Get the Rebroadcase Here: Light Reading is proud to present “Meeting the Backhaul Challenge”

By the year 2012, 65% of all phones will be Smartphones, which creates a huge burden on the already saturated networks of the wireless providers. Backhaul becomes the bottleneck and consumers have little patience for poor service, ensure you manage your backhaul correctly to allow you to maintain customers and grow the base exponentially. CFN Services, RazorSight and Cisco have combined their expertise to provide you this webinar to help you navigate the backhaul challenges

Our speakers:

Patrick Donegan, Light Reading:

Donegan has more than 15 years of experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading‘s expanding coverage in this area. Donegan authors Heavy Reading‘s “Ethernet Backhaul Quarterly Market Tracker”. Donegan joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company’s wireless business.

Robert Synnestvedt, Cisco Systems:

Synnestvedt is Cisco’s global marketing lead for Mobile Internet Transformation of RAN Backhaul. Since joining Cisco in 1998, Robert has successfully lead engineering, management, and marketing of the IP NGN evolution of broadband and mobile networks around the world

Mark Casey, CFN Services:

Casey is the President of CFN Services. Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. Since 2001 Mark has led CFN Services in helping wireless operators reduce transport costs while multiplying capacity to support broadband wireless data deployments. His current focus is specific to wireless backhaul and supporting 3G and 4G operators with the design and deployment of fiber and hybrid fiber-microwave backhaul networks that multiply capacity 10 fold while reducing lifecycle backhaul transport costs.

Charlie Thomas, RazorSight

Thomas joined Razorsight’s board in April 2004, and became CEO in February 2005. Charlie has led Razorsight to strong growth resulting in a #8 ranking on Deloitte’s Virginia Fast 50 and a #114 ranking on Deloitte’s National Fast 500 list. Charlie has co-founded, grown and sold 3 companies over the last decade, and he has negotiated over $1 Billion in capital financings for his companies. He has successfully closed over 15 M&A transactions.

CFN Services Wireless Jumpstart® adds Communications Infrastructure Corporation® to its growing list of ecosystem providers that focus on wireless infrastructure ranging from site and network planning, acquisition, implementation, backhaul, and ongoing cost and performance optimization. Wireless Jumpstart® helps mobile operators construct an integrated solution utilizing the best of breed partners to ensure they have the optimal solution for today and poised for their future growth. Read More

October 4 – 7, 2010

Hollywood, Florida

Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa

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The Show is an annual opportunity for industry leaders to showcase their products and services, network, collaborate and exchange information. This year’s Show is expected to draw more than 1500 executives from the wireless industry and policymakers from all levels of government.

October 5 – 8, 2010

San Francisco, CA

Mascone Center

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No matter what your business is – healthcare, entertainment, fleet management or financial planning – wireless can transform how you do business. International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment brings this possibility to life.

With a focus on applications, network architecture and technologies such as LBS, machine-to-machine and WiMAX (just to name a few), this international event brings a community of users, carriers, developers and manufacturers together to generate dialogue, share ideas and debate the economics of MOBILE BUSINESS.

A Tier 1 mobile carrier was operating a statewide network of more than 1,000 cell sites interconnecting with 2 primary mobile switching centers (MSCs). The carrier was spending more than $15 million annually on local access transport services for backhaul from the cell sites to the MSCs and interconnection from the MSCs to the local telephone company’s (LEC) access tandems. A planned 3G network upgrades promised to double the T1 capacity requirements at more than 600 cell sites.

The plan was to reduce the leased network transport costs in the face of pending capacity growth, while positioning the backhaul network to support backhaul for 3G broadband data services. Requirements at the facilities level between the cell sites and the MSC and between the MSC and the public switched network. By leveraging its FiberSource® design platform and network optimization tools, CFN designed an optimized metro core fiber network that interconnected the MSCs and pushed interconnection points with the LEC out from the MSCs to 7 strategically placed LEC central office collocations. CFN then working with the leading optical equipment vendors designed a turnkey optical transport platform to displace existing DS1, DS3, and SONET circuits that were at or past term. In addition, the optical transport platform was designed to deliver an aggregate capacity of more than 4,000 T1s.

To read more on the case study visit CFN Services webpage.