A new one-stop-shop for network operators offering a variety of managed services has been launched by NEC Corporation. The company’s New Last Mile solution aids operators when deploying the last layer of LTE capacity and coverage in a quick and affordable manner.
The New Last Mile is designed to help operators keep up with the massive global demand for mobile broadband. It simplifies the process of delivering LTE in 3D urban landscapes as well as VIP customer sites outside the common macro footprint and rural areas, while staying in line with spectrum licensing requirements.
The new offering lets operators work with NEC on a project-by-project basis or in a fully managed solution. This helps clients reduce the costs associated with working with multiple contractors and enables them to deploy solutions quickly and cost effectively. It takes advantage of NEC’s open, multi-vendor HetNet technology as well as the company’s small cell and backhaul portfolio.
"Deploying macro and small cell networks is simply not the same,” said Katsumi Tanoue, assistant general manager at NEC Corporation. “With demand driven deployments, new planning techniques and literally hundreds of deployment variations, NEC has created its New Last Mile initiative, which provides a new business model to help our customers overcome the economic and technical challenges of meeting their LTE brand promise. We take away the complexity by optimizing the delivery model while creating a more open, standards-based, multi-vendor network."
Features of the new offering include specialist consulting and project management services like RAN hotspot identification using social networking analytics and advice on efficient RAN sharing setups among multiple operators. NEC also provides non-line-of-sight backhaul network design, which is useful for complex urban areas.
Customers may choose to utilize the NEC HetNet platform as well, which uses advanced interference algorithms and self-organizing network (SON) features to offer seamless mobile connectivity through a multi-vendor mix of macro and small cells. Platform benefits include intelligent traffic and interference management techniques that minimize network resource usage and offer a high QoS. NEC is also in the process of developing a velocity-sensitive LTE technology to alert base stations over a broad area about mobile devices that are moving at high speeds. The technology sets up a narrower area for slow-moving devices to reduce network traffic and free up capacity.
Edited by
Cassandra Tucker
