Nortel Wins GSM Contract in Suriname

Telesur, the principal telecommunications service provider in Suriname, has selected Nortel to expand and upgrade its nationwide wireline and wireless networks to increase capacity, improve quality of service and enable delivery of a large suite of advanced services.

"Telesur is making this investment to ensure the quality of the mobile and fixed services we provide to our customers today, as well as to expand our service offerings with advanced applications that will provide added value and functionality for our customers in Suriname," said Iris Struiken-Wijdenbosch, managing director, Telesur.

Under terms of a recent agreement, Nortel is expanding Telesur's existing wireless network by deploying an end-to-end GSM and GPRS solution including radio base stations and mobile switching equipment.

The agreement also includes deployment of Nortel's Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 platform, which will initially quadruple the capacity of Telesur's backbone transmission network while converging both wireless and wireline traffic on the same broadband infrastructure. By simplifying its network, OME 6500 will position Telesur to drive down operational costs. OME 6500 is also DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing)-ready, providing the flexibility to easily scale to higher bandwidth when necessary to accommodate customer growth and additional advanced voice and data services.

Telesur will also use Nortel's Broadband STP (signaling transfer point) to help expand its SS7 (Signaling System 7) networking capacity, facilitating delivery and reducing the operating costs associated with providing various service options."

Posted to the site on 8th April 2005