Case for IP/MPLS Routers at the Small Cell…but not Just any Router!
- September 11, 2015
- all-outdoor, backhaul, CTR 8380, IP/MPLS, microwave networking, Microwave Router, small cell, VPN
With the goal of a hyper-meshed 5G street level network, clearly today’s small cell deployments represent just an interim phase in a progressive network densification—pushing the network outward. This means today’s small cell sites will become tomorrow’s macrocells, or hub sites.
Future-looking mobile operators have planned for this eventuality. In the developed world, small cell and the Internet of Things (IoT) drive mobile network densification. However, in the developing world the primary goal of enterprise connectivity spurs network densification, due to lack of wireline infrastructure to business buildings. The end result of network densification is the same.