Transcript Software Radio Infra Solutions for Caribbean Carriers (2)

Software Radio Infrastructure Solutions
for Caribbean Carriers
Vanu Bose
July 16, 2008
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Vanu has Pioneered Software Radio Technology
• History
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Evolved from groundbreaking software radio research at MIT
Company founded in 1998 by Dr. Vanu Bose
90 employees
Offices in Cambridge, MA, Bangalore, India & New Delhi, India
• Industry Awards
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Top 25 Emerging Technology companies, SmartTechie, SiliconIndia, 2008
Mass NetComm Product of the Year, 2008
Chosen IEEE Spectrum Magazine’s 2006 “Wireless Winner”, 1/2007
GSM Association Technology Award for Most Innovative Infrastructure, 2005
SDR Forum Industry Achievement Award for 2005
Ten Coolest Companies Award by Telecommunication Magazine, 2005
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, 2004
Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards: Runner Up in the
Wireless Category, 2004
– Mass High Tech All Star Award, Oct. 24, 2003
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Agenda
• Anywave Overview
• Multi-Standard Business Case
• Hosted Switching Service
• Reduced backhaul costs for remote and rural sites
• VoIP Core compatibility
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Anywave has Unique Benefits and Capabilities
“…the first step in what may prove to be a radio
technology revolution.”
-Michael Powell, FCC Chairman commenting
on first ever FCC certification for a softwaredefined radio granted to Vanu, Inc.
• Run multiple standards simultaneously
– Dual mode (GSM/CDMA) product is deployed and operational
– Only infrastructure product to support multiple standards
simultaneously
• Cost-effective solutions for remote or rural site
deployments
– Reduce OPEX for sites requiring satellite backhaul
• Standards upgrades are software downloads
– Download new software, rather than forklift upgrade to new
standards
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Technology Overview - The Vanu Anywave Solution
Base
Transceiver
Station (BTS)
Base Station
Controller
(BSC/RNC)
Mobile
Switching
Center (MSC)
PSTN
Packet Control
Unit/Function
(PCU/PCF)
GPRS/Packet
Data Service
Node
(GSN/PDSN)
IP
Vanu Anywave Radio Access Network (RAN)
– Multiple cellular standards operating at the same time
– Add new wireless standards through remote software-only downloads
– Compatible with legacy circuit switched and IP-based core networks
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Anywave: Multi-Standards on a Single Network
Vanu’s open standards approach enables faster deployments while future-proofing the
network for remote additions of new standards and additional capacity
Waveforms are digitized into IP
packets and sent via GigE to be
processed for any technology
RF Head per frequency
band
Single BTS server can
support multiple
wireless standards in
any frequency band
Single BSC server can
support multiple
wireless standards in
any frequency band
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Case Study: Mid-Tex Cellular
Key Business Driver:
Multi-Standard to increase
roaming revenue
Background:
• 8,000 square miles of coverage w/100K POPs in
rural Texas
• Mid-Tex wanted to economically upgrade their
cellular system from analog to digital
• Long distances between cell sites makes site visits
very costly
• Needed a technology that could accommodate
multiple standards to increase their roaming revenues
The Challenge:
• Cost-effectively migrate existing analog
subscribers to GSM while providing a migration
path to CDMA & other future standards
The Solution:
• Migrated TDMA subscribers to Vanu’s GSM
voice & GPRS data
• Added CDMA a year later via remote software
downloads
• Backhaul is ½ the cost of separate systems
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Multi-Standard Caribbean Roaming Revenue Opportunities
• Many GSM operators in the Caribbean
are not capturing the CDMA roaming
revenue opportunity… & vice versa
• New entrants can offer a combined
GSM/CDMA service, using one
standard as primary service for local
subscribers & both for “roaming” tourists
• Additional standards (EV-DO, UMTS,
etc) can be added to the existing Vanu
platform
Source: Signals Telecom Consulting (San Juan Puerto Rico -2005)
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GSM / CDMA Hosted Switch Service
A hosted core network enables operation of multiple technologies without
the large upfront CAPEX
Satellite
Hosted Network Services
Mobile
Subscriber
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY
VERISIGN
(LI/CALEA)
BTS #1
HUB
ROAMING
PARTNER
VSAT
ROAMEX
ROAMEX
NRTRDE
(NRTRDE)
(FRAUD)
Mobile
Subscriber
HOSTED
SOFTSWITCH
VPN
BSC / IMG
BTS #2
ROAMING
PARTNER
SYNIVERSE
ROAMEX
(SS7/GRX/
NRTRDE
CLEARING)
(FRAUD)
PSTN
Mobile
Subscriber
PSTN
PSAP
ROAMEX
INTRADO
NRTRDE
(E911)
(FRAUD)
OPTIONAL
BTS #3
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Vanu’s Satellite Backhaul Solution
Traditional Approach
Vanu Approach
Opportunity
• Expand cellular service in rural areas
Traffic pattern
• Up to 80% of the calls, originate and
terminate in same town
Challenges
• Cost of Bandwidth – connectivity
Satellite
accesssatellite
: $US 2cost
- 5 Keliminated
/ month
• Up to• 70%
of monthly
Voice delay
introduced
by satellite
• • Improved
voice
quality without
satellite latency
GSM (legacy)
• If one mobile calls another mobile, it
requires all voice and signaling traffic
to be routed back to the MSC for the
duration of the call– very costly
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Case Study: GCI Communication
Background:
• Alaska’s largest telecommunications firm, providing
local, long distance, wireless, cable TV & Internet
services
• Deploying a Vanu GSM solution to bring wireless
communications to over 200 remotely located villages
across the state of Alaska– islands of coverage
The Solution:
• Deployed Vanu’s GSM Software Radio at
each cell site with the ability to add CDMA &
other future standards
• Capacity can be increased or moved to
other sites remotely via software downloads
• IP satellite backhaul
The Challenge:
• Need a cost-effective solution for remote sites where
cellular coverage hasn’t previously existed
• Cost-effective migration path to new technologies
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Vanu VoIP Core Solution
For Current VoIP providers:
• Capitalize on existing network resources to provide new
services without large capital expenses
• Leverage existing switch, billing system, and delivery
platform to support both wireline and wireless subscribers
For Greenfield Wireless Network Deployments:
• VoIP switching infrastructure is significantly lower cost
than traditional circuit switching
• Flexibility to add wireline service quickly and seamlessly
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Network Architecture
HLR
Mavenir mOne
Convergence
Platform
VLR/HLR GW
Vanu
GSM/CDMA BTS
SMSC
MMSC
Vanu
GSM/CDMA
BSC/TRAU/PCU
Vanu
GSM/CDMA BTS
SS7
Internet
WAP GW
MGW
SGSN/GGSN/
PDSN
PSTN
AAA
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VoIP
Switch
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Thank You
One System – Multiple Standards – New Revenue Sources
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