The Voice Evolution VoLTE, VoHSPA+, WCDMA+ and Quality Evolution
April 2012 Qualcomm is a Leader in Wireless
2012 2013 2014 2015+
Rel-8 Rel-9 Rel-10 Rel-11 & Beyond LTE LTE Advanced (FDD&TDD Commercial)
Rel-7 Rel-8 Rel-9 Rel-10 Rel-11 & Beyond HSPA HSPA+ HSPA+ HSPA+ (Commercial) (Future) Advanced WCDMA WCDMA+
Voice Efficiency M2M Efficiency CDMA2000 1X 1X Advanced (Commercial) (Future)
Rev A Multicarrier H/W Upgrade Phase I Phase II EV-DO EV-DO Rev. B DO Advanced (Commercial) (Commercial) (Future)
802.11 g 802.11 n 802.11 ac/ad Wi-Fi Wi-Fi (Commercial) (Future)
Commercial 2 Note: Estimated commercial dates. Created 04/18/2012 Evolving Voice for More Data, Better Quality, Richer Experience
Qualcomm: Comprehensive Voice Evolution Leadership . 1X Advanced, WCDMA+, IMS VoIP over LTE, HSPA+, EV-DO, and seamless transitions
2G/3G Provides LTE Voice Today & Future VoLTE Fallback . CSFB widely deployed, future VoLTE needs SRVCC to ensure seamless voice
VoLTE with VoHSPA+ Ensure Rich Voice Everywhere . Ensures a seamless and consistent rich voice user experience
WCDMA+: More Efficient Voice to Support More Data . Triples WCDMA circuit switched voice spectral efficiency
Qualcomm Enables The Best Voice Experience . Leading Voice Quality Technologies for 3G circuit switched voice, IMS VoIP and OTT VoIP (HDOn, Calliope Fluence..)
3 Circuit Voice Has A Long Life During The Transition to Richer, Carrier Grade VoIP
IMS VoIP: Rich Voice – Ubiquity vs. OTT VoIP VoLTE Timing is Operator Specific VoIP over HSPA+ Driven by VoLTE
Fallback to 2G/3G voice (CSFB) used by most LTE operators while the VoLTE ecosystem is being developed and expanded
Proven Circuit Voice: High Quality, Reliable, Ubiquitous1 WCDMA+: Long life of HSPA+ means long life of WCDMA 1X Advanced Commercial (1H 2012)
4 1Thanks to soft handover, proven interoperability and 10+ years of 1X/WCDMA optimizations. OTT=Over-The-Top, voice just like any data service without Quality of Service Qualcomm: Comprehensive Voice Evolution Leadership
2012 2013 2014 2015+ 2020+
IMS VoIP: Evolving to a Richer Carrier Grade Voice Service
2G/3G Provides Voice VoLTE Packet Handover VoIP over HSPA+ (EV-DO) Seamless 1 2 Transitions CSFB SRVCC
WCDMA WCDMA+
1X 1X Advanced
Circuit Switched Voice: Evolving To Support More Data
Blue: Qualcomm Technology Leadership
5 1CSFB: Circuit Switched Fallback. 2SRVCC: Single Radio Voice Call Continuity to enable handover to WCDMA/1X/GSM CS voice outside VoLTE coverage. 2G/3G Provides LTE Voice Today —And Future VoLTE Fallback
2G/3G Provides Voice VoLTE—IMS VoIP over LTE CSFB1 to WCDMA, 1X or GSM Ccommercialization with SRVCC1 voice is commercial since 2011. starting in 2013, maturing in 2015
Today: Fallback to VoLTE: Fallback1 to 2G/3G, 2G/3G for all or handover to VoHSPA+, voice calls outside LTE coverage
LTE (FDD or TDD)
2G/3G Voice & EV-DO/HSPA+ Data Voice Continuity and Global Roaming
6 1SRVCC: Single Radio Voice Call Continuity. CSFB: Circuit Switched Fallback. 2G/3G Voice Fallback (CSFB) Commercial Since 2011 and Widely Deployed
SIMILAR CALL ~ 1 s SET-UP TIME AS TODAY ~ 0.5 s (MOBILE ORIGINATED OR TERMINATED CALL) Baseline WCDMA (R99) Set-up time
Enhanced CSFB1 R9 CSFB2 (R8) (R9)
RELIABILITY ON PAR LTE (DATA ONLY) WITH TODAY’S LTE NETWORKS Multimode Single Radio Device WCDMA, GSM,1X
1Redirection without reading the non-mandatory system information blocks ‘SIBs’, 1xCSFB for 1X is also redirection based in R8. 7 2System information provided directly in a LTE redirection message to speed up the transition, aka ‘SIB tunneling”. Enhanced R9 1xCSFB is Handover based SRVCC Ensures Seamless Voice Continuity
2012 2013 2014 2015+
VoLTE on Mature VoLTE w/ par with CS Interoperable SRVCC Voice Quality VoLTE
LTE VoLTE Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) enables handover to 2G/3G Voice Outside VoLTE coverage 2G/3G VOICE CIRCUIT SWITCHED LTE Multimode Multimode devices ensure Single Radio Device global roaming from day one
IMS VoLTE IMS can expand to support other With VCC VoIP accesses (HSPA+, EV-DO etc.)
8 1SRVCC for VoLTE to 2G/3G circuit switched voice is defined in 3GPP Rel-9, with enhancements in Rel-10 World’s First SRVCC Handover by Qualcomm and Ericsson (Feb 2012)
9 Different VoIP Models Will Co-Exist
OVER-THE-TOP VOIP OPERATOR RD 3 PARTY (BEST EFFORT) PROVIDED PROVIDED SERVICE SERVICE Opportunity To Offer Quality Of Service IMS/RCS Operator 3rd party to OTT VoIP Provider VoIP Client Client
Interoperable, ubiquitous May not interoperate with rich voice solution1 other VoIP solutions
Carrier Grade Voice Variable Quality, Dependent on Network Load
10 1IMS/RCS based VoIP is the industry solution for carrier grade voice, to enable a ubiquitous VoIP solutions . VoLTE with VoHSPA+ Ensures Rich Voice Everywhere
Integrated Presence Enhanced contacts with presence Integrated messaging, chat, synch. etc Enriched Voice/Push to Share Share multimedia content during call, such as video, pictures, files etc. Video Telephony With full interoperability
Rich Services Initially VoLTE with VoHSPA+ Ensures Limited to VoLTE Coverage Consistent and Seamless Handover to WCDMA/GSM circuit switched voice Through Single Radio-VCC Rich Voice Experience
11 Based on Rich Communication Suite (RCS), an industry effort leveraging IMS to providing mobile phone services. VoLTE and HSPA+ VoIP Profiles Defined TO ENABLE INTEROPERABILITY, SCALE AND ROAMING
Common User to Common Network Common User to Network Interface to Network Interface Network Interface
User to IMS User to IMS Network Network (Operator A) Interfaces (Operator B) Interfaces
GSMA VoLTE and VoIP over HSPA+: • Defines common voice, sms service profiles, bearers etc. • Defines minimum support level (IMS, LTE/HSPA+, EPC)
VoLTE ROAMING AND INTERCONNECT EXPECTED 2014 AND BEYOND
12 VoLTE: GSMA PRD IR.92 – “IMS Profile for Voice and SMS” completed in 2011, HSPA+ profile defined in IR.58 completed early 2012. Additional PRD on IMS roaming defined. 13 2 Billion HSPA/HSPA+ Subscribers in 2015 Will Be Using WCDMA voice HSPA/HSPA+ relies on WCDMA for voice
Connections (Millions)
2,500 HSPA/HSPA+ MBB* connections in 2015
2,000 HSPA Family
1,500 HSPA/HSPA+ MBB* EV-DO Family connections in 2012
1,000 TD-SCDMA
LTE 500
WiMax 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
14 Source: HSPA, EV-DO ,TD-SCDMA and LTE subs – Wireless Intelligence (Oct ‘11) and WiMax - ABI (Aug ‘11) WCDMA+: More Efficient Voice to Support More Data Triples Voice Spectral Efficiency to Free Up ~2/3 of a Carrier for Data
HSPA/ FREED-UP FOR HSPA+ DOWNLINK DATA Data (UP TO ~2/3 OF A 5 MHZ WCDMA (DL) CARRIER FREED-UP) Voice SAME VOICE CAPACITY USING A THIRD OF WCDMA+ RESOURCES Voice
ENHANCED CIRCUIT SWITCHED VOICE1
15 1Improvements such as overhead optimizations, early termination and new codec (EVS) 5.9kbps. Single receive antenna assumed. WCDMA+ enhancements targeted for 3GPP R12. More Data Capacity at All Voice Loads
100% AVAILABLE DATA VS. VOICE Data IN A 5MHz CARRIER
Downlink Data WCDMA+ 1) Capacity (or VoIP over HSPA+ (HSPA/HSPA+) Support more data WCDMA Voice
100% Voice Voice Load
16 1For optimized VoIP over HSPA+ with features such as ROHC header compression, DTX, DRX and advanced receivers, over–the-top (OTT) VoIP less efficient than WCDMA voice 1X Advanced Frees Up Spectrum for Data 1X Advanced Up to 3x 4x CDMA2000 1X Voice users Voice users
1.5x Voice users x Single Mobile Voice users Antenna Rx Diversity
EVRC EVRC-B BTS IC + Adv. QLIC Single RX QLIC (device IC) Radio Link Enhancements New device New device Network upgrades New channel card
Same Voice Capacity in ~¼ of the Spectrum
Voice Voice Data
CDMA2000 1X1X Adv EV-DO (or LTE)
17 18 Qualcomm Enables The Best Voice Experience Voice/Audio Codecs Standards Defined Qualcomm’s Calliope
HDOnTM FluenceTM Deliver HD-Voice quality over legacy narrow band1 Noise suppression Using multiple microphones True HD-Voice Experience
VoIP Active Noise Optimizations Cancelation Such as time-warping and de-jitter buffer Tools and Optimization Such as calibration and access to DSP.
HD-Voice Across 3G Voice, IMS VoIP or Over-The-Top VoIP
19 1Such as “HDOn-eAMR” which transmits true WB compressed voice quality over a NB channel. Qualcomm’s ‘Widevoice’ can also artificially create WB voice quality at the handset Continuously Enhanced Codecs to Improve Voice and Audio
Higher Quality, Higher Capacity, Better Music
WCDMA/HSPA+ AMR AMR EVS LTE (WB) (NB, WB, SWB) 3GPP (NB)
CDMA2000 EVRC-B EVRC-WB EVRC-NW 3GPP2 (NB) (WB) (NB, WB)
‘HD-Voice’ Super Wideband (Voice and Music) Wideband (Voice) Narrowband (Voice) ~7kHz 16kHz
Low frequencies increases High frequencies Reproduces better naturalness, presence and improves voice clarity audio and music comfort and intelligibility
20 Note: EVS has additional modes not shown that are optimized for music, stereo and even wider bandwidths. Enhanced Voice Service (EVS) Codecs: Better Quality, Capacity or Both
EVS SWB . Expected to be Commercial (13.3k) Higher Quality at in 2014 Similar Capacity . Designed With VoIP in Mind and targets VoLTE Voice EVS WB AMR WB . Qualcomm’s Calliope SWB (12.65k) (5.95k) Quality Codec Excellent for VoHSPA+ and Early VoLTE launch
. Opportunity to Support EVS AMR Higher Capacity Across All Voice Networks for (12.2k) at Similar Quality Seamless Quality(CS and VoIP)
Voice Capacity
21 Note: EVS has many additional modes not shown that are optimized for music, stereo and even wider bandwidths. Calliope: 12kbps SWB VoIP optimized codec Summary: Evolving Voice for More Data, Better Quality, Richer Experience
Qualcomm: Comprehensive Voice Evolution Leadership . 1X Advanced, WCDMA+, IMS VoIP over LTE, HSPA+, EV-DO, and seamless transitions
2G/3G Provides LTE Voice Today & Future VoLTE Fallback . CSFB widely deployed, future VoLTE needs SRVCC to ensure seamless voice
VoLTE with VoHSPA+ Ensure Rich Voice Everywhere . Ensures a seamless and consistent rich voice user experience
WCDMA+: More Efficient Voice to Support More Data . Triples WCDMA circuit switched voice spectral efficiency
Qualcomm Enables The Best Voice Experience . Leading Voice Quality Technologies for 3G circuit switched voice, IMS VoIP and OTT VoIP (HDOn, Calliope Fluence..)
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