Wireless operators today spend more than $3 billion—approximately 20-40% of their operational costs—for leasing T1/E1 lines from Local Exchange Carriers to connect wireless base stations back to their Mobile Switching Centers. With the advent of broadband mobile, wireless operators are transitioning these services to Ethernet to support expanded bandwidth requirements. Don’t you think cable operators are entitled to a share of that revenue—particularly since you can provide Ethernet transport at a much lower cost?
Challenges
Cable operators are well positioned to compete for this revenue stream due to the proximity of HFC plant to wireless base station locations. However, offering a competitive service requires reliable Ethernet services over the metro area with extremely fast protection-switching using a more cost-effective design than traditional service providers.Solution
You can implement wireless backhaul today utilizing True Carrier Ethernet in the access network with ring termination centralized at the headend leveraging connection-oriented Ethernet for bandwidth management, protection, and QoS. A connection-oriented layer 2 solution provides up to 40% CAPEX savings and up to 44% OPEX savings over competing IP/MPLS solutions.Ciena's offerings
Ciena offers a connection-oriented Ethernet solution for mobile backhaul that leverages PBB-TE to provide traffic engineering and protection. Utilizing the traffic engineering features, sub-50ms protection can be achieved, along with greater control of QoS by the operator. When Ciena’s Ethernet solution is combined with our partners’ microwave solution, additional cost-efficiencies can be achieved by deploying microwave mesh architectures, extending both the reach of your HFC plant, but additionally reducing the cost of deployment by 45-55%. Ciena also provides an automated provisioning capability to rapidly deploy new services and reduce OPEX.Benefits
- Replace incumbent providers and offer wholesale services with minimal infrastructure investments
- Obtain a return on investment in as little as 10-13 month
- Cell-site access device for Ethernet connectivity
- Automated provisioning for rapid deployment
- Capture new revenue streams by offering profitable services to wireless service providers
