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SingleRAN

First introduced by Huawei in 2008, SingleRAN allows operators to easily accept and assimilate continuing technological innovations. The solution allows operators to comprehensively maximize their core assets by transforming various technical modes into SingleRAN features.

SingleRAN Solution

First introduced by Huawei in 2008, SingleRAN allows operators to easily accept and assimilate continuing technological innovations. The solution allows operators to comprehensively maximize their core assets, including sites, spectrum, users, staff and pipeline, by transforming various technical modes into SingleRAN features.

Challenges

Operators today face an inevitable overlap. Anticipating and responding to the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband, LTE is emerging faster than expected, while traditional technologies continue to meet the needs of the vast majority of the world’s mobile subscribers. To support three coexisting modes, GSM, UMTS, and LTE, traditional models call for three sets of equipment and three networks, placing major pressure on operators from deployment to operation and maintenance (O&M). Issues such as repeated equipment investment, continuous site upgrades, and the inevitable complexity of O&M only add to the overlap headache.

Our Solution

Our SingleRAN solution, first introduced in 2008, addresses operators’ challenges brought by rapidly evolving technologies. At the core of SingleRAN is convergence, allowing operators to easily accept and assimilate continuing technological innovations. The solution allows operators to comprehensively maximize their core assets, including sites, spectrum, users, staff and pipeline, by transforming various technical modes into SingleRAN features.

SingleRAN Turns Different Technology Modes into Features

The solution provides an integrated BTS, BSC, O&M management, and site solution, supporting the convergence and evolution of different technologies. As a result of continuous dedication to promoting network convergence, our SingleRAN solution has added to its portfolio a series of new products such as integrated multi-mode BSC, SDR-based RRU with dual-transmitter capability and SingleOSS, significantly strengthening deep convergence of multi-mode mobile networks.

SingleRAN brings fundamental changes and benefits. From network deployment, choosing between various modes changes to choosing between different features of the same network, Operators can choose different features flexibly according to different stages of market development.

Firstly at the equipment level, SingleRAN realizes one network supporting multi-mode deployment. It also enables comprehensive integration of GSM, UMTS, and LTE features. All features can be deployed within the same network and resources including spectrum, PA, and O&M can be shared dynamically. Last, only one integrated management system is required for all deployments, regardless of whether GSM, UMTS, or LTE. In place of three, just one team is now required for seamless O&M of a multi-mode network.

Maximizes the Efficiencies of Key Related Assets

Our converged network solution SingleRAN provides an optimal combination of ways to increase the efficiencies and maximize the values of operator assets across the board.

Site Assets: Broader, Closer, and Greener

With our SingleRAN solution, mobile networks minimize the need to add sites or disturb existing leased space. With a much smaller footprint than any traditional BTS, just one SingleRAN site or cabinet supports five frequency bands and three modes, providing high capacity and high power with much more efficient resource management. Thus SingleRAN is "broader.” “Closer” refers to using our femtocell and pico technologies to supplement any mobile network, bringing deployment and applications closer to users. “Greener” means lowering the power consumption of sites from year to year through technical solutions.

Spectrum Assets: Continuing to Increase Spectrum Efficiency

With a scarcity of available spectrum, operators wishing to purchase additional spectrum resources must spend exorbitant sums of money. The ideal solution is to leverage extant spectrum resources to deploy different modes of mobile networks or reuse legacy spectrum resources as new generations of networks evolve.

Our SingleRAN solution improves spectrum efficiency through two key techniques.

Multiplication: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology achieves improved spectrum efficiency. The majority of our BTS products are currently being optimized to support MIMO, with single modules supporting two transmitters.

Coordination: Our SingleRAN solution supports and coordinates deployment of GSM/UMTS, UMTS/LTE, GSM/LTE, GSM/UMTS/LTE, as well as CDMA/LTE and WiMAX/LTE over shared frequency bands.

User Assets: Providing Five Billion Users with the Perfect Experience

Despite rapid development of data services, voice remains at the core of mobile service. Consequently, SingleRAN continues to focus on and improve the experience of the five billion voice service users worldwide, working to ensure crystal-clear sound quality. Working with our operator partners, Huawei is carefully leading users into an age of rich mobile broadband communication while ensuring the combined development of data, voice, and GSM/UMTS services. As the era of LTE draws closer, high-quality, seamless connections will become the norm, providing an always-on and always-connected experience.

Staff Assets: Increasing Productivity without Added Cost

One primary concern of operators relates to avoidance of any large-scale growth in personnel while enhancing existing networks and expanding for future growth.

Our SingleRAN solution assists operators in achieving integrated management of equipment and sites, of various modes of technology, and of the entire end-to-end network without challenges to human resource overheads. The integrated O&M achieves a valuable transition of focus from equipment alone to O&M responding to and enhancing the experience of users.

Applications & Benefits

Our SingleRAN solution is the embodiment of an industry trend that will revolutionize the global mobile communication industry. We have been a pioneer in developing SingleRAN solutions ever since we launched the industry's first commercial SingleRAN solution in 2008.

To date, we have deployed over 80 SingleRAN networks for leading operators worldwide, including Telus & Bell Canada, Telefonica O2 Germany, China Unicom, America Movil, Telenor, Net4Mobility and TeliaSonera. Looking ahead, the accelerating application of our SingleRAN solution will contribute to a world where integrated mobile networks will become ubiquitous and SingleRAN will also be essentially responsible for helping operators realize future network experiences such as HSPA+/LTE.

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Realizing the full potential of SingleRAN

Bernhard Scholl from Deutsche Telekom: Delivering flexible resource usage and reduced OPEX, the SingleRAN solution has been playing a key role in building an efficient radio network, and its continual improvements can help achieve the full potential of SingleRAN.

Why SingleRAN is becoming ubiquitous

Huawei Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Yu Chengdong: To simultaneously support GSM, UMTS, and LTE, traditional models call for three sets of equipment and three networks, placing major pressure on operators. The solution lies in addressing the true requirements of MBB...

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