NEC Europe announced today that Latvijas Mobilais Telefons SIA (LMT), Latvia’s first mobile network operator, has selected NEC to supply a national Packet Transport Network (PTN). The backbone network will support next-generation mobile backhaul services with transmission speeds of 10Gbps, says NEC.
NEC will equip more than 50 nodes with its MN5000 Series PTN solutions. These range from compact access devices to high-capacity aggregation nodes transporting E1, SDH and Ethernet-based mobile broadband traffic. NEC says it will ensure the network has a high level of resiliency by deploying MPLS-TP, which also ensures low OPEX.
“We chose a packet transport network based on MPLS-TP because it gives us deterministic traffic paths which can be easily and quickly configured. It is a relatively easy step for us to migrate our backbone from SDH to MPLS-TP, giving us the scalability we need without a major upheaval in our operations,” said Jevgenijs Busarovs, Vice President and CTO of LMT. “NEC was able to provide us with the ideal combination of the NEC MN5000 series combined with WDM[iii] equipment.”
NEC will supply the optical transmission infrastructure for the project using WDM equipment provided by its partner Transmode. The use of WDM will allow legacy SDH services to be maintained in parallel with the new network, without requiring additional fibre to be installed. It also allows for significant capacity expansion as mobile backhaul traffic continues to grow exponentially.
“NEC is providing next-generation mobile backbone solutions that ensure LMT can meet the unrelenting demand for capacity from its mobile broadband customers. This move builds upon NEC’s role as a strategic supplier of microwave equipment to LMT for almost 15 years. It is a great demonstration of our broader delivery capability to an important client,” said Fredrik Tumegård, President and CEO of NEC Scandinavia.