Zain Saudi Arabia is a leading operator in the Middle East wireless market. As MBB services develop rapidly, difficult site acquisition, difficult power access, and high deployment cost have become the main obstacles that prevent Zain from accelerating its network construction.

Pain points in customers' network construction

To help customers diversify deployment scenarios, facilitate site acquisition, achieve site densification, and support continuous market expansion, Huawei performed precise market analysis and found that Saudi Arabia has a large number of municipal street lamp poles. There are more than 1.5 million lamp poles around the country. As ubiquitous city infrastructure, these lamp poles are the optimal potential site resources. Huawei streamlined the channels of cooperation between municipal departments, partners, and operators by integrating the E2E industry chain and adopting innovative business models, and developed the world's first integrated lamp pole-mounted site solution – Lite Site (Streetpole).

Huawei Lite Site (Streetpole) agile site deployment solution uses the integrated design to integrate the lamp poles and site devices.

• Devices: Easy Macro, blade BBUs, blade power, and microwave antennas are all outdoor devices. They are compact and easy to install.
• Lamp poles: Using the integrated design, they support built-in installation of communications equipment and integrate municipal facilities, such as street lamps and monitoring devices. They are environment-friendly and have complete functions.
• Foundations: Prefabricated foundations are used. No concrete casting is required on-site, shortening the construction period.

Lite Site (Streetpole) solution

The Lite Site (Streetpole) deployment significantly improves the network coverage capability in surrounding areas. The coverage rate in the surrounding areas of lamp poles increases by more than 80%, and the network coverage rate in the entire area increases by 40%.

Network coverage effect

In addition, the Lite Site (Streetpole) solution shortens the average site construction period from 6 months (traditional macro sites) to only 2 days. The five-year TCO is only 30% of the traditional macro site. This solution effectively facilitates site acquisition and reduces deployment time and total costs.

Overall site layout