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?
Easing congestion to give consumers a better quality of experience is one of many benefits small cells will bring to urban hot spots - but how will they impact backhaul costs?
Outdoor small cell networks will result in a significant increase in the number of cell sites, which in turn means many new backhaul connections will be needed.
If operators continue to use the same backhaul technologies that were used for macro sites, there will be a significant rise in transport costs.
Find out the small cell backhaul cost reduction opportunities and the cost-effective solutions on offer to operators.
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.
As we hear too often now, mobile networks will have to work hard if they are to cope with the exponential increase in traffic created by a huge rise in smartphone and tablet PC users.
And this trend is only set to continue as attention turns to the lack of spectrum available that is needed in order to build the networks to cope with this increased pressure.
As CNet News warns:
if more wireless spectrum is not made available soon, the mobile industry will not have enough capacity to keep up with demand from customers, and growth will grind to a halt.
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