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Alvarion Carrier Grade Wi-Fi
Market & Industry Review
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Carrier Grade Wi-Fi Definition
Delivers the Service End-users Expect
The Service Provider Perspective
• Scalable to million of users
• Long range – less APs per sq-km
• Smooth deployment and trouble-free operation (NMS)
• Open standards - Back office integration
The User Perspective
• Seamless service (HS2.0 ready)
• QoS
• High capacity
• Secured
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Outdoor Wi-Fi - Positioning Map
Alvarion is a Carrier Grade Wi-Fi Market Leader
Ruckus
Cisco
Tropos
Firetide
Skypilot
Distribution
MikroTik
Low-end WISPs
$$ Per
Account
Ubiquiti
High-end WISPs
SPG
Malls
Hotels
Oil & gas
Mines
Sea ports
Air ports
Safe City
Carrier
Access Service
Direct
Cisco
Cellular
Offloading
Campus
Alvarion-Wavion
Altai, GoNet, BelAir
Motorola
Growth, $1B Market in 1-2 years
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Mobile Broadband Traffic is Soaring
Exponential Demand for Mobile Broadband Traffic
• AT&T: 8X increase in data traffic between 2007 - 2010 coinciding with the launch of the iPhone
• Cisco: 26x growth between 2010 – 2015, 65% will be video
Capacity Inflation Point
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Wi-Fi Overtakes ALL IP Networks in 2015
Fastest Growth is with Mobile, yet Wi-Fi will Carry Most of The Load
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Mobile Traffic growth leads with 92% CAGR (Wired 24% CAGR, Wi-Fi 39% CAGR)
The biggest driver for the global traffic growth will be video
The Death of Mobile? The Rise of Wi-Fi as a Viable Alternative to Mobile Cellular Networks , Cisco, November 2011
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Wi-Fi is a User Driven Phenomena
The User perspective
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Low cost, unlicensed band and interoperability propels adoption
Wi-Fi-only tablets are here
Apple: iPhone 4S owners use twice as much data as iPhone 4
users and three times as much data as iPhone 3G owners CNET Jan 2012
Half of Smartphone usage is already on Wi-Fi Bango early 2011
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Wi-Fi is Strategic to Cellular Operators
The Service Provider perspective
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Ubiquitous, low cost deployment
Wi-Fi will offload ~ 60% of mobile data traffic by 2015 Juniper 4/2011:
Hotspot number will grow from 1.3M in 2011 to 5.8M in 2015 Informa
40 connections per sec. on AT&T Wi-Fi hot spot network on 3Q11
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302 million Wi-Fi connections on 3Q12, 3 times more than last year
“47% of mobile operators: hotspots are crucial to enhance their
customers’ experience” WBA Industry Report 2011
Hot-zones in San-Francisco, London, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo…
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Wi-Fi Cellular Integration Standards
3GPP, IEEE, WFA, WBA
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Wi-Fi integration with 3G – 2004 (3GPP I-WALN)
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Ahead of its time
SIM Authentication
Wi-Fi integration with LTE – 2010 (3GPP LTE EPC core)
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Common service delivery
WFA Hotspot 2.0 - Certification starts in mid 2012
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WBA and WFA initiative
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Wi-Fi is Strategic to Cellular Operators
Backhauling & joint LTE / Wi-Fi nodes
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Micro cells backhaul
• Small cells to drive over $1.5B in wireless BH by 2016 Mobile Experts, 10/2011
• 58% of outdoor small cells will be BH by wireless by 2016 ABI Research 9/2011
Heterogeneous networks is the future
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LTE + Wi-Fi micro cells
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Wi-Fi is Strategic to Cellular Operators
New Services Opportunity
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Location based services
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Advertisement, reminders, friends finder, emergency services
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Accuracy is the key
Malls, Airport terminals, large retail stores, campuses, museums…
• Wi-Fi will be used for Indoors and urban canyons
Indoor navigation – the leading app, hot
Managed Wi-Fi services
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Wi-Fi to Lead Location Solutions by 2015
Over a Billion Wi-Fi Location Based Devices by 2015
Alternative Positioning Technologies , ABI, October 2010
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The Outcome - Wi-Fi is Booming
•Over a billion Wi-Fi chipset shipment by
2012
•From 0.5 billon in 2009 to nearly 1.7 billion
Wi-Fi enabled devices, in 2015
In-Stat's September 2010
•Wi-Fi technology rapid development
continues: Beamforming, Hotspot 2.0,
802.11ac, Wi-Fi direct, 802.11ad,
802.11aF…
•The White Space opportunity
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A few words about Private Networks
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Education – 300,000 K-12 schools in NA
Hospitality – “many hotels offer unreliable or
outrageously expensive wireless Internet
access” TechCrunch
Oil & Gas – Video Surveillance, VoIP, logistic
area …
Hekou Oil
Dawn Lake Hotel
Heilongjiang Daqing
Guangxi Qinzhou University
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Zunyi Government building
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Summary
Opportunities Come With Challenges
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Interference and low power regulation Alvarion Wi-Fi leads
Service accessibility – complex today HS2.0
Security SIM/Web authentication, AES
Core integration AAA, tunneling
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Unified user profile
Service continuity
Mobility
Roaming
Business case profitability
Lowest number of base stations
per sq-km, reliable
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Thank You
Lior Mishan & Ulik Broida