Chapter 8
Essential Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: Transport Services
The mobile communication network’s services are collectively implemented using functions spread across the RAN, xHaul, and mobile core domains. These functions seamlessly interact to implement the mobile service through connectivity provided by the xHaul network. In the early generations of mobile communications, a simple Layer 2 (L2) or circuit switched network was sufficient for backhauling mobile traffic. But in the current and future generations of mobile communications network (MCN), the xHaul networks require the flexible, scalable, cost-effective, and operationally simple solutions provided through IP- and MPLS-based networks. For these xHaul networks to provide ...
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