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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.

This article was originally published in the Fierce Wireless eBook, Telco Backhaul Strategies.

Most operators' ultimate goal is a fiber-based Ethernet backhaul network.  Fiber has virtually unlimited capacity. Plus, compared with TDM or SDH/SONET, Ethernet offers lower costs, greater scalability and flexibility and better support for IP-based applications.

With these benefits, you'd expect operators to rush to implement fiber-based Ethernet backhaul. However, that's not the case.

A survey of 400 attendees at this year's Futurecom trade show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, revealed that service providers have a major challenge: how to handle Internet traffic cost-effectively.

That's not exactly shocking news.

Making networks more green is a goal everyone in the telecom industry shares. The opportunity is so extensive it can be difficult for service providers to decide where to begin.