Fibre 4G

i3 offers a market leading suite of fibre-optic based backhaul solutions for Mobile Operators, to allow them to compete more effectively in an increasingly rapidly changing world. The field-proven i3 Hydrospeed suite of technologies offers the lowest cost (rapid deployment and unlimited bandwidth) dark-fibre deployment capability anywhere in the world.

Today’s Mobile Operator Challenges

For Mobile Operators it’s every CFOs nightmare, ARPUs have levelled out and the requirement (and cost) for data backhaul is spiralling rapidly upwards.

The SMART Phone and more recent Tablet Computer revolution is placing an ever-increasing burden on already overloaded networks – this situation is set to get worse as the new 4G era arrives, this is a fact that everyone within the industry acknowledges and in reality many mobile backhaul networks are struggling to cope. Mobile Operators are under intense pressure to reduce costs and improve network performance.

Mobile Operators are also having to contend with higher levels of ‘customer facing’ issues:

Increasing dissatisfaction with signal levels and true data throughputs
Increasing customer churn rates
Increasing new customer acquisition costs
Increasing competition in service-cost reduction pressures

The Mobile Operator Requirements

The up-coming 4G revolution (both LTE and WiMAX) brings a number of new paradigms to all Mobile Operators, urgently needing a strategic approach to allow them to capitalise on the newly increased 4G data ‘down&up-load’ capability potential, to drive profitability and to maintain a competitive advantage:

Ultra-high data densities, particularly in key locations (e.g. dense population areas, business districts etc.)
Higher signal levels to the mobile user to allow the high data-throughput potential to be realised
Maximised re-use of expensive radio spectrum
A radically increased number of smaller coverage area radio cell-sites (particularly including the use of new generation ‘Metro-Zone’ Femto/Pico cell technology)

The i3 Fibre Infrastructure Solutions

i3’s unique Hydrospeed fibre infrastructure product group fully addresses the needs of a Mobile Operator implementing or migrating to a 4G platform, particularly in a city environment, as well as those seeking to optimise their current 3G platforms.

Hydrospeed provides a field proven technology and the most cost-effective and most rapidly deployed fibre-optic infrastructure system available anywhere in the world:

Unlimited capacity ‘dark-fibre’ data feeds to cells
Lowest capital cost for deployment
Rapid roll-out capability
Ubiquitous availability (cell site feeds to wherever required, existing and new locations)
Lowest operational costs
A totally future-proofed solution
Fully loop resilient connectivity to sites if required
Optimal cost-effectiveness for new generation ‘Metro-Zone’ Femto/Pico cell deployments

Benefits of the i3 Hydrospeed Solutions

The patented suite of i3 Hydrospeed technologies offers a Mobile Operator the following key benefits:

A wholly owned infrastructure
Minimised disruption during fibre infrastructure build
Up to 90% reduction in fibre infrastructure deployment time-scales
Up to 60% reduction in owned fibre infrastructure deployment costs
Minimised operational costs
Unlimited and future-proofed data bandwidths
Lowest possible long-term Total Cost of Ownership

Technology

i3 Group is the world’s leading technology company in fibre cable deployment methodology. i3 Group’s innovative technologies and methodologies allow the cost of building fibre networks to be reduced by up to 70%. Equally important is the reduction in road digging, a high traffic disruptive approach, which our unique system drastically reduces by over 60%. Find out more