Telebriefing – Backhaul the Lifeline to 4G
Friday, May 1st, 200921-May
Focus: 4G
Backhaul the Lifeline to 4G
Jennifer Pigg, VP, Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group
Yankee Group research shows that 50% of mobile network failures today can be traced back to problems in the backhaul. That’s today – mostly voice, little data, almost no video on the mobile network. Backhaul is not only a bottleneck, it’s a kluge bottleneck. Service providers, unwilling to put their voice traffic at risk are leaving it on expensive TDM backhaul solutions and offloading data traffic to a parallel packet network. In this session, we look at today’s dominant backhaul solutions and explain how the service providers will eat up CAPEX dollars and bleed profits if they do not move to more efficient solutions. We also handicap the solutions available according to how stable we believe the solutions to be in terms of cost, performance, and management, particularly in terms of QoS and SLAs.
Sponsored by, CFN Services 
