MegaFon selects NEC to build indoor mobile network
NEC Corporation announced today that MegaFon (Headquarters: Moscow, Russia; Director General: Sergei Soldatenkov), a leading Russian mobile operator, has selected NEC’s femtocell solution to enhance the indoor mobile experience of its residential and enterprise customers.
MegaFon plans to launch the high-speed, high-quality indoor mobile service to its residential and enterprise customers later this year.
The NEC femtocell solution was successfully tested and trialled with MegaFon subscribers at the North-West branch of MegaFon in Saint-Petersburg in 2010.
The majority of mobile traffic (up to 70 per cent)(*) is generated indoors; however there is an inherent 3G mobile challenge of unreliable indoor coverage. Femtocells extend indoor mobile coverage and boost capacity ensuring high speeds and reliability.
NEC’s femtocell solution will allow MegaFon to differentiate by providing their customers with premium mobile services,†said Vladimir Lobanov, Head of Project Management Division, CJSC NEC Neva Communications Systems, a subsidiary of NEC in Russia. Our femtocell solution will ensure that their customers always have the five-bar coverage indoors that they expect and dedicated capacity to run data-intensive applications on their smartphones and tablets.â€
An NEC Femtocell is a small wireless cellular base station similar in size and appearance to a broadband router that connects over broadband to a mobile operator’s core network. It provides dedicated mobile coverage and capacity for full personal use delivering excellent experience and increased customer loyalty.
NEC is providing MegaFon an end-to-end femtocell solution that includes NEC Femtocells, and femtocell gateway systems that connect to MegaFon’s existing core systems. MegaFon’s customers can install the NEC Femtocell with no intervention from MegaFon due to its plug and play†capability.
NEC has 11 contracts worldwide with mobile operators for femtocell system deployments which make up nearly half a million femtocell devices. In addition, NEC has 24 femtocell system trials in progress or that have been completed with mobile operators around the world.
Furthermore, NEC’s commercial accomplishments in the femtocell field include provision of the world’s first femtocell IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for Softbank Mobile Corp. in Japan, the deployment of France’s first commercial femtocell services through SFR and in Norway through Network Norway. NEC is on target to deploy its first 100,000 Femtocell Access Point (FAP) network.
NEC is a board member of the Femtocell Forum, an industry association that was established in July 2007. NEC’s activities and groundbreaking work in the femtocell field are well recognized through honors that include the Femtocell Forum’s 2009 award for Progress in Commercial Deployment†and the 2010 award for Femtocell Network Design and Technology Innovation.â€
NTT DOCOMO selects NEC for Operations Support Systems
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NEC Corporation (NEC) has been selected by NTT DOCOMO to provide Operations Support Systems (OSS) to the company. The system will be deployed by one of NEC’s United States-based subsidiaries, NetCracker Technology Corp.
DOCOMO is constructing IP networks to launch its commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) services in 2010. Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) network that links core networks and base stations will be managed by OSS. WDM also controls communication equipment, including L2 switches in LTE networks.
Even the multi-vendor networks can benefit from WDM network path design capabilities as the system improves the quality and efficiency of network design, leading to the reduction of CAPEX and construction of optimized networks for LTE.
DOCOMO’s high evaluation of NetCracker’s OSS product portfolio resulted in NEC’s selection as a part of the project. Besides, NEC’s extensive know-how and delivery record for DOCOMO also encouraged the decision.
NEC Selected as Super 3G Handset Vendor for NTT DoCoMo
NEC Corporation announced that NEC will develop equipment for Super 3G handsets, following a request for proposal from NTT DoCoMo, NEC plans to deliver commercial Super 3G mobile handsets in 2010 to NTT DoCoMo.
The Super 3G standard is expected to provide super fast downlink data rates of over 100Mbps and uplink data rates of over 50Mbps, low-latency data transmission and improved spectrum efficiency. Super 3G features highly advanced versions of high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA), which are W-CDMA packet transmission technologies standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The 3GPP, a telecommunications standards body, has been in discussion to standardize Super 3G under the name Long Term Evolution (LTE). The 3GPP plans to release LTE’s final specifications in 2007, but has completed most of the basic system designs at its June meeting. DoCoMo is thus set to begin developing equipment for practical application of the Super 3G technology and started to accept supplier proposals from July this year.
Aiming to complete the development of a communication platform to realize the Super 3G mobile handsets within 2009, NEC, together with Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu Limited, will actively promote development efforts. As the main contractor of the joint development, NEC will manage all of the joint development of the Super 3G communication platform with Panasonic Mobile Communications and Fujitsu.
