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Carrier grade Wi-Fi is not a utility with Benu Networks

April 28, 2015

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Carrier Wi-Fi: State of the Market

April 28, 2015

Adlane Fellah [email protected]

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• Drivers & Enablers

• Carrier strategies

• Challenges

AgendaApril 2015

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Data storm continues and users prefer Wi-Fi

Drivers of carrier Wi-Fi adoption

• Need for data capacity continues to intensify ($38B AWS US auction!)

• Wi-Fi is there!

• End-users simply prefer Wi-Fi

•Byod

•Cheapest wireless broadband technology to deliver data/video

Source: Mobidia, Nov 2014

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Advances during 2014 make Wi-Fi more viable in the carrier network

Enablers

• Standards

• NGH• Passpoint

• Interoperability• Work with 3GPP and CableLabs• Multimode devices proliferate• Common core platforms

• 802.11 ac and evolution• Evolution of device ecosystem• New Spectrum

•Improving customer experiencemost important reason to invest(57%)

Changes in attitudes to public Wi-FiSource WBA/MaRe survey October 2014

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Carrier Strategies

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From offload to the full HetNet

Carrier strategies and trends - MNOs

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• 30% of new capacity came from Wi-Fiin 2014

• Down to 9% in 2018 as carriersintegrate Wi-Fi in their own networks

• 75% of MNO small cells to integrate Wi-Fi by 2018

• Key MNO uses• Data offload• Differentiated QoS levels• VoWiFi• LBS• IoT % of new mobile data capacity MNOs expect to gain from

various techniques in 2014 and 2018Source Maravedis-Rethink operator survey

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Progress to quad play and community hotspots are key trends

Carrier strategies and trends - wireline

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Deployment of community hotspots by operator type 2014-2018 Source: Maravedis-Rethink forecasts for iPass

• Cable and broadband investments inWi-Fi

• Importance of community hotspots

• Key MSO uses• Data onload• Steps to quad play• Presence in new territories• Deals with mobile carriers

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Rise of community hotspots

Community hotspots

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Roaming and location services now, IoT and quad play in future

Business models proliferate

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Wi-Fi monetization strategiesSource: WBA/Maravedis-Rethink survey Nov 2014

• Strong networks of well locatedhotspots will gain value

• Importance of Roaming

• Rise of neutral host model

• Wholesale Wi-Fi capacity services

• Cloud-based & crowd sourcedhotspot aggregation

•Wi-Fi first network

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Challenges Ahead

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Key challenges remain

Challenges ahead

What do you see as the key challenges faced by mobile operators if they are to deploy and monetize seamless Wi-Fi services?Source: WBA- Maravedis-Rethink survey, Nov 2014

• Island Networks

• Inconsistent Experience

• Immature monetization

• Generate new revenues not justdefensive measures

• Access to Venues

• Sit and backhaul issues for Wi-Fi

• LTE-U disruption?

Clarify Business Model Deployment Issues Ensuring Quality of Service Backhaul and Site Issue

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What do you see as the 'Key Challenges' faced by operators when deploying and monetizing

"Seamless Wi-Fi Services"?

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• Wi-Fi is now at the center of carries strategies

• Wi-Fi Business Models proliferate

• Required investments ahead

• Global Alternative Network?

Closing ThoughtsApril 2015

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– Official Research Supplier for the WBA– Research Partner with Rethink (UK) and EJL Wireless (USA)

• Content Marketing:– Weekly Newsletter– Webinars– White Papers– Prime Video Interviews– Curated Blogs

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• http://www.wballiance.com/resource-center/wba-industry-report

• http://www.ipass.com/wifi-growth-map/

• Wi-Fi Newsletter every Wednesday• Go to www.wi-fi360.com

www.maravedis-bwa.com

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CLIENT CONFIDENTIAL

THANK YOU!Adlane Fellah, Customer Engagement

Tel: +1 305 865-1006

[email protected]

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Wi-Fi is the Network! Wi-Fi is Everywhere!

• 50 million global Wi-fi hotspots• 4 Billion Wi-fi devices worldwide• 42% of the world’s mobile data traffic is

carried over Wi-fi• 90% of the world’s tablet traffic is

carried over Wi-fi• 20,000 Plus Wi-fi Certified products

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What is Carrier Grade Wi-Fi

• Does your Wi-Fi Service Offer…

– Subscriber Authentication

– Policy Enforcement

– QoS/QoE, no longer best effort

– Session persistence

– Layer 2/3 Mobility

– Roaming

– Traffic Management

– Wi-Fi Radio QoS

• Is your Wi-Fi…

– Trusted & Secure

– Seamless Experience

– Highly Available

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Carrier Grade Wi-Fi is not a utility

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Market Drivers and Opportunity

Device proliferation

Community Wi-Fi

Residential

B2B

HotSpot 2.0

MDU

Cloud service delivery

Managed Home (vCPE)

Managed BYOD

Value-added Service Chaining

IaaS

Sponsored Data

SSID Leasing

RoamingNow 3yrs. 5yrs.

Devices

Homes

Billions

10x

# D

evic

es

B2B

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Case Study: Major U.S. Cable Operator

8M+ Home Hotspots deployed 2013-2014

National Footprint

Integrated with Outdoor Wi-Fi

Integrated with small business SP Wi-Fi

Sponsored Guest Access

Key Attributes

Multi-vendor CPE support

Regional aggregation model

Load balancing / resilient

Per-device policy and analytics

Powered by

Benu Carrier Grade Wi-Fi Solution!

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Access Network

Access Network

Community Wi-Fi (Open SSID)

Homespot

Outdoor

Public Hotspot

Operator

Core Network

EoGRE Tunnel

EoGRE Tunnel

Open SSID

Open SSID

AAA

Key Benefits:

• Access Independent

• Subscriber Management

• Scale & Performance

RADIUS

WEB

Portal

Internet

Wi-Fi Mobile

Gateway

DNS

802.11 to 802.3

802.11 to 802.3

HTTP

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WLAN Controller

Access Network

Access Network

Secure SSID 802.1x (HS 2.0), 802.1Q VLAN

Homespot

Outdoor

Public Hotspot

Operator

Core Network

EoGRE Tunnel

EoGRE Tunnel

Open SSID

Key Benefits:

• Secure Authentication

• AAA overload protection

• Roaming

802.1Q VLAN

Controller DeployedPublic Hotspots

EAP-RADIUSRADIUS

Sub DB

EAP-RADIUS

EAP-RADIUS

EAP

Secure SSID

802.11 to 802.3

Secure SSID

802.11 to 802.3

Data CenterOr

Internet

AAA

Auth.

Server

WEB

PortalDNS

HTTP

Wi-Fi Mobile

Gateway

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MNO

Gn

Access Network

Wi-Fi to 3GPP Interworking

MNO

Key Benefits

• Mobile Offload as a Service

S2a

3GPP

AAA

STa

PGW

Homespot

Outdoor

Public Hotspot

Operator

Core Network

Open SSID

EAP-RADIUS

Internet

Secure SSID

Secure SSID

4G3GPP

AAA

GGSN

3G

RADIUS

RADIUSEAP

AAA

Auth.

Server

WEB

PortalDNS

HTTP

Wi-Fi Mobile

Gateway

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Business Case: Carrier Grade Wi-Fi

• Always connected to your subscriber

• Retention and customer acquisition

• Lower support cost

• Control the customer experience

• Create new business models

– Wholesale

– Vanity SSID

– Mobile data offload as a service

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Unlock the network to Monetizing Carrier Grade Wi-fi

• Community Wi-fi

• Mobile Data offload

• Wi-fi roaming

• Wholesaling

• Vanity SSID

• M2M based services

• Location based services

• Analytics

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