Backhaul Contract for Philippines

Ceragon Networks has announced that Digitel Mobile Philippines (which trades as Sun Cellular) has again chosen to deploy it's wireless solutions for the next stage of their network expansion. This order totaling over US$2 million for products and services follows several successful deployments of Ceragon's wireless backhaul solution for Digitel over the past years for a total amount of US$15 million. Ceragon is providing Digitel Mobile, full turnkey implementation of the network including installation and commissioning, civil works, network planning and comprehensive network management solutions.

"We have had excellent experience with Ceragon's wireless backhaul solutions through previous projects," said a Digitel Mobile company official. "Ceragon's turnkey solutions are an important part of our network expansion as they enable us to evolve our networks in step with increasing capacity demands and complexities. "

"We are gratified by this important customer's repeated confidence in Ceragon," said Ira Palti, President and CEO, Ceragon Networks Ltd. "Digitel is well known for providing the highest quality of service to its subscribers. Digitel's trust in our products validates our efficient backhaul solution capable of meeting the ever-increasing capacity demands triggered by a growing subscriber base and increasing network traffic."

Digitel Mobile is also employing Ceragon's FibeAir product family in their metro area network upgrade, including SDH high-capacity protected links and covering the entire city of Manila, to allow reliable mobile and data services for the densely populated area."

Posted to the site on 28th June 2007