Network Design

4G networks create new mobile backhaul requirements

May 1, 2011

In the May/June 2011 edition of Lightwave magazine, Mark Showalterof Extreme Networks writes in the article“Mobile backhaul requirements for 4G networks emerge”that performance, synchronization, and efficiency will prove to be the cornerstones of 4G mobile backhaul networks. Of course, these mobile backhaul networks must be packet-friendly as well, Showalter asserts…

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