Managing the cost for capacity

A recent survey by Telecom IQ with Telcos revealed that 86.5 percent of operators polled felt that data placed the most stress on their network. Voice came in as the number two cause of stress for the network but only accounted for 40.5 percent of the votes in the survey. Download the complete survey results.

Zahid Shaukat, Transmission Planning Team Leader for Orascom Telecom Mobilink, explains that with the increase in data traffic and network technology, the shift will be from 2G to 3G and LTE. It is becoming necessary to build a robust network road map which can support traffic requirements and a smooth network evolution.

But with data traffic increasing at an alarming rate, what can Telcos do to limit the stress placed on their networks?

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In order to cater the huge network traffic requirements new backhaul technologies can be introduced.

The following steps should be taken to combat the increase in data services:

• Technology readiness
• Introduction of NG DWDM instead of legacy DWDM for backhauling. For example NG- WDM which can currently support up to 40 G and even 100 G (which is under testing phase) which can ultimately combat increase of data traffic.
• Introduction of Layer 3 services in the Network or up gradation from layer 2 to layer 3 services.
• Traffic capacity expansion as per requirement
• Introduction of HQOS in the Network

Zahid Shaukat will be speaking at Bandwidth & Backhaul Management 2011. Read his full interview here

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