Overview
The demand for broadband is increasing rapidly but many W-CDMA subscribers have limited in-house coverage and capacity, and use traditional fixed-line Internet access instead. The challenge for mobile operators is to offer less expensive in-building coverage to enable converged service bundling. The Alcatel-Lucent 9365 Base Station Router Femto (9365 BSR Femto) helps you deliver new applications to the home user, improve in-home W-CDMA coverage and compete with fixed line broadband services while reducing operating costs. Its flat IP architecture is simple to install, cost-effective and efficient.
Seamless and cost-effective in-building cellular coverage
Seventy percent of calls are made indoors, but only two percent of buildings have purpose-built indoor coverage, and 50 percent of users complain about poor indoor service. Many new entrants are attacking this market.
The 9365 BSR Femto can increase your revenue opportunities by extend- ing service availability to in-building areas, through enhanced quality of service (QoS), and by supporting broadband data services.
Key Benefits
The Alcatel-Lucent 9365 Base Station Router Femto
The Alcatel-Lucent 9365 Base Station Router Femto is a small W-CDMA base station placed inside a building, which uses a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection to backhaul traffic. It addresses the domestic market for high-speed data via localized in-building wireless service provi- sioning. With the Alcatel-Lucent 9365 BSR Femto, users can benefit from high-QoS wireless capabil- ities, with the advantages of voice support and W-CDMA mobility
both in the home and outside. The 9365 BSR Femto consolidates the UTRAN elements in a single box as shown in Figure 1, reducing the number of network components, the latency, the complexity of the network, and therefore the cost.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9365 BSR Femto is hardware-ready to support the serving GPRS support node (SGSN) and gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) functionalities in a single unit. These functions will be implemented by software upgrade.
F E A T U R E
Flat IP architecture
B E N E F I T
Low latency, fewer bottleneck nodes as traffic is offloaded, allows home networking with sticky applications
Combines the UTRAN in a single box | Low latency, low cost, and automatic configuration |
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Enables high bandwidth services, such as video in the home, | Increases revenue potential |
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3GPP compliant | Compatible with all 3GPP-compliant W-CDMA handsets, and offers |
| 3GPP backhaul interfaces (IuPS, IuCS, Gi and Gn) as required, for |
| simple and cost-effective integration into an existing network |
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Single box, centralized aspects confined at IP layer | Optimizes CAPEX and OPEX, improves network efficiency and simplifies |
| installation |
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DSL backhaul and zero-touch installation process | No site visits required, saves OPEX |
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Scalable technology | Simplifies evolution to IMS and 4G Long term Evolution (LTE)/SAE, also |
| based on flat IP |
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