Every investment in today's cost-conscious climate goes through a lot of scrutiny. That said mobile operators face no shortage of challenges in today's market environment.
In their bid to improve their profitability and maintain their competitiveness, many mobile operators are rolling out new services meant to generate revenue and increase usage. They need to juggle diverse traffic types, keep track of complicated service level agreements and speed time to market - all while reducing capital and operating expense and generating new revenues.
Yankee Group estimates backhaul costs account for approximately 30 percent of network-related OPEX, while Heavy Reading noted recently that mobile carriers are increasing their spend on backhaul by 15 percent to 25 percent annually to meet demand for a high-quality HSDPA or EV-DO end-user experience.
Faced with these realities, mobile operators are rethinking their approach to the backhaul network - migrating from a mix of legacy transports and multiple leased lines to packet-based technologies, so as to support an order of magnitude more capacity at much lower cost.
But the major challenge for mobile operators is architecting and deploying a high-performance backhaul solution capable of reducing the cost per transmitted bit. Mobile operators are rethinking their approach to the backhaul network - migrating from a mix of legacy transports and multiple leased lines to packet-based technologies, so as to support an order of magnitude more capacity at much lower cost.
Evaluating the sustainability of your network, the reduction of your footprint and reduction of power consumption are more important than ever. Companies today are challenged to find ways to add more value to the services they already provide and ultimately, bring more value to the end users. In doing so, businesses will position themselves for a brighter future, so that when the economy turns for the better - those enterprises will be poised for take-off.
