Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms
White Papers As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
Converged WiMax-Cellular Backhaul Networks Exploiting Wireless Ethernet Mesh Technology
White Papers With the migration to high bandwidth IP-based services in the cellular access market, operators are increasingly considering WiMax technology as an access technology which can support this new paradigm in mobile services.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Distributed Network Architecture For WiMAX: Digital, Converged, Mobile IP World
White Papers Leveraging simple IP-based backhaul connections, service providers can very readily service a myriad of WiMAX base sites (e.g.large, medium, sectorized, omni, micro, pico) for varying coverage and capacity profiles addressing outside environments...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Energy Inefficiency Could Kill Pure Cellular
News Noting that the devices, which are yet to be adopted by any UK operator, would see customers providing the backhaul (or underlying connection) for mobile broadband when at home, rather than the operators providing the network access, Bubley...
[January 12, 2007, 13:22]
Nokia Hits Out At WiMax
News Nokia is expecting the technology to take off as backhaul, as well as in mobile networks and devices. Cellular networks haven't taken off [for data] because cellular networks currently suck. The tech industry is getting overheated about the long...
[October 14, 2005, 9:55]
Cisco Offers IP RAN Optimization Congestion Management For GSM And UMTS
White Papers Cellular providers have been using TDM based networks to backhaul the traffic from the cell site to the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO) since deploying their networks for the first time. The Cisco IP RAN Optimization solution introduces IP...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
Bluephone Continues Despite Standards Group's Demise
News If you can get your customers to pay for backhaul, it's even better. This increases cellular coverage," said Bubley. The group is closing because its standards have been adopted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) the operator-run...
[May 23, 2005, 13:10]
Ericsson: No UK LTE Network Before End Of 2010
News On-demand video] does put a lot of pressure on the backhaul and the core networks, and will increasingly put pressure on them, but there are solutions which scale, which will accommodate it," he said.
[November 26, 2008, 8:00]
The Future Of 4G Wireless, According To Ericsson
Articles WiMax is simply a radio technology, so networks need backhaul and core network, plus equipment for authentication, authorisation and accounting, as well as the base stations. If they have to provide a lot of video downloads, will operators have...
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
Vodafone 'looking Into' 3G Femtocells
News While there are obvious potential advantages, such as enhanced indoor coverage and DSL as backhaul, there are still technical areas we need to make sure are right," the spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk. However, femtocells are designed to improve 3G...
[January 25, 2008, 15:02]
Photos: Mobile Mania At 3GSM
News Using a satellite link as backhaul, the units can automatically arrange themselves into a self-healing network. 3GSM tends to focus on the more traditional cellular technologies, but this year WiMax has been making quite a buzz.
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Operators Want Fewer New Mobile Masts
News Backhaul for [mobile base stations] is already very challenging — increasing the number of sites will [exacerbate] this dramatically. T-Mobile recently announced it was investing in Ubiquisys, a UK-based company that makes femtocells, which are...
[March 6, 2008, 14:38]
Femtocells May Solve Operators' 3G Woes
News Market demand for ubiquitous access to mobile services is making the case for femtocells — small, indoor, cellular base stations which utilise broadband connections for backhaul. Mark Heath, co-author of the report and director of research at Sound...
[November 26, 2007, 14:56]
Google Patent Filing Reveals Wireless Vision
News And it's been investing in its own fibre infrastructure as well, in the form of undersea cable deployments, which could eventually be used to create high-speed backhaul networks. T-Mobile has a service that allows subscribers with Wi-Fi-enabled...
[September 29, 2008, 15:02]
