Cisco Mobile Transport over Packet
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The landscape of the mobile Internet is quickly changing, and mobile subscribers
expect ubiquitous access to data, voice, streaming video, gaming, and more.
As mobile operators rush to deliver robust mobile Internet services and sustain
their competitive advantage, they are grappling with reducing the cost per bit
for backhaul in the TDM-based Radio Access Network (RAN) and transport
networks. Cisco recognizes the challenge and offers an innovative backhaul
solution, Cisco® Mobile Transport over Packet (MToP). This solution reduces
backhaul costs; enables incremental, smooth migration to an all-IP RAN; and
helps operators deliver any-play (voice, data, video, and mobility) services over
a converged IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) infrastructure.
Cisco Mobile Transport over Packet
Cisco MToP reduces backhaul costs, enables
smooth migration to an all-IP RAN, and helps
operators deliver any-play services.
The Mobile Backhaul Challenge
Service providers have seen the number of mobile data subscribers grow dramatically in recent years.
Along with this growth has come an array of voice, data, and video applications that have increased the
bandwidth requirements of mobile networks for transport and backhaul. The 2008–2013 forecast of the
Cisco Visual Networking Index showed mobile data traffic doubling annually, for an increase of 66 times
between 2008 and 2013 and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 131 percent, Figure 1.
Figure 1. Global Mobile Data Traffic Growth (in terabytes per month)
Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast 2008–2013
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500,000
1,000,000
TB/Month1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
Data
P2P
Video
Audio
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
131% CAGR 2008–2013
The forecast includes the transformation of mobile networks to fourth-generation (4G)
technology that will enable consumers to view more mobile video (which will comprise 64
percent of mobile traffic by 2013) and access a variety of mobile broadband services, Figure 2.
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