US : Ovum RHK has posted a new five-year forecast of wireless backhaul traffic, services, equipment, and components.

Forecast highlights:

--Traffic on mobile backhaul networks will grow by 32 percent per year, driven by the adoption of mobile broadband services around the globe

--Mobile operators will spend $37 billion globally on wireless backhaul in 2012, nearly 12 percent of total operating expense

--Sales of backhaul transport equipment will grow 43 percent annually over the next 5 years, and will reach $7.3 billion by 2012

--Component demand related to backhaul transport equipment will exceed $1 billion by 2012

"Mobile operators today are challenged to grow backhaul capacity quickly, flexibly, and economically, to support rapid growth in bandwidth-intensive mobile data services,"said John Lively, Vice President at Ovum RHK. "Fortunately, many new architectures and equipment innovations will allow them to meet this challenge. Wireless backhaul is an exciting growth market for telecom equipment and component vendors."

Ovum RHK's report Forecast: Wireless Backhaul Opportunities, global' includes forecasts by region of backhaul traffic, service revenues, wholesale services, equipment revenues, and related component demand, through 2012.

Ovum's Forecast:Wireless Backhaul Opportunities, global' report is the second in Ovum's Wireless Backhaul series. Wireless Backhaul Landscape' was published in September 2007. For furtherdetailsor to speak with John Lively about this research, please contact skn@ovum.com, or contact a member of our global PR team listed below.

About OvumRHK:

OvumRHK provides market research advisory services to telecom equipment and component vendors and service providers alike. OvumRHK is a part of Ovum, advising on the commercial impact of technology and market changes in telecoms, with offices in London, Paris, Cologne, Boston, Melbourne, Seouland San Jose.

About Ovum:

Ovum's primary activity is providing value-added advisory services and consulting to retain and project clients. The company acts as a well-respected and trusted source of industry data, knowledge and expertise on the commercial impact of technology, regulatory and market changes. Ovum engages in continuous research and industry analysis to determine market dynamics in its specialist sectors.

Ovum has developed long-standing relationships with many of its corporate clients, which include major international blue-chip companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra and Vodafone.