Building a new mobile backhaul network for tomorrow's needs

In the past, every mobile generation wave was defining all the elements, from radio, to RAN, backhaul and core of the network. The technology cycles where longer and dictated by the industry.

Nowadays, we find mobile operators in certain countries still awarding their 3G licenses, while in some other countries they are deploying LTE, in some other testing LTE-A and in some places discussing 5G. If you are the guy in charge of defining the Mobile Backhaul (MBH) strategy, you better look at requirements for the next few technologies to not fall short. The different MBH requirements aren't just about capacity, but also about more accurate timing and synchronization, lower latency, more flexibility in defining routes, security...

In the attached video-presentation, I explain at high level what is our vision for Mobile Backhaul and some recommendations on how to evolve it. Designing a seamless network from the begin, will simplify it's evolution towards service abstraction and service enrichment.

Technologies such as seamless-MPLS, SDN and NFV will be key!

                                                                                              Link to presentation

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