SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING

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1 SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING INDEX Index Table of Contents Table of Contents... i List of Figures... vi Executive summary Introduction to small cells and Wi-Fi offloading Introduction Continued growth in mobile subscriptions and handset sales Broadband services drive fixed-line connection growth Fixed-mobile convergence and fixed-mobile substitution market trends Global mobile data traffic grows along with increasing smartphone adoption Communication network technology evolution Wireless technologies Fixed-line broadband technologies Mobile network capacity improvement strategies Macro layer improvements Macro layer densification Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) Femtocells Wi-Fi network integration and mobile data offloading Small cell and Wi-Fi technology Mobile network standards and architectures GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks UMTS/HSPA networks LTE networks Heterogeneous networks Microcells Picocells Femtocells Femtocell architectures in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks...32 i

2 INDEX SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING GPP UMTS femtocell specifications and interfaces IMS based femtocell architecture GPP LTE femtocell architectures Wi-Fi and cellular network integration UMA/GAN GPP Wireless LAN Interworking (I-WLAN) Hotspot 2.0 and Next Generation Hotspot Small cell deployments Small cells and femtocells from an operator perspective The femtocell business case for mobile operators Operator strategies Small cell trials and commercial offerings AT&T China Unicom Cosmote Everything Everywhere Hutchison 3G KDDI au MegaFon Mobile TeleSystems Network Norway NTT DoCoMo Optimus Orange Group SFR SingTel Group SK Telecom SoftBank Sprint Nextel StarHub Telefónica Telenor...63 ii

3 SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING INDEX Verizon Wireless Vodafone Wi-Fi network deployments Wi-Fi network operators, aggregators and brokers Boingo Wireless The Cloud Comfone Fon ipass Trustive Carrier Wi-Fi network deployments and services AT&T China Mobile Deutsche Telekom Eircom Free Mobile KDDI au KPN KT Corporation Swisscom Telefónica O2 UK TeliaSonera Vendor profiles and strategies The small cell value chain End-to-end small cell system vendors and integrators Alcatel-Lucent Cisco Systems Contela Ericsson Fujitsu Hitachi Huawei...92 iii

4 INDEX SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING NEC Nokia Siemens Networks Samsung Electronics Small cell and residential gateway vendors Airspan Airvana HSL Ip.access Minieum Networks SpiderCloud Wireless TEKTELIC Communications UbeeAirWalk Ubiquisys ADB Group Alpha Networks Gemtek Netgear Sagemcom SerComm Tecom Small cell chipset vendors Broadcom Freescale Semiconductor Mindspeed Technologies Qualcomm Texas Instruments Small cell software and network gateway vendors Acme Packet Aricent Group mimoon Node-H Genband iv

5 SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING INDEX Radisys Taqua Wi-Fi data offloading solution vendors Aptilo Networks Birdstep Greenpacket Kineto Wireless Notava Smith Micro Software Stoke Syniverse WeFi Wi-Fi equipment vendors Alvarion Edgewater Wireless GoNet Systems Ruckus Wireless Strix Systems Ubiquiti Networks Vivato Technologies Market trends and forecasts Small cell market trends Moving from femtocell trials to small cell deployments HetNet and small cell adoption may lead to industry transformation Wi-Fi offloading is gaining acceptance among mobile operators Small cell market forecasts Small cell deployments in Asia Pacific Small cell deployments in Europe Small cell deployments in North America Small cell shipments worldwide Glossary v

6 INDEX SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING Index List of Figures Figure 1.1: Mobile subscriptions and handset sales by region (World Q4-2011)...4 Figure 1.2: Fixed-line broadband connections by region (World Q4-2011)...6 Figure 1.3: Voice traffic (World )...8 Figure 1.4: Mobile voice and data traffic (World )...9 Figure 1.5: Monthly data usage by subscription type (Scandinavia )...10 Figure 1.6: Mobile subscriptions and handset sales by standard (World Q4-2011)...11 Figure 1.7: Theoretical peak data rates by wireless technology...12 Figure 1.8: Theoretical peak data rates by fixed-line technology...14 Figure 2.1: UMTS network architecture...24 Figure 2.2: LTE network architecture...28 Figure 2.3: Heterogeneous network...29 Figure 2.4: Comparison of cellular network cell types...30 Figure 2.5: Iuh based femtocell architecture in UMTS networks...33 Figure 2.6: IMS based architecture...34 Figure 2.7: LTE femtocell architectures and interfaces...36 Figure 2.8: UMA/GAN architecture and interfaces...38 Figure 2.9: 3GPP I-WLAN architecture...40 Figure 3.1: Examples of commercial femtocell offerings (May 2012)...50 Figure 4.1: Examples of Wi-Fi network operators and aggregators (May 2012)...68 Figure 5.1: Main small cell solutions by vendor (May 2012)...84 Figure 5.2: Overview of femtocell access point vendors (May 2012)...85 Figure 5.3: Acquisitions in the small cell ecosystem ( )...86 Figure 5.4: Examples of Wi-Fi equipment vendors (May 2012) Figure 6.1: Comparison of main telecom indicators by region (World Q4-2011) Figure 6.2: Handset shipments and user forecast (World ) Figure 6.3: Cellular data traffic usage forecast (World ) Figure 6.4: Small cell installed base (World ) Figure 6.5: Main telecom indicators in Asia-Pacific ( ) vi

7 SMALL CELLS AND WI-FI OFFLOADING INDEX Figure 6.6: Main telecom indicators in EU27+2 ( ) Figure 6.7: Main telecom indicators in North America ( ) Figure 6.8: Small cell shipments by device type (World ) Figure 6.9: Small cell shipments by region (World ) Figure 6.10: Small cell shipments by air interface (World ) vii

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