Packet based microwave backhaul is a growing option to reduce dependency on leased lines and to lower total cost of ownership for wireless backhaul.

The global market for outdoor “small cells”– femtocells, picocells, microcells and carrier Wi-Fi access points– will be worth $14.3 billion by 2017, according to a new ABI report.


Adtran software works with the company’s WiFi hot spot equipment to enable network operators to use the hot spots for cellular offload and to manage them using a cloud-based approach.

Senza Fili says backhaul costs for small-cells account for approximately twice as much of the Total Cost of Ownership as they do in the macro-cell layer

