CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina and PARIS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Telecom Strategy Partners announces Release 1.1 of its Mobile Backhaul Solutions service, which includes competitive analysis and ratings of the solutions capabilities of key vendors addressing this significant market opportunity.

The service analyzes the market drivers and inhibitors, operator challenges and requirements, technology trends and issues in mobile backhaul, and compares and assesses vendors' vision, strengths, weaknesses, market direction and timing.

Top honors go to Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, with NSN gaining recognition for its mobile networks expertise and professional services cost optimization of solutions leveraging optical systems, Carrier Ethernet and a variety of access technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent was recognized for innovations in converged packet/optical transport system design and in development of added resiliency and transport efficiency features for its service routers, for its portfolio breadth and network expertise, and its ability to leverage installed base to offer converged fixed/mobile networks helping cost justify IP/MPLS intelligence benefits in the RAN.

Ericsson, RAD, and Tellabs were also other vendors recognized for key competitive strengths and contributions to mobile backhaul.

"Mobile backhaul optimization is a complex proving ground for vendor expertise, requiring the availability to help operators choose the right means, steps, technology and timing for migrating their networks from TDM to packet transport," said Lorenza Brescia, Principal Analyst and Senior Partner for Telecom Strategy Partners in EMEA. "Operators need vendors with the depth of expertise to develop customized solutions."

"Solutions breadth, mobile networking expertise, and core competencies in packet transport and synchronization technologies are key to vendor success," said Dave Dunphy, Principal Analyst and Managing Partner for Telecom Strategy Partners. "Operators need lower cost per bit, higher scalability, and greater efficiency in bandwidth utilization, plus enhanced network resilience and solid QoS if they are to leverage backhaul to reduce cost, enhance the subscriber experience, and make emerging mobile data and video services reach their full revenue potential."

This analysis is generally available.

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