What’s new at Broadband World Forum Asia?

Unlimited bandwidth with FTTx

Optical fiber is growing in importance worldwide as a means for accessing the Internet with data-hungry triple play applications combining high-speed Internet, Voice over IP (VoIP) and video services. FTTC (fiber to the curb) uses existing copper cables for the last few meters to the subscriber to provide bandwidths of around 50 megabits a second (Mbit/s). FTTB (fiber to the building) and FTTH (fiber to the home) permit a further increase in the bandwidth to more than 100 Mbit/s. All FTTx architectures can be implemented using different technologies: DSL (VDSL2), passive optical networks (PON) or pure Ethernet solutions. Customized to the providers’ requirements and infrastructure, each solution optimizes the installed base and prepares providers for growing revenues. In addition, these scalable solutions are at the forefront of technological innovation and allow OPEX to be kept to a minimum.

Also being showcased is how state-of-the-art mobile backhauling via xDSL or Carrier Ethernet can help slash costs compared with leased lines. This cost-effective technology supports increasing data traffic with mobile and fixed broadband service bundles.

Radio evolution for 2G/3G

Nokia Siemens Networks highlights revenue-generating mobile broadband solutions enabling service continuity for the mobile broadband future. Operators can minimize network deployment and operational costs with distributed base station architectures and the market leading Flexi Base Station platform, the smallest and most efficient multi-technology base station in the industry, with unique design and architecture.

The Flexi Base Station delivers the benefits of modularity and energy efficiency to GSM, WCDMA and WiMAX operators by optimizing the total value of ownership. Service continuity is ensured with our strong EDGE and EDGE evolution commitment, and with the easy and smooth upgrade of our state-of-the-art 3G WCDMA networks to HSPA.

Internet-HSPA and Long Term Evolution (LTE)

Flat network architectures will be enabled by Nokia Siemens Networks' innovation, I-HSPA, which will provide a reduction in operational costs and enable a smooth migration path to LTE. Nokia Siemens Networks' LTE is the next evolution for mobile networks like GSM, WCDMA and CDMA, promising delivery of new multimedia and rich call applications with full mobility and high data speeds.

Mobile WiMAX

Nokia Siemens Networks’ mobile WiMAX solution shows how easy it is to extend broadband access and add mobility to wireless broadband services as the business grows. Mobile WiMAX will enable operators with appropriate frequency holdings to provide cost-effective personal mobile broadband to their subscribers. The market-leading Flexi WiMAX Base Station from Nokia Siemens Networks enables operators to build coverage where they need it, since the base station can be installed anywhere and no dedicated equipment rooms are needed.

Mobile TV and IPTV

The company showcases a combination of complimentary technologies (unicast streaming, DVB-H, IPTV).

Unicast streaming is presented live on Nokia devices (the N80 and N95), including a new video center client. This is a pre-installed and easy-to-use application on Nokia devices such as the N95. It enables mobile users to utilize a whole range of video services on their mobile phones, e.g., daily news or YouTube videos. They can also view live TV streaming or video playlists via the video center client.

The company believe that DVB-H will be a leading standard for Mobile TV in Asian markets and especially in China, and is therefore demonstrating DVB-H with four TV channels on Nokia devices (the N77 and N92). A huge demand for Mobile TV services is expected during the big 2008 Beijing event.

Its new IPTV features demonstrate, among other things, how effortlessly a user can share photos by sending snapshots to an Internet portal, which another user can almost instantaneously download directly to a TV screen. Additionally, users can access the Internet via their remote controls and browse directly on their TV screens.

Nokia Siemens Networks is also demonstrating the personalization of interactive services like live voting on music clips in combination with purchasing merchandise. This service is available via Mobile TV and IPTV, proving the convergence of interactive applications. Users can enjoy the same application with the same look-and-feel either on their mobile phone or at home on their TV screen.