Peak Mobile Bandwidth Consumption Will Increase, ACG Research Says
Peak period mobile bandwidth consumption per user will increase fivefold in the next three years, said a mobile broadband bandwidth demand study done by ACG Research and sponsored by network specialist Ciena, a news release from Ciena said. Macro cell…
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capacity requirements will increase from 260 Mbps to 1.5 Gbps in five years, the Thursday release said. Increased device penetration and new entertainment services and applications caused “growing bottlenecks” for service provider backhaul networks, it said. ACG’s study focused on peak period mobile bandwidth requirements (bits per second) instead of total data usage (bytes per month) to provide bandwidth projections, it said. Service providers should prepare to deploy mobile backhaul solutions that support 10 Gbps “to meet this projected bandwidth and ensure quality of experience,” it said.