.1 Enabling Speech 6.4.1.2 Enabling Circuit Switched Video Telephony 6.4.1.3 Enabling Packet Switched Video Telephony 6.4.1.4 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) 6.4.1.5 Layer Structure Enabling for Multimedia - MEGACO/H.248 6.4.1.6 IETF Signalling Transport (SIGTRAN) 6.4.2 Streaming 6.4.3 Interactive 6.4.4 Background 6.4.5 Sensitivity to IP Transmission Impairments Applications and Service Offerings 6.5.1 UMTS Generic Services 6.5.2 Family of UMTS Users 6.5.2.1 Business Subscribers 6.5.2.2 Residential Subscribers 6.5.2.3 Mass Market Subscribers 6.5.3 Cost and Services 6.5.4 UMTS Services Technology 6.5.4.1 Applications 6.6 Conclusions References Contents DEPLOYING 3G NETWORKS 7.1 Background 7.2 Network Dimensioning Principles 7.2.1 Coverage and Capacity Trade-off in the FDD Mode 7.2.1.1 Soft Handover and Orthogonality 7.3 Parameters for Multiservice Traffic 7.3.1 Circuit and Packet Switched Services 7.3.1.1 Circuit Switched (CS) 7.3.1.2 Packet Switched Services 7.4 Establishing Service Models 7.5 Projecting Capacity Needs 7.6 Cellular Coverage Planning Issues 7.6.1 The Coverage Concept 7.6.2 Radio Network Parameter Assumptions 7.6.3 Circuit Switched Data Calls Assumptions 7.6.4 Packet Switched Applications 7.6.5 Characteristic of CDMA Cells 7.6.5.1 Theoretical Capacity 7.6.5.2 The Cell Loading Effect 7.6.6 Link Budgets 7.6.6.1 The Forward Link 7.6.6.2 The Reverse Link 7.6.6.3 Link Budget Elements 7.6.6.4 Link Budget for Multi-Services 7.6.7 Coverage Analysis 7.6.7.1 Uplink (UL) and Downlink (DL) Coverage 7.6.8 Capacity Analysis 7.7 Dimensioning RNC Interfaces 7.7.1 Dimensioning the Iub 7.7.1.1 lub Total Traffic 7.7.2 RNC Capacity 7.8 Radio Network Dimensioning Field Study 7.8.1 Lower Bound Results 7.8.2 Upper Bound Results 7.8.2.1 Upper Bound Examples FDD 7.8.2.2 RNC Dimensioning for 75% Coverage 7.9 Core Network (CN) Design 7.9.1 CN Analysis Assumptions 7.9.1.1 Locating CN Nodes 7.9.1.2 Locating RNC nodes 7.9.1.3 Network Overheads 7.9.1.4 Analysis Assumptions 7.9.2 Reference Outputs in CN Dimensioning 7.9.2.1 RNC