Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Informa Media and Telecom
Published: October 2007
Product Code: R443-270Description Mobile Backhaul is your complete guide to the effects of mobile broadband on the backhaul environment packed with key forecasts to 2012.
Key Coverage
- Look at the effects of mobile broadband on the backhaul environment
- Gain an insight into the role of pseudowire and how much backhaul will be over pseudowire in the future
- Analyse the Subscriber base growth
- Learn the true cost of backhaul
- A comprehensive guide to the technology choices for operators
- A Cost/Benefit analysis for operators choosing whether to lease or build
Key issues addressed
- What types of technology are being deployed at base stations?
- How is migration of traffic from 2G to 3G and beyond taking place?
- What are the new solutions entering the market to address growing bandwidth demand for mobile backhaul?
- How large is bandwidth demand for voice and emerging data services?
- What are the deficiencies of copper networks?
- What role will fibre, microwave/radio, WiMAX, and CATV networks play in mobile backhaul?
- What regional trends are emerging for mobile bandwidth demand and capacity?
- What are the costs of mobile backhaul and what are the cost/benefits of leasing?
- What are the arguments for mobile operators to build their own backhaul networks?
- How is the deployment of carrier Ethernet impacting mobile backhaul infrastructure?
Forecasts
- Worldwide Mobile Backhaul Equipment Revenue by Technology
- Total Mobile Backhaul Equipment Revenue by Geographic Region
- Worldwide Mobile Backhaul Connections: Installed
- Mobile Backhaul New Connections by Geographic Region
- Worldwide Mobile Backhaul New Connections by Technology
- Worldwide Mobile Backhaul Equipment Revenue per New Connection
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Mobile Backhaul Definition
- Background
- Opex Issues
- Build Or Buy
- Medium Term Strategy
- Long Term Strategy
- Vendor Trends
- Forecasts
- Chapter 2 - Backhaul Technology & Evolution
- Introduction
- Growth Of Mobile Broadband
- Evolution From Circuit To Packet Switched
- Next Generation Networks
- Evolution & Segmentation Of Backhaul Technologies
- Evolution Of Backhaul
- Backhaul Segmentation
- Ethernet Backhaul
- Microwave
- SONET/SDH
- Coaxial Cable
- ATM
- DSL
- PON (Passive Optical Network)
- Satellite
- WiMAX
- All-IP Backhaul
- Chapter 3 - Operator Strategies For Mobile Backhaul
- Introduction
- Flat Rate Data Plans
- Opex Issues
- Trend To IMS
- Short-Term Strategy
- Microwave Technology Helps Boost Capacity
- ATM Pseudowire
- Cell Site Aggregation
- Mesh Method
- Cable Operators Move In On The Backhaul Market
- Statistical Gain
- Long-Term Strategy
- The all-IP network
- Case Studies
- T-Mobile UK
- Vodafone
- Celtel
- Sprint Nextel
- Avea
- Telefonica Moviles
- Telecom Italia
- Vodacom
- Chapter 4 - Strategies For Mobile Backhaul Vendors
- Vendor Trends
- Common Platforms
- Next Generation Microwave Growing
- Convergence Drives Pseudowire
- Femtocell Development Continues Apace
- Standards
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
- ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union)
- MFA (MPLS Frame Relay ATM) Forum
- MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum)
- Case Studies
- Celtro
- Nortel
- Tellabs
- Ciena Corporation
- Ericsson
- Chapter 5 - Forecasts
- Forecasting Methodology
- Assumptions
- Total Mobile Traffic
- Mobile Backhaul Connections
- Global Mobile Backhaul Revenue Forecasts
- Regional Mobile Backhaul Revenue
- Revenue Breakdown By Technology
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