Nortel Networks has announced two contracts for All-IP voice core platforms. The contracts are with American Samoa's Blue Sky Communications and Guatemala's Claro.
Blue Sky Communications is using Nortel's MSC Server and Home Location Register (HLR), which use commercial-off-the-shelf ATCA technology to support GSM/UMTS Voice. In addition, Blue Sky Communications uses Nortel's Media Gateway to transform TDM voice, a legacy networking technology, to VoIP. These products are compliant to R4 standards, which is a release of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)(2). These products can reduce the cost of operation by enabling more efficient use of transmission capacity and reducing the amount of network equipment required to support wireless services on a platform that will provide a simple evolution path to 4G.
Planned for completion early this year, Claro's network upgrade will use Nortel's new Advanced Telecommunications for Computer Architecture (ATCA) based on MSC Server and Home Location Register (HLR), to provide top reliability and performance.
Posted to the site on 11th February 2008
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