Is your Microwave strategy LTE ready and are you getting the best deal?

The 2nd edition of this well-supported industry event, is your opportunity to sanity check your Microwave evolution plans and to ensure that you are getting the best deal from your Microwave supplier/managed service provider.

In October 2011, 180 delegates booked to attend the very first Packet Microwave Forum at Centre Point Tower in London and were delighted to meet so many focused colleagues from around the world, representing over 60 companies. You can view the event report, including feedback from delegates, here.

Many service providers are revisiting their Microwave strategies in the light of the imminent rollout of LTE, and with an eye on the real cost of fibre as a competitive backhaul solution. This is your opportunity to join them and benefit from their experiences and expertise as together, you address the challenges and consider the business case for new Packet Microwave as the most cost-effective and rapid rollout solution to LTE backhaul.

Together you can assess whether your Microwave strategy meets the requirements of LTE:

• Have you got enough capacity?
• Can you monitor what is happening?
• Are you getting the best deal?

The importance of Microwave has grown tremendously with the world-wide explosion in mobile broadband services and backhaul capacity demands. With its transformation to packet technology, multiservice support, adaptive transmission, etc. Microwave is now a much more sophisticated networking solution for operators.

Join your peers - experts in microwave technology, senior strategists and planners from service providers - and the main Microwave systems vendors in London in October and find out how new Microwave technologies, solutions and spectrum can help you to:
 

• Speed the rollout of LTE - with new distributed architectures placing new requirements on backhaul, what can the microwave industry offer to smooth the transition to LTE?
• Control network Opex - identify sweet spots for high capacity Microwave versus costly fibre build out
• Deliver new applications - network extension, Small Cell Backhaul, private networks, campus networks, difficult terrain, rapid deployment
• Protect your investment - gain the depth of insight necessary to develop the optimal roadmap for your existing Microwave network
• Differentiate your business proposition - be the first to hear about the new architectures, technologies and solutions that you can use to deliver unique value propositions to your customers
   

Expect a uniquely specialist speaking team offering high quality presentations, insightful debate, structured small group discussion and live demos, as the industry adapts to today's needs for high capacity combined with high availability microwave solutions.

Operators, Regulators and Industry Analysts - take an active role in one of the Knowledge Exchange Debates and attend the event as a Layer123 guest - more details here

Contact us for details of speaking and sponsorship here

READ exclusive ARTICLES written at Packet Microwave Forum 2011

1. Packet Microwave: the transition from TDM/Ethernet
   Featured Correspondent: Siân Harris for CHANNEL123
    
2. Packet Microwave: the future network
   Featured Correspondent: Siân Harris for CHANNEL123

Meet over 200 of your industry colleagues, individuals responsible for:

• Making network evolution decisions - requirements analysis, network strategy & implementation for service providers in EMEA and beyond
• Making network procurement decisions - equipment strategy, vendor selection, technology adoption
• Developing new services - high capacity, network extension, multipoint, Ethernet, LTE backhaul
• Designing Packet Microwave systems and architectures - senior product managers, technologists and standards coordinators from the main vendor organisations specialising in Packet Microwave systems and solutions
• Driving the industry forward - senior figures from the main industry organisations, including MEF, that are helping to shape the future of Microwave

Spend your time in active engagement with your industry's most knowledgeable and well-connected leaders, during:

• Keynote session - gain a view from the highest level within market making vendors and Lead Operators, as they share their visions of current microwave infrastructure challenges, drivers and opportunities
• Case studies - find out how your peers are evolving their existing Microwave infrastructure and deploying new links - what solutions offer the best value?
• Packet Microwave - examine new solutions and witness new technology demonstrations live
• Structured discussions and face to face engagement - wouldn't it be great if someone organised a group of experts ready to discuss your most pressing issues over lunch - what a good use of time... consider it done!

Some events are essentially passive show-and-tell experiences for "delegates". Information generally flows in one direction only. Not here! We know your time is short and the most valuable learning opportunities are when you have some control over the conversation.

We've structured this conference so you get the best of both worlds - all the news and examples you expect at an event, plus structured, but open networking where you control the debate.

It's your time and it's your opportunity

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25 April 2012 – Microwave Backhaul Equipment Market to Surpass US$ 11 Billion by 2016
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11 April 2012 – Millimeter wave gear forecast to grow at 63% CAGR; Ethernet microwave growing 5-fold by 2016
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26 March 2012 – Orange announces the launch of Ultra-broadband for Mobile
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Source: Orange
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5 January 2012 – Small cells and LTE inspire Innovation
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Source: Sian Harris for CHANNEL123
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19 October 2011 – Chicago needs 84,500 small cells by 2015, world needs over ten million
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4 October 2011 – Live from Packet Microwave Forum – Major Carrier: Small-Cell Backhaul Must Be Cheap
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12 September 2011 – NEC, Ericsson get top marks from carriers in latest Infonetics Research microwave survey
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Source: Infonetics Research
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12 September 2011 – Ericsson, NEC, Huawei now within 1 market share point of each other in microwave market
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Source: Infonetics Research
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9 September 2011 – Infonetics finds Huawei biggest gainer in microwave market
Revenue gains in Ethernet and hybrid TDM/Ethernet microwave equipment sales failed to offset price erosion across most microwave market segments, leading to a thin 2.4% rise in the overall microwave equipment market in 2Q 2011, according to research firm Infonetics.
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6 September 2011 – Everything Everywhere and Three set to scale with Virgin Media Business
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20 April 2011 – Small cell backhaul deployments driven by capacity, coverage, quality; all-IP/Ethernet backhaul imminent
58% of the operators we interviewed said they will deploy small cells (microcells and picocells) by the end of 2011
Source: Infonetics Research
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8 November 2010 – Millimeter wave equipment market to near half-billion dollars by 2014
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Source: Infonetics Research
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15 October 2010 – Microwave equipment market dips 4% in Q2; on track for steady growth 2011-on
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Source: Infonetics Research
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17 June 2010 – NEC edges ahead of Ericsson in microwave equipment, market slows in first quarter
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