Digicel Antilles selects Alcatel-Lucent solution

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By Team Diginews4u ⋅ April 13, 2009 ⋅

Alcatel-Lucent has successfully completed the deployment of its microwave packet radio technology for the IP transformation of the mobile network operated by Digicel Antilles, a mobile telecommunications operator in the Caribbean, to support both traditional and new, advanced high-speed services in the Antilles.

The company informed that by optimising traffic transport and aggregation from the base stations to the core network, the Alcatel-Lucent microwave packet radio solution provides Digicel with optimised mobile backhaul capabilities for increased efficiency reduced operational costs and improved quality of service.

The end-to-end mobile backhaul solution deployed by Alcatel-Lucent is based on the 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR) that can aggregate any type of traffic – TDM, ATM and Ethernet – over a converged Microwave Packet network.

The product uses statistical multiplexing to optimise the transport network capacity and service driven adaptive modulation to adapt to variable propagation conditions, such as bad weather.

Any traffic type (video, voice, data) is recognised and its transmission automatically adapted to ensure the quality required by the various service types, the company said.

Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent also supplied its 9400 AWY low and medium capacity short-haul digital microwave system. The entire Alcatel-Lucent solution is managed by the 1350 network management and also included network optimisation, testing and project management services, as well as site studies, training and maintenance services.

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