Nokia Demos New FlexiPacket Mobile Backhaul System

Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans to display a complete, live Ethernet-based wireless mobile backhaul system, FlexiPacket Microwave, at an event in Berlin.

The new system will give operators an affordable and environmentally friendly system to increase capacity while making the switch to a packet-based transport network, simpler for integrating multiple systems. 

Tamas Major, portfolio manager for mobile backhaul at Nokia (News - Alert), said that the result of no additional shelter equipment, space and power consumption can reduce site costs by up to 25 percent, with the side effect of a high ecological value for the customer. 

“This test revealed the interoperability of our solution in terms of synchronization which is major step for the applicability of mobile backhaul deployment based in carrier Ethernet,” Major said.

Nokia has combined a Carrier Ethernet transport, or “CET,” with a microwave radio in zero footprint for a site system that elminiates the need for a separate indoor unit for a microwave radio.

With the combined services in one system, no additional space is taken up in the process, making the system not only cost effective as an all-in-one, but also space conscious. 

Since the Nokia FlexiPacket microwave radio solution offers a built-in CET engine, its favorable compared to alternative approaches that still require additional aggregation devices and multiple boxes at the base station sites.

The CET feature set allows network and transport sharing to be realized with strict guarantees for all parties, in particular hard quality of service and full support for next generation mobile services and applications.