Executive Summary
E1. The aim of this report
E2. Questions answered by this report
E3. Companies mentioned in this report
Chapter 1 - Introduction
1.1 Mobile subscriber growth
Fig. 1.1 - The Decoupling of traffic and revenue
1.2 The evolution of wireless technologies backhaul
Fig.1.2 - Backhaul
1.3 Mobile broadband demand
1.4 Evolution of networks
1.5 Uptake of LTE
Fig. 1.3 – Global LTE subscribers 2009-2015
1.6 LTE as a 4G technology
1.7 LTE’s key features
Fig. 1.4 – Theoretical peak speeds of mobile data technologies
Fig. 1.5 – Capacity and latency of wireless technologies
Chapter 2 – LTE Deployment
2.1 Standardisation
Fig. 2.1 – 3GPP implementation decision process
2.2 Standardisation for LTE advanced
2.3 Transport methods
2.3.1 Microwave point to point
Fig. 2.2 – P2P microwave communications
2.3.1.1 MMR
2.3.1.2 LTE operating frequencies
2.3.1.3 Licensed frequencies
2.3.1.4 FCC rulings of spectrum usage
2.3.1.5 Ongoing costs
Fig. 2.3 – Comparison of fibre and microwave backhaul methods
2.3.2 Fibre based transmission systems
Fig. 2.4 – Cost and capacity of various communications technologies
2.4 Total lifecycle cost of LTE backhaul
Fig. 2.5 – TCO of microwave backhaul by component cost
Chapter 3 – LTE Backhaul Requirements
3.1 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
Fig. 3.1 – End to end MIMO delivery
3.2 Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
3.3 Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Access (OFDMA)
3.4 Spectral efficiency
3.4.1 3GPP guidelines for LTE spectral efficiency
Fig. 3.2 – Spectral efficiency of various communications systems
3.5 Wireless spectrum
3.6 LTE Advanced
Fig. 3.3 – LTE Advanced milestone timeframe
3.7 System architecture
3.7.1 Physical layer
3.7.2 Logical layer
3.8 Flat network architecture
3.9 Other technologies at work in LTE and LTE backhaul
3.9.1 Evolved UTMS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN)
air interface
3.9.2 Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)
Fig. 3.4 – OFDMA and SC-FDMA
3.10 Clock transfer and Synchronisation
3.11 Core network evolution
3.12 Backhaul sharing
3.13 Spectrum aggregation
3.14 MPLS in LTE backhaul
3.15 MPLS pseudowires
3.16 LTE voice
3.17 LTE and IMS
3.18 Microwave backhaul dependency and the PMP advantage
Fig. 3.5 – Backhaul medium by percentage
3.19 Timing synchronisation in LTE backhaul
Fig. 3.6 – eNodeB at the access gateway
Fig. 3.7 – Sync E
3.20 Device innovation
3.21 Vendors
3.21.1 Motorola
3.21.2 Huawei
3.21.3 Alcatel Lucent
3.21.4 Fujitsu
3.21.5 Ceragon Networks
3.21.6 RAD Data Communications
3.21.7 Bridgewater Systems
3.22 Multi vendor approach
3.23 Security in LTE
Fig. 3.8 – LTE security layout
3.24 eNodeB RF transmitter requirements
3.25 WiMAX
Fig. 3.9 – WiMAX
Fig. 3.10 – WiMAX vs LTE timeline
3.26 Backhaul sharing
3.27 3GPP roaming and E-UTRAN sharing
3.28 Redundancy and resiliency for service protection
3.29 Carrier Ethernet
3.30 Operators skipping 3G deployment – straight to 4G
3.31 Handsets
3.32 Chipsets
3.33 Backwards compatibility
3.34 Operators moving from WiMAX to LTE
3.35 TeliaSonera – first deployment
3.36 Clearwire
3.37 Verizon
3.38 AT&T’s LTE strategy turnaround
Chapter 4 – LTE Deployment by Country
4.1 US
4.2 Canada
4.3 Sweden and Norway
4.4 UK
4.4.1 Statutory problems and the UK 4G spectrum auction
4.5 Russia
4.6 Uzbekistan
4.7 India
Fig. 4.1 – Indian market by region
4.8 China
4.9 Japan
4.10 Australia
5.1 Conclusions
Chapter 5 Conclusions
5.1 Conclusions
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