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Can wireless backhaul rise to the challenge of 5G?

2020-03-09 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

As 5G achieves widespread deployment this year, operators and customers alike are set to soon enjoy a vast range of new experiences, from AR and VR to autonomous vehicles. But this rapid advancement in technology also threatens a new bottleneck: backhaul.  In previous 4G networks, the main considerations and limitations when it came to backhaul were capacity, availability, deployment cost, and long range. Now, new 5G networks bring two new challenges to the fore, in the form of low latency requirements and the high density of the network. Fibre is able to handle the new technology’s low latency and increased capacity for 5G, but it is also expensive and time consuming or even not viable to deploy. For some areas, such as rural communities and regions with difficult geography (e.g. mountains), fibre is rarely a cost-effective solution. This is where microwave backhaul technology comes in. In contrast to fibre…read more on TotalTele.com » [ more ]

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