A bad situation just got worse. Traditional mobile backhaul infrastructures are already long past overcapacity due to 3G phones and video streaming. Now here comes an influx of high-bandwidth 4G phone and iPad traffic, both soon to be video phone call-enabled. Bandwidth consumption has simply grown more qui ckly than legacy backhaul technologies can withstand–a double whammy of more users plus more data per user. Read more:
Agenda:
Mobile Backhaul – The Market View MEF specifications for Mobile Backhaul •Multi Physical Transport •Use Case: Legacy Network Migration Phase 2: Preparing for LTE and Beyond
Download Presentation here: MEF Fiber Based Mobile Backhaul
Light Reading is proud to present “Meeting the Backhaul Challenge”
By the year 2012, 65% of all phones will be Smartphones, which creates a huge burden on the already saturated networks of the wireless providers. Backhaul becomes the bottleneck and consumers have little patience for poor service, ensure you manage your backhaul correctly to allow you to maintain customers and grow the base exponentially. CFN Services, RazorSight and Cisco have combined their expertise to provide you this webinar to help you navigate the backhaul challenges
Our speakers:
Patrick Donegan, Light Reading:
Donegan has more than 15 years of experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading‘s expanding coverage in this area. Donegan authors Heavy Reading‘s “Ethernet Backhaul Quarterly Market Tracker”. Donegan joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company’s wireless business.
Robert Synnestvedt, Cisco Systems:
Synnestvedt is Cisco’s global marketing lead for Mobile Internet Transformation of RAN Backhaul. Since joining Cisco in 1998, Robert has successfully lead engineering, management, and marketing of the IP NGN evolution of broadband and mobile networks around the world
Mark Casey, CFN Services:
Casey is the President of CFN Services. Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. Since 2001 Mark has led CFN Services in helping wireless operators reduce transport costs while multiplying capacity to support broadband wireless data deployments. His current focus is specific to wireless backhaul and supporting 3G and 4G operators with the design and deployment of fiber and hybrid fiber-microwave backhaul networks that multiply capacity 10 fold while reducing lifecycle backhaul transport costs.
Charlie Thomas, RazorSight
Thomas joined Razorsight’s board in April 2004, and became CEO in February 2005. Charlie has led Razorsight to strong growth resulting in a #8 ranking on Deloitte’s Virginia Fast 50 and a #114 ranking on Deloitte’s National Fast 500 list. Charlie has co-founded, grown and sold 3 companies over the last decade, and he has negotiated over $1 Billion in capital financings for his companies. He has successfully closed over 15 M&A transactions.
There are two obvious reasons why LTE networks will require both lower latency and higher bandwidth backhaul: LTE simply is the lowest latency air interface and features bandwidth that cannot be supported by legacy backhaul protocols.
Edge and EVDO networks can handle average peak data rates using two or three T1 links, but need more than that to handle peak rates. But HSPA networks cannot do so, either efficiently or conveniently. To support peak rates on an HSPA network, about 45 Mbps is required.
An LTE network using a 10-MHz channel requires nearly a DS-3 (45 Mbps) just to handle average load, and needs an Ethernet connection to handle peak loads.
Also, where older GPRS or EDGE data networks featured round-trip latencies in the 600 millisecond to 700 msec. range, LTE networks feature round-trip latencies in the 50 msec. range.
That means Ethernet speed backhaul and lower-latency performance is required.
By Gary Kim
<strong>What is Dim Fiber?</strong>
Optical fiber only partially lit in a fiber optic transmission system (FOTS) employing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM).WDM technology can support a considerable number of wavelengths running simultaneously over a single optical fiber within a cable comprising perhaps a great number of fibers. A dim fiber is one over which not all available wavelengths have been lit and which, therefore, has excess capacity.
<strong>Why Dim Fiber?</strong>
A dim Fiber customer gets assigned a wavelength in a fiber span that provides flexibility and performance similar to dark fiber with the following benefits:
• Use of fiber span not limited to a specific bandwidth, just a specific wavelength, thus the customer has more control.
• Reduced equipment on the circuit reducing potential outages.
• Reduced equipment on the circuit reducing processing latency.
• Dark Fiber performance at a lower cost.
• Dark Fiber performance with a variety of contract terms closer to customer experience with lit services.
<strong>Why CFN Services Dim Fiber Solutions?</strong>
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<li>With CFN Services as your partner on your dim fiber plans – CFN will manage and monitor the health of the fiber span via other circuits running on the same fiber span.</li>
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<li>CFN takes away the hassle and worry of managing an Outside Plant Network such as relocations, construction, outages, etc. by managing the full solution so as a customer you get only the benefit of dim without the down side.</li>
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<li>For longer spans, CFN can provide mid-span regeneration reducing equipment, new collocations and operational cost and complexity for the customer.</li>
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Contact CFN Services to see if Dim Fiber is the solution for you: <a href=”http://www.cfnservices.com/pages/contact_us.html”>Contact CFN Now</a>
Learn more about CFN Services and their role in helping wireless providers design, implement and manage their mobile backhaul networks.
By now there’s no doubt about it: mobile operators need to get their backhaul networks in condition to meet the burgeoning market for anytime, anywhere data access. Backhaul, once considered the humdrum side of an operator’s network, has become the topic du jour now that the mobile phone customershave shifted to smartphones and are taking advantage of data-hungry services in a big way. Earlier this month, AT&T reported that its wireless data traffic has grown more than 5,000 percent over the past three years, largely due to smartphones, which are used by about 40 percent of its post-paid customer base. All operators have to contend with this growth, and quickly: smartphones should represent the vast majority (65%) of phones sold in the country by 2012, according to Creative Strategies, an analyst firm. Operators are taking steps to prepare their networks to meet the expected demand, and the process of identifying specific backhaul needs and configuring the best solutions will force companies to bring the backhaul problem to the forefront of their infrastructure and business planning. This is a closer look at the available options and considerations operators must keep in mind as they prepare to build out this part of their networks.
A Tier 1 mobile carrier was operating a statewide network of more than 1,000 cell sites interconnecting with 2 primary mobile switching centers (MSCs). The carrier was spending more than $15 million annually on local access transport services for backhaul from the cell sites to the MSCs and interconnection from the MSCs to the local telephone company’s (LEC) access tandems. Planned 3G network upgrades promised to double T1 capacity requirements at more than 600 cell sites.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Reduce leased network transport costs in the face of planned capacity growth, while positioning the backhaul network to support 3G broadband data services.
NETWORK SOLUTION
CFN analyzed the wireless carrier’s embedded access transport circuits, costs, and growth requirements at the facilities level between the cell sites and the MSC, and between the MSC and the public switched network. Leveraging its FiberSource® design platform and network optimization tools, CFN designed an optimized fiber network that directly connected the MSCs and pushed interconnection points with the LEC out from the MSCs to 7 strategically placed LEC central office collocations. Working with one of the leading optical equipment vendors CFN and the vendor designed a managed optical transport platform to displace existing DS1, DS3, and SONET circuits that were at or past term. The platform displaced more than $8 million in gross circuit costs annually from the LEC and delivered net savings of more than $6 million per year. In addition, the optical transport platform was designed to deliver an aggregate capacity of more than 4,000 T1s which included 25% of the unused base capacity available for growth at no additional cost.
The final solution included:
Narrated by Gabriel Brown, Chief Analyst for Unstrung Insider, Part Three features industry analysts, end users, and Tellabs experts analyze addressing mCommerce technology requirements and backhaul demands to security and standards issues, current and future markets, and revenue expectations.
Speakers:
Mark Casey, CFN Services, Incorporated
Mike Dodson, Utopian Wireless
Doug Smith, Digital Bridge
Dan Graf, Leap Wireless/Cricket Communications
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