Cisco Cisco ASR 5000 Administrator's Guide

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  HeNB Gateway in Wireless LTE Network 
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Figure 4.  Control plane for S1-MME Interface for HeNB to MME with the HeNB-GW 
 
Any protocol function associated to a UE-dedicated-procedure resides within the HeNB and the MME only. 
Deployment Scenarios for HeNB Access Network 
An HeNB-GW can be deployed to provide an alternate path for the data traffic. It holds capabilities to divert the data 
traffic away from core and directly onto the Internet thus reducing the load on the core network. 
There are following two variants of deploying an LTE Femtocell Gateway (HeNB-GW) solution according to the TR 
23.830: 
 
Variant I: With dedicated HeNB-GW where HeNBs connect via HeNB-GW for control and data aggregation. 
This deplyment scenario is displayed in the following figure: