The Small Cell Forum (SCF) will hold a plenary workplan webinar on March 14th to discuss the agenda for their upcoming meeting in Cannes, France. The agenda will focus on operational, business, marketing, technology, interoperability, and special sessions. Key topics of discussion will include MEC/NFV impact on operations, 5G transport requirements, ownership models, CBRS/MulteFire, and plugfest testing. The goal is to establish practices to commercially deploy hyperdense heterogeneous networks and ensure a coherent roadmap for 5G investments.

1. Small Cell Forum
Cannes plenary Workplan Webinar
14th March 2017
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2. Lighting the Path to 5G
SCF drives industry agreement on the
prioritised sequence of investments
needed to take today’s networks
into the 5G era

3. Agenda
1) Introduction - SCFs unique role in the industry
2) What’s on the Cannes Agenda for…
Marketing
Business Principles
Operations
Technology and 5G
Interoperability
Other special sessions
3) Your questions
Anything we’ve not mentioned? Ask us, it might be on the agenda
4) Wrap-up and takeaways

4. On the path to 5G
SCF is making the practical preparations for the 5G era
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Hyperdense HetNets delivering
• High Capacity
• 100% coverage
• Ultra reliable & Low Latency
Today
4G densification Underway
18 Million Small cells
Open & interoperable
standards for new
interfaces Ecosystem for
NFV and SDN
Scalable repeatable
deployment process
Engage
vertical
markets
Alternative
ownership &
operations models
5G
era

5. 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, regulation
and backhaul for a scalable,
repeatable deployment process
Testing to improve standards for a
healthy, competitive ecosystem
SCF

6. Commercializing
hyperdense HetNets
What does it take to deploy a
hyperdense network commercially?
28 February 2017

7. Release 9
Commercialising Hyperdense HetNets
Making today’s technology a commercial success…
• Engaging with the Hospitality market
• Value of small cell connectivity for hospitality industry [184]
• Simple installation guide [011]
• Enterprise Advisory Council launched to deepen industry ties
• Alternative ownership and operations models for hospitality [181]
• Establishing a scalable and repeatable operations
• Simple and harmonised regulations for small cell installation [012, 182]
• Lobbying regional regulators & authorities for best practice policy [Global 190,US 192, LATAM 186, Local authorities 183]
• Driving a healthy interoperable ecosystem for SON:
• New SON test cases [176] and PlugFest report [177]
…and applying learnings to ensure 5G is practical and profitable
• Technology and 5G
• Small Cell Virtualisation: [187] nFAPI standard [082] and remote management model [167]
• Current working on: MEC and FOG, 5G x-haul, mIOT and URLLC, mm wave,
Spectrum sharing (SAS, LSA, CBRS) & neutral hosting
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8. What’s next:
Cannes Agendas for each group
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OPERATIONAL
Enterprise deployment
MEC-NFV impact on operations
5G x-haul requirements
GSMA-SCF regulatory alignment
Hyperdense Operations
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
Ownership models for
healthcare, hospitality, property
IoT use cases for small cells
Value added services
Light/unlicensed spectrum
MARKETING
Accessing healthcare,
hospitality & property markets
Connectivity & public policy
advocacy
Guiding operators to 5G
INTEROPERABILITY
Private EPC PlugFest
HetNet and SON PlugFest
PLUS:
Enterprise taskforce workshop
Agreeing release themes and
deliverables for 2017
GSMA & OMA partner alignment
Networking with your
customers and suppliers
TECHNOLOGY AND 5G
CBRS and MulteFire
MEC & FOG
Hyperdense HetNet Architecture
Security Task Force
Deploying Hyperdense HetNets Enabling the Digitized Enterprise
SCF Cannes Plenary 27-29 Mar 2017

10. Marketing
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On the Cannes Agenda…
• Accessing healthcare, hospitality & property
markets
• Connectivity & public policy advocacy
• Guiding operators to 5G
The Marketing Group considers how best to position small cells within the industry and
to the wider public, build use cases, agree common terminology and communicate how
the small cell ecosystem is helping to remove deployment barriers.
Chairs:
Nathalie Robitaille, iBwave
Emma Spiteri, ip.access
Vice-chair:
Caleb Banke, Qualcomm

11. Business Principles
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On the Cannes Agenda…
• Ownership models for healthcare hospitality & property
• IoT use cases for small cells
• Value added services
• Light/unlicensed spectrum
Investigating the non-technical factors constraining small cell deployment and
providing reference models and use case to show how these can be addressed
Chairs:
Ray Williamson, Huawei
Art King, SpiderCloud

12. Operational
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On the Cannes Agenda…
• Enterprise deployment:
MEC-NFV impact on operations
• 5G x-haul requirements
• GSMA-SCF regulatory alignment
• Hyperdense Operations
The Operational group covers the people teams, tools and supporting
infrastructure needed to plan, deploy and operate small cell networks
Chairs:
Peter Love, Nokia - deployment
Pierre Lynch, Ixia - NFV, Virtualisation
Mirella Doicu, Nokia - Regulatory
Julius Robson, SCF - x-haul

13. Technology and 5G
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On the Cannes Agenda…
• CBRS and MulteFire
• MEC & FOG
• Hyperdense HetNet Architecture
• Security Task Force
Technologies underpinning small cell HetNets towards 5G, covering radio,
network architectures, services API and management systems. Also addresses
license exempt, virtualization, multi-operator and neutral host technologies.
Chairs:
Prabhakar Chitrapu, AT&T,
Mark Grayson, Cisco
Neeraj Gupta, NEC

14. Interoperability
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On the Cannes Agenda…
• Private EPC PlugFest
• HetNet and SON PlugFest
The Interoperability group provides clarity on how, where and when
interoperability testing will take place to ensure that deployments function
effectively and in accordance with the standards
Chair: Kreso Bilan, Magnum.ai
Vice-chair
Antonio Coricciati, Parallel Wireless
In Cannes, IOP group will be planning the next SCF PlugFest event

15. ++Special Sessions for Cannes
+Enterprise taskforce workshop
+Operator Advisory Council – open to all operators globally; webex available
+Agreeing release themes and deliverables for the next year
+GSMA, ETSI & OMA partner alignment
+Networking with your customers and suppliers
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OPERATIONAL
Enterprise deployment
MEC-NFV impact on operations
5G x-haul requirements
GSMA-SCF regulatory alignment
Hyperdense Operations
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
Ownership models for
healthcare, hospitality, property
IoT use cases for small cells
Value added services
Light/unlicensed spectrum
MARKETING
Accessing healthcare,
hospitality & property markets
Connectivity & public policy
advocacy
Guiding operators to 5G
INTEROPERABILITY
Private EPC PlugFest
HetNet and SON PlugFest
PLUS:
Enterprise taskforce workshop
Agreeing release themes and
deliverables for 2017
GSMA & OMA partner alignment
Networking with your
customers and suppliers
TECHNOLOGY AND 5G
CBRS and MulteFire
MEC & FOG
Hyperdense HetNet Architecture
Security Task Force
Deploying Hyperdense HetNets Enabling the Digitized Enterprise
SCF Cannes Plenary 27-29 Mar 2017

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MARKETING
Accessing healthcare,
hospitality & property markets
Connectivity & public policy
advocacy
Guiding operators to 5G
INTEROPERABILITY
Private EPC PlugFest
HetNet and SON PlugFest
PLUS:
Enterprise taskforce workshop
Agreeing release themes and
deliverables for 2017
GSMA & OMA partner alignment
Networking with your
customers and suppliers
TECHNOLOGY AND 5G
CBRS and MulteFire
MEC & FOG
Hyperdense HetNet Architecture
Security Task Force
Deploying Hyperdense HetNets Enabling the Digitized Enterprise
SCF Cannes Plenary 27-29 Mar 2017
Anything we’ve not mentioned?
Ask us - it might be on the agenda
OPERATIONAL
Enterprise deployment
MEC-NFV impact on operations
5G x-haul requirements
GSMA-SCF regulatory alignment
Hyperdense Operations
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
Ownership models for
healthcare, hospitality, property
IoT use cases for small cells
Value added services
Light/unlicensed spectrum

18. Takeaways
• SCF is working to establish new practices to make densification commercially viable
• This is not just about technology, but also about establishing new commercial
relationships and a regulatory landscape to support a richer and more diverse
range of business models for higher performance mobile connectivity.
• We are driving industry agreement on a coherent roadmap for the logical sequence
of investments that need to be made to avoid a fragmented 5G
• Join us in Cannes to ensure you’re aligned with industry thinking
and industry thinking is aligned with yours
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