Indosat Selects Alcatel-Lucent for IP/MPLS Mobile Backhaul

­Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been selected by Indonesia's PT Indosat to build an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul infrastructure. The initial phase of the project has been fully deployed and is live.

"With a population of 234 million in Indonesia, we are experiencing extraordinary growth in both number of subscribers and traffic volume. Deploying Alcatel-Lucent's solution will help us prepare for emerging next-generation wireless network services and scale to meet bandwidth demand for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and eventually 4G," said Jin Tiong Lim, Group Head of Cellular Network Planning & Eng.Indosat.

Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), all managed end-to-end by the 5620 Service Aware Manager. The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS-based mobile solution enables Indosat to fully exploit the scalability and cost efficiencies of IP in the mobile backhaul network - from backbone to first mile.

Alcatel-Lucent has also previously supplied Indosat with 2G and 2.5G network solutions, submarine networks, metro-Ethernet, access and optical transmission solutions.

Earlier this month, the network operator commissioned Motorola to optimize its GPRS and 3G networks.

Posted to the site on 15th September 2009