Building High Performance Heterogeneous Networks (Hetnet) with Coordinated Macro Cell And

AtomCell

Building high performance heterogeneous networks (HetNet) with coordinated macro cell and targeted small cell coverage is the inevitable evolutionary path of mobile networks. Huawei’s small cell solution, AtomCell, meets operator needs worldwide for high-performance, high-capacity networks in complex wireless environments.

Challenges

Wireless network traffic will increase 500times over the next decade, mainly due to growth in data traffic. This will happen despite increasingly limited spectrumresources and increasing complexwireless network environments. Operators want to fully use their existing spectrum resources to provide users with a consistent mobile broadband (MBB) experience amid increasing user demand, especially in hotspot areas, indoor environments, and at other weak coverage areas like cell edges. Building high performance heterogeneous networks (HetNet) with coordinated macro cell and targeted small cell coverage is the inevitable evolutionary path of mobile networks.

Solutions

AtomCellis an end-to-end small cell solution comprising a full series of multi-mode (GSM/UMTS/LTE/WiFi) base station products along with corresponding wireless transmission solutions for power levels less than or equal to 10 watts:

AtomCell helps operators mitigate hotspot traffic, provide seamless coverage, and boost overall capacity for rapid network growth and enhanced user experience.

AtomCell Micro provides targeted coverage for streets, squares and other outdoor hotzones, eliminating macro network coverage blind spots and increasing overall capacity.Deploying AtomCell Micro near hotspotsincreasing overall network capacity up to four times with automated hotspot locating and hotspot analysis technologies.

AtomCell Pico andWiFiaccess points (AP) provide extendedcoverage forindoor environments, offloading 60% of all indoor traffic.

Solutions for macro-micro coordinationeliminatesignal interference between macro and micro network layers. Centralized resource management and baseband resource pooling greatly increase capacity while maintaining high performing KPIs.

Applications & Benefits

Huawei has become a world-leading small cell equipment supplier since launching AtomCell, and will deploy the first commercial-ready,same-frequency LTE Micro network in the first quarter of 2013 with operator TELUS in Canada. The network has already shown that Huawei can help TELUSrealize a more than 30% overall capacity gain with 10MHz bandwidth.

In September 2012, Huawei cooperated with Vodafone to launch eRelay solution in Spain and Germany. These solutions utilize Micro NodeBwireless backhaulwith LTE TDD for low-cost, high-capacity small cell deployment, and high-speed HSPA+ data services for more than 20,000 hotspots and weak coverage areas.

AtomCell meets operator needs worldwide for high-performance, high-capacity networks deployed in complex wireless environments. As a result, Huawei has to date won more than 60 AtomCell Micro contracts for UMTS and LTE, the most of any vendor.