Parallel Wireless has developed a solution to make rural cellular networks as easy and cost-effective to deploy as Wi-Fi. Their HetNet Gateway virtualizes the radio access network and allows hundreds of small cells called Converged Wireless Systems (CWS) to be orchestrated. CWS are low-cost software-defined radios that can provide 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi coverage using various backhaul options. This solution reduces deployment costs by 10 times compared to traditional networks and provides coverage for rural areas for the first time. Parallel Wireless is working with mobile operators to implement this solution and reimagine cellular networks.

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Making Cellular as Easy and as Cost-
effective as Wi-Fi: Rural HetNet Case
Study

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Team Expertise Came Together to Reimagine the RAN
Virtualization
SDN & NFV
Core
Networking, IMS,
VoLTE
Access
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Parallel Wireless Converge solution: Recognized for Innovation & Excellence
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Key Strategic Industry Inflection Points
More powerful/ less cost SoC/Moore’s Law à more Capacity
in a Smaller Form Factor at Lower Cost, one $100 chip can
handle one sector
SDN/NFV à network and operational simplification and cost
reduction through elasticity/programmability and automation
Leveraging the two together
makes a new RAN architecture
possible ...
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Our Vision
Parallel Wireless is reimagining the RAN and building solutions
that will enable and accelerate the long term transition from
today’s 3G/4G to tomorrow’s 5G cellular networks.
Making carrier-grade cellular network deployments as easy
and cost-effective as enterprise Wi-Fi.
Our Mission
Our Solution
HetNet Gateway(HNG) and Converged Wireless System
(CWS).

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Market Insights on Rural Coverage Challenges
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Source: Informa UK

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Traditional Community Cell in Rural Wales
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Parallel
Wireless
GBP 52k
GBP 30m
GBP 2.8k
Parallel
Wireless
30m
Parallel Wireless is 1/10 of the cost Source: Parallel WirelessSource: Real Wireless

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Options for Coverage
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Regular Mast in the
Rural Environment
PW Rural
Solution using distributed CWS
orchestrated by HNG
CWS = Converged Wireless Solution
3G/4G/WiFi BTS
10W Tx 3G , 10W Tx 4G

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Result: Rural HetNets Economically Viable
UK’s largest mobile operator, a subsidiary or Deutsche Telekom and Orange Telecom; operates
Europe's largest 4G network with 31M connections
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We … can change the economics of providing mobile voice and data coverage. The
innovative capabilities remove significant obstacles to rural coverage and uniquely enable
us to connect areas for the first time with both reliable voice services and our 4G wireless
broadband.
Mansoor Hanif, Director Radio Access Networks and programs at EE.
One of the many visions for the 5G future is Heterogeneous Networks, or HetNets, where all
the high speed data traffic is carried by vast numbers of small cells while the network control
is carried by big over-arching cells. EE is now rolling out HetNets.
If EE was being its normal hype-filled self, it would call its latest mobile trial in Cumbria
5G. Its restraint is admirable – and the technology even more so.

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Key Components of Our Solution
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• HetNet Gateway (HNG)
• Gateways VNFs, C-RAN, multi-technology SON
• Virtualizes the 3GPP interfaces
• Allows hundreds of cells to be abstracted
• Unifies multiple core network technologies (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi)
• Minimizes and optimizes traffic towards core network
• Works with PW radio network as well as with 3rd party radio networks
• PW Radio Access
• CWS
• Variety of software defined radios (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi + integrated backhaul)
• Inter CWS Multi radio mesh capabilities
• Multiple backhaul technologies (LTE, microwave, wired…)
• Integrated cell edge router
• Different RF power outputs
• Multiple form factors (outdoor, indoor, in-vehicle)

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Rural Deployment – What do we bring ?
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• Simple quick Installation –
• 1 hour to install and commission one CWS
• Planning “Lite”
• Eliminates the backhaul Challenge
• Use what is available when it becomes available & aggregate all sources
• In Band 4G Backhaul
• Mesh Backhaul
• Fiber / DSL / ADSL
• Low cost of Operation
• 80W power consumption
• Standard domestic Supply

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Reimagine the Rural R N
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CWS #2
CWS #3
CWS #5
CWS #4
CWS cluster
orchestrated
via HNG
HetNet
GatewaySON
X2
Broker
ing
and
ICIC
S1
aggreg
ation
handoff
optimiz
ation
Local
Breako
ut
MEC
Wi-Fi
Integrat
ion(eP
DG,
TWAG)
Mesh
backha
ul
manag
ement
Standard
interfaces
IPsec
EMS
NetConf
Core
AAA
Gi
Iur
X2
§ Self-configuring
§ Self-optimizing
§ Self-healing
§ No planning applications
required
§ Flexible backhaul options,
including wireless mesh
Internet
Broadband
Mesh
Gateway node
Internet
Internet
Small
Cell
gatewa
y/
HeNBG
W
Securit
y
Gatewa
y
HNB
gatewa
y/vRNC
Community
Local Traffic
Standard Intel COTS
hardware
LTE
backhaul

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Example CWS Install
Havre, MT, US
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Wi-Fi Access Antenna
LTE Antenna
Backhaul Antenna
CWS
Power
Performance
Indicators
Mounting bracket
GPS
No Ethernet coming in

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Multi-Radio Elastic Mesh Backhaul
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CWS#1
CWS#6
CWS#2
CWS# 3CWS#4
CWS#5
CWS#7CWS#8
CWS#9CWS#10CWS#11
Rural Corridor
Long haul
LOS links
using point to
point high
gain antenna
Mesh links (n/
NLOS)
• SDN mesh backhaul links can be configured for mesh deployment multi-point
to multi-point scenarios or long haul point to point links
• Only few CWSs need wired backhaul or LTE backhaul from macro

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Multiple Rural Distributed Communities
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HetNet
Gateway
“Orchestration of
100s of CWS”
CWS Cluster
orchestrated via HNG
CWS Cluster
orchestrated
via HNG
CWS Cluster
orchestrated
via HNG
CWS to Macro handoff
orchestrated by HNG Cluster to Cluster
handoff orchestrated
by HNG
In Band backhaul 4G
Mesh
Wired
Public Internet
Private MNO
Internet
Core

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Cellular as Easy as Wi-Fi
3G, 4G/LTE
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+
= LTE/3G as easy and cost-
effective as enterprise Wi-Fi

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One Technology – Many Deployment Scenarios
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Macro ENT
Rural
Urban/
Dense
Urban
Public
Safety
Public
Transit
Military
Specia
lized
ENT

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Thank You
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