Making More with Less! A Case Study in Converging Wireline and Wireless Network Infrastructures Using Distributed Access Architectures

摘要

The maturing of the telecommunications industry has led to a consolidation trend. This consolidated telecom companies often have two completely separate infrastructures to maintain: wireless and wireline. With this, both a challenge and an opportunity emerge. In order to maintain competitiveness and lower both CAPEX and OPEX, the operator must converge infrastructures and associated functions.