Tutorial: Mobile Backhaul over Packet Switched Networks for Mobile Operators

Abstract

Mobile network infrastructures are quickly evolving as mobile operators expand beyond voice to bring high-speed services available from IP networks and the Internet to subscribers. The result is the emergence of networks that are becoming mobile versions of the high-speed Internet or a "mobile Internet". With this, there will be a 100 fold increase in mobile data traffic in the coming years. One of the key areas in mobile networks, ripe for transformation in the rush to deliver robust mobile Internet services, is the Radio Access Network (RAN). Mobile operators must dramatically reduce the cost per bit in their current backhaul solutions while providing transport for third generation (3G) technologies, the next wave of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies, and traditional technologies. The move to the all-IP RAN is the single largest infrastructure challenge facing mobile operators.

This presentation provides strategy for mobile operators to implement an IP RAN Mobile backhaul network that allows decoupling from the radio technology as they migrate to an all- IP RAN. This strategy allows mobile operators to cost-effectively provide the bandwidth, backhaul scalability, affordable transport, and intelligent network features necessary to support the Connected Life, the Internet-everywhere experience.

About the Presenter

Kasu Venkat Reddy is a Senior Solutions Architect in Cisco's World Wide Service Provider Advanced Services team. He has been with Cisco for more than 6+ years and has over 12+ years of experience in IP networking and data communications. He has worked with many major service provider's across the globe in designing and building complex IP NGN MPLS Core & Edge, Carrier Ethernet, All-IP Mobile, and IP NGN Multi-Sporting video transport Networks.

Kasu Venkat Reddy areas of expertise include the entire range of IP/MPLS technologies and applications, from the network core to the access network (IP NGN Carrier Ethernet, Core & Edge ,IP NGN Multi-Sporting Video Transport), IP NGN ALL-IP Mobile Networks (i.e. packet-based mobile core and backhaul networks and emerging mobile technologies such as LTE) .He also specialises in IPv4 to IPv6 transition strategy for Mobile & Wireline Service Providers.

Kasu Venkat Reddy is a regular speaker at industry conferences in the APAC region and also actively participates in a number of telecommunications industry standards bodies like MEF.