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Golden Telecom selects Nortel
4G for mobile WiMAX field trial
Other Topics:
Wireless Mesh Network,
WiMAX Pre-Conformance
Golden Telecom
October 30, 2006
Contracts, WiMax, 4G, Mobile, Broadband, Moscow, CEE: Golden Telecom
has commissioned Nortel to provide a solution for launching a mobile
WiMAX field trial in Moscow based on Nortel 4G technology.
Golden Telecom is a Russian operator which recognises the potential from
satisfying the growing demand from private and corporate customers in
Russia for anywhere, anytime Internet access and for fast mobile
communications services such as VoIP, email and multimedia applications.
As a plank in this highly commercialised strategy, it has commissioned
Nortel to provide a solution for launching a mobile WiMAX field trial in
Moscow based on Nortel 4G technology. |
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Mobile WiMAX is
recognised as having a major part to play at the forefront of
next-generation mobility, in the view of Nortel’s President for Eastern
Europe, Sorin Lupu, who also believes that in a few years time all
computers, PDAs and other mobile consumer devices will be
wireless-enabled.
For the meantime, Golden Telecom’s mobile WiMAX trial is regarded as a
significant step towards providing Moscow with always-on communications
available when and where they are wanted, through whatever device. The
Nortel Golden Telecom trial will provide a connection speed range of
between 1Mb/s and 25Mb/s for each user, which means extremely fast - in
seconds rather than minutes - content downloads.
Mobile WiMAX is described by Nortel as an efficient solution for
metropolitan areas such as Moscow where population density of more than
9,000 per km2 makes it cost-efficient to install WiMAX base stations and
equipment and each base station can potentially handle hundreds, even
thousands, of users.
Mobile WiMAX based on 802.16-2005 standard is currently defined by WiMAX
Forum in the 1.5, 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5GHz frequency band profiles with more
expected to come: it can deliver speeds of 1Mb-10Mb and higher. Golden
Telecom decided to trial the Nortel solution because of Nortel’s
advanced multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing (OFDM).
antenna technology, which is described as capable of making the most
efficient use of available spectrum, boosting throughput, significantly
reducing operating costs and enabling a better user experience.
In the longer term the experience from the Moscow trial and
implementation can be used to speed delivery of mobile WiMAX into other
cities where Golden Telecom has a presence.
Nortel is a key player in 4G mobile broadband based on its development
of OFDM and MIMO, and has been instrumental in driving standards in
IEEE, WiMAX Forum, 3GPP and 3GPP2. Nortel has developed OFDM-MIMO
expertise over the past eight years and holds key patents in the
technology.
Golden Telecom is a facilities-based provider of integrated
telecommunications and Internet services in major population centres
throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent
States. It offers voice, data and Internet services to corporations,
operators and consumers using its overlay network in major cities,
including Moscow, Kiev, St Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara,
Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Alma-Ata, and Tashkent.
More Info:
www.goldentelecom.com
www.nortelnetworks.com |
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