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Alcatel-Lucent Wins Hungarian Mobile Backhaul Contract
Published on: 21st January 2009
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Hungarian mobile operator, Pannon GSM has selected its Remote Access Network (RAN) mobile backhaul solution to accommodate the growing demand for Pannon's mobile internet services, including 3G High Speed Packet Access (HSPA).
Pannon serves almost 3.5 million customers and controls approximately 34% of the Hungarian mobile market. Today, Pannon's high-speed 3G/HSPA network enabling video telephony is available in over 360 towns and villages across Hungary, meaning mobile Internet service is available to 65% of the country's population. In response to the growing demand, Pannon needed to find a MPLS-based, cost optimized and future proof solution.
"There's a steadily growing demand in Hungary for mobile Internet services and as a result our bandwidth requirements in backhaul networks, which were based on SDH and microwave, dramatically changed," said Gyrgy Koller, Chief Technical Officer of Pannon. "In anticipation of even more growth we decided to transform our RAN Backhaul towards cost-efficient packet technology. Alcatel-Lucent's solution gives us the resiliency, scalability and outstanding service performance necessary to accommodate multimedia 3G services now and into the future."
The Alcatel-Lucent solution includes the 7750 Service Router, 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), 5620 Service Aware Manager and the newly announced, Alcatel-Lucent 7705 SAR-F (Fixed Form Factor) which is a compact and temperature hardened routing solution for the cell site.
"Pannon is steadily increasing the number of its 3G/HSDPA base stations and increasing its bandwidth requirements as it offers mobile broadband internet services to more and more consumers and businesses across Hungary," said Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent's IP activities. "Converging both legacy and 3G services over a scalable, resilient MPLS network gives Pannon an infrastructure that meets today's fast growing requirements and is ready for further mobile evolution to 4G technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE)."
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