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