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TMCNet: ABI Research Reports Microwave Backhaul to Grow at Near Double the Rate of Leased Line Spending

[July 31, 2012]

ABI Research Reports Microwave Backhaul to Grow at Near Double the Rate of Leased Line Spending

Jul 31, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 4.3 percent, capital expenditures on microwave backhaul equipment for mobile networks will reach almost $5 billion in 2012 as mobile network operators upgrade and transition to more cost effective packet microwave systems, according to ABI Research.
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The Company reported that the Asia Pacific and Western European regions will continue to dominate the market for microwave equipment with a combined share of 61 percent in 2017.

World-wide Opex from leased T1/E1 and Fiber backhaul represents $6.2 billion in 2012 increasing at a CAGR of 2.2 percent, "We believe mobile network operators are increasingly lowering their TCO by using Capex to replace leased T1/E1 and Fiber backhaul with modern, high capacity, cost effective, packet based microwave links," says Nick Marshall, principal analyst at ABI Research.

Meanwhile, ABI Research said that Backhaul Opex on leased copper-based T1/E1 lines will continue to shrink at a CAGR of -1.1 percent reaching only $4 billion in 2017. "T1/E1 based backhaul is no longer compatible with modern 3G/4G mobile networks and will phase out as operators increasingly transition away from legacy TDM systems," continues Marshall.

In a newly published backhaul forecast database ABI Research noted that it focused on the last-mile and the access layer of backhaul and includes global and regional forecasts on data consumption, backhaul Opex, Capex for microwave, revenue for leased backhaul access technologies, cumulative macro base station shipments, as well as wireless traffic and bandwidth demands broken out to provide a look at the access technologies pertaining to backhaul, as well as data traffic expected. In the report ABI Research provides backhaul forecasts for T1/E1, Ethernet over Copper and Fiber, Cable, Microwave, and WiMax.

ABI Research provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of trends in global connectivity and other technologies.

More Information: www.abiresearch.com www.abiresearch.com/products/service/mobile_backhaul ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

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