Qwest aims to ease wireless backhaul migration pain

Qwest Wholesale, which has been marketing its wireless backhaul services for some time, has introduced what it calls an Adaptive Broadband wholesale product that enables mobile operators to migrate from traditional legacy T1 lines to emerging backhaul technologies such as fiber-based Ethernet to accommodate higher bandwidth services that will come with 4G networks.

Qwest, which has more than 2,000 sites that will come online by the end of the year, says the Adaptive Broadband product will give mobile operators a blueprint to plan out their total wireless backhaul capacity requirements. Qwest is also addressing the migration and cost issues by offering new pricing and Ethernet connections with varying discounts.