Verizon Partner Solutions offers wireless Ethernet backhaul on wholesale basis

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by Doug Allen of

Thu. April 2, 2009

Verizon’s wholesale division, Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS), has thrown its hat into the wireless backhaul ring as demand for high-capacity, more flexible transport pushes the surging space into a true growth market despite badly slumping provider spending.


As a number of telco and MSO competitors make their own drive to broaden their mobile backbones (see MEF sets foundation for Ethernet-based backhaul), VPS has upped the ante by launching its own backhaul services based on Ethernet. Mobile providers can buy switched Ethernet or Ethernet over SONET services to replace lower-capacity multiple T1s and/or TDM-based microwave links, the predominant backhaul transport method of today.

The move makes sense for VPS, because it plans to make strategic use of its parent’s FiOS FTTH plant, an ongoing national buildout passing millions of homes and businesses. VPS says it will link FiOS fiber to 90 percent of Verizon Wireless cell sites throughout its ILEC footprint over the next five years, mirroring the deployment schedule for the company’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Currently, VPS reach passes or is within reach of 85 percent of Verizon’s cell sites. Extending its fiber build to support backhaul applications is a win-win for Verizon, as it gives Verizon Wireless access to a fiber network that will support its LTE rollout, while VPS profits from wireless providers looking for more robust backhaul transport.

And not a moment too soon. Demand for mobile services is spiking, driven by a range of data applications for an increasingly nomadic group of power users and telecommuters, across a growing number of Wi-Fi and to a lesser extent WiMAX-enabled devices such as the iPhone, not to mention the burgeoning teen or “tween” market, which traffics heavily in text and picture messages. Meeting that demand requires providers to move past multiple T1 scenarios, which don’t scale well in terms of cost and scalability, Read More...

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