Wireless Backhaul Landscape

Publication Date	September 2007
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	16
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00450

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Summary

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.

Content

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