Mobile World Congress Barcelona, February 11-14, 2008

Cellular operators tell industry experts that “a typical urban cell site at the end of 2010” will require “backhaul capacity of 25 Mbps,” representing a “three-fold” increase over current requirements. Operator revenues are not keeping up with the rapid growth in bandwidth as competitive pressures cause total average revenue per user to remain flat or drift lower. To achieve profitability objectives, mobile operators must compensate for the double whammy of tepid revenue projections and escalating transport costs by decoupling user radio traffic from backhaul Opex. The solution: transition to lower cost per bit all-IP mobile backhaul networks.

RAD Data Communications is showing its Optimized Mobile Transport Platform for All-IP Mobile Backhaul at the Mobile World Congress, Hall 1, Stand 1D-01. This suite of products includes cell-site gateways, aggregation site gateways and bandwidth optimization equipment. They are enabling mobile operators to lower the cost per backhaul bit by migrating their WAN connections to DSL and Ethernet transport. Incorporating standardized pseudowire technology, highly accurate clock recovery mechanisms and bandwidth reducing over-provisioning capabilities, RAD’s Optimized Mobile Transport Platform for All-IP Backhaul is the leading choice of Tier 1 cellular operators around the world.