Plugs benefits of WiChorus acquisition
Dr Vikram Saksena, Tellabs CTO, believes mobile cloud computing will be a significant revenue opportunity for operators.
Speaking to Mobile Europe at the MWC event in Barcelona, Dr Saksena outlined not only some of the cloud benefits for mobile application developers – no need to design apps for particular handsets – but also for mobile network operators who can deliver a ‘service aware’ platform that can manage application performance and provide security: all services that can be monetized.
“Following the acquisition of WiChorus, we’re not just a network vendor,” says Dr Saksena. “We operate at Layer 7 [applications] and we want to leverage that capability.”
Tellabs formally completed the acquisition WiChoruis, a core packet provider, in December 2009. Dr Saksena says that work is underway to provide a ‘smart backhaul’ solution where the RAN (stretching from the cell site to the edge of the core network) is fully integrated with the core packet network. “The backhaul and the packet core are usually supplied by different suppliers, but we will provide a complete solution that talks to each other,” adds Dr Saksena, although he didn’t reveal when he expected to have the integrated kit commercially available.
ABI Research predicts the number of mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will grow rapidly from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008 to about one billion in 2014.
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