Parts of many cellular networks potentially face traffic overload due...
Parts of many cellular networks potentially face traffic overload due to increasing video traffic, said Tom Soroka, USTelecom vice president-engineering and technology, in a webinar hosted by USTelecom. “No doubt, there’s been a video explosion,” he said. “Just about any…
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mobile backhaul network needs the highest capacity they can get their hands on.” Video will consume two-thirds of mobile data traffic worldwide, 7.6 exabytes out of the 10.6 used per month, by 2016, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index for 2011-2016 released in February (http://xrl.us/bigzmr). “There’s no one grand silver bullet solution,” Soroka said. Service providers will have to conduct cost-benefit analyses to determine the extent of network optimization in order to meet the increasing data demands, he said. Adtran posed one solution in the webinar: Optical Networking Edge, designed to help network providers offer a reliable, scalable network. “Years ago, most backhaul was over copper circuits,” Soroka said. “Now it’s moving toward packet over optical solutions. The current phase will be to eliminate as much transport overhead as possible,” he said, citing the use of Internet Protocol over optical circuits in the next phase of backhaul transformation.