Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms

Overview

Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than ever before to support emerging voice-over-IP (VoIP) and mobile data applications. As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Unfortunately, the design of most of today's cell sites leaves service providers with few options for increasing capacity. MSPPs constitute the only solution that can support both emerging packet services and conventional T1/DS-1 traffic simultaneously, allowing carriers to scale capacity and provision IP applications much more cost-effectively.