’s most experienced partner for IP transfor-
mation, only Alcatel-Lucent offers a complete end-to-end
packageofWiMAXinfrastructureandservices.Thispackage
combines our market leadership in WiMAX radio and IP
networking to quickly deliver broadband Internet and voice
today. And when your business is ready to grow and add
new mobile multimedia services, the solution is ready sup-
portyournextsteps.Thefollowingkeystrengthsofthis
solution are all enhanced and supported by our leading
network integration capabilities for wireless IP broadband.
ThesolutionoffersyouaWiMAXbusinessstrategybuilt
end-to-end, and built to last.

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Field-proven WiMAX Rev-e leadership
•Worldwideleadershipinaccesswithdozens
of commercial networks, mature products, broad
BTSportfolioandradioperformanceinnovation—
including both beam forming and MIMO
•RecognizedleaderindrivinganopenCPE
device ecosystem
Universal backhaul and transport solution
•Recognizedleadershipinat-IParchitectures
•Packetmicrowave,andcutting-edgeIP/MPLS
aggregation and optics options
•Cost-optimizationforlong-termtrafcscaling
Sustainable, outstanding QoS and QoE
•End-to-endmanagedQoS
•Real-timeusagevisibilitytoincreasecontrol
over network resources
Advanced options for increasing
revenues and climbing the value chain
•Fullchargingandpaymentcapabilitiesfrom
the onset which evolves as needs change
•Enablersinplaceformobile-readyVODand
multimedia, as well as rich multimedia communications
•Aroadmaptotieredservicequality(application
assurance),andcontent-basedcharging

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