To validate your solution, your test bed must reproduce the complexity and scale required to deliver those services with high QoE.

Although mobile data traffic has been growing steadily for some time, in this decade it’s set to explode, with growth charts that look like Olympic ski ramps. But with great opportunities come great challenges for mobile operators. Perhaps the greatest of these challenges is the migration to a packet-based backhaul network.

Scaling the legacy backhaul network is cost-prohibitive. The cost per megabit of a T1/E1 circuit averages six times that of Ethernet-based packet backhaul. As a result, mobile operators have turned to Ethernet mobile backhaul to scale and simplify provisioning and management.

But there are many issues to be addressed in the transition, such as achieving TDM-like performance and usability in timing, synchronization, failover, OAM and provisioning. These requirements are the target of such technologies as MPLS-TP, IEEE 1588 and SyncE.

Will your network:

• Scale to meet the capacity and performance required for demanding and complex mobile traffic?
• Process millions of calls during activation, deactivation, and hand-off?
• Maintain high quality of service with various access models?
• Sustain high quality of service with redundancy and high availability?

The AnyG wireless network supports tiered, monetized services through a complex mix of voice, video, text, web traffic, email, gaming and presence applications. To validate your solution, your test bed must reproduce the complexity and scale required to deliver those services with high QoE. If your test system can’t deliver this level of realism, you can’t have the assurance that the system will perform in a real network.