Nokia 4.5G Pro TD-LTE towards 5G
29th November 2016
(Bong Youl) Brian Cho, 趙奉烈, Ph D
Head of Technology for APAC & Japan, Nokia
brian.cho@nokia.com

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Nokia is the innovation force behind TD-LTE-A, TDD-FDD CA and TD-LTE-A Pro
Nokia’s award winning TD-LTE-A delivers high capacity, enhanced cell edge
performance, and reduced site costs
Nokia’s 18
Years of TDD
Experience
Remarkable
TD-LTE
investment2© Nokia 2016

A series of world
firsts for TD-LTE
since 2009
HangzhouOpen Lab

Common hardware forall radio technologies

4.1 Gbps LTE-A Prospeed demonstrated

Nokia is globalizing and commercializing TD-LTE
TD-LTE winsin continents

Global TD-LTE
radio references

688

Supplier to top 20 LTE operators
Nokiasupplying
4 out of 5 largest
TD-LTE operators(GSMA Intelligence August 2015)

Up to 7 Tera Bytes of daily traffic – Observed in one of the Nokia TD-LTE network
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Nokia is the Top 4G foreign vendor in China
3 years in a row
Won the massive phase 3 (CP3) TD-LTE
contract from China Mobile
Selected by China Mobile, China Unicom, andChina Telecom for their 4G deploymentOur commercial 4G networks cover 49
contracts from provinces and municipalities,
including cities like Beijing and Shanghai
Won the Marco Polo Award – Highest award fordevelopment of China with advancement ofTD-LTE technology

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Sprint, USA
Nokia leading TD-LTE vendor for Sprint with 2/3 share
Nokia got ~ 1/3rd of Sprint’s nationwide LTE TDD
rollout market Plus Acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

Recently Sprint and Nokia Kick-Off ThreeChannel Carrier Aggregation Deployment
in Kansas City
Includes Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station for band
41 (2.6GHz) using Nokia’s innovative 8-pipe radiowith 120MHz total channel bandwidth support

2.6Gbps> Throughput leader in TD- LTE–Advanced Pro
with Industry First 6 Carrier Aggregation with8X8 MIMO capabilities- World record achievement using:> Commercial Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station> 120MHz of Sprint band 41 (2.6GHz) spectrum

Daryl Schoolar from Ovum: “NSN isclearly the BIG infrastructure winnerwith spark”
http://ovum.com/2013/11/01/sprint-spark-could-start-severalnew-competitive-lte-fires/
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3.5GHz (Band 42/43) Market highlights – Global traction
North America• Canada:• Band 42 TD-LTE
deployments withmultiple operators• USA: CBRS
• Unpaired band plan
• Shared withgovernment users• TDD preferred.

West/South Europe• Launched band 42/43 in UK,Spain• Many WiMAX operators use
3.5GHzLatin America• Mexico and other countries
have 3.5GHz in use for WiMAX.
Now ready for TD-LTE-Amigration.

Middle East
• Commercial deployment of
3.5GHz TD-LTE like Bahrain• WiMAX operators ready forTD-LTE-A migration

400MHz of
LTE spectrum

Allocated in~70 countries

Northern Europe• Band 42 TD-LTElaunched from Belgium• WiMAX operators readyfor migration

Asia Pacific• Philippines launched band 42TD-LTE network• Australia: Multiple operators
have 3.5GHz TD-LTE
spectrum• Operators planning 3.5GHz as
new important band for LTE
capacity

Greater China• China: 3.5GHz now considered for 4G & 5G
Japan & Korea• Japan: 3.5GHz, 120MHz allocated to operators• Korea: 3.5GHz now considered for 4G & 5GAfrica• Commercial deploymentof 3.5GHz TD-LTE• Many WiMAX operators
ready for TD-LTE-A
migration• Hundreds operators have deployed WiMAX and many of them are from 3.5GHz – (Source: WiMAX Forum, Ovum and Nokia)• 87 band 42/43 commercially available devices – GSA Oct. 20166

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US 3.5 GHz Spectrum Access System – Architecture
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)

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CBRS Alliance – Nokia is one of the six founding members of CBRS AllianceSponsor Members

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The Alliance believes that LTEbased solutions in the CBRS
band, utilizing shared spectrum,can enable both in-building andoutdoor coverage and capacity
expansion at massive scale. Inorder to maximize CBRS’s fullpotential, the CBRS Allianceaims to enable a robust
ecosystem towards making LTEbased CBRS solutions available.

Full Members
Airspan Networks
American Tower Corporation
AT&T
Baicells Technologies Co., Ltd.
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Cisco Systems
Comcast Corporation
CommScope
CTIA
ExteNet Systems Inc.
Rise Broadband
SpiderCloud Wireless
ZTE USA, Inc.
Adopter Members
Accelleran
Juni
Nsight/Cellcom
Ranzure Networks

TD-LTE-Advanced
3.5GHz, 8-pipe radio
Industry high 160W transmit
power/sector (8X20W)
Flexible: Configure as 2T2R,
4T4R or 8T8R, up to 80MHz
Supports Carrier Aggregationand other TD-LTE-A features
Most compact and dense TDLTE-A 8-pipe radio in 3.5GHz99© Nokia 2016

The next generation’s expectations
The subscriber journey can start now

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Nokia 4.5G Pro
10x faster than initial LTE, foundation for further evolution in LTE and 5G

4.9G 5G
Continuity 5G
10X faster4G
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Broadband+ IoT+ Public
Safety4.5G 1 Gbps
Pro AirScale

4.5G5G
Readiness
Innovation
Evolution
CoexistenceNokia 3D Beamforming

Nokia 4.9G TD-LTEShowing 4X+ UL and 3X+ DL throughput using TWO Duallayer horizontal Beamforming in each of the two vertical
Beamforming – resulting in high PRB utilization
Using Massive MIMO Antenna andcommercially available Band 41
Devices – 3X Capacity

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Total Uplink

Total Downlink

OFF

Total Uplink

Total Downlink

ONNokia Intelligent Beamforming’s continued Innovation:
Distributed Beamforming•

Increase spectral efficiency
Improve Nokia TD-LTE Supercell capacity by 3X(with 3X Downlink and 3X Uplink)
Reuse the existing cellular deployment

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Ready to support 5G technologies

Backward compatible, new platforms
All kind ofspectrum andbandwidth14© Nokia 2016

Scalable Massive
MIMO, 3D MIMO,beamforming andbeamsteering

Multi-connectivity
and aggregation

Cloud RAN for
massive scalability& openness

Flexible frame
design, dynamicoptimization

Thank you

ありがとう ございました15© Nokia 2016