Liquid Radio

Capacity demand on mobile networks continues booming, smartphones start to dominate changing the user patterns especially uplink traffic is surging as people are constantly sharing moments in social media. There is also more fluctuation of demand as smartphone, tablet and other smart device users switch applications and devices at different times and places. Operators are adding  network layers to cater the capacity need.  Liquid Radio meets the constantly changing capacity and coverage demands of mobile broadband users in the most cost-effective way.

Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio adapts the capacity and coverage of your networks to match fluctuations in user demand. It maximizes network performance and minimizes operating costs by automating operations.

Liquid Radio advances the conventional structure of base stations and repositions their components in new ways to achieve unprecedented scalability. The SW needs to be dynamic adapting to needs, radio frequency elements and the antenna become active, sized and positioned according to need, while baseband processing can be pooled.

Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio is built on Software Suites, Single RAN Active Antenna Systems, Baseband Pooling and Unified and SON-enabled Heterogeneous Networks.

Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio Software Suites

Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio Software Suites help you better manage unpredictable traffic demand. Through simple software upgrades, they effectively increase the mobile broadband capacity available from  the network, whether it’s GSM, WCDMA and/or LTE.

Liquid Radio LTE Software Suite makes high-capacity LTE networks more efficient. The features of the Liquid Radio LTE Software Suite ensure that all LTE spectrum assets are used to their optimum so that an operator can serve more subscribers with higher data rates. Traffic  loads are balanced across different LTE base stations and frequency bands. As dual-mode LTE smartphones become more common, this balancing will also work between the frequency division (FDD LTE) and time division (TD-LTE) duplex variants of LTE.

Liquid Radio WCDMA Software Suite offers powerful features that improve signaling and upload performance as well as the utilization of network resources. The innovative Suite capabilities allow operators to take the next step towards increasing uplink capacity hundred-fold. It also helps operators to deal with the fast growing number of smartphones, especially the rising level of signaling traffic. With the Suite features operators can reduce signaling towards core to one tenth. The WCDMA Software Suite is a straightforward way to further boost existing WCDMA networks performance and capacity. Read more

Liquid Radio GSM Software Suite uses spectrum more efficiently, releasing spectrum capacity for refarming to 3G and LTE. In addition, it introduces QoS differentiation for a superior customer experience and enables smartphone users to receive voice calls while connected to data services. More existing GSM spectrum can be used for faster and easier WCDMA and LTE re-farming  to solve network congestion caused by smart device boom. Read more

Single RAN Active Antenna Systems

We help you direct coverage exactly where users need it with beamforming, which increases capacity by up to 65% and lowers site costs. Our active antenna system supports multi-radio and multi-band access and minimizes radio frequency losses. Our Self Organizing Networks (SON) solution for active antenna automatically optimizes and steers the beams according to the actual traffic mix, traffic location and user demands in different time of the day.
Find out more about our Active Antenna Systems

Baseband Pooling

With us, you can centralize the digital signal processing typically done at base stations and share it with several sites or pico cells. This can release up to 80% of unused baseband capacity by ensuring capacity is dynamically matched with the needs of end users as they change over time.

Unified and SON-enabled Heterogeneous Networks

We’ll enable you to integrate all your radio network elements, no matter what their cell size, technology or frequency, with automated management and seamless interworking. We can help you manage a complex set of networks as one single network, with an emphasis on superior customer experience.

The business benefits

• increases the efficiency of your mobile broadband networks
•  improves the user experience and so drives customer loyalty
• offers flexible and responsive products which can adapt to broadband demand

Why Nokia Siemens Networks?

Every day a quarter of the world’s population connect using Nokia Siemens Networks infrastructure and solutions. This experience helps us to achieve continuous improvements in the quality and efficiency of our networks and products.

Nokia Siemens Networks leads the industry in addressing the rapid evolution and demand placed upon networks. Our Fluid Thinking delivers proven business solutions based on an end-to-end approach. We can integrate them into a multi-vendor environment in close, long-term partnerships with operators.

Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio is a unique offering in the industry providing unmatched evolution to the future.