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Use case: Private LTE

Addressable Private LTE industries

Benefits
• Locally controlled:
Implement a private
LTE network with high
performance, independent
from other users

• Optimized:
A private LTE can
be tailored for each
company’s specific
enterprise or application

• Readily deployed:
Private LTE Deploy a private LTE
easier with shared and
Wireless technologies have proliferated to almost all areas of the world and unlicensed spectrum
continue to evolve toward full mobile broadband capability. In consumer markets,
service providers are delivering rich, collaborative, connected experiences to
anyone with a smartphone or tablet. In enterprise markets, organizations of all
sizes have leveraged the personal productivity benefits of mobility and integrated
mobile devices and applications into all manner of business-changing processes
and next-generation workflows.
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New revenue generating
opportunities for service
providers, MVNOs, and
ecosystem partners
According to Harbor Research, Private LTE
deployed in industrial and business critical
markets is expected to generate nearly $70
billion in estimated smart systems revenue
by 2023. This $70 billion opportunity will
be driven by the enablement of over 760
million device shipments by the end of the
forecast period.
Examples:
• Factory: Private LTE Market by 2023
opportunity = $18.3 billion
• Mining: Private LTE Market by 2023
opportunity = $5.5 billion
• Shipping port: Private LTE Market by 2023
opportunity = $2.4 billion
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However, in several industries, such as public safety and security, maritime, oil and gas, mining,
transportation, and defense, the evolution from legacy voice-only networks is slower due to the
mission-critical nature of the network. These industries cannot rely on commercial networks to support
their own services concurrently to other consumer services. They require a level of agility, flexibility, and
customization that can often be contradictory to the interests of mass-market services.
Cisco’s Private LTE solution – Premium mobile broadband
Cisco® Premium Mobile Broadband (PMB) helps industries transition from legacy voice-only radio
communication networks to comprehensive media-and application-serving networks of today. How? By
making it easier to deploy a private, 3G or 4G/Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband network.
PMB brings flexible scale in a small form factor, with a high-capacity solution that offers both upward
and downward-scale. A single server instance, such as the Cisco UCS® B200-M3 Blade Server,
can support up to 500,000 sessions with Gigabit throughput (traffic profile-dependent). The solution
also delivers a virtualized architecture, reducing the scale and cost to deliver LTE packet cores.
This promotes cost-effective, distributed, and independent network architectures where the final
architecture can be a product of business need and not an economic compromise.
Cisco PMB:
• Offers end-to-end IP and LTE Quality of Service (QoS). More than prioritized application delivery within
LTE, it extends from User Equipment (UE) networks, through LTE and backhaul transport and into the
packet data network. Comprehensive mapping of IP Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) to LTE
QoS to IP DSCP to 802.11p Cost of Service (CoS) can ensure consistent treatment of traffic across the
broader network.
• Provides high resiliency. PMB offers non-stop dependability with redundancy mechanisms that
occur at every layer of the protocol stack and encompass foundational infrastructure, application
deployment, intra-application features, and customer session management.
• Offers a broad set of UE options, including data modems, ruggedized devices, routers, and hardened
smartphones. PMB includes router and interface card options with embedded support for Cisco IOS®
Software, enabling end-to-end Cisco IOS control of traffic and security.
• Addresses the need for security within mission-critical enterprises, separating the traffic from the
public cellular network. It uses separate frequencies and Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)
3.5-Gbps Priority Access License (PAL).
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To learn how one customer is benefitting
from implementing Cisco PMB technology,
read the “Beach Energy, Challenge Networks,
and Cisco — Improving mining efficiency
with LTE and automation” case study
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/
service-provider/ultra-services-platform/
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The Cisco approach
Cisco has taken a holistic approach for PMB, covering the end-to-end architecture, including mobile
Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), access, transport, core, and the application layer. The solution
brings a high level of versatility and supports different deployment models, ranging from the centralized
to the distributed, and the tactical all-in-one model to critical infrastructure.
PMB is a radio-agnostic solution that leverages the extensive interoperability with a range of radio
solutions afforded by Cisco’s Evolved Packet Core (EPC) footprint in Mobile Network Operator (MNO)
networks. Cisco also works closely with a range of radio partners to provide an integrated end-to-end
solution for customers who look to LTE as an enabler for a bigger vision and business outcome as their
focus, than as a solution in itself.
The Cisco PMB solution can be deployed by a service provider, an enterprise, an Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) systems integrator, a vertical or specialist system integrator, or Cisco
ecosystem partner as a standalone network infrastructure, as a managed network, or as a complete
managed service. In situations when users are not always onsite, or for industries looking to take
advantage of existing service provider networks, Cisco PMB can be interconnected with commercial
networks so that users can roam as required.
Different models can be supported. Customers can choose to deploy a simple overlay network using
Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies, where the user connects to a commercial network and
establishes a VPN to their company network. Or they can implement a more elaborate Mobile Virtual
Network Operator (MVNO) model, where the enterprise has a direct contract with the service provider
and terminates the LTE sessions from its users on its controlled mobile core network.
The Cisco PMB solution takes full advantage of the market-leading solution for mobility and
collaboration. Specifically related to mobility infrastructure, Cisco has virtualized our carrier-grade
Evolved Packet Core (EPC) to provide the same functionality and reliability as that deployed in the
world’s largest MNOs. It can also be deployed on alternative Common, Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware
in a factor that is suitable for enterprise use cases. PMB takes this EPC code base – one that terminates
over 50% of worldwide LTE connections and is used in 350+ service provider networks in more than
75 countries – and through virtualization can provide a service-provider-grade LTE system at an
enterprise price point.