MTS Ukraine to contract Alca-Lu for IP/MPLS backhaul solution

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Russian-owned cellco MTS Ukraine is planning to contract Alcatel-Lucent for the provision of an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution in order to pave the way for next-generation mobile broadband services.

In order to simplify operations and reduce operating expenditure whilst offering its end-users advanced IP-based services, the mobile operator is also planning to integrate end-to-end management across multiple technology domains, thereby

According to Jeff Howley, CTO of MTS Ukraine, moving toward IP will provide the company with huge capacity reserve which enables it not only cope for several years with ever-increasing core traffic and support high quality of service provisioning, but to further introduce new services.