UMTS: Alive and Well - 4G Americas

APPENDIX A: DETAILED VENDOR PROGRESS ON RELEASE 99, RELEASE 5, RELEASE 6,RELEASE 7, HSPA EVOLVED/HSPA+ & SAE/LTEThe following sections were contributed by companies represented in the working group for this 3GAmericas white paper. This is not a comprehensive document of all the progress made to date by thevendor community, but is representative of some of the activities at leading members of the UMTS-HSPAand LTE ecosystem.Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the WCDMA-HSPA market, with one of the industry’s mostcomprehensive WCDMA-HSPA portfolios that can support deployments covering all markets andfrequency bands (including AWS and 900 MHz spectrum bands).Alcatel-Lucent currently has 57 WCDMA customer contracts with strong worldwide presence in the mostdynamic data markets including Korea (with SKT, KT), the U.S. (with AT&T), in Europe (with OrangeGroup, Vodafone Group, and the mobilkom group) –currently supporting 4 out of the 6 top operatorsworldwide. Leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s strong presence in high-growth markets like Africa and Asia,Alcatel-Lucent is continuing to see strong market growth in the WCDMA business.Alcatel-Lucent is working closely with its customers to smoothly migrate their networks towards HSPA+.The company’s existing installed NodeB modules are already HSPA+ capable and the activation is doneon a software basis only. The solution offered by Alcatel-Lucent is part of its converged RAN strategy withbuilding blocks to evolve or renovate legacy networks towards LTE: Converged BTS with SoftwareDefined Radio (SDR) modules, Converged Controller, Converged O&M and tools, Converged intertechnologymobility features and Converged transport.Alcatel-Lucent is a tier one supplier of 3G femtocells, recently selected by Vodafone for its commercialfemto service rollout in the UK. The introduction of femtocells is an early step in the move toward smallcell architectures, which are expected to play a major role in the introduction of LTE networks.Alcatel-Lucent also is taking an early leadership position in the LTE market. The company is activelyengaged in the majority of LTE projects being pursued by operators around the globe including both laband field trials with tier one operators in the Americas (Verizon Wireless), Europe (Telefónica, Orange),the Middle East (Etisalat) and Asia (NTT DoCoMo). Alcatel-Lucent has 16 active LTE trials underway,with many more planned to start in the first quarter of 2010.From a technology standpoint, Alcatel-Lucent has among the industry’s most comprehensive end-to-endLTE offers, covering RAN, Evolved Packet Core (EPC), IMS and mobile backhaul. Alcatel-Lucent alsofounded and is a leading player in a new industry consortium, The ng Connect Program, which wasestablished in early 2009 as a multi-industry collaboration among leading network, device, application andcontent suppliers to develop pre-integrated examples of applications and services for 3G and 4G/LTEnetworks.In terms of portfolio highlights:• Alcatel-Lucent was the first vendor to receive FCC certification for LTE base stations for the 700MHz spectrum band, a key requirement for sales in the U.S. market.• Alcatel-Lucent also received a certification for its 800 MHz radio (European Digital Dividend) and2.6 GHz LTE BTS equipment, allowing for shipments in Europe.www.3GAmericas.org February 2010 Page 117