Tellabs Blog

A couple of big trends in the mobile broadband arena are coming together to deliver a one-two punch to service providers offering mobile backhaul service to wireless operators.

Since 2003, Tellabs has participated in tests on control plane interoperability with the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

Control Plane technology automates the process for provisioning services across a network.  It’s a crucial network function--operators need their control plane services to work across their entire network, where Tellabs equipment may not always be installed.

What's standing in the way of accelerating the deployment of all-fiber networks? In most cases, it's high costs and low opportunities for revenue.

The solution to this issue has eluded broadband service providers for years. That said, I foresee great improvements in all-fiber network economics. This is mostly due to the work done by the Gig.U initiative, and the advancements of Optical LAN technology. 

As wireless networks evolve to 4G and beyond, bandwidth to each cell tower increases dramatically. This means your mobile backhaul network needs to adapt and grow, too.

As I was putting my six year old daughter to bed the other evening, she handed me my iPad (low on battery because she had been watching cartoons) and asked me to read her a book.