Packet Microwave Mobile Backhaul

To deliver a compelling quality of experience for subscribers, you must respond quickly to growing traffic demands. Alcatel-Lucent Packet Microwave Mobile Backhaul helps you maximize the network’s performance by enabling rapid deployment of scalable backhaul to cell sites. The solution offers a portfolio of microwave products to address the backhaul needs of 2G, 3G, and LTE macro cells and 3G, LTE, and Wi-Fi® metro cells. Radio spectrum is maximized using innovative techniques to maximize payload capacity to support the evolution to LTE and heterogeneous networks. Unique, common radio support for indoor and outdoor deployments enhances savings potential.

Packet Microwave Mobile Backhaul is a key component in the Alcatel-Lucent end-to-end mobile backhaul solution, which provides the flexibility, scale and operational simplicity to lower the total cost of ownership and simultaneously enhance the mobile service experience.

Benefits

Economic benefits

Rapidly support the optimal cell site location

• Complete backhaul portfolio for macro cells and metro cells
• Support for all sites including both end and intermediate cell sites
• Space and power efficiency

Achieve maximum spectral performance

• Maximum bandwidth per band
• Intelligent compression
• Advanced quality of service levels supporting subscriber quality of experience

Scale the network cost effectively

• Cost-effective bond radio channels
• Any topology, any leading number of directions
• Network awareness for both Carrier Ethernet and/or IP/MPLS networks

Be operationally efficient

• Common radio for all cell sites
• Evolutionary path from hybrid microwave to packet microwave at the touch of a button
• Management beyond basic IP partner integration

Deployment, management, end-user benefits 

Grow and retain subscribers by maximizing the mobile experience

• Infrastructure support for increased subscriber bandwidth demands
• Ability to react quickly to subscriber demand with optimally-located cell sites
• Increased capacity that supports high bandwidth data applications

Components

Packet Microwave Mobile Backhaul integrates the Alcatel-Lucent microwave portfolio with metro cell optimized products to provide a complete backhaul offering for metro cells and/or macro cells.