Alcatel-Lucent Metro Cells: Placing coverage and capacity where it’s needed

Alcatel-Lucent

Abstract:

As a key component of Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio™ Network or any heterogeneous (HetNet) architecture, Alcatel-Lucent metro cells enable mobile service providers (MS Ps) to deliver costeffective capacity to urban hotspots, as well as affordable coverage to rural locations. They also enhance the quality of experience (QoE) for end users by enabling faster, more reliable data connections and higher data throughput on both 3G and 4G networks. In addition, some Alcatel-Lucent metro cells offer seamless, secure Wi-Fi® access to an MS P’s services. The cells integrate easily into any W-CDMA or LTE network, without impacting the current RAN design, and their advanced interference management features minimize any impact on macro network performance. Metro cell configuration and optimization is automated, using Alcatel-Lucent self-organizing network algorithms — a Bell Labs innovation — to keep network deployment and operation costs low.

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