"Transmission is the bottleneck the operators meet first and which they need to solve to get mobile broadband to work," Andersson says and continues, "to meet the expectations from the end- users with up to 14 Mbps, no transmission node must have lower capacity than the peak rate."
Broadband internet access is increasingly becoming a fixture in modern western households. Mobile broadband access is quite another matter. W-LAN and connections are unable to offer coverage everywhere, GSM/EDGE unable to offer requested bit rates and fixed line DSL solutions are of course unable to offer the mobility. But with WCDMA and HSDPA, issues like capacity, bit rates, coverage and response times are coming close to end-user expectations on internet services. HSPDA makes it possible to have internet access anywhere, anytime - if the transmission capacity is there.
But there are solutions. Ericsson´s MINI-LINK is the world's most widely deployed microwave radio system, including both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint systems as well as smart nodes. MINI-LINK TN (Traffic Node) is a platform for wireless transmission for 2G and 3G networks as well as fixed and broadband applications. It includes a point-to-multipoint functionality and is designed to provide a smooth migration to packet-based data. DXX is a centralized network management system that provides tools for control, fault, recovery and performance management. A whole network can be controlled from one single place and upgrades can be done without having to go to several places.
Read more at: http://www.ericsson.com/network_operators/transmission
