India’s Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTL) selected Japanese company NEC’s iPasoLink platform for backhauling its mobile broadband traffic.
The Mumbai-headquartered Tata Teleservices Tuesday announced the agreement for deploying the iPasoLink platform. The iPasoLink provides customers with a mobile transport network that can be adapted for next-generation IP-based networks.
AG Rao, executive president for TTL’s Enterprise Business and Technology division noted: “NEC Corp. is one of our key suppliers of microwave equipment, having a total installed base of more than 100,000 terminals. NEC has been associated with TTL for many years, providing microwave equipment and services for our CDMA and GSM network rollouts. TTL is now in the process of expanding its network for both coverage and capacity in the mobility and enterprise business segments, which will require backhaul of both TDM and IP traffic.”
“Our requirements, therefore, necessitate the deployment of hybrid radio in the network. NEC’s iPasoLink platform fully meets these requirements and can be adapted for Next-Generation IP-based networks,” Rao added.
According to the NEC website, the iPasoLink is designed to support the transition from today’s hybrid TDM and Ethernet backhaul towards full IP transport, while reducing the cost of ownership due to its all-in-one converged design. iPasoLink’s flexible modular architecture allows operators to optimize their network strategies and to gradually invest in step with actual service and traffic demands.
“As the Indian mobile communication market continues its rapid expansion, operators face the challenge of making significant investments in order to provide next generation mobile broadband services while managing capex and opex. This agreement between TTL and NEC proves that mobile operators have the appetite for a single, converged and flexible backhaul platform that they can manage and adapt according to their network service demands,” said Takayuki Morita, SVP of NEC.
NEC claims it has shipped 1.7 million iPasoLink units across 145 countries.
