Telstra selects Ericsson's Small Cell Solutions
December 21 2016 - 2:00AM
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Telstra partners with Ericsson for indoor and
outdoor small cell solutions to further enhance 4G coverage and
customer experience in rural and urban areas
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Small cells provide a cost effective increase to
3G and LTE network coverage and are a key step in readying
Telstra's network for 5G
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Small cell deployments are integral to
Ericsson's heterogeneous network strategy
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Telstra have partnered
to deploy indoor and outdoor small cells in the Telstra's 4G LTE
network, including the Ericsson Radio Dot System and Pico Cell RBS
6402. Adding small cells will help increase coverage and enhance
user experience in Telstra's 4G LTE network, enabling Telstra to
continue providing a high quality and reliable mobile broadband
service to its customers.
Mike Wright, Group Managing Director of Networks
in Telstra Operations, says: "The outdoor small cell deployment and
indoor small cell solutions are the latest step in our ongoing
strategic partnership with Ericsson. Telstra has already deployed
small cells in 50 rural towns across Australia. The result has been
greater coverage and improved broadband experience for residents
and business in these towns.
"With this new agreement, Telstra can increase the
small cell rollout across Australia. In urban areas we are looking
forward to delivering better indoor coverage not only for
individual customers in office buildings, but also to our
enterprise customers in shopping centers and large indoor
venues."
Small cells are complementary to macro sites and a
great way to solve capacity and coverage problems in hotspots such
as busy city squares, commercial streets, railway stations, hotels,
shopping malls, offices and airports. Close coordination with the
rest of the network is needed to maximize reuse of scarce spectrum
and ensure quality of service.
Thomas Norén, Head of Product Area Network
Products, Ericsson, says: "By integrating small cells as part of
the macro mobile network, operators can cost-effectively provide
improved coverage. Coordinated, embedded small cells improve
performance through frequency reuse, increasing both network data
capacity and throughput without the need to split the available
spectrum. Small cells also provide full-service transparency in the
network, ensuring that Voice over LTE, Voice over WiFi and video
calls work seamlessly in the network for a consistent user
experience."
By leveraging both Ericsson's macro and small cell
solutions, Telstra will be able to achieve a highly coordinated
elastic radio access network architecture, providing significant
additional Carrier Aggregation and Coordinated Multi Point
gains.
Consumers expect high performing networks with
high connection speeds, great data rates, extensive coverage and
seamless availability of their mobile broadband service. Continuing
to deliver a consistent, high quality and seamless mobile broadband
experience is at the core of any operator's business, especially
with ever-increasing traffic growth, driven by data intensive
applications such as video streaming or virtual and augmented
reality.
The latest Ericsson Mobility Report shows that
globally, data traffic per smartphone will grow from 1.9 Gigabytes
per month in 2016 to 11 Gigabytes per month in 2022. Achieving
subscriber satisfaction will require not only improving network
data performance outdoors, but also indoors where about 70 percent
of today's data traffic is generated. Complementing macro networks
with small cells are a key part of delivering performance
requirements.
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