CDMA Upgrade for St. Petersburg

Delta Telecom, a mobile operator in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, and Lucent Technologies have announced plans to expand Delta Telecom's Sky Link-branded CDMA450 network, and enhance the network to support CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) technology.

The project, which the companies plan to complete by the end of 2005, includes increasing the capacity and coverage of the CDMA450 network in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. It also includes the deployment of the Bell Labs-developed Lucent Super-Distributed Home Location Register (S-DHLR), a key element of Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution from its Accelerate Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio.

"We see that the market is ripe to adopt the new, innovative services that will be enabled by Lucent's solutions," said Gennady Golant, general director, Delta Telecom. "With Lucent's EV-DO solutions, we will be able to deliver complete mobile office capabilities and ensure high-speed access to the complete range of applications and information resources that our corporate customers currently access via fixed networks, while maintaining the same high levels of reliability and security."

The Lucent S-DHLR is a customer information data server that enables the creation of a single subscriber profile for each customer and all of the services they use, in contrast to the traditional method of maintaining individual subscriber databases for each service. It also provides support for a wide variety of voice and data services on mobile, wireline and converged networks. Delta Telecom's migration from a traditional Home Location Register (HLR) to the new Lucent S-DHLR will reduce the complexity of managing subscriber data, make it easier to offer their subscribers customized service bundles and provide a consistent look and feel for subscribers' services even when roaming across multiple network types such as GSM, W-CDMA/UMTS, WiFi and wireline networks or onto another operator's network."

Posted to the site on 9th June 2005