By Kenneth Hann, Principal Engineer –
February 23, 2012 / 2:00 AM
As operators migrate to LTE and LTE-Advanced, mobile backhaul synchronization becomes more important than ever.
In 2G and 3G networks, mobile operators were able to syntonize base stations from native TDM networks. The nature of the backhaul network provided an easy source of timing. Today these mobile networks have grown, and most of the traffic is carried over Ethernet.
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By Kenneth Hann, Principal Engineer –
February 13, 2012 / 9:43 AM
Late last year, synchronization experts, including myself, gathered together at the ITSF conference in Edinburgh. Though we spent some time discussing our progress in 2011, we debated at length the issues we'll face in 2012. Here are the top four that I took away from the conference, in no particular order:
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By Kenneth Hann, Principal Engineer –
January 12, 2012 / 10:20 AM
I'm encouraged by the progress we've made with synchronization in the past year.
I have a unique perspective of the synchronization issues that operators, suppliers and vendors around the world are facing. This is mostly thanks to my participation as a member of the International Telecom Sync Forum (ITSF) steering group and contributor to the ITU-T synchronization experts group (Q13).
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