Cost-Effective, Flexible Bandwidth

As you expand your networks and service offerings to include new multimedia applications, you need more bandwidth than ever before. To satisfy this need, you can build out third- and fourth-generation radio networks, while your second-generation networks remain in full operation carrying voice and lower bandwidth data services.

Building a new network to support new services can create a complex and expensive layered assortment of networks to operate and maintain. Naturally, you must balance this expansion with the need to control both short- and long-term operating expenses.

One solution is Cisco MToP (Mobile Transport over Pseudowires) in the RAN. This solution effectively flattens the multiple layers of the RAN onto a single Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The time division multiplexing (TDM), (FR), and ATM traffic is encapsulated and transported over MPLS. Cisco's new CEoP (Circuit Emulation over IP) technology enables seamless interoperability with all RAN circuits and backhaul.

This solution not only simplifies the RAN network architecture and reduces costs but also provides operators with the flexible bandwidth of IP and the ability to pre-provision for rapid deployment and scaling of new services.