Sue Monahan's opening presentation from the SCF Partner Day in Atlanta, July 2017

1. Sue Monahan
CEO
Welcome and introduction
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2. Welcome to SCF Partners’ Day
• Extremely positive response from across the industry
• Number of partners, and sell-out attendance, indicates the strong need
• Aim: Align roadmaps for network densification on the path to 5G to
achieve a common platform which is more than the sum of its parts
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3. Culmination of work with many partners
Backhaul [095] Sync [075]
Installation Classes [182]
Operations
Location API [092] for MEC
SCF Plugfests [085]
Wiring & tower
standards
Small cells IuH, X2, SA5
nFAPI [082]
Wi-Fi Integration [178]
Puts small cells on the agenda
Ensures standards are in place
Leverages their
marketing channels
Siting Challenges [190]
Installation Classes [182]
Management
interfaces TR196
Deployment
issues
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4. Why now?
• Several deployment trends are gaining urgency
• Densification is reaching scale
• Enterprises need mobile connectivity for business-critical
communications, IoT will accelerate such demand
• There are still many users who are underserved,
connect them all
• Small cells are at the heart of all these, but many other
enablers are required
• 5G is on the horizon, so investments now must be
future-proofed
• Common roadmap needed – solutions which have a
significant impact on the operator case now, and can migrate
to future standards
Driving
densification
Delivering
Enterprise
connectivity
Connecting
the
unconnected
Future-
proofing
investments
Small
cells
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5. The scale and urgency is new
• Not just about technology change
• Densification can start in 4G, as long as there
is a clear 5G roadmap
• LTE will live a long time, developing alongside 5G
• Real change will be scale:
• Hyperdensity in cities, stadiums, some enterprises
• Ubiquity for IoT, critical communications, remote
access or mobile base stations
• Many operators need to reach huge scale in just a
few years
• This requires a united effort to ensure many pieces
fall into place quickly
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6. SCF work plan to address the key industry
deployment trends
Based on requirements of our members and the operator
community:
• Define technology needed for densification and drive
ecosystem support
• Enable scalable, repeatable deployment processes for
density and massive connectivity
• Understand and address specific needs of enterprise verticals
• Establish new commercial models for ownership and
operations
• Ensure open & interoperable standards to healthy
unfragmented ecosystem
• Drive industry agreement on the prioritised sequence of
investments needed to take today’s networks into the 5G era
These map to the activities of our work groups
Technologies for densification
TECH
Operations, regulation, policy
and supporting infrastructure
OPS
Standards and interoperability
TECH+IOP
• Business and markets
• BIZ + MKT
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7. SCF’s cross-functional approach
Business
Principles
Operations
Technology
and 5G
Interoperability
SCF embodies joined-up thinking to ensure the technology
is not only performant, but practical and profitable too
Market
Stimulate mainstream adoption
Articulate value proposition
Publish market research
Verticals outreach & social proofs
Tomorrow’s technology roadmap:
SON, shared spectrum,
virtualisation, MEC, FOG, 5G
eMBB, IOT, URLLC
Alternative ownership models
Multi-stakeholder interactions
New value chains
The people, teams,
regulationand backhaul for
a scalable, repeatable
deployment process
Testing to improve
standards for a healthy,
competitive ecosystem
SCF
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8. Densification: addressing the barriers to
deployment at scale
Business TCO per small cell site needs to be ~1/10th of macro
New ownership models need to be established for MNO, end users, property owners, IT
service providers, etc.
Operational ‘Old school’ macro processes too expensive and slow
Local administration fragmented, complex & macro orientated
Small cell backhaul must be cheaper, but same performance
Market End users not aware of solutions or don’t know how to get them
Operators worried that low cost process may damage $$bn brand
Technology Automation (SON) needed to de-skill deployment
New architectures needed to federate Heterogenous networks
Multi-operator support to address some verticals: venue, hospitality etc.
Interoperability New tech is often vendor proprietary, risking fragmentation
Healthy competitive ecosystem requires interoperable standards
SCF has working groups addressing each of these areas
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9. Focused on deepening industry ties and working alongside businesses
to help enhance their cellular coverage
Driving Enterprise connectivity: an even wider
ecosystem of partners
SCF Enterprise Advisory Council founder members
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10. Connecting the unconnected
• Rural communities: Coverage for underserved
community beyond range of normal service.
• Remote industrial: Coverage for community of workers
at a site hard to reach from existing infrastructure.
• Public safety: Coverage for emergency services and
first responders.
• Disaster recovery/humanitarian: Rapid reinstatement
of coverage after extensive damage to mobile
infrastructure, and support for ongoing humanitarian
efforts.
• Special events: Services for temporary planned
gathering.
• Military: Service for military personnel.
• Transportation: Services for passengers and operational
needs in all classes of shipping, aircraft and trains.
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11. Drive industry agreement on the prioritised
sequence of investments towards 5G
• Shows ATT’s logical prioritised
sequence of technology investments
leading into the 5G era
• SCF would like to articulate industry
consensus roadmaps for the path
to densification
• SCF needs to augment this
technology roadmap with the
practical and commercial
investments that need to be made
in order to monetise the technology
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12. Small cells everywhere will enable the
massive IoT
• SCF contributing key elements of low
latency, responsive proximity network for
massive connectivity
• ETSI MEC cooperation
• Cells that are easily deployable anywhere
• New spectrum options including unlicensed
• Service-enabled architectures
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13. All this requires standards and interop:
critical to economics of scale
• SCF has initiated development
of a number of standards
needed to support densification.
• Many now maintained by our
partners.
• Plugfests and APIs encourage
interoperabilty.
FAPI
IuH
SON API
Services API
nFAPI
TR196
Drove consensus on joint proposal to 3GPP
Internal small cell interface for baseband silicon
Management support with TMF/BBF
API to expose precise location, caching etc.
Transportable L2 split for virtualised small cells
Supports small cell self-organising features
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14. What does success look like?
We all achieve a better understanding of:
• objectives, priorities and roadmaps;
• areas where we might collaborate;
• areas where we might be duplicating effort;
• areas where it might be useful to keep one another up to speed;
• how we can make the most of each other’s communications channels.
Collaborate to avoid fragmentation
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