[Kuwait，Kuwait City, February 19, 2016] Huawei and VIVA have recently announced the world's first successful deployment of the FDD LTE 3DB solution. Kuwait's leading mobile operator has chosen this innovation that features the next-generation Huawei base station platform, which is designed to help operators with their Gbps-era goals. Operators aim for a rapid increase in network capacity, significant enhancement of the user experience they offer, and ultimately, commercial success.

Kuwait's VIVA network is a typical Wireless Broadband (WBB) network. Most of its terminals are Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and there is great demand for home broadband access. VIVA has few spectrums with heavy network loads and site resource utilization exceeding 80%. Dense urban areas also suffer from insufficient inter-site distance. These obstacles hinder network capacity improvement with traditional methods such as adding sites or deploying new spectrum.

Huawei's 3DB solution features GigaRadio base station platform highly integrated multi-channel RF technology. Using Active Antenna Units (AAU) capable of flexible beam-forming, this innovation improves capacity and experience quickly and easily. VIVA's deployment of the 3DB solution in its current network has improved network capacity by up to 85% and greatly eased current network congestion. With supplementary 4 * 4 MIMO terminals ready to market, network capacity is poised to double.

VIVA CTO Eng Zarrar said:

"Our goal is to ensure sufficient network capacity for the best WBB network experience. Huawei's 3DB solution helps us achieve this goal, and we recommend it to other operators.”

William Wang, President of Huawei's LTE FDD networks, said,

"Huawei has always focused on the challenges and demands mobile operators face in today's wireless mobile broadband era. We have released our 3DB solution for its first large-scale commercial deployment to help operators make full use of their existing network spectrum, solve their network capacity problems, improve their users' experience, and achieve commercial success! "