Event Information

The event will take place on Thursday, February 4, 2010, from:

New York: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Los Angeles: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
London: 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Packet Backhaul 2010: Scaling Up to Bring Costs Down, the first-ever global virtual tradeshow dedicated to the mobile backhaul space, will dissect the ongoing challenges that mobile operators continue to face in scaling up their initial packet backhaul deployments, and examine the tools and solutions they are adopting to accelerate the rate of deployment.

Mobile broadband has incredible potential to unleash new businesses and new ways of doing business. This is widely recognized and celebrated by consumers, businesses, and governments, particularly as they grapple with the challenges of the current global financial environment. But while they recognize the potential for their own businesses, as well as others, it’s not at all uncommon for CTOs in mobile carriers to refer to the sometimes tenfold annual increases in data traffic volumes that they are seeing as “frightening,” “daunting,” or even “ungodly.” The wireless industry and the wider global economy can ill-afford the risk of mobile data backhaul costs becoming so misaligned with traffic volumes that the price of mobile broadband services ends up being forced upwards, tighter restrictions end up being placed on usage volumes, or some equally detrimental combination of the two.

With the theme of "Scaling Up to Bring Costs Down," the Packet Backhaul 2010 Virtual Tradeshow will look at the steps the telecom industry must take in order to evolve from a few isolated packet backhaul deployments to mass market, volume deployment. Key themes will include:

• End-to-end management of the packet network environment all the way from the cell site back to the core
  
  
• Inter-working and interoperability among vendors and carriers
  
  
• The optimal lifecycle for hybrid backhaul architectures
  
  
• The issues that carriers and vendors still need to resolve as a pre-condition of evolving to a pure packet backhaul for voice and data services