Emerson Network Power addresses the complexities of owning and maintaining these mobile sites with a highly reliable integrated outside plant solution. Designed for rapid roll-out in either current 2G or next-generation networks, this solution minimizes both installation and operational costs.


Reducing OPEX through deployment of Smart OSP Solutions

With it extensive experience in communications networks, Emerson provides telecom companies around the world with integrated outside plant solutions that make it easy to deploy high-performance networks – all complimented by our unparalleled deployment and engineering services. Our wide range of modular customized outside plant solutions is suited to any location and prevailing conditions.

Our OSP solutions are fully equipped with Smart Features:

• Rectifier Redundancy – Reliability and efficiency is assured through the system’s high overload protection, internal redundancy, digital controls and a unique rectifier design.
• Remote Monitoring System – Comprehensive monitoring and alarms enable failures to be detected easily and solved promptly. It provides up-to-the-minute information on the site’s power system and battery status.
• Heat Management System – Designed for critical areas, this feature maintains the right temperatures at all times, preventing wear on the telecom equipment. It also allows end users to monitor and reconfigure fan settings remotely.

All these smart features in one compact solution enable telecom operators to add value to their operation through these benefits:  

• Reduce rental and site acquisition cost – Featuring a compact footprint, this solution can house more telecom equipment whereas conventional shelters cannot
• Reduce maintenance related cost – This solution uses components from a single source which enables an easier, faster deployment and ensures a low TCO due to reduced maintenance demands. 
• Increase system efficiency and reduce energy costs – This solution features energy-efficient features with a low lifetime costs and optimized use of energy
• Improve visibility and manageability – This solution helps reduce preventive maintenance frequency through improved visibility of the system at site and resolve more than one-third of issues remotely
• Improve system availability – This solution helps increase availability by reducing downtime
• Ease of deployment – This solution meets consumer demands in emerging markets. It addresses the need for rapid deployment to new customers or to customers in areas that lack existing network infrastructure.

Bright spots in Southeast Asian Telecom market

The telecom market in Southeast Asia will remain resilient in 2009, according to forecast by International Data Corp. (IDC). While market players and end users will be cautious in their spending on telecom products and services, certain technology areas will sustain momentum and pockets of opportunities will emerge from the economic slowdown.

The following are IDC’s 2009 predictions for the telecommunications market in Southeast Asia: 

• Telecom spending will remain resilient in 2009 – IDC projects the combined telecom services market of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to reach USD35.7 billion in 2009, a 10 percent increase from last year’s performance.
• Telecom operators prepare for the upswing – Telecom players in this region will be reassessing their strategies and reconsidering CAPEX plans, marketing strategies and product focus. Incumbents with healthy balance sheets will be able to focus CAPEX on enhancing core and backhaul networks and be farther ahead of their competitors once the economy recovers. Consumers or operators, on the other hand, will have to focus on investments that will faster ROI. Meanwhile, the economic situation will present opportunities for operators with facilities and funds available to begin diversifying into higher value consumer and business services. 
• SMEs to become main focus of service providers – SME-centric marketing and product development will be the highlight of this year as the financial crisis continues to dampen any prospects of growth within the large corporations. The SME sector is expected to recover first. 
• Cost-efficient alternatives on the rise – with the tightening of budgets, the selection of what is affordable and beneficial may range from choosing the better service option to picking out the more practical telecom products and services. 
• Increased Internet usage – the broadband market is expected to benefit from the rise of mini-notebooks in many Southeast Asian countries. Due to the limited processing power and storage in these devices, users will be heavily dependent on Internet connectivity. 
• Strong demand for wireless – with the advancement of new technologies such as 3.5G, the impending launch of WiMAX in some countries and the entry of new service providers, the wireless broadband market is expected to maintain its vibrancy during the year. 
• 3G / 3.5G and WiMAX roll out – the market will continue to see investments in these technologies, particularly from major service providers that continue to afford investments in strategic long-term technologies. 
• Internet datacenter model will get a second chance – enterprises will fundamentally rethink their data center strategies, and consider the managed services option to drive down cost. This trend is expected to happen at large in Vietnam, where a number of new data centers have been planned.

Did you know?

Emerson Network Power enables telecom companies to expand in growing markets in a both sustainable and profitable way?

We have a broad range of high-strength enclosures, cabinets and shelters that meet the networked world’s demand for high speed uninterrupted connection. Our energy-efficient OSP solutions provide safe operating environments for telecom equipment.



 

For many telecom operators, outdoor mobile sites are key to the delivery and quality of mobile telephony and not surprisingly represent a significant area of investment both with respect to CAPEX and OPEX. Yet with today’s economic climate, the costs of maintaining these sites are under scrutiny. Most operators are now in a tough position to do more with less.

Infrastructure decision makers concerned with cost reduction are now learning that a diverse range of factors impact the cost of maintaining a mobile site over its lifetime. In fact, the annual operating costs, which include power supply, maintenance and site rental, are comparable with the initial cost of the mobile site itself. The initial site costs are a relatively small portion of the total cost of owning and operating the mobile site.

As part of its ongoing commitment to improving outcomes with respect to shelter related OPEX, Emerson has surveyed telecom operators throughout Southeast Asia on the topic. Operator’s told us that about 50% their shelter related OPEX is consumed by site rental costs followed by power, maintenance and then other related costs.


OPEX eating Shelters!

Much of the outdoor infrastructure in the field today is found to be devoid of intelligent features or control capabilities, are generally oversized for purpose and are un-optimized, ie housing too little equipment to yield sufficient performance (revenue). Aside from being underutilized, these shelter solutions are costing the operators more to deploy in the first instance and then run, due to greater requirements for site works. The complexity of this infrastructure, both electrical and civil, slows down installation (increases the deployment cost and delays revenue) and also has a higher maintenance cost which impacts OPEX.

In terms of maintenance, these mobile sites require on average five to seven visits per year. Field operation reports show that the majority of these deployments are unnecessary and given a more advanced utilization of monitoring could be significantly reduced. At present, monitoring is mostly done through dry contact connection via transmission network or RAN. This lack of advance knowledge of actual failure or fault at site results in a significantly lower level of service efficiency.