2. Agenda
Market Drivers for Backhaul Networks
Mobile Backhaul Overview
Technology Options for Mobile Backhaul
Choosing What‟s Best for YOU!
Get it Fast, Get it Right – the Aricent Way
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3. Aricent Credentials
• Deep domain expertise in communications and related technologies – from chipsets and
devices to network equipment and B/OSS
• Clients include 9 leading telecom equipment manufacturers, 8 leading mobile device
manufacturers, 7 leading service providers, and 24 of Business Week's Top 50 Innovative
Companies
• 500+ million devices shipped with Aricent software
• Portfolio of more than 125 licensable software frameworks
• Helped create some of the world‟s first femtocell, WiMAX, and In-flight broadband solutions
• Billions of subscribers connected through Aricent powered networks
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5. Proliferation of Broadband Data Services
350000
Mobile data traffic (in terabytes)
Traffic explosion is being driven by:
300000
250000
• Smartphones
200000 • Mobile web browsing
150000
• Mobile video
100000
• Mobile gaming
50000
0 • Tablet adoption at work
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: www.techcrunch.com
• Smart phones will constitute up to 40% of mobile phone sales in 2012
• Close to 160 million mobile internet users estimated in USA by 2015
• Without network expansion, current operator networks will be100% utilized in 2 years!
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6. Mobile Broadband – Anytime, Anywhere
Mobile and Mobile Broadband Subscribers Grow
Faster than Fixed Broadband
Cellular mobile broadband
subscribers jumped almost
60% in 2010 to 558 million
worldwide and should top 2
billion by 2015
Infonetics Research, 2011
Source: Infonetics Research, 2011
Mobile broadband to drive the backhaul market to $9.0 billion by 2015
Routers and switches expected to constitute 30 percent of the mobile backhaul market
Dell‟Oro Group, 2011
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19. A Comparative Look
Service SLAs Time
QoS Scalability Cost Complexity
Availability (monitoring) Sync
Carrier Ethernet –
High Yes Yes Yes Low Low Low
Provider Bridged
Carrier Ethernet –
Not
Provider Backbone High Yes Yes High High High
Addressed
Bridged
Not
IP/MPLS High Yes Yes High High High
Addressed
MPLS-TP High Yes Yes Yes High High Medium
Packet Microwave High Yes Yes Yes Low Low Low
SONET/SDH High Yes Low Yes Medium High High
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21. Aricent Software Frameworks and Services for
Mobile Backhaul
2G/GSM/3G/
UMTS/4G MSC/MGW/
SGSN
Powered by Aricent Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS)
TDM/T1
TDM/T1/
IP-MPLS/MPLS-TP/
STM-1/OC-3/
Packet Carrier Ethernet
ETH – Ethernet
Microwave
FE/GE/10G
Broadband Engineering Services from Aricent
Product Strategy and Design Product Development
Testing and Certification Sustenance and Support
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22. Aricent ISS
Software Sustenance & Enhancement
System Integration & Release Testing
Aricent
Software UI Development or Adaptation
Services
System Infrastructure Adaptation QoS – Ethernet/IP/MPLS
Add & Customize Customer Applications MPLS, MPLS-TP
IP Security
IPv4/v6 Routing – Unicast Product
+ Multicast Launch and
Aricent Aricent ISS Maintenance
Software OAM – Ethernet/MPLS
Frameworks Device Integration Layer (SDK)
Ethernet (L2) Control
Driver Adaptation to Custom Hardware Plane
MAC Security
Switch Infrastructure
Aricent
Hardware BSP OS Port SDK Port Drivers Aricent ISS – Licensable
Services pre-integrated, platform-
Custom Platform Board/Prototype Design ready software
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23. Aricent ISS – Award Winning Software
Winner of the 2011 Wireless Backhaul Distinction Award
Based upon successfully demonstrating a commitment
to innovation towards the wireless evolution.
http://www.mobilitytechzone.com/topics/4g-wirelessevolution/articles/
236103-mobilitytechzone-announces-winners-the-2011-wireless-backhaul-distinction.htm
Praise for ISS
• “Our panel of judges had a difficult time selecting winners but they were standouts
that demonstrated exceptional innovation in wireless backhaul technologies,” – Carl
Ford, co-founder and community developer, Crossfire Media.
• “Winners of the Wireless Backhaul Distinction Awards deserve praise for their
extraordinary achievements in the advancement of wireless backhaul technologies,”
Rich Tehrani, TMC CEO. “They are the ultimate innovators of 4GWE solutions and
we look forward to more innovations in the future.”
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24. Meeting the Price Point with Aricent ISS
• Cost of ASIC development runs into tens of millions of dollars
• Cost of developing standards-based software is equally high
Merchant silicon + Software ODMs hold the key to bringing cost-effective
mobile backhaul devices to market
Software R&D
Integration
Using Aricent ISS
UI development
Hardware R&D
S/w + H/w integration
Validation
Interoperability
Building Everything Field maturity time
from Ground Up
Promotions
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Cost of Bringing to Market
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