Motorola, Inc. has announced today the launch of its advanced self-organizing network (SON) solution for Long Term Evolution (LTE), meant to offer carriers the possibility to reduce the costs for the deployment of their LTE network. The company's solution is a 3GPP Release 8 standards-compliant one that includes a wide range of advanced features, improved architecture and leading algorithms that are not placed within the specifications of the standards.

According to the company, the new advanced SON solution is part of an LTE network that can provide cost savings through the automation of previously manual steps that are related to planning, deploying, optimizing and operating the network, lowering this way the need for new operation and management resources that are usually needed for the management of an additional network technology (2G, 3G, plus LTE). At the same time, Motorola's LTE SON is also meant to help operators dynamically optimize their network for simpler management and for best performance.

“LTE promises to bring extra capacity and lower cost per bit,” said Paul Steinberg, chief architect, wireless infrastructure, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility. “With our advanced SON, Motorola helps operators get the best performance from their network while lowering their operating expenses to deliver true mobile broadband to the masses. Motorola's advanced SON can really make an impact on delivering operational savings over the lifetime of the network while simplifying the move to LTE.”

Motorola's advanced SON solution has been included into the recently launched WBR 500 base station infrastructure, and can be easily deployed without the need for specialized technician expertise. The new solution is capable of discovering its neighbors, reconfiguring around network failures, and automatically optimizing its radio parameters. At the same time, it will also offer automatically configuration for backhaul and interconnect, while the Quality of Service “should be self-established and autonomously optimized.”

The company also announced that it would demonstrate its new advanced LTE SON solution at the LTE World Summit in Berlin, May 18-20, 2009. Motorola expects the new offering to be able to change deployment times and procedures when it comes to LTE, especially in the radio network deployment area. More details on the company's solution can be found here.