Nokia Wins Turkish Network Contract

Nokia and Turkish mobile operator AVEA have signed a three-year framework agreement for the deployment of the Nokia MSC Server 3GPP compliant mobile softswitch. The Nokia softswitch will be central to AVEA's plans to modernize its network by creating Turkey's first Next Generation Network (NGN).

"We are pleased to build on our role as supplier of AVEA's Push to talk and Presence solutions and now extend our collaboration to mobile softswitching," says Murat Kircuval, General Manager Nokia Turkey. "The Nokia MSC Server System, based on 3GPP Releases 4 and 5, will allow AVEA to carry voice, data and signaling traffic over the IP/MPLS backbone, and more importantly give AVEA the means to prepare for Next Generation Network services."

The MSC Server system will allow AVEA to realize future OPEX/CAPEX savings due to Nokia's Unified Core Network offering, which has the capability to provide a common network architecture to support fixed mobile convergence and next generation access technologies, such as 3G/VoIP/WiMAX, as well as today's GSM, UMA, IMS and SIP Voice over IP applications.

As part of the deal, Nokia provides network planning, implementation, commissioning, systems integration and competence development services. With many successful projects around the world, Nokia Services is the industry's most experienced services force for implementing mobile softswitching and Release 4 systems."

Posted to the site on 13th October 2006