Telebriefing - Backhaul: The Lifeline to 4G
Story by Kate Walsh. Submitted on February 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
SPONSORED BY: CFN SERVICES
21-May
Focus: 4G
Backhaul: The Lifeline to 4G
TELEBRIEFING SUMMARY:
Yankee Group research shows that 50% of mobile network failures today can be traced back to problems in the backhaul. That’s today - mostly voice, little data, almost no video on the mobile network. Backhaul is not only a bottleneck, it’s a kluge bottleneck. Service providers, unwilling to put their voice traffic at risk are leaving it on expensive TDM backhaul solutions and offloading data traffic to a parallel packet network. In this session, we look at today’s dominant backhaul solutions and explain how the service providers will eat up CAPEX dollars and bleed profits if they do not move to more efficient solutions. We also handicap the solutions available according to how stable we believe the solutions to be in terms of cost, performance, and management, particularly in terms of QoS and SLAs.
OUR FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Mark Casey, President
CFN Services
Mark Casey is the President of CFN Services. Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. He has held positions in sales, marketing, finance, business development, and general management for several leading incumbent and competitive communications providers including AT&T, Bell Atlantic, MCI, and e.spire Communications. 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 hydrid fiber-microwave backhaul networks that multiply capacity 10 fold while reducing lifecycle backhaul transport costs. He holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from American University.
Jennifer Pigg, VP Anywhere
Network, Yankee Group
Jennifer Pigg is a vice president in Yankee Group’s Anywhere Network research group. Her area of expertise is Anywhere Network infrastructure and technology, including network policy management and networking, peer-to-peer content delivery, carrier convergence infrastructure, voice-over-IP, active and passive optical networking, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), lambda routing/switching, photonics, service delivery platforms, core and edge routers, integrated access devices, mobile blackhaul and other communications issues in the industry today.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this event. Regardless, I share your interest in this topic.
Fiber based backhaul networks offer the incremental capacity that’s needed to support the heavy data intensive applications anticipated on 4G RANs. Also, more than one service provider can utilize the fiber capacity between the cell site and the serving wireline central office. It’s a potential win-win scenario.
Perhaps a hybrid of TDM and end-to-end all IP backhaul will be the norm initially. However, once the flexibility and efficiencies of all IP backhaul networks are fully appreciated by SPs, then demand will likely accelerate.
David Deans