Nokia expands Flexi Zone small cell portfolio, boosting performance and simplifying deployment for operators and enterprises

Nokia expands Flexi
Zone small cell portfolio, boosting performance and simplifying deployment for
operators and enterprises 

·       Self-Organizing Network (SON)
features enable smooth deployment for ultra-dense networks and enterprise
adoption to deliver coverage and capacity where it is needed

·       33 new Flexi Zone Multiband and Mini
Macro variants introduced as well as 3G support in the Flexi Zone Micro and
industry-first support for US 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)
band

·       New features boost maximum data
download speeds by up to 65 percent and upload speeds by up to 100 percent

8 September, 2016

Singapore – Nokia is
extending its innovative Flexi Zone portfolio of small cell radios with new
features that boost performance and simplify deployment, enabling faster
installation and optimization for operators and enterprises seeking to satisfy
surging data use.

Operators are expanding ultra-dense networks to
provide capacity and connectivity to support future demands including IoT and
particularly in dense ‘megacity’ locations. As such, the deployment of small
cells is becoming highly attractive: enterprises wishing to deploy dedicated,
secure and robust networks to enhance their businesses will also require a
simplified deployment process, with the ability to self-install small cells
without specialized network knowledge.

With these requirements in mind, Nokia is
introducing five Flexi Zone Controller-enabled distributed Self Organizing
Network (SON) innovations – in combination with the Nokia centralized SON Eden-Net solution – to cut the complexity and cost of
small cell deployment.

These capabilities,
which complement the Nokia Site Certified for
Overall Relative Efficiency (SCORE)service offer, will ease the addition of thousands of
small cells in an operator’s operation and management system, improve
plug-and-play installation and offer real-time optimization of the
small cell layer to ease densification and deployment in multi-vendor
macro networks.

25 new frequency band and radio access technologies
(RAT) variants of the Flexi Zone Multiband BTS and eight frequency variants of
the Mini-Macro BTS portfolio will further expand deployment options. In
addition, 3G support in two frequency bands will be added for the compact Flexi
Zone Micro. The Flexi Zone micro and indoor pico BTS in the US 3.5GHz CBRS* band, made
commercially available in June, are the industry’s first mobile network
solutions to support this new band.

Nokia is also introducing three small cell world-first
features that will boost performance across the Flexi Zone portfolio to support
4.5G Pro. Uplink carrier aggregation with two carriers will double peak upload
data speeds to 102Mbps and downlink 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) support will boost
subscribers’ download peak performance by more than 30%. As mobile network
operators begin to leverage aggregation of licensed and unlicensed spectrum
technologies (LTE-U/LAA, LWA/LWIP), Nokia is doubling its LTE-U bandwidth
support to 40 MHz on the Flexi Zone Multiband BTS range, to further enhance
LTE-U small cell performance by up to 33 percent.

Mark Atkinson, head of the Small
Cell Business Line at Nokia, said: “We continue to boost the performance of our
Flexi Zone portfolio to smooth operators’ deployment of much-needed capacity
into their networks. This will allow them to prepare for the ever-growing
demands of people and IoT, particularly in dense megacities. The future
introduction of Nokia MulteFire technology will mean many more enterprises will
be able to deploy their own discreet networks to enjoy the benefits that LTE
will offer. The new Self Organizing Network (SON) features will allow
companies, who may not have technical expertise in this field, to deploy small
cells with ease.”

Did you know

Nokia Flexi Zone Multiband BTS won the Small Cells
Forum Awards 2016 in the category of ‘small cell access point design and
technology’ as the world’s first small cells to deliver more than 1 Gbps peak
data rates.

Resources

·       Photo: Nokia Flexi Zone Indoor Pico
Web Page: Nokia Flexi Zone

·       Web Page: Nokia MulteFire

·       Web Page: Nokia Services for HetNets

·       Web Page: Nokia Eden-NET

·       Press Release: Nokia and Telefónica Chile complete
world’s largest indoor small cell deployment in Santiago shopping mall

·       Press Release: Nokia Networks launches world’s
first 1 Gbps small cell and new services, features to solve deployment
challenges #NetworksPerform

·       Press release: Nokia announces AirScale-powered
4.5G Pro and 4.9G to establish smooth path for operators to 5G

·       Press release: Nokia and China Mobile deliver
extreme mobile data capacity and real-time video at major Shanghai motor race

·       External Blog: Mobility as the Foundation for
Enterprise Innovation Needs MulteFire