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Huawei eLTE Success Stories

I n the Mobile Broadband (MBB) era, enterprise customers need to

improve quality of communications and enhance competitiveness. With

industry-leading wireless technologies and a solid understanding of

customer needs, Huawei provides the eLTE solution to improve operational

efficiency and enable network deployment in harsh environments, while

helping to build a safer society and enrich people’s lives.

In the government sector, Huawei deployed the world’s first broadband

trunking solution for the Nanjing government, greatly improving city

management, increasing government operational efficiency, and enhancing

public safety.

In the metro sector, Huawei deployed an eLTE solution with Closed-

Circuit Television (CCTV) and Passenger Information System (PIS) service

for Zhengzhou Metro Co., Ltd. (Zhengzhou Metro) in China. The

solution features highly reliable bilateral radio transmission channels

for train-to-ground voice, data, and video transmissions, improving

overall communications and operational efficiency of rail transportation.

In the future, the eLTE solution will provide broadband trunking and

Communications-Based Train Control System (CBTC) services for

Zhengzhou Metro.

In the energy sector, Huawei deployed the world’s first offshore LTE

network, providing broadband communication services for Norway’s

Tampnet oilfield — which encompasses a radius of 37 km.

In the electric power industry, Huawei extended its leadership and worked

extensively with China Southern Power Grid and State Grid, providing

convenient eLTE wireless broadband communication services through

private networks. Huawei also achieved breakthroughs in the port and

airport sectors.

01 Nanjing Municipal Network World's First eLTE Smart City

02 Lijiang Police To Build a Safe Lijiang

03 Shanghai Police To Secure Major Events

04 UK Broadband To Construct Emergency Communication Network

05 Shuohuang Railway World’s First LTE Network in a 20,000-ton Heavy

Haul Railway

06 Zhengzhou Metro First LTE Metro Network in the World

07 Port of Tianjin World’s First LTE Network for Ports

08 Ożarowice, Poland World’s First LTE Broadband Deployment in the Public Administration Sector

09 IB-RED UWB Coverage in Spain’s Rural Areas

10 Northern Michigan University First LTE Campus Network in the U.S.A.

11 China Southern Power Grid World’s First LTE Network

for the Power Industry

13 Norway Tampnet World’s First LTE Network for

Offshore Oilfield

14 Xinjiang Oilfield Company Laying a Foundation for Internet of Things

15 Weijiamao Coal Mine World’s First LTE Network in the Coal Industry

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Enterprise eLTE:

61 Contacts

19 Commercial Networks (As of Q2 2014)

Carrier LTE:

290+ Contracts

126 Commercial Networks

(GSA, as of Q1 2014)

The Li River flows over 83 kilometers from Guilin to Yangshuo, bordered by beautiful mountains. The river is one of the world’s top ten Golden Waterways and a national 5A-class scenic area that now has 179 boats to accommodate millions of tourists each year from every corner of the Earth.

As more tourists visit the Li River, an insufficient police force and a lack of real-time monitoring along the waterway have posed challenges to security and ecosystems. For example, unauthorized bamboo rafts and swimming in the river have caused about 30 drowning deaths every year, and peddling has seriously hindered management of scenic locations. In addition, fishermen unintentionally killed juvenile fish and negatively affected some species. Therefore, Guilin Police needed a solution to strengthen monitoring and management in the scenic areas to control public order and strengthen law enforcement.

Among the available solutions, optical networks would be hard to deploy due to the rugged terrain surrounding the river (for example, the river travels through numerous caves), and WiMAX falls short of the high-Asian Youth Games used the TD-LTE

trunking solution to provide both

professional trunking services and

mobile video surveillance. This

solution has played a significant

role in dealing with emergencies

and guaranteeing safety for sports

events. I believe that this system

will be enhanced to make a greater

contribution to the upcoming Youth

Olympic Games.

Li Nan, Manager of the

Communication and Network

Department, Technology Operation

Center, Asian Youth Games

Our system is so beneficial that

we can conduct both onshore and

offshore monitoring to reduce illegal

and criminal acts and enhance law

enforcement. Now we employ less

than 60 people to secure up to 83

km of Li River waterways.

Huang Lan,

Head of Lijiang Police of Guilin

Nanjing holds a prominent position in China’s history, having been the capital of China for six dynasties. It is now the second largest city in Eastern China after Shanghai, with a permanent population of about 8 million people, covering an area of 6,582.31 sq. km. To boost its comprehensive governance, provide better services, improve the living quality of its citizens, create favorable conditions for developing smart industries, and attracting high-end talent, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided in 2013 to invest in building a wireless broadband municipal network to providing a secure and ubiquitous broadband services.

Solutions such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, public 3G networks, and TETRA-based network expansion cannot satisfy requirements of the municipal network in terms of performance, reliability, high bandwidth, and scalability. Therefore, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided to use the Huawei eLTE solution — a mature End-to-End (E2E) solution that provides rich functions over a single network, from traditional trunking to voice and video dispatching and real-time video distribution. This solution helps transform a purely “listening” trunking system to a “clearly watching” one and, therefore, provides visualization at the command center.

During the 2013 Asian Youth Games, this solution provided reliable, high-quality communications, and helped guarantee the success of the event. Fixed and mobile surveillance helped capture live information on traffic between athlete residences and stadiums, inside and outside of stadiums,

Nanjing Municipal NetworkWorld’s First eLTE Smart City

Lijiang PoliceTo Build a Safe Lijiang

speed mobility required for patrol boats. Therefore, Guilin Police decided to use the Huawei eLTE solution to provide wireless broadband coverage for voice, video, and data services over a single network across the river. High-resolution cameras are used in key areas for real-time monitoring. Meanwhile, multimedia video trunking is employed to allow visualized dispatching, accurate decision-making, quick police operations, and task-specific deployment. The network permits the command boat to communicate with the onshore control center and patrol boats on the river, which helps Lijiang Police to provide joint, quick responses. This network also interoperates with the existing 350 MHz voice communication system to maximize the use of resources.

After the eLTE broadband network was deployed in 2013, the accident rate dropped by 50 percent and emergency response efficiency rose by 30 percent. This contributed to the Security Guard award to Lijiang Police by the Guilin Municipal Government. The Lijiang Police Department also has built a digital information system, further contributing to tourists’ enjoyment of Guilin.

audience entrances, and nearby areas around the stadiums. The eLTE trunking dispatch system helped the command center coordinate with the Event Organization Committee, Security Department, and Transportation Department, enabling timely on-site dispatching to maintain order at the game sites. This system also protected previous investments by communicating with other systems like TETRA.

After a year of improvements, the eLTE solution has helped ensure the 2014 Youth Olympic Games to be successful and demonstrate Nanjing’s charm and strength to the world. As planned, the Huawei eLTE solution will provide network coverage across the entire city, converge fixed and mobile networks, and integrate the currently fragmented information systems by taking advantage of eLTE’s excellent performance, open platform, and flexible interfaces. This solution will help build a unified information platform for public security, traffic policing, fire fighting, medical and public health, power supplies, and hydrology to permit information sharing as well as unified video and voice dispatching. Serving as the information backbone, the eLTE network will lay a solid foundation for creating a “Smart Nanjing.” For example, it will allow the Nanjing Municipal Government to quickly coordinate resources for disaster relief and anti-terrorism operations.

Based upon the success of the Nanjing Municipal Network, Huawei believes that the eLTE solution will help governmental sectors improve their information systems and enhance their emergency communication capabilities on the journey towards safer and smarter cities.

Voice of Customers

Voice of Customers

UK Broadband is the U.K.‘s largest commercial

holder of national radio spectrum suitable

for 4G mobile services and fixed wireless

solutions. It mainly provides data capacity,

equipment, and services to the public sector.

This data-only business operation without

voice services puts a cap on its further

growth, although the U.K. government

plans to promote LTE technology in its

emergency communication network. At the

same time, enterprise customers ranging

from airports to harbors to railway sectors

are expecting their networks to support

voice and Big Data services.

In February 2014, UK Broadband, in

collaboration with Huawei, piloted an

Multimedia trunking based on TD-LTE

networks is an inevitable trend in

the development of command and

dispatch systems!

Wei Yu, Vice General Manager,

Shanghai 3G Electronics

Engineering Co., Ltd.

UK Broadband released an eLTE

video on its official website with

comparison test results, and

included the following remarks:

Using a Huawei "embedded"

network solution rather than An

Over The Top (OTT) one, providing

a greater level of functionality than

can be achieved with OTT. We

believe our service is the only one

which provides the security and

functionality of the current TETRA

solution that our emergency services

users value today, together with

the added benefits that LTE 4G

technology can bring such as video

calling and advanced data services.

www.ukbroadband.com/eLTE

Shanghai Huangpu District is Shanghai’s economic, administrative, and cultural center. It covers an area of 20.5 sq. km and has a permanent population of 680,000 people. This district is also home to numerous world-famous landmarks, including the Bund, Xintiandi, East Nanjing Road, Middle Huaihai Road, and City God Temple. The Park Hotel and Shanghai Customs House Bell Tower in this district were once regarded as the center of Shanghai.

Along with the city’s development, Huangpu District is facing more and more security challenges. Due to complicated terrain, dense population, and buildings, existing police communication systems are constrained from achieving high efficiency and reliability. Specifically, the police communication system can no longer provide reliable communications services for major security tasks and emergencies. The 350 MHz trunking communication system does not permit an effective combination of voice and video services. Fixed-wire cameras do not enable all-dimensional, and blind-spot-free surveillance due to their limited number and monitoring angles. Therefore, Huangpu Police are eager to improve their law enforcement and management efficiency by optimizing the information system.

A joint effort with Shanghai 3G Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd., enabled Huawei to use the existing equipment rooms of the Huangpu District Police to build an private, eLTE broadband trunking network. This new network permits the Shanghai Police Department to exclusively use its downlink and uplink radio resources, free of interference from public users. Therefore, this network fully provides security and reliability with communication services for police sectors. In addition to the original functions and services

UK BroadbandTo Construct Emergency Communication Network

eLTE broadband trunking network in the

center of London to provide coverage

in the 3 sq. km financial area. With this

network, UK Broadband provides perfect

broadband trunking applications, with

network performance far exceeding its

competitors. Since the pilot network was

put into use, numerous visitors from sectors

like government, police, and municipal

administration came to experience the

network services and left satisfied.

With the success of London as a starting

point, UK Broadband plans to provide eLTE

coverage across the U.K. in collaboration

with Huawei.

of the 350 MHz TETRA network, Huawei’s solution provides services such as broadband video surveillance, video trunking dispatch, GIS positioning, and broadband data access. This solution facilitates police command and dispatch, and helps the Shanghai Police Department take a qualitative leap from “simply listening” to “clearly watching.”

During such major events as the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai International Tourism Festival, and Shanghai International Marathon, the eLTE private broadband trunking network enabled reliable, high-quality communication services, improved site command efficiency, and provided comprehensive information support. The communication system helped build a modern dispatch and command platform that allows the command center to “clearly view locations,” then “dispatch timely commands.” The eLTE private broadband trunking network supports high-capacity trunking voice services. It also collects onsite information through fixed wireless cameras, emergency communication vehicles, handheld terminals, and wirelessly uploads video and positioning information to the command center, eliminating all blind spots. With this system, command personnel also can distribute videos to personnel on-site at any time. With the aid of functions like instant voice communication and Multimedia Messaging Services, the command center can promptly dispatch personnel and deliver commands to the site.

Shanghai leads China in deploying an eLTE private broadband trunking network for its police organizations, opening a new chapter for more efficient police networks in China and the world at large.

Shanghai PoliceTo Secure Major Events

Voice of Customers

Voice of Customers

Zhengzhou, with a population of over 10 million, is the capital of Henan province and a major transportation hub in Central China. Zhengzhou Metro has 6 lines covering over 200 km and plays an important part in relieving the city’s traffic congestion.

To improve traffic conditions, ensure travel safety, enrich passenger experience, and build Zhengzhou Metro into the world’s first-class urban railway transport system, Zhengzhou Metro Company has been seeking a first-class communications system. The new system would provide high-speed mobility, wide bandwidth, short delays, and strong scalability to fulfill communication demands now and into the future. The traditional Passenger Information System (PIS) records data or transmits data through a WLAN. However, data recording does not deliver real-time services and, therefore, cannot fully utilize the PIS’s advantages. With the increasing popularity of Wi-Fi, PIS stability becomes a problem, especially for mobile applications where intermittent interruptions occur. Furthermore, due to limited uplink capacity for traditional wireless solutions, vehicle-mounted video surveillance can only record local data, and real-time videos cannot be captured by the command center. Under such circumstances, Zhengzhou Metro decided to implement the Huawei eLTE solution to

The LTE network has created a

good foundation for the future

transportation capacity of more than

350 million tons, with enhanced

communication and network security.

Cao Yanping, Vice General

Manager, Shuohuang Railway

Development Co., Ltd.

As the world’s first metro line to

use LTE, Zhengzhou Metro is an

example for future wireless network

construction on urban metro lines

and provides clear evidence that LTE

can meet the requirements of wireless

communication in urban metro. We

believe that LTE will be widely used in

the future for urban metro.

Liu Hongtai, Deputy General

Manager, Operation Branch

Company of Zhengzhou Rail

Transit Co., Ltd.

Invested and constructed by Shenhua Group

Corporation Limited, the world‘s largest

coal supplier and a Fortune 500 company,

the 588-km long Shuohuang Railway is the

longest heavy haul railway ever constructed

by Shenhua. To service the coal demands of

the Chinese economy, Shuohuang Railway

is required to increase annual transportation

capacity to 350 million tons; a single train

trip needs to increase from 5,000 tons to

20,000 tons.

Operating such huge, heavy haul trains

needs multiple-locomotive synchronization.

Meanwhile, dynamic operation of the

locomotive is required for the controllable

train tail to solve the longitudinal impulse

problem of heavy haul trains, and extend the

communication distance between the master

and slave locomotives to over 2,500m.

With such advantages as wide coverage, short

delay, and high bandwidth, the Huawei eLTE

Shuohuang RailwayWorld’s First LTE Network in a 20,000-ton Heavy Haul Railway

Zhengzhou MetroWorld’s First LTE Metro Network

provide ground-to-train wireless broadband services across Zhengzhou Metro Line 1, with speeds up to 120 km per hour, for services such as vehicle-mounted PIS applications, video surveillance, and fire warnings.

The Huawei eLTE solution provides a downlink bandwidth of about 20 Mbit/s for a single train, with flexible subframe configuration, and large uplink bandwidth in the case of limited frequencies, enabling the requirements of vehicle-mounted HD video surveillance. In addition, QoS mechanisms provide accurate priority management of services to minimize transmission delay, packet loss rate, and guarantee bandwidth demand for key services when the network is congested. The eLTE solution supports PIS and video surveillance services in one system to reduce network investment and pave the way in the future for Communication Based Train Control functions and trunking dispatch. With this solution, coverage of a single cell extends to 1,200m, significantly reducing equipment quantity, and improving O&M efficiency.

On November 29, 2013, Zhengzhou Metro powered up the world’s first eLTE urban metro solution, which gained wide recognition throughout the industry. This project lays a solid foundation for integrating metro resources, saving construction costs, and enhancing metro O&M efficiency.

solution tailored for Shuohunag Railway uses

a 1.8 GHz TD-LTE network to successfully

implement multiple-locomotive control over

the 20,000-ton trains, extending transmission

distance and reducing latency. To achieve high

reliability, the Huawei eLTE network provides

a full redundancy solution to ensure 99.999

percent system availability. Innovative dual-

network coverage and multiple-priority QoS

mechanisms contribute to zero interruption in

railway operations. Meanwhile, Shuohuang

Railway has also achieved whole-line

dispatch and driver room video surveillance,

significantly enhancing dispatch efficiency and

operation safety.

The success of the Huawei eLTE solution in

Shuohuang Railway marks a major innovation

in heavy haul railway communication and

embodies an exemplary role in heavy haul

railway development in China and the world.

Voice of Customers

Voice of Customers

Ożarowice is located in Silesia, east of Poland

and has a population of only 1,700. Due to

its geographic remoteness, sparse population,

and low profitability, operators are unwilling

to construct communication networks there.

Previously, wireless access was mainly provided

by local Internet service providers, leading to

poor IT infrastructure and low penetration of

broadband Internet services, which hindered

city development.

To speed up information communication

and bridge communication between the

government and its citizens, the Ożarowice

government decided to build a broadband

network independent from operators to

provide Internet, voice over IP, and mobile

video surveillance services.

To minimize project duration and costs,

the Ożarowice government decided to use

wireless solutions. Huawei is a major LTE

solutions provider and the first to support

TD-LTE for commercial applications in this

industry. Huawei’s eLTE solution supports

deployment on the 3.7 GHz band, and uses

lightweight equipment and special outdoor

terminals to permit efficient broadband

Since the LTE network was

implemented, it seems that our

container wharf can ‘see and hear’

beyond the range of ordinary

perception, while site management

and control effectiveness are

significantly strengthened.

Li Yan, Manager,

Consultation Department,

Tianjin Port Pacific International

Container Terminal

A broadband network competition

has already begun in Silesia

Voivodeship under the framework

of Regional Operational Program.

Till now, our communities have had

a few Internet service providers but

only 30% inhabitants have access

to broadband network. You can say

that we still have blank spots on the

network map.

Grzegorz Czapla,

Mayor of Ozarowice

Covering 132 square kilometers of land, the

Port of Tianjin handled 500 million tons of

cargo and 13 million TEU of containers in

2013, making it the world’s fourth largest

port in throughput tonnage and the largest

comprehensive port in Northern China.

Tianjin Port Pacific International Container

Terminal (the Terminal), lies in the southwest

of Dongjianggang District. It covers 2,300m

of quay shoreline and has six 150,000-ton

container berths with a yearly container

throughput of 4 million TEU. The storage yard

of 1.8 sq. km boasts a stockpiling capacity of

140,000 TEU containers.

The Terminal once used Wi-Fi-based TOS to

handle mobile data transmission, CDMA-

based voice trunking to deliver voice

communication, and optical networks to

implement video surveillance. This resulted

in substantial interference among networks,

coverage holes across the wharf, and huge

operation costs. For example, the CDMA-

based voice trunking network had a delay

longer than one second, creating low

dispatch efficiency; several types of UEs

complicated operations and lead to potential

safety hazards.

Ożarowice, PolandWorld’s First LTE Broadband

Public Administration Deployment

access. Because of these features, Huawei

eLTE became the final choice of the Ożarowice

government. The solution helped Ożarowice

build an efficient modern network to promote

mutual communication among government

sectors, provide more convenient and stable

broadband Internet access for its citizens, and

create a foundation for the application of

urban monitoring data pertaining to water,

electricity, and coal.

The Ożarowice project was recognized by the

European Commission (EC) for constructing

a next-generation access network. The EC

classifies LTE as a supported broadband

technology. Optimized costs of network

construction show that LTE is a solution

suitable not only for mobile operators, but

also is the perfect option for publicly-funded

networks. Synergy generated by cooperation

between these two sectors can promote

integrated solutions for creation of wireless

networks without complications caused by

technological incompatibility between systems

that are currently available.

To turn the wharf into a digital port and

an innovative, first-class container wharf,

Terminal management selected the Huawei

eLTE solution, which covers 95 percent, or

2.4 sq. km of the wharf, provides average

single-UE throughput of 7 to 11 Mbit/s

uplink, and 10 to 15 Mbit/s downlink. This

solution supports data services like TOS and

VCTS, video surveillance services, and SOLAS

functions to perform visualized, all-round

safety management and control. In March

2014, Phase II of the Terminal’s stockpiling

area had already begun to use a single eLTE

private network to implement trunking

dispatch, video of goods collection, and

logistic data services.

Compared to the previous TOS system based

on Wi-Fi, the eLTE network reduces time

delay to only 31 ms and a packet loss rate

to almost 0, enhancing overall performance

by 86 percent. The eLTE-based TOS was

completed within four months from October

2013 to January 2014. The Terminal increased

overall dispatch and command efficiency by

30 percent, and production line efficiency by

12 percent.

Port of TianjinWorld’s First LTE Network for Ports

Voice of Customers

Voice of Customers

Northern Michigan University (NMU), located

in Marquette, Michigan, is a dynamic, four-year

public university that has grown its reputation

based on its cutting-edge technology

initiatives and nationally recognized academic

programs. The university has a population of

about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate

students. Over the past 13 years, NMU has

been selected for numerous international

and national awards for its use of next-

generation technology for higher education.

NMU was the first U.S. university to own and

operate a WiMAX (4G) network. NMU’s work

with WiMAX technology was so innovative,

President Barack Obama chose the NMU

campus as the site to announce his national

wireless initiative in 2011.

To improve upload and download and

increase transmission reliability, NMU decided

We are very happy with LTE by

Huawei, best performance and best

people working in Huawei.

Alberto Navarro,

CEO, IB-RED

Students, faculty and staff are all

benefiting by being able to quickly

communicate and collaborate

via the Huawei LTE solution. The

benefits have been obvious and we

feel well positioned for our future

communications needs.

David Maki, CTO,

Northern Michigan University

IB-RED, a Wireless Internet Service Provider

(WISP) in Spain’s Balearic Islands, provides

broadband access and voice services for the

residents and enterprises in remote rural areas.

Due to limited coverage, poor performance,

and strong interference from 5.8 GHz WiMAX

and Wi-Fi networks, IB-RED leased the 3.5

GHz band to build a new broadband network.

IB-RED selected the Huawei eLTE solution

to build the first LTE network for large rural

areas in Europe. With this solution, the

wireless network can provide 40 Mbit/s

access rates, the same as fixed ADSL

networks — enabling rural residents and

companies to have the same broadband

access services as their urban counterparts.

Presently, this network has already covered

Mallorca Island. IB-RED said that the new

IB-REDUWB Coverage in Spain’s Rural Areas

Northern Michigan UniversityFirst LTE Campus Network in U.S.A.

to upgrade its WiMAX networks to LTE

networks.

NMU worked with Huawei to deploy an eLTE

network to provide 24/7 high-speed wireless

broadband services across its 360-acre

campus. With the eLTE network, laptops pre-

loaded with desired software have become

the new classroom communication vehicle on-

and off- campus. This technology is attracting

more talented students and faculty to NMU.

In addition, NMU shares its eLTE network

with the Marquette city government to

promote their partnership. By providing ever-

higher bandwidths, eLTE will support more

broadband services in the future.

The high-performance and scalable network

solution provided by Huawei allows NMU to

become technologically more competitive.

4G LTE network’s performance was 50 times

faster than conventional WiMAX and definitely

changed the ADSL system. The network can

reach every corner of the islands with blazing-

fast speed, unlimited download speed, lower

latency, and higher stability. IB-RED has already

made plans to expand the eLTE network and

complete network construction in Mallorca,

Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera in the next

two years.

In addition, distributed base stations with

an average coverage radius of up to 15 km,

and compact computer network devices

facilitate eLTE network construction with fast

deployment and lowered costs. This network

also supports evolution to LTE-Advanced

networks in the future, helping to maximize

the profit of the customer’s investment.

Voice of Customers

Voice of Customers

China Southern Power GridWorld’s First LTE Network for the Power Industry

This is the first successful case of

TD-LTE in the power industry. It

helps to overcome difficulties in

routing optical cables, improves

reliability and security in public

networks, and facilitates network

maintenance.

LTE also provides high-rate data

services, VoIP, and video surveillance

under NLOS applications, remarkably

improving overall performance,

efficiency of smart grids, and the

online rate of power distribution

terminals.

Huang Yuanfeng, Senior Engineer,

Zhuhai Power Supply Bureau

China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (CSG) is a large state-

owned enterprise that invests in, builds, and manages the

power grids of Southern China. CSG is responsible for power

transmission and distribution to 230 million customers in

a total area of over 1 million sq. km in Yunan, Guizhou,

Guangdong, and Hainan provinces, as well the Guangxi Zhuang

Autonomous Region.

CSG defined clear goals for power distribution automation,

specifically, to research and implement a grid communication

system based on new wireless communication technologies.

CSG wanted to upgrade its grid automation systems in order to

turn them into an integrated data collection and optimization

platform. To build smart, efficient, reliable, and green power

grids, CSG has experimented with various communication

technologies during the past 10 years. For example, it once

tried the public GPRS network. The GPRS network provided

a device online rate of only 60 percent to 80 percent, which

could not guarantee highly efficient power grid operations. It

also implemented optical networks, only to find that these kinds

of networks required huge costs and could not easily identify

problems on power grids. CSG finally turned to the Huawei

eLTE solution, becoming the first power grid to implement

wireless power distribution in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.

Mbit/s and a coverage radius of 1.5 km, to handle the requirements

of the service radius of a type-A power supply substation. Therefore,

power distribution terminals around a substation can freely access

the base station, and high bandwidth requirements for power

distribution and metering automation can be fully satisfied. On the

other hand, power distribution and metering automation features

small data volume on individual field communicators and high total

volume. To allow the simultaneous access of numerous power

distribution and metering terminals (about 400 communicators per

square kilometer in dense urban areas) in Guangzhou, Huawei’s eLTE

solution uses an optimized access scheme that enables a single base

station to serve up to 3,000 online UEs.

CSG Zhuhai Power is the first to put LTE networks into operation in

the power industry, and CSG Guangzhou Power is the first to enable

LTE networks to create smart power grids in dense urban areas.

The two cases demonstrate that wireless solutions are applicable in

power distribution and metering automation, even in the densest

urban areas. They also fully integrate information-based services in

the power industry and pave the way to upgrade CSG power grids in

the future.

With the Huawei eLTE solution, a single base station can enable

up to 5,400 online UEs to access the power grid. At the same

time, this solution provides an average throughput of 20 Mbit/s

@ 10 MHz cell bandwidth in complicated urban situations, and

its coverage radius of 4 km can achieve a 100 percent device

online rate. In addition, eLTE reduces E2E delay to less than

100 ms, enabling power grids to provide accurate control,

particularly on short delays for remote Supervisory Control

And Data Acquisition (SCADA). The QoS policy also fulfills

power grid requirements by transmitting important data first.

What’s more, the Huawei eLTE solution maintained smooth,

normal operations of the Zhuhai power grids during the heavy

downpours of tropical storm Vicente in 2012.

Following the success of eLTE in the Zhuhai power grids, CSG

decided to deploy eLTE in the Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, for

power distribution automation. This district has the highest

population density (about 34,735 people per sqare mile) in

Guangzhou. In this area, power stations are sparsely distributed,

and base stations are located in low buildings amid high-density

high-rises. To address such issues, the Huawei eLTE solution

used MIMO, high-gain antennas, and high-power amplifiers to

increase transmission power and the coverage area. As a result,

a single base station can provide a bandwidth of more than 30

Voice of Customers

Xinjiang Oilfield Company, a unit of PetroChina Company

Limited, is the largest petroleum-producing enterprise in

western China and has always been a strong advocate

of using innovative information and communications

technologies to improve its oilfield productivity. It has now

become one of China’s benchmark enterprises with cutting-

edge oilfield solutions.

In the past, the company manually recorded, collected, and

summarized data for generating oil production reports, and

manually located and identified problems that occurred during

production. This method failed to deliver the large volumes of

oil well data to the management center in a timely manner,

and could not provide accurate support for prompt handling

of problems at production sites. In addition, patrol checks on

oil wells required a large staff, and frequent on-site visits to

deserted areas in the middle of the night sometimes caused

safety hazards.

To guarantee safe production and efficient exploration,

This is a milestone for us involving

one of the most innovative providers

in the telecommunication industry

into our business. The cooperation

with a market leader such as Huawei

is very exciting and we are intrigued

by their professional attitude

and ability to support us on the

deployment of their technology into

such extreme conditions.

Per-Helge Svensson,

CEO of Tampnet

Headquartered in Stavenger, Norway, Tampnet is a telecommunications operator providing leased high-bandwidth communications service to the oil and gas exploration industry in Norway’s North Sea area, including oil giants such as Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, and Statoil. Connecting nearly 68 percent of the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea area, Tampnet owns a majority of the submarine optical cables and microwave networks in the area. The company’s global presence extends to Norway, the U.K., and Australia.

In recent years, deep-ocean oil drilling has become more advanced, and drilling is completed mainly by drill ships in the waters around a drilling platform. Offshore data transmission and voice communication bottlenecks are historically common between oil drilling platforms, Float Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facilities, as well as oil tankers. In their North Sea locations, Tampnet had previously employed an intercom system for short-distance voice communication, satellite communication for long-distance voice communication, and helicopters to transport data on hard disks, all of which are inefficient and costly.

To achieve sustainable development, Tampnet turned to wireless solutions to build an end-to-end data transmission system between

Norway’s TampnetWorld’s First LTE Network for Offshore Oilfield

Xinjiang Oilfield CompanyLaying a Foundation for the Internet of Things

the company chose the Huawei’s eLTE solution to provide

tailored network coverage and service schemes for Xinjiang

Oilfield. eLTE provides a cell coverage radius of over 10 km,

and enables a single base station to serve up to 1,200 active

UEs, meeting the requirements of real-time management

of numerous UEs in a vast area. The eLTE solution’s

comprehensive information platform facilitates data collection

related to oil well reliability, SCADA, and video surveillance.

It enables automatic data collection and surveillance on

crucial procedures, visualized process display, and real-time

monitoring of production processes. As a result, the solution

strengthens safety management and process monitoring,

and optimizes organization, management, and company

profitability.

In addition, real-time monitoring of oil production, gas

production, oil and gas treatment, and transportation

effectively avoids environmental pollution caused by oil and

gas leaks.

offshore and onshore equipment in the North Sea area. They also wanted to offer new business growth by extending communication services, including voice and data services, to passing ships and travelers. Until now, no vendors have successfully delivered or implemented similar projects in the turbulent Norwegian waters, particularly with the frequent strong sea winds creating difficulties in delivery and maintenance of equipment.

Tampnet then selected Huawei, which resulted in successful deployment of the world’s first LTE-based offshore communication network.

This network delivers edge rates up to 1 Mbit/s uplink and 2 Mbit/s downlink. It provides a good solution for voice communications and data transmission between drilling platforms and FPSOs, oil tankers, and onshore stations within 37 kilometers. The advanced network design also supports wireless service expansion, including trunking services and video surveillance, creating a solid foundation for Tampnet’s future service expansion in offshore energy exploration.

Offshore oil and gas exploration will be key to global energy in the future, and this project has opened a brand-new chapter of wireless communication for offshore drilling.

Voice of Customers

Weijiamao Coal Mine is a new opencast coal mine in Zhungeer

City on the Ordos plateau, Inner Mongolia Autonomous

Region, China. It covers an area of 55 sq. km and produces an

estimated 12 million tons of coal every year. To take advantage

of resources and sharpen its competitive edge, Weijiamao Coal

Mine planned to build a dispatch network that combines truck

dispatch, inspection, monitoring data transmission, and video

trunking to support its “smart mine” initiative.

The coal mine previously used a narrowband trunking system

that provided only voice services, but did not support data

services like video dispatch or interconnection with the wired

PBX dispatch system. This seriously affected dispatch efficiency.

Because of complex geographical conditions, fixed cameras

cannot be installed in many parts of the mine area, leaving

numerous “holes” in surveillance. The truck dispatch system

and side slope monitoring system were based on Wi-Fi

technology and, therefore, were extremely unstable and

unreliable. Also, the two systems were constructed separately,

which caused inefficient system expansion and land use, and

duplicated investment. This compromised the use of limited

Weijiamao Coal MineWorld’s First LTE Network in the Coal Industry

places for coal production and impeded the new Smart Coal

Mine program.

After in-depth analysis of the production system, Huawei

recommended an eLTE solution. This solution uses a

single network to provide voice services, video dispatch,

personnel positioning, mobile video surveillance, and data

uploading. Using a simple network architecture, the eLTE

solution facilitates maintenance and reduces overall costs.

The integration of wired and wireless dispatch and video

surveillance increases dispatch performance and monitoring

efficiency. Because of this, the Weijiamao Coal Mine will

become a digital smart mine with seamless wireless network

coverage, smart dispatch, intelligent production monitoring,

and intelligent emergency handling.

The Huawei eLTE solution will replace the Wi-Fi-based

network, and provide voice and data services on a single

network. This has industry-wide significance and will initiate

reforms in opencast coal mine production. This project sets an

example for future projects in the coal industry and will shift

development toward intelligent digital coal mines.