A radio network plan is never static, as traffic grows and moves the network design needs tweaking. These changes require assessing and optimizing the wireless backhaul design. High data capacity technologies such as HSPA and LTE place far greater demands on backhaul. When deploying these technologies, backhaul becomes a much more significant proportion of the overall network cost. An optimal backhaul design has a significant effect on network performance and CAPEX.
CONNECT is a wireless backhaul network planning tool providing microwave link planning, path profiling, frequency and interference analysis and routing and capacity optimization. This complete backhaul network planning solution covers all wireless backhaul technologies, including point-to-multipoint, non-line-of-sight and micro and millimeter wave radio support, so is ideal for small cell backhaul planning.
OBACKHAUL IS KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL OVERALL NETWORK PLAN.
Backhaul is increasingly the bottleneck to meeting the expanding data needs of customers – efficient planning is the only way to manage the technical challenges. In addition transmission is becoming a much higher percentage the overall network cost meaning more focus needs to be placed on its planning to keep CAPEX spend in check. Careful transmission planning is key to the performance and cost-effectiveness of an overall network plan.
Small cells, with their high-capacity and typically dense urban deployment locations, provide numerous transmission planning challenges. A successful transmission plan requires a number of technologies from microwave to copper to fiber and some specialized microwave technologies such as point-to-multi-point links, non-line-of-sight links and microwave and millimeter radios.
An engineer needs to be able to use a multitude of wireless backhaul technologies to achieve the best design possible given the numerous constraints imposed. CONNECT supports all these technologies, allowing engineers to design all aspects of the backhaul network with a single tool.
