If EUL is deployed, the parameters eulNonServHwRate and

eulNonServingCellUsersAdm can be decreased to reduce the channel element

consumption associated to non-serving EUL radio links.
Typically hardware in the non-serving cell is only guaranteed up to the minimum
scheduled data rate and the remaining part (up to eulNonServHwRate) is only
allocated if hardware is left from R99 traffic.
The setting of eulNonServHwRate is a trade off between hardware cost and
probability of macro diversity gain. By setting eulNonServHwRate to a high value,
there is a possibility that high E-DCH rates can be decoded in the non-serving cell
and thus enjoy macro diversity, but this requires high CEs to be allocated. Setting
eulNonServHwRate to a low value will reduce the need for CEs but may on the
other hand cause E-DCH coverage to become inferior to that of DCHs (which enjoy
macro diversity). As a consequence, poor reception of E-DCH at low rates will also
jeopardize DL HSDPA performance.