Backhaul Dilemma: Mobile Sites Are Bandwidth Starved, Revenue Per Bit Eroding
With the increased popularity of smart phones like the iPhone, Mobile backhaul traffic is growing exponentially. Analysts estimate that there is currently a need to deliver as much as 30 Mbps to mobile sites and that they will require as much as 100 Mbps downstream and 50 Mbps upstream in the near future.
However, with 90% of U.S. and 25% of global mobile sites being copper fed, many providers have found out the hard way, that their largely T1/E1/DSL fed infrastructures don't scale well. Thus, many are looking for a quick solution that scales well and will meet sky rocketing bandwidth demand. Most providers automatically look to fiber as the solution, however, there are two very significant hurdles standing in the way of fiber upgrades - they can't be deployed quickly and with their revenue/bit eroding, are difficult to justify financially, particularly for mobile sites.
Aktino Has the Answer: Fiber Impact on a Copper Budget
Luckily, Aktino provides a solution that is both quick and cost-effective. Aktino bonded copper solution lets providers leverage existing copper pairs, making it possible to be deployed in days vs. months often required for fiber and to avoiding the cost associated with trenching fiber. This is extremely valuable to many providers as it allows them to preserve precious capital for projects that can break even much faster than fiber-based services.
Up to 10X More Bandwidth Over Existing Copper
By providing up to 100 Mbps of Carrier Ethernet Bandwidth, the Aktino Carrier Ethernet solutions increase backhaul bandwidth by up to 10 times more than other copper solutions at CSA distances:
10 times more bandwidth than T1 IMA
(8 Mbps/pair vs. 0.768 Mbps/pair)
7 times more bandwidth than E.SHDSL
(8 Mbps/pair vs. 1.15 Mbps/pair)
Data Traffic is Overtaking Voice and is Highly Asymmetric
Recent mobile backhaul traffic studies have shown that data traffic has grown to be 50% or more of the total backhaul traffic. Furthermore, these studies have shown that the data traffic can be asymmetric by a ratio of as high as 10:1 (downstream/upstream traffic).
Savvy Providers are Exploiting the Asymmetric Nature of Backhaul Traffic
Service providers are increasingly acknowledging the reality of the asymmetric nature of mobile backhaul traffic and are now beginning to exploit this. For many, this has meant that they've turned to Aktino for help. Aktino is the only bonded copper solution that features Asymmetric Bandwidth. Aktino Asymmetric Bandwidth feature allows providers to match the true nature of their backhaul traffic and therefore use resources as efficiently as they possibly can, i.e. minimize the number of pairs required. Additionally, it's programmable making it possible for providers to choose the right ratio of down/upstream bandwidth for each application.
Fiber-Like Reliability
By leveraging VDLS2-based MIMO on DMT technology and performing the bonding at the physical layer (Layer 1), Aktino solutions overcome the problems of existing copper bonding methods, making it possible to deliver not only unprecedented bandwidth, but with unprecedented reliability. In fact, Aktino was able to prove this in a major U.S. service provider mobile backhaul trial in which the Aktino backhaul solution met and exceeded fiber service level agreements (SLAs) even in a lightning prone region.
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