Top 5 vendors in the mobile backhaul equipment market from. Section i is an introduction to the report, with complete report key findings. Not only are the transport requirements much higher, but there is also a fundamental shift from tdm transport in 2g and 3g networks to packet transport in 4g networks. Which one is the most effective for mobile backhaul. Section 3 presents two experiments that have been performed to check the suitability of this kind of technology. An alternative to smallcell backhaul ndustry data shows that global mobile traffic experienced 90% compound annual growth cagr in 2011 and 2012, and will maintain this momentum till at least 2015. Mobile backhaul in heterogeneous network deployments. Finally, in section 4 future directions and conclusions are reported. Jul 30, 2012 an overview of the mobile backhaul market, the demands being placed on backhaul networks by wireless technologies such as 4g lte, and technologies such as carrier ethernet that can help create more robust mobile backhaul networks. Pdf challenges on ipran networks for the successful evolution. The need for increased capacity and decreased cost per transported bit drives packetbased mobile backhaul capacity boosts over microwave, copper and fiber. Mobile operators use primarily leased lines to backhaul mobile traffic. Leased lines are significantly costly yankee group. Giga small cell access wany media, 10ge macro cell access, 100ge to epc, low latency 80shop.
Figure 1 describes a simple reference model where the mobile backhaul is a single metro ethernet network men that connects the mobile network nodes, referred herein as ran customer edge ran ce. The mobile backhaul can be interchanged with the men with respect to the reference model in this ia. The coordinated multiple points comp technology is adopted in small cells to decrease the intersite interference and improve the spectrum ef. Wireless backhaul is the wireless communication and network infrastructure responsible for transporting communication data from end users or nodes to the central network or infrastructure and vice versa. Software defined 5g mobile backhaul jose costarequena, raimo kantola, jesus llorente, vicent ferrer, jukka manner aalto university helsinki, finland aaron yi ding, yanhe liu, sasu tarkoma. The future of routing in 4g mobile backhaul networks is structured as follows. The future of mobile networking 27 secondgeneration eband for lte backhaul 29 ps core network evolution in the mbb age by li chunlin figure 1 softmobile for an ondemand and synergized mbb network ondemand. Deploying vast numbers of small cells to complement improved and densified macrocell layers will require a range of highly scalable, flexible mobile backhaul solutions that support superior user experience. The dramatic growth in data rates, driven by open standard smartphones running data hungry applications, will drive a significant increase in mobile backhaul requirements. A fine ipbased metro ethernet can help them consolidate and bear high value mobile services, fixed broadband services, enterprise vpns, as well as other services. Comprehensive coverage of ipmplsethernet backhaul technologies and solutions for 3gpp mobile network systems such as lte, hspa and gprs.
Sameer malik, senior solutions marketing manager, huawei network product line, elaborates on huaweis ltehaul strategy covering fronthaul, backhaul and the core, including its unique values. Mobile backhaul the relentless demand for premium video services is putting a tremendous strain on network access infrastructures as service providers look to support the resulting backhaul traffic. Softwaredefined wireless transport networks for flexible. This is putting a strain on the mobile backhaul network. Provisioning additional capacity within an mbh network is often a manual process that is slow and. Assembling such an integrated solution can be a tall order for backhaul service providers unless they turn to the calix mobile backhaul solution. Backhaul contributes 3040% of mobile operators total network operation costs.
An overview of the mobile backhaul market, the demands being placed on backhaul networks by wireless technologies such as 4g lte, and technologies such as carrier ethernet that can help create more robust mobile backhaul networks. Improving mobile backhaul network reliability with carrier. Comp is used to mitigate intercell interference, improve cell capacity, and enhance network performance. Gigaradio is huawei wireless product portfolio, which enables flexible. However, additional backhaul traffic is generated due to the possibility of sharing data among. Jan 31, 2010 the mobile internet tsunami meets the backhaul bottleneck backhaul is the central battleground for lte network migration even now backhaul is not meeting the demand of 3ghspa lte backhaul requirements are still not well understood by operators january 28, 2010 7 aviat networks. Voice traffic, text messages, instant messages, mobile data, and video traffic all need to be backhauled to and from the mobile cellular base stations to the core network. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Focusing on backhaul from a radio network viewpoint, mobile backhaul combines perspectives on mobile networks and transport network technologies, focusing on mobile backhaul specific functionalities, which are essential in building modern cost. Mobile backhaul is the backend part of a cellular network that connects. However, the 8020 rule when it comes to traffic distribution persists, and capacity expansion. Mobile backhaul refers to the network between mobile base station sites and the mobile network controller. The wireless backhaul network equipment market is characterized by a number of multinational vendors, such as ericsson, huawei. Mobile backhaul editors metsala salmelin key features.
The alcatellucent mobile backhaul solution leads the industry in its ability to deliver scalable, flexible and simplified backhaul networking while ensuring the resiliency, qos and network synchronization required to support the evolution of the ran to lte and lteadvanced. In proceedings of the ict mobile and wireless communications summit ictmobilesummit, stockholm, sweden, june 2008. Issue 39 46 you can choose from various ptn technologies, including pbbte, ipmpls, and tmpls. The presented model can be instrumental to identify the most critical cost drivers in the backhaul networks and to have a better understanding of the backhaul tco dynamics when small cells are deployed. Fixed broadband access places high priority on service implementation and control. Backhaulaware caching placement for wireless networks. Huawei s mobile backhaul solution has been perfected through numerous successful deployments and can bring unique benefits to customers. Huawei communicate 14 oftmobile is an endtoend business. Focusing on backhaul from a radio network viewpoint, mobile backhaul combines perspectives on mobile networks and transport network technologies, focusing on mobile backhaul specific functionalities, which are essential in building modern cost efficient. Solving the small cell backhaul crunch mobile operators are struggling to find physically feasible and economically promising methods for keeping their network capacity up to par, now and into the future. Fortunately there is a less expensive option which offers greater flexibility high bandwidth wire less backhaul technologies such as free space optics fso or microwave radio.
Section ii provides the background to how, why and on what scale routers have been deployed in. Content caching at base stations bss is a promising approach to alleviate the backhaul burden and reduce userperceived latency. In order to meet this demand some mobile network operators mnos have modernized their radio access network ran, including their mobile backhaul networks. Backhaul plays a critical role in mobile broadband, and is rising in importance on account of the introduction of heterogeneous networks. Improving mobile backhaul network reliability with carrierclass ieee 15882008 ptp microsemi proprietary and confidential. Metro ethernet for better mobile backhaul mobile operators are moving into the fixed field in the quest for full service operation. Architecture and transport for mobile broadband backhaul. Next generation mobile networks, such as lte release 10, will increase the requirement for backhaul capacity to gigabits per second. You can now read our 5g update tmn quarterly magazine issue as a pdf. Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent of mobile traffic in 2011 and the average mobile connection speed will surpass 1 mbps in 2014. Sdnbased mobile backhaul ew technologies are emerging as the lte and ltea standards go commercial, including coordinated multiple point comp and evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service embms, both defined in 3gpp r11. A mobile backhaul network can take on a variety of forms depending on factors such as transport technology, mobile standard, operator preference, etc.
Forecasted adoption of 3g4g mobile broadband source. The mobile fronthaul and mobile backhaul are connected using optical fiber which transfer information at the rate of 10 gbps. With advancement in multiantenna array technologies, du housing 128 antenna elements 64 transmitters and 64 receivers can communicate with cu of backhaul at the speed of about 320 gpbs as defined in cpri standard. Wireless and fixedline backhaul infrastructure is an essential component of the mobile telecommunications network. Why migrate from tdm mobile backhaul to packet mobile backhaul.
The future of routing in 4g mobile backhaul networks. In an emerging heterogeneous network scenario, with a large number of small cells that need to be backhauled, an increasing variety of backhaul technologies and solutions is expected, including also new wireless options. Oct 10, 2016 mobile data traffic has been growing at an alarming rate with no end in sight. Introduces sdn to mobile backhaul, transforms csgs into dumb boxes. Pdf in recent years, we have witnessed major transitions on wireless. Mobile data traffic has been growing at an alarming rate with no end in sight. Single backhaul, any media access and bandwidth any media with copper, microwave and fiber unified management cross domains quality and synchronization mpls connection oriented packet based platform ieee 1588v2 will be the mandatory requirement deployment and maintenance. Today, the backhaul landscape is actively changing to keep up with user demand for data. Joint access and backhaul power consumption optimization. Mobile backhaul juha salmelin, esa metsala ebook page. Huaweis mobile backhaul solution has been perfected through numerous successful deployments and can bring unique benefits to customers. Abstractas the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience qoe in nextgeneration wireless networks.
Bundling and multiplexing in packet based mobile backhaul. Mobile networks that were originally built for voice communications are now being optimised for data applications. The mobile internet tsunami meets the backhaul bottleneck backhaul is the central battleground for lte network migration even now backhaul is not meeting the demand of 3ghspa lte backhaul requirements are still not well understood by operators january 28, 2010 7 aviat networks. The lte backhaul network evolution solution includes comprehensive audit, planning and design, solution verification and deployment, and day 2 guarantee to ensure the smooth evolution of the lte backhaul network. Difference between mobile fronthaul and mobile backhaul. Todays backhaul networks are still dominated by tdm be it t1e1 microwave or highcapacity sdhsonet. Overview of risks introduced by 5g adoption in the united. In various industry documents this bs aggregation node might also be referred to as a cell site aggregation gateway. Wireless backhaul for imt 2020 5g overview and introduction by renato lombardi, huawei. Ip mobile backhaul presentation linkedin slideshare.
The mobile backhaul market reflects the mobile access market, so its worth looking at trends shaping the evolution of mobile networks when considering how things will change in the mobile backhaul network. This makes it vital for backhaul equipment used at base f ip backhaul for fmc stations to support various transmission lines like optical fibers, microwave and copper wires. Microwave radios have long been the global technology of. The figure below shows a simple reference model where the mobile backhaul is a single carrier ethernet network cen that connects the mobile network nodes, referred herein as ran customer edge. Alcatellucent, 2q09 in parallel, service evolution is driving bandwidth from 100 kbs for gsm to more than 100 mbs for.
Ltehaul bridging the backhaul gap industry insight in huawei. Ip ran is a key solution for mobile backhaul due to its advantages in better network stability. Paolini, an analysis of the total cost of ownership of pointtopoint. Coordinated multipoint comp technology is adopted in small cells to decrease the intersite interference and improve the spectrum efficiency. Understanding mobile backhaul techlibrary juniper networks. It is the intermediate wireless communication infrastructure that connects smaller networks with the backbone or the primary network.
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