2013 Trends: Ilan Seidner, Director of Marketing Communications, RAD Data Communications

Details: Ilan Seidner, Director of Marketing Communications, RAD Data Communications; Category: Blogs & Opinion; 10 January 2013; 5919 views

Among service providers in emerging markets, there is a steady demand for more bandwidth for access network infrastructure and mobile backhaul...

Among service providers in emerging markets, there is a steady demand for more bandwidth for access network infrastructure and mobile backhaul.

Business users are running bandwidth hungry IP-based applications and beginning to insist on hard Service Level Agreements. To validate them, operators will need SLA assurance tools that provide network visibility and performance monitoring.

We’ll see more native Ethernet in the access network parallel to the steady migration away from SDH transport to packet backbones like MPLS. Where high quality copper prevails, we’ll see Ethernet over bonded DSL to attain higher capacity. But in many cases, such as in Africa, the linking of coastal, urban and commercial hubs to undersea fibre cables is facilitating the proliferation of high speed services. Nevertheless, as many business customers still maintain legacy equipment, transition to packet networks is becoming an issue.

Another trend is the exponential growth of capacity for mobile data services. As 3G and LTE deployments grow and data transmission increases, mobile backhaul providers will have to cope with capacity optimisation and timing synchronisation issues that didn’t exist before. This will require traffic management of multiple classes of services as well as support for 1588v2 and synchronous Ethernet.