Sunday, March 4, 2012
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

LTE: Driving Changes in Mobile Backhaul Networking

Event type: Workshop

Room number: 515A

Organizer: Tom Rarick; Tellabs, USA


Description:

Growth of mobile networks is placing great demands on service provider infrastructures. One area of significant investment is the backhaul networks, which provide the aggregation and connectivity from base stations to the mobile switching centers. LTE in particular places new demands on the backhaul networks due to high bandwidth expectations at base stations and handset to handset communications. Another area of concern is achieving the Green Internet, where aggregate power utilization is actually reduced as network capacity is increased. Service providers must meet these challenges while providing the performance and reliability expected by mobile users. Several architectures have emerged to meet these challenges, including Ethernet over SONET/SDH or OTN, native Ethernet, PON and IP/MPLS based networking. This workshop explores several of these options and compares their merits.

Speakers:

Pasula Reddy, Fujitsu, USA
Alex Girshevitsky, Adtran, USA
Jaafar Elmirghani, Univ. of Leeds, UK