The use of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solutions has become quite popular in the Ultrabroadband Internet Access market as a cost-effective solution to provide a good connectivity service to customers, especially in areas in which wireline (FTTx) solutions have not been yet deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A typical FWA Device is an indoor (1-box) or outdoor (2-box) solution that connects via Radio Interface to the network of the Service Provider, and offers to the end-user Wi-Fi connectivity, Fast- or Gigabit-Ethernet ports, and one or two FXS (Foreign eXchange Station) ports for connecting analog telephones to provide voice service to the end-user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several options are available as regards the radio technology for the communication between the FWA Device and the Network, including WiMax. However, in this context we will focus on Devices connecting to the mobile network of service operators via standard 4G\/4G+\/5G interfaces, as this technology is the natural choice for MNOs and is quickly becoming very popular in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Provided that the 4G\/4G+\/5G mobile interface through which the FWA Devices connect to the network is well defined and standardized, many other functionalities of FWA Devices have not been standardized so far; this implies that both Operators and Manufacturers need to define and implement in a customized way many features of the FWA Device and the way the services are delivered to the end-user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, for example, Remote Management of FWA Devices is an area not clearly defined in standards, although some operators manage such devices via BBF TR-069 ACS (Auto-Configuration Server).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Voice service is another area in which there isn\u2019t a clearly defined standard for FWA Devices. Many Devices offer voice service through the adoption of an IR.92 VoLTE stack, but this often does not fit the needs of a typical land-line service with PSTN Emulation requirements; for this reason, many Operators prefer to implement a VoIP-based stack, but this is a customized development which requires a lot of effort in specification definition, implementation and testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another area still not covered by standards so far is the definition of an open architecture for outdoor (2-box) FWA Devices. An outdoor solution is typically made of an external Antenna, also called OutDoor Unit (ODU), providing connection to the mobile network, and an InDoor Unit (IDU), providing Wi-Fi, networking, Ethernet and Voice Service. The connection between the two Units is normally done via a Gigabit-Ethernet connection, with Power-over-Ethernet to provide power supply to the ODU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes, the 2 boxes (IDU and ODU) are provided from the same manufacturer as a whole solution and the protocol used between the two boxes is proprietary or, in general, not public. Instead, many Operators may want to open the interface between IDU and ODU, as for example different market segments (consumer, small business, and enterprise) may need different types of IDU with very different features and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This document specifies a minimum set of requirements for FWA Devices. The proposed approach is to define requirements common to the various mobile technologies (4G, 5G NSA, 5G SA), and delta requirements for the requirements specific to each technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The requirements are grouped in functional areas (e.g. Radio, Device Management, Voice); for each area it is indicated where the requirements apply to Outdoor or Indoor FWA solutions (or both).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An initial section of the document is dedicated to an overview of FWA Device architectures. This section introduces the Indoor and Outdoor architectures and identifies the areas of requirements to be defined in detail in the subsequent sections. Future enhancements to the FWA architecture are possible, such as the evolution from single-tenant solution to multi-tenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main areas of requirements covered in the document are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please note that 3G FWA Devices and multi-SIM FWA Devices are outside the scope of this document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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