New Network Design for Transporting 5G Converged Traffic
Holistically speaking, a mobile network is a massive wireline network with radios hanging off its edges. In most cases, the only wireless part of the end-to-end journey of data flowing between users and accessed content is between from User Equipment (UE) and cell site antennae. The rest of the end-to-end journey is predominantly over packet-optical wireline networks, although wireless backhaul does exist.