NEC Develops SON Tech for LTE HetNets

TOKYO -- NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today the development of Self Organizing Network (SON) technologies for its heterogeneous LTE solution. NEC’s latest SON technologies successfully tackle two of the most challenging scenarios in LTE deployment: highly dynamic traffic hotspot and multiple user mobility This maintains a high quality user experience in various challenging environments while significantly reducing operators’ CAPEX and OPEX.

SON solutions reduce the Operation and Maintain (O&M) cost of mobile networks by using automated and intelligent procedures to replace human intervention without compromising network performance. However, a major challenge to the design and development of SON technologies is how to achieve high quality user experience and optimize the network in a heterogeneous network while taking into account varying regional traffic characteristics and user mobility.

NEC Corp. (Tokyo: 6701)