Alcatel-Lucent A New Era Of Mobile Backhaul

Alcatel-Lucent

Abstract:

FLEXIBLE, SCALABLE, SIMPLIFIED BACKHAUL FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

Mobile services. It is a huge market, expected to reach $1.3 trillion (in constant U.S. dollars) by 2016.1 It is also a highly competitive market with very demanding customers. To keep customers and grow market share, mobile network operators (MNOs) must deliver an outstanding customer experience. To stay profitable, they must do so at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.
Small cells have recently emerged as a more cost-effective way for MNOs to improve the coverage and capacity of their mobile services — two of the key elements needed to enhance the subscriber experience. However, to leverage the benefits of small cells, there are some challenges to overcome. One of the most significant issues is how to provide scalable, flexible mobile backhaul to connect small cells back into the network, without breaking the small cell business case.
Alcatel-Lucent has expanded its array of highly successful and widely deployed mobile backhaul solutions to address small cell backhaul, and in particular, to address the challenges associated with backhauling metro cells. Metro cells are public access, MNO owned and managed small cells. With Alcatel-Lucent mobile backhaul, operators can rest assured that they will have the flexibility, scalability, and operational simplicity required to deliver tailored, more cost effective mobile backhaul today and into the future. They will be able to provide streamlined backhaul for both metro cells and macro cells as part of the infrastructure for heterogeneous mobile networks.

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