SOLUTIONS

Cellular Base Station Backhaul

With mobile technology and services changing and 3G and 3.5G applications becoming more popular, increased bandwidth has now become critical when backhauling mobile base stations. Legacy T1/E1 connections are not compatible with the new Ethernet-based standards and customers are reluctant to migrate to pseudowire-based backhaul because they know that pseudowire, with Adaptive or Differential Clock Recovery, has not been able to meet the stringent timing requirements of cellular backhaul.

Actelis' mobile backhauling solution provides a combination of Ethernet and E1 ports for 2G, 3G and 3.5G base-stations and can provide up to 100 Mbps connectivity based on Actelis' patented, award-winning EFMplus™ technology. Using a field-proven implementation for clock, Actelis' solution allows operators to gradually upgrade the network without taking unnecessary risks.

Advantages
• Carrier Ethernet access increases the bandwidth capacity to support rapidly expanding 3G and 3.5G services;
• Enables differentiation of voice services for ensuring high speech quality.

Service providers can profitably meet demand for growing mobile backhaul bandwidth while cutting capital and operational costs with the Actelis Carrier Ethernet over Copper™ solution. Using eight copper pairs, Ethernet access delivers over 100 Mbps of bandwidth. Actelis’ comprehensive product line enables bonding up to 8 copper pairs via a 2Base-TL aggregated link to carry 100 Mbps.

By utilizing one of the point-to-point systems, such as an ML600 Ethernet Access Device (EAD), mobile backhaul is easy and cost effective to deploy. After powering up, Actelis ML600 EADs configure themselves within minutes for quick delivery of fiber-quality mobile backhaul. The cost, delay and operational headache of deploying fiber trenching is avoided.