Carrier ethernet for mobile backhaul

Author

Briggs, Peter ; Chundury, Rajesh ; Olsson, Jonathan

Author_Institution

Ericsson UK, Coventry, UK

Volume

48

Issue

10

fYear

2010

fDate

10/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

100

Abstract

The wide adoption of mobile broadband services by users of smartphones and other mobile terminals is being enabled by radio access technologies with better performance than many fixed residential broadband lines. Mobile network operators are upgrading their networks to deliver growing packet traffic cost effectively, while maintaining critical operational functions such as base station synchronization and resilience to faults. Carrier Ethernet technology is figuring strongly in the upgrade from the existing TDM mobile backhaul between radio base stations and mobile core networks.

Keywords

broadband networks; local area networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; time division multiplexing; TDM mobile backhaul; base station synchronization; carrier Ethernet technology; fixed residential broadband lines; mobile broadband services; mobile core networks; mobile network operators; mobile terminals; packet traffic cost; radio access technologies; radio base stations; Ethernet networks; GSM; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Multiaccess communication; Radio access networks; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2010.5594683

Filename

5594683