Wireless backhaul specialist Telecom Transport Management (TTM) is taking a `be prepared` approach to meeting its wireless carrier`s bandwidth needs for today`s 3G and upcoming 4G wireless network rollouts.
This transition required TTM to deploy an optical platform that would be able to help its wireless operator customers` respective migrations from TDM to IP/Ethernet, and it found it in Tellabs` 7100 Optical Transport System. As a multiservice device, the 7100 can address both near-term wireless backhaul methods (SONET/SDH) and Ethernet in one platform.
While the wireless operators` movement to Ethernet-based backhaul will be an ongoing transition, a new Heavy Reading report forecasts that as wireless operators migrate their backhaul networks from TDM to Ethernet, `the U.S. wholesale Ethernet market will grow by 40 percent per year through 2014.`
And thus far, TTM`s wireless backhaul efforts have been paying off. Although it is working with other unnamed large wireless operators, one notable wireless provider that`s working with TTM is Verizon Wireless. Outside of its brother ILEC Verizon Communications` fiber region, Verizon Wireless is leveraging TTM`s hybrid fiber/microwave-based wireless backhaul infrastructure in its Minnesota market.
