Mobile Backhauling
Today’s established and safe solution for backhauling mobile traffic is through point-to-point wireless or wired-copper links. However, the steady increase in traffic, combined with the introduction of broadband services and applications is starting to exert real pressures in the conventional way of backhauling.
In reality, this is the major driver behind today’s wireless/wireline network convergence scenarios discussed. Most mobile operators, looking into the near future and the bandwidth requirements enabled by 4G technologies, seek converged infrastructures for backhauling, by connecting optical fibres to base-stations.
Although C-3PO focuses on components addressing core and access networks, the advantages offered in backhauling cannot be left unsaid.
C-3PO can be viewed as unified component/system product family, as it can apply the same fundamental photonic/electronic technology from “client to core”.
This rationale becomes very competitive in the case of mobile operators wishing to a simple and cost-effective solution for backhauling mobile traffic from their base-stations.
The use of low-cost/high-speed reconfigurable optical links in a passive nature, poses an attractive solution for mobile or wireless/wireline converged networks.
