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Bluwan: Backhauling small cells

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Shayan Sanyal, Chief Commerical Officer for Bluwan, talks to telecoms.com about the challenges operators face in delivering large amounts of data and how they can use small cells to overcome this challenge cost effectively. But small cells themselves raise new challenges in terms of backhaul.

LTE and the backhaul challenge

LTE networks are set to be deployed in many markets

LTE mobile broadband has already been rolled out in some markets and is on the verge of deployment in many more, but as data consumption grows, a challenge that will face operators is how to backhaul their LTE networks. Without enough backhaul capacity for their networks, network customers will not feel they are getting the level of service they have paid for, which is one of the prime causes for customer churn.