Abstract
Study Summary
"US MOBILE BACKHAUL 2010: Continued Expansion 2009 to 2015 and the Needs of
the Middle Network," assesses and details the market for United States mobile
wireless backhaul services and products through 2015.
The report provides coverage of the United States mobile and wireless
infrastructure markets including technology choices and subscriber trends such
as the migration to 3.5G/4G, the use of mixed IP and TDM traffic, femtocells
and the growth in data ARPU levels. Specific backhaul drivers that are
considered and quantified include base station deployments, tower
construction, capital spending, network evolution to 3.5G and 4G platforms
(HSPA, mobile WiMAX, EV-DO and LTE) and subscribers.
A detailed discussion is presented on the backhaul bottlenecks of the present
and the future and the challenges that mobile operators face now and will need
to address in the future pertaining to backhaul needs in the mobile network. .
The report also offers forecasts through 2015 for total backhaul service
revenues, edge of network backhaul service fees, average backhaul per month
per base station and total wireless network operating expenses
Backhaul lines in the United States are also quantified by capacity per base
station, type of service such as Ethernet or TDM/mixed and whether backhaul is
achieved via wireless or wireline. Backhaul by PTP microwave, copper, coax,
fiber, satellite or free space optics is also quantified through 2015. Total
towers in use and capacity per tower are also quantified as are deployments of
3.5G/4G base stations and MSC, BSC/RNC sites and collector points.
Topics
- Total value of backhaul services (radio access and switching components)
- Backhaul bottlenecks and challenges
- Cost of backhaul to base stations (switching is omitted)
- Average backhaul cost per base station
- Total mobile network operating expenses
- Mobile network capital expenditures
- Wireless backhaul links employed
- Backhaul links by capacity
- Backhaul links by access technology (wireless or wireline)
- Backhaul links by technology (copper, coax, microwave, fiber, free space
optics, satellite, other)
- Backhaul lines by transport mode (TDM/mixed vs. Ethernet)
- Base station sites
- Average number of base stations per site
- Sites by total capacity employed
- Mobile base stations deployed total and by generation (2.5G, 3G, 3.5G/4G)
- Mobile subscribers and 3.5G/4G subscribers
- Voice, data and total ARPU
- Base stations with access to fiber
- Network upgrade trends
- Cumulative deployments of wireless switching gear (MSC, BSC/RNC)
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