Mobile Service Providers (MSPs) can now provide the bandwidth that their customers need for new quad-play services--voice, data, video, and mobility--while reducing operating expenses. Carrier Ethernet provides far greater bandwidth than traditional TDM and SDH circuits, while at a much lower cost per bit price.
New quad-play services greatly expand the range of service options available to the consumer. Through quad-play, consumers have access to unique multimedia experiences that they can personalize according to their preferences and lifestyles. Using the Cisco IP Next-Generation (IP NGN) architecture, MSPs can:
- Offer their customers the experience of the Connected Life in a truly mobile environment
- Provide a comprehensive portfolio of RAN solutions from Cisco
Expanded Networks and Service Offerings
In the drive towards quad-play services, MSPs are expanding their networks and service offerings to include new media-rich applications that require more bandwidth than ever before. To meet these new requirements, and to help empower consumers, many MSPs are building out third- and fourth-generation radio networks to provide the necessary bandwidth, while their second-generation networks remain in full operation carrying voice and lower bandwidth data services.
MSPs must often create a new network to support new services. As a result, some organizations are faced with a complex and expensive layered assortment of networks to operate and maintain. Naturally, operators must balance this expansion with the need to control both short- and long-term operating expenses.
The Cisco MToP-in-the-RAN solution gives MSPs a way to address this challenge. MToP-in-the-RAN is Cisco's Pre-Aggregation Transport over industry standard (PWE3) pseudowires. This solution effectively flattens the multiple layers of the RAN onto a single MPLS network. Time-division multiplexing (TDM), Frame Relay, and ATM traffic is encapsulated and transported over MPLS. New Circuit Emulation over Packet (CEoP) technology from Cisco enables smooth interoperability with all traditional RAN circuits and equipment.
