June 22nd, 2011
Ovum predicts solid growth for North America in 2011 of 12 per cent, up from seven percent in 2010. “Emerging technologies will be the driving force in North America. We expect adoption of 100G network building to gain momentum from both carriers and non-carriers,” Ovum says.
In EMEA, which contracted by 10 per cent in 2010, Ovum predicts that 2011 will be a turnaround year, with three per cent growth and a CAGR of 5.5 per cent from 2010 to 2016. Redpath commented: “Developing economies in EMEA still need basic infrastructure and the developed ones are due for a network refresh after two long years of recession-induced restraint,” says Ovum.
Tags: optical networking
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June 21st, 2011
Rural markets need just as much bandwidth as metro areas and represent the biggest window of opportunity in mobile backhaul for the next few years, Tower Cloud Inc. CEO and President Ron Mudry says.
That’s because most large wireless operators already have their backhaul plans fleshed out in major markets and are now turning their attention to smaller markets and rural areas.
TowerCloud provides backhaul in both major cities and rural markets in the Southeastern U.S., but Mudry says the rural markets have lots of cell sites in need of a backhaul makeover. Operators often assume these sites have lower bandwidth requirements than metro areas because they have fewer users, but Mudry said this isn’t the case.
The cell site density is also less in rural areas, so providers end up building one huge cell packed with large radio antennas that still match the bandwidth comparable to a downtown market with 12 or more sites.
Rural Markets Have Big-City Backhaul Needs
Tags: 4g, backhaul, lte
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June 21st, 2011
Sean Bergin, head of global telecom markets for Southeast Asia at BT Global Services says mobile network “quality of experience is not there yet” for mobile operator cloud services. The key barrier, he says, is backhaul. Read more here: Light Reading Asia – 4G/LTE – BT: Backhaul Is Cloud Bottleneck
Bergin noted that across Asia/Pacific mobile operator networks teams are struggling to keep up with the backhaul and IP transit capacity required to service the growing number of smartphone users on their networks, while the marketing divisions of those operators continue to offer increasingly more attractive smartphone-based service package offerings that only exacerbate the stress on the carriers’ infrastructure and operations. Read more here: http://www.zdnetasia.com/quality-of-experience-vital-to-mass-cloud-adoption-62300847.htm
Tags: backhaul, cloud computing, cloud services, mobile backhaul
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