Document Actions
Delta Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent for mobile WiMAX network in Azerbaijan
End-to-End network to provide business and residential customers with high-speed Internet and VoIP services.
Alcatel-Lucent announced it has been awarded a contract by Delta Telecom to
deploy Azerbaijan's first commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network.
This new network will provide Delta Telecom's customers with high-speed Internet
access as well as other data services and voice over IP (VoIP). Delta
Telecom plans to launch commercial network services at the end of 2008.
Alcatel-Lucent will supply infrastructure and services to both deploy WiMAX and
modernize Delta Telecom's nationwide carrier backbone infrastructure, including
base stations, WiMAX access controllers, terminals, an IMS core network and
applications software and platforms. Alcatel-Lucent also will provide
design and planning for end-to-end integration of the network as well as
provisioning services for Delta Telecom's network. The comprehensive
approach of this project is in line with Alcatel-Lucent's recently launched
End-to-End IP Wireless-Broadband Solution for WiMAX.
The WiMAX network will complement Delta Telecom's existing fixed broadband
services in sparsely populated areas, where technical and economic factors
sometimes make fixed broadband deployments impractical. "We want to
provide our business and residential customers with a wide range of beneficial,
easy-to-use wireless broadband services," said Ramazan Valiyev, General Director
of Delta Telecom. Delta Telecom's local partners include state and private
enterprises such as: Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, Ministry of Taxes,
Ministry of Finance, The International Bank of Azerbaijan, State Customs
Committee, MKT-Cotton, AzerCot, RISK, Rapid Solutions and AP Moller Mayersk.
The Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest and most populous country in the South
Caucasus, partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia. A
population of 8.68 million resides in the country with an estimated 829,000
having Internet access, according to an ITU Internet study.
By Jeff Orr, ORR Technology, LLC
_____
tags:
