FTTA Backhaul

Boosting Your Wireless Backhaul

The phenomenal proliferation of smart devices requiring 3G+ capacity (e.g. iPhones, iPads, Android devices, Kindles, Smart Grids and other Machine to Machine technologies) is drying up what is left of the increasingly scarce bandwidth provided by communications service providers on a global scale.

To meet growing subscriber demand, mobile communications service providers are looking to increase existing network capacity to enable the delivery of ever growing bandwidth-intensive data services. This puts significant pressure on a mobile operator’s backhaul network. Traditional backhauling approaches such as leveraging Fibre to the Base Station (FTTB) are subject to certain constraints.
Although FTTB can provide more than enough capacity, its reach and expansion is often limited by costly business models, and the deployment of new FTTB links requires significant CAPEX and OPEX investments. Other methods, such as copper, do not have the required capacity, and are faced with significant attenuation across longer distances. Finally, traditional microwave links (Point to Point or Point to Multipoint) are faced with increased spectrum congestion and limited channel sizes.

Given this surge in demand, service providers that depend on wireless backhaul solutions are turning to new, wider frequency spectrums to lower their wireless
backhaul costs. Wireless backhaul solutions operating in the Q-Band spectrum (40.5 – 43.5 GHz) have clear technological and economic advantages, such as significant bandwidth availability resulting in massive amounts of capacity.

Bluwan’s Fibre Through The Air Backhaul solution offers an all IP Point to Multipoint architecture providing multi-gigabit throughput to multiple base stations in a single sector. Bluwan’s innovative FTTA Backhaul solution features:

• Patented Wireless Wave Division Multiplexing enabling the scalable delivery of multi-gigabit capacity to base stations from a single Central Transmission Hub installed at a point of presence
• n x 100 Mbps configurable capacity per base station with a total of 2.4 Gbps per sector
• High capacity Point to Multipoint solution that minimises OPEX costs for 3rd party PoPs
• Adding new sites to an operational sector only requires a single ended installation keeping truck rolls to a minimum while providing efficient use of limited cell tower space
• Baseline installed sector capacity which can easily be increased remotely without outdoor intervention at the radio or antenna