Increasing use of small cells will cause an increasing need for...
Increasing use of small cells will cause an increasing need for last-mile backhaul -- 2.27 million small cells will need a backhaul medium in 2017, up from the 170,000 small cells that required backhaul globally in 2012, said Multimedia Research…
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Group (MRG) Thursday. Backhaul is not necessary for all small cells, but it’s required for outdoor metropolitan and indoor picocells, microcells and “a percentage” of enterprise femtocells, MRG said. There are at least 11 backhaul medium types for small cells -- five for wireline and six for wireless. But by 2017, microwave radios will be the most-used medium, with an estimated 2 million radios forecast to be in use, MRG said. Slightly more than 1 million small cells will be connected by fiber and another 933,000 will be connected MM microwave radios (http://xrl.us/bodxnp).