Cellular backhaul over satellite from Speedcast extends mobile coverage to rural and remote sites without fiber or microwave. Satellite backhaul is quickly becoming cost-competitive with fiber. Speedcast CELLULAR Backhaul solutions allow leading mobile network operators (MNOs) and Government organizations around the world to achieve a cellular connection and true LTE speeds while overcoming the inherent delay in satellite communications.
Serve rural population centers, industrial sites, and campuses without incurring the high capex of fiber or microwave backhaul.
Deploy network overlays to introduce 4G or 5G without the requirement of wholescale upgrades to the physical network.
Provide low-cost peak hour traffic protection for base station transceivers (BTS) that experience regular traffic peaks and troughs.
Bring cellular service to nontraditional locations, including oil and gas installations and offshore vessels.
Speedcast will work with you to design a cellular solution that meets your specific needs, requirements and budget.
Speedcast invests in and manages cellular and VSAT networks and provides equipment for the duration of the contract. This allows mobile operators or service providers to avoid large capital outlays while realizing the added benefits of cellular services, essentially purchasing bandwidth on demand to extend network coverage.
Speedcast’s comprehensive service includes complete design, purchase, installation, configuration, management, monitoring, analysis, and optimization for a truly end-to-end solution.
CELLULAR Backhaul ensures backup connectivity for existing cell tower infrastructure when a mobile operator encounters microwave or fiber network failures or during events and disaster recovery scenarios.
CELLULAR Backhaul enables IoT SCADA for sensors or systems in remote areas, where communications are critical, but assets are few.
Offload data to maintain quality of service (QoS) when network utilization has reached its peak.
Perfect for downloading heavy asymmetric data, such as video covering national or international sports events, social media content and data uploads from venues for large social gatherings.
In telecom, backhaul is the network link that carries voice and data traffic from a cell tower or base station back to the mobile operator’s core network; while fiber and microwave are the most common backhaul technologies, satellite backhaul extends coverage to rural communities, remote industrial sites, oil and gas installations, and offshore vessels where terrestrial infrastructure is not economically viable.
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Speedcast invests in and manages the cellular and VSAT networks and provides equipment for the duration of the contract, covering design, purchase, installation, configuration, management, monitoring, analysis and optimization. Operators avoid large capital outlays and purchase bandwidth on demand, which is why Speedcast describes the model as backhaul as a service.
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Satellite adds delay, especially on GEO links. Speedcast CELLULAR Backhaul is engineered to overcome that inherent delay and deliver true LTE speeds, using traffic optimization and, where the route needs it, MEO or LEO capacity. The result is cellular backhaul over satellite that carries voice, video and data for rural subscribers.
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Yes. CELLULAR Backhaul provides backup connectivity for existing cell tower infrastructure when microwave or fiber links fail, or during events and disaster recovery. It also gives base stations with regular traffic peaks low-cost peak-hour protection, and offloads data to maintain quality of service when the backhaul network reaches peak utilization.
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Yes. Speedcast deploys network overlays that introduce 4G or 5G at rural and remote sites without wholesale upgrades to the physical network. Speedcast’s whitepaper on the new economics of satellite cellular backhaul explains how new satellite technologies are lowering the cost of 5G backhaul for operators extending coverage.
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