Demand for backhaul capacity will triple, predicts In-Stat

The need for more backhaul capacity will grow three fold between 2009 and 2013, according to a recent report by In-Stat.Traditionally, voice has dominated the traffic going across a mobile operator’s network, meaning an operator could meet its backhaul requirements with a few T-1’s per base station. But that has changed with operators now relying on data for revenue growth, maintains the report called Big Pipes—The Global Market for Cellular/WiMAX Backhaul. With operators deploying EV-DO 2000, HSPA/HSPA+, WiMAX, and LTE to meet the growing demand for high speed mobile data, the bottleneck affect of backhaul has become more prominent.“Cellular and...