IP/MPLS in the Backhaul

Transport networks are migrating to MPLS drive by need to offer new services.

However, MPLS creates some challenges

  • More devices
  • Slow service delivery
  • Complex management

Aviat offers complete solution to move your transport network to MPLS including

  1.  IP/MPLS Microwave
  2. AviatCloud Manage Advanced application to seamlessly manage MPLS transport networks
  3. Expert IP/MPLS services & support
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IP/MPLS-Based Wireless Transport

IP/MPLS-based wireless transport solutions integrate routing capability into microwave and millimeter wave devices. With integrated IP/MPLS solutions from Aviat Networks, operators can save costs, improve network performance, simply operations, and enable new services.

Why IP/MPLS?

Introducing new services and enabling converged transport networks are two of the main reasons operators, state/local agencies and utilites are introducing IP/MPLS into their networks.

Benefits of IP/MPLS-based wireless transport technology

Save money – fewer boxes to buy, deploy, maintain

Improve network performance – less latency from fewer devices, layer 3 awareness into microwave (AMA – adaptive media awareness)

Enable new services – deliver new enterprise and government services from single converged network infrastructure

The industry’s first purpose-built microwave router

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Adaptive Media Awareness (AMA)

Wireless routing enables L2/L3 protocols to be aware of the state of the underlying transport network (in real time). This has potential to drastically improve the performance and reliability of microwave-based transport networks. Read below papers to find out more:

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Adaptive Media Awareness

Ed Gubbins

Senior Analyst, Wireless Infrastructure, Current Analysis

In developing economies, mobile operators are often the primary providers of broadband services to businesses. Having integrated IP/MPLS capabilities can help simplify an operator's delivery of those services as well as its supply-chain relationships, allowing it to meet customers' needs more quickly.

Patrick Donegan

Senior analyst, Heavy Reading

As they drive new generations of high capacity microwave into the backhaul for 3G and LTE, L2 will not be sufficient for the long term needs of many mobile operators. In a recent Heavy Reading survey of mobile operators using microwave backhaul, we found that 42 percent of mobile operators believe that L3 is 'very likely' to be needed in the access layer of the backhaul within three years.

Juan Andres Guzman Barrios

Chief of Area Connectivity and Transmission Engineering, Entel Chile

As a router, CTR 8540 will enable a range of new IP and VPN services for our mobile backhaul and enterprise applications. Unlike other microwave radios that require adding an expensive, separate IP/MPLS router, CTR 8540 is the only product we found that integrates the microwave radio and IP routing features we need. As the incumbent carrier in Chile, Entel places importance on reducing the number of devices we provision at each cell site to save space and money. CTR does that for us by combining these two functions in one solution.

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