Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: September 2007
Product Code: R464-634Description Mobile operators are banking on broadband services for continued revenue growth. Mobile broadband services in turn generate substantially more traffic than voice service and SMS. Since wireless backhaul is a major component of mobile opex, controlling wireless backhaul costs is a key to turning mobile broadband revenue into profit. Operators and wholesale backhaul providers are employing several network strategies for doing this, using an array of copper, fiber, and microwave technologies.
Table of Contents - Introduction
- Wireless backhaul defined
- The mobile operator’s backhaul challenge
- Wireless backhaul solutions
- Wireless backhaul equipment
- Wireless backhaul supply chain
- Table of figures
- Figure 1 Reference diagram of a typical mobile network
- Figure 2 Verizon Wireless revenue growth
- Figure 3 ARPU trends for voice and data (KDDI au service)
- Figure 4 3G and 4G standards data rates compared to 2G
- Figure 5 Comparison of 4G mobile broadband solutions
- Figure 6 The traffic-opex-revenue conundrum
- Figure 7 Backhaul network solution — overlay
- Figure 8 Backhaul network solution — channel bonding
- Figure 9 Backhaul network solution — pseudowire
- Figure 10 Backhaul network solution - pure Ethernet
- Figure 11 Comparison of mobile backhaul transport architecture solutions
- Figure 12 Pros and cons of various backhaul facilities
- Figure 13 Wireless backhaul supply chains
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