Alvarions BMAX Vision

BAWUG WiMAX Seminar Aug 5, 2004 Dr. Mo Shakouri mohammad.shakouri@alvarion.com

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Alvarion at a glance WiMAX Forum BreezeMAX Overview BMAX Mobile BMAX

Alvarion At a Glance
Worldwide leader in Wireless Broadband More than 2,000,000 units installed Installations in over 130 countries Strong OEM channels (Siemens, Alcatel, Nera, Datang) Working with more than 200 partners 720 employees (over 250 R&D engineers) Financially strong, EBITDA profitable NASDAQ traded (March 2000)

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Alvarion is partnering with Intel on putting

Standard based BWA CPE based on Intel Rosedale chip in our customer hands in early 2005.

Alvarion is fully committed to have

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Fixed/Portable and Mobile WiMAX solutions.

Extensive U.S. Deployments

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Only BWA vendor with Complete Spectrum solution of 900 MHz, 2.4 & 5 GHz, Unlicensed Bands Approximately 200,000 units deployed with over 1,000 operators Largest deployments in US AMA Techtel (Texas) Midwest Wireless (Minnesota) Wheatland Electric (Kansas)

Unparalleled Spectrum Coverage

LMDS 26/28 GHz 10.5 GHz 5GHz 3.5 GHz Confidential and Proprietary US MMDS 2.4 GHz 1.9 GHz 900 MHz 800 MHz Residential 5 SOHO
eMGW BreezeACCESS VL

WALKair 3000

BreezeMAX
BreezeACCESS OFDM

MTU

SME

MBU

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WiMAX Forum

IEEE 802.16 is the MAN technology core standard WiMAX is equivalent to Wi-Fi alliance enabling broadband wireless solutions with lower cost CPE enabling multiple vendor support

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WiMAX Forum includes leading service, application, component and system providers. Working together to define the WiMAX Profile standards. WiMAX promotes the interoperability of WiMAX profile based devices Not every 802.16 product is WiMAX WiMAX Forum has formed: Technical, Certification, Marketing, Regulatory, Service Provider and soon Application working Groups. Alvarion has strong leadership role: Board, VP Marketing, CFO, CWG Sect,
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WiMAX Forum Positioning

WiMAX Charter

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Fixed

Portable

Mobile

IEEE802.16 2004 and TGe

Air Interface standard
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Alliance

WiMAX Forum Vision

To create a global mass market for deployment of broadband wireless networks that will enable portable and mobile users maintain high-speed connectivity wherever they go. To lead the access anywhere revolution supporting delivery of data, voice and video applications at home, in the office and on the go.

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BreezeMAX
A 4th Generation System
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Based on WiMAX Profile

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BMAX - Market Phase Approach

Accessibility Anywhere Today Phase 0 Phase 1
Fixed, Portable DSL, Fixed, Portable DSL, Selected Deployment Wide Deployment

Always-On Anywhere Phase 2

Mobile, Portable DSL, Wide Deployment

Fixed Network Operator Mobile Network Operator

Fixed DSL in Fixed DSL in

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Target Applications

uncovered zones uncovered zones CLEC small CLEC small capacity/coverage capacity/coverage deployments deployments

ILEC/CLEC - ILEC/CLEC

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Portable DSL Portable DSL MNO - -Metro MNO Metro Zones Zones Public Safety / / Public Safety Enterprise Enterprise

Standard 802.16d/e Standard 802.16d/e Small Indoor CPE Small Indoor CPE Cellular Deployment & Cellular Deployment &

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Same as phase Same as phase

1: + Multi1: + Multinetwork network + Mobility + Mobility Applications Applications

Out/Indoor CPE Out/Indoor CPE Self-Install: Network Self-Install: Network

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management management Improved Link Margins Improved Link Margins AAS/Mesh, AAS/Mesh, WiMAX Forum WiMAX Forum Certified Certified

Standard 802.16e Standard 802.16e Variable CPEs Variable CPEs Movement Movement
(pedestrian, (pedestrian, vehicle) vehicle) Handoff (Intra/ Handoff (Intra/ Other Other technologies) technologies) Roaming

Who takes advantage of BMAX?

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Incumbent Fixed Service Operators (or ILEC) Competitive Local Loop Operators (or CLEC)

Dominant national operator with access & backbone infrastructure Start-up operator

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Wireless ISPs (WISPs)

Regional Players

Mobile Operators with Fixed License

Dense mobile network operator

Enterprise / Public Safety

Vertical applications

BMAX: Key Elements Of The Core Technology

Physical Layer - OFDM 200 active subcarriers (FFT size of 256 in implementation)
192 for data, 8 pilots for phase tracking (low overhead)

Variable modulation and coding

QPSK-64QAM modulations Convolutional + RS coding, R=1/2 .. 3/4

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Configurable Guard Interval

1/32, 1/16, 1/8 or 1/4 of the FFT interval Adapt the Guard Interval to bandwidth and the environment

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Uplink OFDMA with 16 subchannels

12 dB link budget gain

Mobility support
Mobile channel estimation with Mid-amble based training

Space - Time Coding support

BMAX: Key Elements Of The Core Technology

OFDM
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Breakthrough modulation for true Non-Line-of-Sight Range boosting through dynamic channel selection. Higher power concentration Range boosting through focused beam energy Interference immunity
desired interference

Sub-channelization Beam forming

Antenna diversity SDMA MIMO

era ge Ind Su bs Overcome multi-path collisions oo cr i rC be PE through optimal antenna selection r In s( st a No lle Tru Capacity k multiplierd through c Ro Tx/Rx parallel beam l ls)

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Smart Antenna

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Capacity multiplier through Multiple antenna array and Energy collection

BreezeMAX Design Guidelines

Compliance with 802.16 2004/HiperMAN (WiMAX) air protocol High Coverage and availability (Non-LoS, OFDM/A, Smart Antenna)
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High capacity, scaleable base stations configurations Multi applications multi service platform: Residential & enterprises High density and rural zones Voice, data, video, E1/T1 Various grades of SLA and QoS

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Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)

CPE types:
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Indoor self installed CPE (integrated antennas) Integrated outdoor CPE PC Card Laptop integrated
Outdoor Self Install

CPE benefits:
Interoperability and multiple vendor Support Low cost through mass production
PC Card

Laptop
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Network Management

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Remote CPE provisioning Service management Configuration management Performance monitoring Fault management Deployment topology Device discovery, device status/inventory Security management, software upgrade Web based graphical user interface (GUI) Northbound Interfaces to higher-level management systems (e.g. OSS)
Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security

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Key Issues for Operators Performance: Capacity, Throughput, Scalable Solutions

Coverage: Range, NLOS Functionality
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Quality of Service: Multi Application support Carrier Class Functionality: High Availability, Redundancy, NMS

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High Capacity Scalable BST

Multi Channel BST radios Increase capacity over the same RF infrastructure Scalable pay as you grow solution
Modem #1
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Modem #1

Radio Unit
RF

Scalable Growth

Modem #2 Modem #3

IF Mux

Radio Unit
RF

1x3.5MHz Channel = 18 Mbps Net Capacity

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Modem #4 4x3.5MHz Channel = 72 Mbps Net Capacity

Sector Capacity Example 3.5 MHz

Voice: 70mErl with 1% GOS Data over subscription - 1:10 No. 1 2 3
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G.711 Codec 3.5MHz Channel Pct 20% 28% 5% 1.0% 0.1% 39% 6% 1.4% 0.2% 100% No. of Users 47 66 10 2 92 15 3 1 236 1416

Service VoIP 256 Kbps Data 512 Kbps Data 2048 Kbps Data 4096 Kbps Data 256 Kbps Data + VoIP 512 Kbps Data + VoIP 2048 Kbps Data + VoIP 4096 Kbps Data + VoIP Total per Sector Total per 6-Sector BST

4 5 6 7 8 9
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Key Issues for Operators

Performance: Capacity, Throughput, Scalable Solutions

Coverage: Range, NLOS Functionality

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Quality of Service: Multi Application support Carrier Class Functionality: High Availability, Redundancy, NMS

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NLOS Functionality
Extended coverage and reach increases market share and revenue Easier installation reduces operation & installation costs, enabling for subscriber installed CPEs (zero install) OFDM Modulation overcomes multi-path and deep fades in parts of the spectrum

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OFDM CPE Location

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BACKUP

Service Assumptions
Deployment Scenario: Area* Households/mile2 500 1,500 4,500 15,000

Rural Suburban Low Density Suburban High Density Urban

Service Level Service Level*

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Up Link 256 Kbps 128 Kbps 96 Kbps

Down Link 1.544 Mbps 512 Kbps 256 Kbps

Take Rate 5% 30% 65%

Gold Silver Bronze

Service penetration rate of 10% Over-Subscription 20

Infrastructure Price per line <$50 in all scenarios 24

Key is reducing Customer Acquisition Cost (CPE)

Mobile BreezeMAX

Mobile BMAX Architecture

WRSC (WRAN Soft Controller) RAN AAA Proxy Mobility Management Wc1 Wc2 802.16 Air I/f BSBSServing DCF Wt1 Wn or Gn HLR

Wc3 ??? MSS

802.16 PHY+ MAC

RAN Border GW

R-P

PDSN/ FA

3GPP2 IP WAN
AAA DNS/ DHCP

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HO

Wt2 BS Target

RAN IP Network
(Internal WAN)

PDG or GGSN

3GPP IP WAN
AAA DNS/ DHCP

BGW

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Wt1
802.16 PHY+ DCF MAC

HO

802.16 PHY+ MAC

BSBSServing DCF

WRSC * For DSL Core the handoff between two RANs will not be performed.

RAN IP Network
(Internal WAN) DCF

RAN Border GW

BRAS PPPoE

BS Target 802.16

DSL IP Core
AAA DNS/ DHCP

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PHY+ MAC

BMAX RAN

Core Network

Mobile BMAX Service Objectives

Mobile DSL Accessibility Anywhere Effective User Rate (similar to DSL+) Video, data & Voice services over converged IP network Embedded QoS Real / non Real-time communication modes Embedded Multicast / Broadcast service SLA on different bases Handoff Capability Seamless Intra-Operator handoff & roaming Multimode handoff (with WiFi and 3G) Common CRM with existing network (DSL or 3G) billing, customer database, NMS, service platforms SIM Concept

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Mobile BMAX Performance Objective Capacity per Sector hundreds (>1000 subs), 10 Mbps (aggregate) Cell Range - ~1 km (urban), 25-35 km (rural) Dedicated licensed RF band (FDD or TDD) RF deployment Reuse One RF Scalability & Spectral Efficiency Hand-off timeouts 30-40 msec Hand-off frequency Pedestrian 2-3 HO/min Vehicle 10-12 HO/min
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Mobile BMAX RAN Architecture Objectives

Open modular network architecture IP-based Multi-hierarchical network structure flexible connectivity networking, various BS scalability/applications Multi-vendor interoperability standard interfacing will allow different BS in RAN Backhaul Utilization cascade traffic aggregation, flexible access to IP- core network, using standard equipment Fast Handoff between BS Smooth integration with current Fixed/Mobile core networks
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