Comments on: How the iPhone Is Driving a Wireless Bandwidth Boom

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:10:20 +0000

I found your article to be extremely useful. I was very interested in possibly investing, working, or getting involved with companies that provide solutions for the current bandwidth issues almost all Cellular companies are suffering from.

Do you have some names such as ADC Telecom which you mentioned above that provide solutions for ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T Mobile?

I would greatly appreciate it.

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By: AT&T to Boost 3G Speeds, LTE Trials in 2010

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By: StuartL

StuartL — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:23:52 +0000

As the guy from ADC said, less than 10% of cell sites today are connected by fiber. I recall a similar statistic of the number of commercial building connected by fiber in the early 2000′s (back then it was 8%).According to the Vertical Systems Group this number is still below 20% in 2008.
The fact is the megabucks needed to run fiber even a few hundred yards make it unlikely that fiber will be the default transport medium to the cellsite for mobile networks.
Microwave, on the other hand, already connects well over half of the world’s 2.5 million base stations, and has evolved to transport high speed IP over long distances and can scale up to a gigabit of capacity or more.
The most likely scenario for the backhaul networks of tomorrow will be a hybrid fiber/microwave architecture where fiber will be primarily used in the core and metro, and occasionally in the access network out to the cellsite, with microwave used where fiber can’t reach economically.
The problem with the iPhone effect in the US is AT&T’s heavy reliance on copper T1s for backhaul. You don’t hear so much of backhaul bottleneck issues in Europe where microwave is the primary solution for last mile cell site links for the past 20 years.

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By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:24:59 +0000

If you are interested in Bridgewater Systems you should check out the following link on how Bell Mobility is using a Real-time Telecom Expense Management solution from Anomalous Networks to help customers prevent data overage charges from occuring:
http://mobilebusiness.bell.ca/en/Common/Wireless-solutions/Your-business-needs/IT-service-management/Anomalous-Networks_Page_869.aspx

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:46:38 +0000

I agree that more broadband needs to become available to wireless devices and soon. The problem is how will that happen? It costs billions and by the time a 4G network is in place there is already need for faster service. Hopefully not, but maybe wireless networks will become similar to our highways, congested and always unable to handle demand.

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