Alcatel-Lucent Base Station Solution
As the CDMA2000 market leader, Alcatel-Lucent understands the need to keep its base station portfolio in-line with operator demands. Driving older base stations to support new technologies, however, may be less elegant that starting from scratch. (9/28/2009)
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Huawei Base Station Solution
Huawei’s flagship BTS3900 must be acknowledged as compelling given a strong combination of space efficiency, LTE support and capacity. The disappearance of legacy products, however, should worry operators looking for investment protection. (9/28/2009)
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Motorola Base Station Solution
When Motorola introduced new base stations like the UBS and M810, its CDMA portfolio benefited. Since then, as competitors like Huawei and ZTE ramped up their momentum, limited improvements from Motorola have put it at a clear disadvantage. (9/25/2009)
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Nortel Base Station Solution
Nortel’s CDMA2000 base station offerings have been slowly slipping behind the competition. Combining limited innovation with a lack of details on key performance metrics and the company’s financial turbulence should be worrying to operators. (4/3/2009)
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ZTE Base Station Portfolio
Clarifications on the ZTE portfolio yield a stronger solution, with decent breadth and more time to prove out its capabilities. Spectrum and LTE concerns still remain, however, as does the need for deeper breadth on the mid-capacity front. (9/28/2009)
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- Buying Criteria
- Capacity
- Reflects the quantity of calls possible via a base station. It is determined by a combination of the number of carriers and the number of sectors, as well as total channel element capacity.
- Coverage
- Reflects the maximum size possible for a cell sector footprint. It is determined by transmit power and receive sensitivity as well as the maximum number of sectors possible.
- Deployment Flexibility
- Total costs related to real estate acquisition, transmission options, integrated backhaul (e.g. microwave, SDH), and site location considerations.
- Technology Evolution
- Does equipment support 1X and 1xEV-DO evolution? Does equipment address spectrum flexibility?
- Portfolio Breadth
- Reflects the range of base station forms and capacities available to be deployed into multiple markets (i.e., does the vendor maintain high-capacity, mid-capacity and low-capacity products?)
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- Product Metrics
- High-Capacity BTS
- Model Name
- Components
- Dimensions
- Footprint
- Mass
- Multi-chassis
- Frequency Bands Supported
- Maximum Carriers per Frame
- Maximum Number of Sectors
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors per Frame
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors - Total
- Sector Carrier Footprint Efficiency
- Maximum Channels per Frame
- Receive Sensitivity
- Transmit Output Power
- Circuit Transport
- Packet Transport
- Availability
- Mid-Capacity BTS
- Model Name
- Components
- Dimensions
- Footprint
- Mass
- Multi-chassis
- Frequency Bands Supported
- Maximum Carriers per Frame
- Maximum Number of Sectors
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors per Frame
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors - Total
- Sector Carrier Footprint Efficiency
- Maximum Channels per Frame
- Receive Sensitivity
- Transmit Output Power
- Circuit Transport
- Packet Transport
- Availability
- Low-Capacity BTS
- Model Name
- Components
- Dimensions
- Footprint
- Mass
- Multi-chassis
- Frequency Bands Supported
- Maximum Carriers per Frame
- Maximum Number of Sectors
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors per Frame
- Maximum Carrier/Sectors - Total
- Sector Carrier Footprint Efficiency
- Maximum Channels per Frame
- Receive Sensitivity
- Transmit Output Power
- Circuit Transport
- Packet Transport
- Availability
- Other
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