Huawei has released the LTEHaul solution at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013. This SDN-based mobile backhaul solution provides end-to-end support for the planning, construction, maintenance, and optimization of mobile backhaul networks. By adopting the software defined networking (SDN) technology, the solution greatly simplifies the operation and maintenance (O&M) and management of mobile backhaul networks and shortens the time to market (TTM) of new services. The solution helps operators resolve network issues during the evolution to LTE networks.
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 With the popularization of intelligent terminals and cloud applications, mobile traffic increases by 100% each year. This vast increase leads to a large gap between the user bandwidth requirements and the network bandwidth capability. Operators are therefore eager to deploy LTE networks. However, three large gaps exist in backhaul networks that operators must leap over during the evolution to LTE and LTE-A networks.
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 “As LTE networks are put into large scale commercial use, future mobile backhaul networks must be able to carry more new services and support more application scenarios. This will bring tremendous challenges to the live mobile backhaul networks. Huawei’s  LTEHaul solution will not only help operators resolve these challenges but also address the present GSM/UMTS bearing demands, allowing mobile backhaul networks to leap over the large gaps and smoothly evolve to LTE/LTE-A networks.” said Wei Feng, Vice president of the Huawei fixed network business unit.
