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3G Drives Backhaul Upgrades
Cellular carriers doling out the cash
(old news - 08:55AM Tuesday Jul 25 2006)
tags: wireless · bandwidth
Not surprisingly, the rollout of services over high-speed 3G High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and CDMA2000 1x Evolution-Data Only (EV-DO) infrastructure is driving wireless providers to upgrade the weak link in the chain: the backhaul. According to Light Reading, the industry's long term goal is to migrate all cellular transmissions to IP/Ethernet networks, but they must also "migrate more than a decade’s worth of installed time-division multiplexing (TDM) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) infrastructure."

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wifi4milez
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Good!

This will allow for more robust services and higher speeds for the end user.
permalink · 2006-07-25 09:00:25 · Reply to this

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Re: Good!

said by wifi4milez See Profile :

This will allow for more robust services and higher speeds for the end user.
If the cell companies keep raising data rates, they will have to upgrade the backbone drastically to handle the traffic.

I hope they don't forget to keep voice traffic prioritized over the data traffic though. Voice is still their bread and butter income and they can't afford to have the quality of voice calls be affected by more data traffic. {sarcasm}Oh wait!! - isn't that a two tier internet? Now all the "Network Neutrality" police will be pissed at the cell phone companies.{/sarcasm}
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permalink · 2006-07-25 12:40:46 · Print · Reply to this
patcat88

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 Yeah right, replace circuit switched guaranteed transmissions with "best effort" packet switching. I'm sure corporations love not because its a improvement for consumers but for their bottom line. Corporations know consumers will take anything they are given, not like they have a choice, except not to have the service at all.
permalink · 2006-07-25 13:58:11 · Reply to this

pa_grape
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backhaul options

Interesting article.
I have seen more and more microwave dish antennas on cell towers lately. Wonder if they are being used for microwave back-haul between towers.
permalink · 2006-07-25 09:09:29 · Reply to this

kamm

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Re: backhaul options

said by pa_grape See Profile :

Interesting article.
I have seen more and more microwave dish antennas on cell towers lately. Wonder if they are being used for microwave back-haul between towers.
I've noticed it too - and I was certain these are mostly for data links...
permalink · 2006-07-25 10:44:46 · Reply to this
Talis

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Houston, TX

HSDPA

Its HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access. Light Reading got it wrong.
permalink · 2006-07-25 09:09:47 · Reply to this
The Way Out

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Re: HSDPA

It's not wrong. It's also known as HSPA by equipment vendors. Sony/Ericsson uses HSPA and HSDPA interchangably.

»www.ericsson.com/technology/tech···DA.shtml
permalink · 2006-07-25 17:21:07 · Reply to this
Talis

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Re: HSDPA

Cool - I didn't know that. Thx
permalink · 2006-07-25 18:48:09 · Reply to this

inteller
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oh boo hoo

Sounds like more whining from the cell carriers. Just more self pity to justify the ridiculous practices they implement such as charging more for PDAs and MMS.
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permalink · 2006-07-25 09:13:11 · Reply to this

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Re: oh boo hoo

said by inteller See Profile :

Sounds like more whining from the cell carriers. Just more self pity to justify the ridiculous practices they implement such as charging more for PDAs and MMS.
What in the article lends any hint to whining from the cell carriers? Do you have any insight of how cell sites are provisioned? the services/traffic they carry now? projected traffic growth?
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permalink · 2006-07-25 09:28:16 · Print · Reply to this

NOCMan
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 Heaven forbid a company bulding out infrastructure and having to charge customers more to pay for it.

Next you'll whine that Amtrak has to raise rates to stay in business. Or the city raises bus rates to buy new busses to replace old ones.
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permalink · 2006-07-25 10:39:15 · Reply to this
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Qwest & ATM

I know this is slightly offsubject, but the reference to ATM made me think of this. At least in the Phoenix metro area Qwest is provisioning residential DSL with PPPoA (PPP over ATM). I never understand why they did so in the first place. I wonder how long it will take them to switch over to ethernet?
permalink · 2006-07-25 10:26:23 · Reply to this
patcat88

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Re: Qwest & ATM

You mean DHCP?
permalink · 2006-07-25 14:00:11 · Reply to this

owenhome
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Really?

Seems like I was just arguing this point with some rabid EV-DO-is-perfect users on here just the other day.
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permalink · 2006-07-25 13:14:10 · Reply to this
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