The Business Zone will hold a conference on cellular backhaul on 4 and 5 June at the South African Reserve Bank Conference Centre in Pretoria.
The aim of the conference is to assist mobile providers to find cost-effective ways to provide and maintain cellular backhaul infrastructure, especially in view of growing costs and emerging technologies, says Business Zone senior production manager Lisa Johnson.
"Cellular backhaul is the component of the network that connects the subscriber access section of the network with its switching elements and accounts for the largest operating cost in the whole network," she says.
With the advent of competing technologies and the move towards Ethernet, cellular operators must re-examine the most cost-effective backhaul solutions that can deliver the required bandwidth while minimising overall network costs, she explains.
According to the conference programme, participants will look at solutions that can reduce the cost of maintaining existing backhaul infrastructure and optimising the network to handle growing data and video traffic.
Speakers will provide guidance on the latest network options, examining how bandwidth capacity, reliability and viability can contribute to a cost-effective network.
Conference speakers include Suveer Rhamdani, commercial manager at Seacom; Pravir Dahiya, executive head of technology at Neotel; Sasan Parvin, CTO at iBurst; and Boaz Jacobi, product line manager at Alvarion, she says.
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