Corning Executive Says Carriers Consider Fiber Backhaul 'Cost-Effective Way' to Go 5G
Moving to 5G, most carriers will see that the most “cost-effective way” to deliver such bandwidth and low latency “is to deploy more antennas, a lot more antennas, and each of those is a high-performance antenna that needs to be…
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backhauled with fiber,” Corning Chief Strategy Officer Jeffrey Evenson told a Credit Suisse investors conference Tuesday. “Fiber has been a pretty small part of cellular builds,” but 5G “changes the game,” he said. The company estimates each antenna will require eight fibers, so “we're building new plants to supply this,” he said. It developed a supply agreement with Verizon to “de-risk” that investment, he said: The next decade will determine whether 5G is a “fiber-to-the-home-size business or something even bigger."