Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Wireless backhaul addresses the broadband stimulus challenge

June 10, 2009

The economic stimulus funding for RUS and NTIA will drive tremendous broadband service deployment to rural and underserved areas in the next few years. Delivering broadband services will create a huge backhaul challenge, especially in the RUS case which is targeted at rural areas, with limited backhaul infrastructure. Microwave backhaul is expected to deliver a solution for this backhaul, but there are many considerations that will be important to delivering a successful Microwave backhaul network for this application.

Backhaul Challenges

The stimulus funding is targeted at trigger deployments that would not otherwise be deployed, which by its very nature means there will be significant unique challenges to these deployments. Some of the major challenges on the backhaul side of these deployments will include...