Wireless Backhaul

5G Wireless Backhaul Shaping the Future

- Overview

Microwave backhaul refers to the transport of traffic (voice, video, and data) between distributed sites and more centralized points of presence over radio links. Operators can lease microwave spectrum and build networks to transport multiple E1/T1, STM1/OC3 and Ethernet services over the air, providing an immediate, reliable and relatively low-cost solution to the world's growing demand for backhaul capacity.

Microwaves are very short waves in the upper range of the radio spectrum used mostly for point-to-point communications systems. Initially, these systems carried multiplexed speech signals over common carrier; but today they can handle all types of information, e.g. voice, data, facsimiles, and video, in either an analog or digital format. 

As the nation’s cellular and personal communications systems grow, point-to-point microwave facilities, serving as backhaul and backbone links, enable these wireless systems to serve the country’s less populated areas on an economical basis. Today's technology enables private users to employ microwave frequencies to operate and control equipment at remote sites, such as switches and valves associated with the operation of oil and gas pipelines, to gather data related to services, control traffic signals and to obtain toll data from moving vehicles, as well as other monitoring functions.  

Wireless backhaul technologies include: Wireless: Point-to-point microwave radio relay transmission (terrestrial or, in some cases, by satellite); Point-to-multipoint microwave-access technologies (such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, etc.), TV White Space

[More to come ...]