Huawei Blade RRU Solution Helps Operators Deploy the Best MBB Network

26 November 2012

Huawei Blade RRU Solution Helps Operators Deploy MBB Network
Huawei Enables World's First Commercial CSFB Voice Call with
LTE TDD Smartphone
Huawei Outlines Vision for Green e-Cities of the Future

Huawei's Largest Capacity Vectoring System Wins the InfoVision Award 2012 for Best Broadband Access - Fixed

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently launched the innovative Blade RRU solution at the company's 2012 Wireless Network User Group (WNUG) meeting. The Blade RRU's unique blade server-like design for seamless module assembly is set to establish a new industry standard for building cell sites in the mobile broadband (MBB) era. It enables flexible multi-band, multi-RAT, and multi-sector scalability for MBB networks while helping operators reduce site rental and deployment costs.

Huawei launched several innovative solutions at the WNUG event including the Blade RRU, which was presented by Ying Weimin, Huawei GSM/UMTS/LTE Product Line President.

The growth of data services has been rapid in the MBB era. Multi-band, multi-mode networks have been deployed on large scales, doubling the number of required modules for traditional sites. Traditional site space is becoming more and more insufficient, resulting in the need for more site construction and higher O&M costs. The Blade RRU is perfectly suited to meet these challenges by addressing three core competencies:

Uniquely Seamless Assembly and Scalability: The Blade RRU's modules utilize a standardized blade server-like design and are capable of seamlessly assembling into flexible combinations of different bands, modes and sectors. This greatly saves site space and reduces site rental costs to meet operator demands for network capacity for the different stages of a network's development.

Industry's Lightest and Smallest Design: The size and weight of each Blade RRU module is a mere 12L and 14kg with 50% more integration than the average industry RRU. An engineer can install a Blade RRU module in only five minutes, which greatly helps operators achieve rapid network construction and expansion.

Best RF Performance: The Blade RRU is powered by the excellent RF performance of Huawei's base stations. Thanks to efficient, industry-leading power amplifier technology that supports 60MHz IBW (instantaneous bandwidth), each 12L module is capable of transmitting power up to 2x60W while significantly reducing the number of required modules for each site. The Blade RRU also complies with all 3GPP MSR standards, supports mode migration via software configurations, supports optimizing configurations for coverage, capacity, multiple network standards, and frequency resources to help operators build the best MBB network.

Huawei Enables World's First Commercial CSFB Voice Call with LTE TDD Smartphone

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently announced that it enabled the world's first circuit switch fall back (CSFB) voice call between a LTE TDD compatible network and a UMTS network. This CSFB voice call is accessible through Huawei's STREAM 201HW smartphone, which connects with the UMTS network of SOFTBANK mobile through the AXGP (Advanced eXtended Global Platform) network. AXGP is a network compatible with the LTE TDD of Wireless City Planning Inc., a SoftBank Group company.

CSFB enables the delivery of circuit-switched voice and short message services to LTE devices. When an LTE handset makes or receives a voice call, the device 'falls back' to a UMTS network to complete the call. This feature is necessary as LTE networks are standard all-IP and packet-based, and do not support circuit-switched calls. Before deploying an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a 2G/3G network is used to provide voice service for LTE users. Operators can provide voice services for LTE users without deploying IMS for CSFB, but the latter helps operators protect their original investment and provide end-users with voice services and multi-radio access technology (RAT).

Huawei's STREAM 201HW has a customized Qualcomm Integrated Circuit (IC) chip that supports both LTE TDD (AXGP) and UMTS.

Mr. Junichi Miyakawa, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SOFTBANK MOBILE, said: "I am so pleased to be making the first CSFB voice call for this occasion. With Huawei's CSFB solution, we can easily protect our investment and provide a seamless experience for data service and voice services."

Mr. Deng Taihua, Huawei President for LTE TDD/WiMAX/TDS Networks, said: "Huawei is honored to provide SOFTBANK MOBILE with this CSFB solution. Interoperation between GSM/UMTS/LTE networks is always a concern for operators. During trials in India August last year, Huawei completed the world's first multiple live handover scenarios across GSM/UMTS/LTE. We are committed to commercializing LTE TDD key solutions for our customers."

Huawei's solutions for commercial LTE TDD deliver the best network performance, the best network convergence and the best end-to-end innovation, to provide the best user experience for customers. To date, Huawei's vision for LTE TDD has helped operators ensure continued business success throughout the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and Africa.

Huawei Outlines Vision for Green e-Cities of the Future

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, highlighted that the ICT industry has the potential to address challenges related to rapid urbanization through the implementation of intelligent solutions that help manage increasingly complicated information systems with a focus on sustainability, during its participation in the "Connected City - the Greener Future" workshop organised by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI).

"The world is undergoing a major transition as according to the UN, city dwellers will reach 4.9 billion by 2030 and 6 billion (two-thirds of the world's population) by 2050" noted Edward Chen, President of Huawei's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.

The workshop brought together leaders in the areas of telecommunications and sustainability to examine how the deployment of ICT solutions in sectors such as energy, housing and transport can turn the challenges of today's cities into opportunities for greening the world economy.

Mr. Luis Neves, Chairman, GeSI, said "The 'Connected City - The Greener Future' workshop provided a platform for companies and organizations to share experiences and best practices in green initiatives and sustainability with their counterparts in China, raising awareness of how adoption of ICT can achieve integrated social and environmental sustainability. By working with our members from the ICT sector and beyond, GeSI hopes to create and promote technologies and practices that foster economic, environmental and social sustainability, enabling the development of more connected cities and a greener future."

According to Mr. Chen, "Sustainability is part of Huawei's DNA and a strategic focus on sustainability management across our operations has helped our company to be more competitive and stable in the long-term. We have been working closely with various partners to build connected cities through the adoption of ICT technologies and have developed a series of e-city solutions that seek to construct safe, well-managed, and green cities."

Through its experience and expertise in ICT, and in line with Huawei's sustainability objectives to bridge the digital divide, promote green development, exemplify trusted corporate citizenship, and facilitate harmonious industry chain development, Huawei has developed a portfolio of competitive and efficient, end-to-end e-City green solutions, including:

Smart Transportation Solutions: An integration of cloud and ICT features that enable the sharing of transportation information over great distances and a unified control and management of transportation applications over one platform, the solution will enhance the safety of traffic, and facilitate efficient operation of public transportation;

Smart Grid Solutions: A broad portfolio of products and solutions, research and development, and partnerships with customers, business partners, distributors and system integrators that address the need of urban power systems to be safe, efficient and sustainable, promoting ease of usage, management and maintenance;

Smart Financial Solutions: Provide high-performance infrastructure network architecture, financial business collaboration, operation security, financial branch transformation and innovative solutions, that contribute to the informatization of basic network, marketing and service channels, data centers and automated business operations, enhancing connection of the financial industry as a whole.

"We hope that through this workshop, as well as our ongoing commitment to innovation and the integration of cloud and ICT in the research and development of our products and solutions, we can work with our partners, customers, employees and local communities to promote the development and application of green and sustainable initiatives everywhere we operate," said Mr. Chen.

Huawei's Largest Capacity Vectoring System Wins the InfoVision Award 2012 for Best Broadband Access - Fixed

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has won the InfoVision award for Best Broadband Access - Fixed at the Broadband World Forum 2012 by virtue of its Largest Capacity Vectoring System.

The InfoVision awards are designed to acknowledge innovative breakthroughs in fixed access networks field, and the technologies and solutions that contribute significantly to the industry by helping increase profits, reduce costs, and improve network quality as well as the user experience.

"Huawei views the InfoVision award for Best Broadband Access - Fixed as a great honor. The prestigious award makes it clear that Huawei's innovation in the fixed broadband field is highly acknowledged by the industry. Copper lines are important network resources for carriers. With new technologies such as vectoring and G. fast, Huawei is committed to helping carriers effectively utilize copper lines, quickly implement broadband strategies, and achieve business success. We will work continuously and contribute more to this field." You Yiyong, President of Huawei's Access Network Product Line said at the forum.

Vectoring is one of the latest advances in digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies and can help carriers increase the bandwidth from 8-20 Mbit/s to more than 100 Mbit/s on copper line networks. The commercial deployment of vectoring is challenged by three major obstacles: ultra bandwidth, remote sites fast deployment and reconstruction, and compatible with every customer premise equipment (CPE) as fast as possible. Huawei's Faster Vectoring System is designed focus on these challenges. The system boasts a single-pair DSL speed of 120 Mbit/s (within a distance of 250 meters). By providing system level vectoring (SLV) solutions that have the largest capacity for one single site and node level vectoring (NLV) solutions that support cross-equipment data exchanges, Huawei's Vectoring Solution has made multiple equipment's co-sites possible, overcoming the toughest obstacle for commercial deployment of vectoring sites. Zero Configuration function with stable performance to be guaranteed, for Huawei Vectoring Solution is able to adapt to different CPEs automatically.

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