Huawei Completes China Mobile Network Upgrade

Huawei has announced that it has completed an upgrade to China Mobile's Long-distance network to improve voice quality and transmission resource efficiency - a further step in China Mobile's strategy to implement an All-IP network.

In 2004, Huawei began working with China Mobile to deploy mobile softswitches for use as long-distance transit exchanges. That network now carries 80% of all domestic long-distance traffic. With the extension of China Mobile's All-IP strategy to the local exchanges, it became possible to implement end-to-end voice over IP between the local softswitches and the transit softswitches. This change allowed the network to adopt AMR, a kind of audio coder & decoder technology, to improve the network capacity, lower operational costs, and provide a foundation for future network evolution.

Huawei provided professional network consultancy, network layout and engineering support during the network planning and the entire set of tasks for this project were successfully completed in one night. Services were smoothly transferred and network indexes continued to be normal. This change will allow China Mobile to flexibly control network bandwidth, and make the best use of network resources to meet future service needs.

"Huawei was pleased to be able to work with China Mobile on this milestone event." stated, Mr Zhang Xinyu, vice president of Core Network Dept. at Huawei. "We are committed to building future-oriented networks, customized to the needs of our customers to bring them the highest business value. At the end of 2007, Huawei softswitches were serving 600 million mobile users."

Posted to the site on 4th February 2008