GSM Cellular Backhaul
With their core markets saturated, cellular operators around the world look to extend their services to the one billion people with limited or no access to cellular services. The need for global cellular communication in remote areas of the world is a significant opportunity for cellular operators to profitably expand their networks and gain new customers.
New innovations in cellular infrastructure and unified IP networks enable operators for the first time to pursue rural markets in a more cost effectively way. While fiber optics, leased lines and microwave links are too costly to install and maintain in difficult terrain and over long distances, cellular backhauling via satellite emerges as the ideal solution.
Solution Overview
iDirect’s patented D-TDMA allows cellular operators to share network capacity across multiple locations, allocating bandwidth in real time and on demand to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
With this flexible platform service providers can manage a multitude of small, medium and large networks spanning over five satellites in C- and Ku- Band, all from one Series 15000 hub. Service providers can launch a network with just a few line cards and then effectively scale by adding new line cards as satellite backhaul links grow, and even switch to DVB-S2 with ACM to account for larger networks and gain more bandwidth efficiencies.
iDirect’s award-winning advanced Group Quality of Service (GQoS) brings vast possibilities for QoS levels, bandwidth management and traffic prioritization to ensure terrestrial-grade link quality, avoid service degradation and allow higher reliability. It enables service providers to develop flexible service packages with accurate SLAs more cost effectively.
With Real Time Traffic Management (RTTM), features such as time-slot feathering, UDP header compression and free-slot allocation enable iDirect’s solution to generate low jitter, and high-quality voice.
With iDirect’s cellular backhaul solution cellular operators can more profitably extend their reach into remote, rural markets and expand their revenue opportunities.