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MulteFire Alliance Completes Release 1.0 Specification
FREMONT, CA – January 17, 2016 – The MulteFire Alliance, an independent, diverse and international member-driven consortium defining and promoting MulteFire™, today announced the completion of its Release 1.0 specification, a key milestone in bringing MulteFire technology to market. Release 1.0, based on 3GPP Releases 13 and 14, defines LTE to operate in unlicensed and shared spectrum, while ensuring fair sharing of spectrum with other users and technologies such as Wi-Fi. By removing the requirement for an anchor in licensed spectrum, MulteFire enables new use cases and new deployments to take advantage of the benefits of LTE technology.
“Over the last year, the MulteFire Alliance has gone from inception of the organization to delivery of our first specification, driven by the tireless dedication of our member companies to bring MulteFire technology to market,” said Stephan Litjens, MulteFire Alliance Board Chair and vice president, Innovation Steering, Nokia. “By eliminating the requirement for licensed spectrum, MulteFire will enable innovation around the world with a number of exciting new use cases – from deploying a standalone network in an underground mine for industrial IoT applications to ensuring robust connectivity for mobile broadband. With Release 1.0, the Alliance is delivering on its promise of a new way to wireless.”
Specification Highlights
The MulteFire Release 1.0 specification includes the following key capabilities:
- Builds on elements of 3GPP Release 13 License Assisted Access (LAA) for the downlink and Release 14 enhanced LAA (eLAA) for the uplink
- Includes enhancements for operation solely in unlicensed spectrum such as robust procedures for mobility, paging, initial access and efficient uplink control channels
- Implements Listen-Before-Talk for fair coexistence with technologies using the same spectrum such as Wi-Fi and LAA, as well as co-existence between different MulteFire networks
- Defines a Neutral Host access mode where the same deployment can serve multiple operators, as well as a traditional access mode for a single network operator
- Enables access authentication with or without a SIM card to provide services for subscribers from different types of service providers, including mobile operators
- Supports a range of LTE services, including Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and high speed mobile broadband
A new white paper provides a detailed technical description of MulteFire technology and is available at https://www.mfa-tech.org/white-papers/.
The Release 1.0 specification is available to MulteFire Alliance members today and will be made available for download by anyone with an interest in MulteFire technology by mid-2017. For information on joining the MulteFire Alliance, visit https://www.mfa-tech.org/join/.
About the MulteFire Alliance
The MulteFire Alliance is an international association dedicated to building a global ecosystem in support of the common interests of members, developers and users in the application of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and next generation mobile cellular technology in configurations that use unlicensed or shared radio spectrum. For more information about MulteFire technology, its benefits how to become a member of the MulteFire Alliance, please visit www.MulteFire.org.
Huawei Joins MulteFire Alliance to Promote Development of Private LTE Enterprise Networks on Unlicensed Spectrum
Beijing, China – November 22, 2016
Huawei, a leading global ICT solution provider, recently announced it has joined the MulteFire Alliance, an independent organization dedicated to the promotion and development of MulteFire technology. MulteFire is an LTE-based next-generation cellular communications technology that operates only on unlicensed spectrum and focuses specifically on enterprise broadband access and IoT markets.
Leveraging robust wireless connectivity, self-organizing, and easy-to-manage features for 3GPP-compliant evolving LTE technologies, MulteFire delivers higher performance in local area networks. The MulteFire Alliance endeavors to promote the industrial development of unlicensed spectrum and cellular technologies with all associate members.
Huawei aspires to focus on the applications of MulteFire technologies towards enterprises. By extending the advanced cellular technology to unlicensed spectrum, the MulteFire Alliance alleviates enterprise customers’ concerns regarding spectrum acquisition and further promises LTE-like performance with Wi-Fi-like deployment simplicity. The multi-service bearing capabilities of LTE networks meet the diversified network requirements of industrial customers, helping them reduce investment costs on network deployment, operation, maintenance, personnel training, and other aspects.
“Wireless connectivity has become more and more critical for enterprise customers, especially in vertical industries, like transport, electricity, manufacturing, and logistics,” said Mr. Peng Jianhua, President of Huawei’s Enterprise Wireless Business Unit. “Huawei has decades of experience in handling wireless cellular technologies and expects to cooperate with industry partners to solve key issues, such as air interface technology, performance test, certification, and chip support in enterprise wireless products. By joining the MulteFire Alliance, we are steering the future of wireless for vertical industries and assisting the MulteFire technology to be more widely available, helping finalize the creation of a healthy industrial ecosystem.”
Huawei looks forward to contributing to a number of work groups in the MulteFire Alliance. In the marketing work group, Huawei will share the typical application scenarios and their evolutions, which serve as the requirements to the technical solution of the alliance and assist the planning of the technical evolution roadmap. In the Technical Specification Group (TSG), Huawei is dedicated to the task of broadband mobility improvement and coverage performance, helping the MulteFire Alliance launch an IoT technical scheme. Huawei will submit technical schemes with a competitive edge and evaluate the system performance.
By working closely with other members, Huawei hopes to formulate a detailed standards rollout schedule and promote the study of viable and competitive solutions from the perspectives of air interface, network architecture, and automatic network O&M. Huawei will not relinquish any efforts in the pursuit of advancing the growth of the E2E MulteFire industry chain. Huawei will play an active role in the construction of MulteFire certification system. This is further accompanied with the efforts as to the verification and promotion of MulteFire technical standards.
Liberty Global and CableLabs Join MulteFire Alliance
Next-generation wireless technology gets major boost as two leading players in cable join forces with Wireless Consortium
Denver, Colorado – September 21, 2016:
Today, Liberty Global, the world’s largest international TV and broadband company, and CableLabs, the innovation-focused R&D lab for the global cable industry, announced that they have joined the MulteFire Alliance, an independent, diverse and international member-driven consortium dedicated to developing next-generation wireless technology. Through collaboration with the Alliance, Liberty Global and CableLabs can improve the wireless experience and make the technology more widely available to consumers.
“Wireless connectivity has become critically important for consumers,” said Balan Nair, CTO of Liberty Global. “By joining the MulteFire Alliance, we are driving the future of wireless for our customers.”
The main focus of the MulteFire Alliance is to ensure that next-generation LTE mobile standards are compatible with shared and unlicensed spectrum. This compatibility ensures that the next generation technology is more widely available and that it can coexist alongside Wi-Fi and other technologies. What also makes this technology unique is that operators without access to the licensed spectrum still will be able to use it, breaking down barriers to entry and opening the door to greater innovation.
“This step will arm the cable industry with a new wireless technology that builds on our success in providing Wi-Fi and mobile services and complements the industry’s fixed broadband technology leadership,” said Ralph Brown, CTO of CableLabs.
Currently, the MulteFire Alliance is working to adapt 3GPP-based mobile wireless standards for shared and unlicensed spectrum so that the technology is broadly available and fairly coexists with Wi-Fi and other technologies. MulteFire is based on 3GPP Release 13 License Assisted Access LTE (LAA) and Release 14 enhanced LAA (eLAA), which uses Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) etiquette to share spectrum in a manner similar to Wi-Fi.
Unlike LAA, however, which is anchored to licensed spectrum and must be used in conjunction with a mobile network, MulteFire will operate entirely in unlicensed or shared spectrum, so that operators without licensed mobile spectrum can utilize it. This “standalone” functionality has been proposed in the 3GPP standards body for both LTE and 5G. By building this capability in the Alliance, its member companies will enable its adoption in global standards and the corresponding broad benefit of wireless innovation.
“We appreciate that the Alliance is committed to transparency and collaboration, given the importance of unlicensed spectrum to broadband access,” said Rob Alderfer, vice president of technology policy at CableLabs. “As we move toward ever greater sharing of scarce spectrum resources, reliable coexistence across technologies is essential as we continue to innovate. It’s what we believe is the most critical aspect of the Alliance, and one that will be important as the industry moves toward 5G standards.”
“Operators in the cable industry are ideal partners in our effort to develop new wireless technology and we are pleased to have CableLabs and Liberty Global join us,” said Mazen Chmaytelli, MulteFire Alliance president. “The Alliance is open for broad, global participation, and since one of our goals is to drive our work into global standards, we are establishing liaisons with 3GPP, CBRS Alliance and IEEE to keep them apprised of our progress.”
Other members of the Alliance include leading technology suppliers such as Qualcomm, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson. A full list of members can be found here.
About Liberty Global
Liberty Global is the world’s largest international TV and broadband company, with operations in more than 30 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
We invest in the infrastructure that empowers our customers to make the most of the digital revolution. Our scale and commitment to innovation enables us to develop market-leading products delivered through next-generation networks that connect our 29 million customers who subscribe to over 59 million television, broadband internet and telephony services. We also serve 11 million mobile subscribers and offer WiFi service across seven million access points.
Liberty Global’s businesses are comprised of two stocks: the Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) for our European operations, and the LiLAC Group (NASDAQ: LILA and LILAK, OTC Link: LILAB), which consists of our operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Liberty Global Group operates in 12 European countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Ziggo, Unitymedia, Telenet and UPC. The LiLAC Group operates in over 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean under the consumer brands VTR, Flow, Liberty, Mas Movil and BTC. In addition, the LiLAC Group operates a subsea fiber network throughout the region in over 30 markets. For more information, please visit www.libertyglobal.com
About CableLabs
CableLabs is a non-profit Innovation and R&D Lab founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry. With a strong focus on innovation, CableLabs develops technologies and specifications for the secure delivery of high speed data, video, voice and next generation services. It also provides testing, certification facilities and technical leadership for the industry.
CableLabs mission is to enable cable operators to be the providers of choice to their customers. Cable operators from around the world are members. For more information, please visit www.CableLabs.com
Contacts:
Liberty Global
Matt Beake
Tel: + 00 44 208 483 6300
CableLabs
Aurora Sassone
Tel: +1.415.619.1555
E: aurora.sassone@edelman.com
