Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Yankee Group
Published: January 2008
Product Code: R388-2541Description As mobile broadband creates capacity pressure on mobile networks, wireless microwave has an opportunity
to play a greater role as a backhaul solution. It must demonstrate its value relative to fiber in terms of not
only capacity and cost, but also reliability. But driving acceptance is more than a matter of technology.
Vendors also need to change operator mind-set resistance to wireless as an effective backhaul medium.Table of Contents - I. Introduction: Mobile Broadband Creates Pressure on Backhaul
- II. Role of Wireless in the Evolution of the Transmission Network
- Business Models: Outsourcing Opportunity
- Physical Capacity Options: Resurgence of Microwave
- Regional Differences in Microwave Backhaul Adoption
- Other Wireless Alternatives: WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Satellite
- Ethernet over Microwave: The Future of Mobile Backhaul?
- Aggregation Methodologies: Opportunity for Hybrid Networks
- III. Microwave Vendor Assessment
- IV. Conclusions and Recommendations
- Recommendations for Operators
- Recommendations for Vendors
- V. Further Reading
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