New vendor data presented in last month’s CEPT SE19 spectrum engineering meeting confirmed the point-to-point microwave links in a large mobile operator's network are operating at 30% or lower utilisation.
Why is this and how can more efficient backhaul can overcome this to improve utilisation and operator profitability?
Four days of cutting edge innovation, industry insight and packed schedules - once again Mobile World Congress lived up to expectations.
For us this year was all about big devices, big processors and big networks to cope with extreme data demands.
Four key themes stood out for us: bigger and quicker devices; the mobile wallet; higher-order modulation; and het-nets and small cell backhaul.
Quality of service is set to be at the top of operator priorities for 2012, but how will they deal with data demands and why is backhaul key to their success?
With the number of smartphone sales set to increase from 342.4m to 439.1m in 2012, we look at the RAN technologies operators will be deploying to cope with this data demand and why selecting a backhaul solution which can cope with the new profile of packet data is essential to success.
A new study from Senza Fili has been published which provides a clear comparison of the key cost drivers across the most widely used backhaul solutions.
New study shows multipoint delivers a 49% cost saving over other forms of backhaulSponsored by CBNL, the 'Crucial economics for mobile data backhaul' white paper presents a financial analysis based on a total cost of ownership model that compares capex and opex of fibre, microwave and E-band PTP, and microwave point-to-multipoint (PMP) backhaul within LTE, 3G, and small-cell networks over a period of five years.
CBNL has authored a white paper for the NGMN on “Guidelines for LTE Backhaul Traffic Estimation”.
The paper describes how a model is developed to predict traffic levels in transport networks used to backhaul LTE eNodeBs and how backhaul traffic is made up of a number of different components of which user plane data is the largest, comprising around 80-90% of overall traffic.
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