Frost & Sullivan: Market Shift to Packet-based Technologies Creates Need for Updated Mobile Backhaul Testing

Frost & Sullivan: Market Shift to Packet-based Technologies Creates Need for Updated Mobile Backhaul Testing PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 21, 2012 - Frenetic pace of 4G infrastructure expansion creates a robust market for test equipment MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With the deployment of long-term evolution (LTE), the mobile backhaul market is moving from time domain multiplexing (TDM) to new architectures such as Internet protocol (IP) and Ethernet. Mobile operators will be keen to offer the same or superior levels of quality of service (QoS) as provided with TDM, creating considerable opportunities for the mobile backhaul test equipment market. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.testandmeasurement.frost.com), Analysis of the Global Mobile Backhaul and Wireless Core Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $357.5 million in 2011. It is expected to increase to $954.4 million by 2018, at a compound annual growth rate of 15.1 percent. If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at jeannette.garcia@frost.com, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country. Since operators are looking to refresh the existing infrastructure of both the LTE networks and existing 3G networks, they will need to clearly understand the overall mobile network.