Ericsson and Vantrix partner for video optimization

On 03.17.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Ericsson, the world’s leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators, to be their partner in video optimization. Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will be bundling Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer with its Multiservice Proxy mobile broadband traffic optimization solution.

We predict that the number of global mobile broadband subscriptions will double during 2011 to 1 billion, and that video traffic will represent significant portion of the overall mobile data traffic”

We predict that the number of global mobile broadband subscriptions will double during 2011, to 1 billion, and that video traffic will represent significant portion of the overall mobile data traffic,” said Sanjay Kaul, Vice President, Consumer and Business Applications at Ericsson. The partnership will address our customers’ need to efficiently manage, optimize video content delivery over mobile networks, where the quality of experience becomes key.”

Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer optimizes video and delivers it in real time while maintaining best-in-class Quality of Experience. Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer provides up to 70 percent savings on network CAPEX and OPEX (RAN, backhaul and core) by dynamically monitoring network congestion and substantially reducing the size of videos.

Mobile video has become an integral part of daily life and it has transformed how consumers use their mobile phones. Over the last two years, as video has become more dominant in mobile networks, mobile subscribers have endured outages and reductions in speed, resulting in an unsatisfactory video experience,” said Allan Benchetrit, President & CEO of Vantrix. We are very proud to partner with Ericsson to provide the market with the most advanced and efficient mobile video technology. Our solution is the most advanced to control, optimize and manage the delivery of video in mobile networks, while actually improving the current viewing experience.”

About Vantrix

Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, improves mobile and converged video economics for its customers by ensuring that content is delivered cost effectively, and with the best possible user experience, regardless of the service, device or network. Vantrix solutions are deployed in over 70 networks, serving over 1 billion subscribers worldwide. Vantrix is proud to count among its customers: Sprint (NYSE:S), Orange, Telefonica (NYSE:TEF), T-Mobile, TeliaSonera (OMX:TLSN), MTS, Etisalat (ADX:ETISALAT), Saudi Telecom Company (TADAWUL:STC), and Tata Telecom. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong and Dubai. To learn more about Vantrix, visit www.vantrix.com.

 

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Operators to upgrade backhaul in Sub-Saharan African mobile network

On 03.15.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Operators will be upgrading backhaul to match the capacity of core and access networks that have been receiving constant attention in the Sub-Saharan African mobile network. ­Infrastructure sharing will increasingly be used by operators to reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) on backhauls.

Mobile network backhaul infrastructure plays a key role in the delivery of services to end users and is likely to be an important spend area for network upgrades during the medium and long terms.

New analysis found that the backhaul infrastructure markets in Angola, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya spent $355 million in 2009 and estimates this to reach $1.45 billion in 2015.

According to analysts, escalating demand for data services is driving the need for upgrading mobile network backhaul infrastructure. Operators need to share costs and invest in network technologies that support transmission of large quantities of data such as optical fibre.

Landing of undersea cables on various African countries’ coasts and deployment of enhanced 3G (3G+) and 4G technologies will amplify the increasing demand for data services. Microwave-based backhaul is likely to remain dominant for rural coverage; however, operators are likely to adopt resource sharing to provide higher-capacity backhaul for areas with sustainable high demand. A key challenge will be the high CAPEX required for new technologies.

They added that the high CAPEX and OPEX associated with deploying and maintaining backhaul infrastructure will influence investment into higher capacity technologies. Furthermore, the inadequacy of other supporting infrastructure, like reliable power supply, will slow the deployment of new technologies.

Sharing infrastructure will enable operators to cost effectively deploy backhaul networks that meet the increasing demand for data services. Outsourcing of backhaul services can also be used to reduce OPEX in areas with limited demand.

Mobile operators need to ensure that their backhaul networks are upgraded to avoid creating a bottleneck between access and core portions. Backhaul networks should be upgraded in response to increasing network traffic.

Since upgrades can be expensive, operators need to segment their markets. They can deploy high capacity fibre technologies in high demand areas while wireless backhaul technologies can still be used in low demand rural areas.

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Airtel Africa & East African telecom operators ensure against fraud and revenue loss

On 03.05.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Whilst the region’s telecommunications industry has seen a quantum leap in the past decade with markets like Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda being some of the most competitive & lucrative in the whole continent there remains this shadowy side of telecoms in Africa.

Operators often compete at a cut-throat level when it comes to pricing, OPEX, CAPEX, distribution models, etc. But service providers like Airtel realise that there is money to be saved by committing to fraud and risk avoidance as well.

In Nairobi on the 6th April, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre will provide a hub and platform for learning, debating and networking around this important issue of Fraud.

In particular, 2 exclusive Master Classes will take place. The first will be run by Airtel Africa’s Group Revenue Assurance & Fraud Manager, Hawas Garba Matta, the second by an international expert Patrick Gitau of Globacom Nigeria. The whole session will be opened and chaired by Ade Banjoko, Chair of the GSM Africa Fraud Forum.

Topics and discussions in these classes will include:
• effectively integrating risk, fraud & revenue assurance into your corporate strategy
• telecoms enterprise risk management
• optimizing end-to-end fraud & revenue assurance strategies
• implementing risk based fraud & revenue assurance framework with essential from the top policy”
• bridging the GAPs by assessing & monitoring product life-cycle processes to identify the sources of fraud & revenue loss
• focus on optimised fraud detection through real-time capabilities
• how to tackle telecom fraud typologies in East Africa – bad debt management, process flows and inefficiencies, and capacity deficiencies problems in your network
• how to get value from RAMS and FMS
• vendor valuation criteria and considerations, and working closely with suppliers to minimise revenue leakages

The market has responded very positively to this brand new feature to East Africa Com conference and exhibition,” says Emily Cottam, Senior Conference Producer, East Africa Com. Fraud is a topic that East African operators can’t afford to overlook if they are to remain profitable in this increasingly competitive market. These master classes are a one-stop-shop for operators looking to understand and implement effective fraud prevention strategies.”

What’s more, these master classes form just one segment of the East Africa Com 2011 conference & exhibition, now in its 7th year.

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Alcatel-Lucent with China Mobile to develop Cloud-based radio access network

On 02.17.11, In Mobile, By Editor

­Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have announced that they are planning to develop a centralized, collaborative, Cloud-based RAN (C-RAN).

The companies believe that the C-RAN will provide a common platform for multi-mode wireless standards such as GSM, 3G, and LTE, and is expected to lower OPEX by up to 50% and CAPEX by 15%.

According to Rajeev Singh-Molares, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in Asia-Pacific, the partnership with China Mobile is directly addressing the challenges of high energy costs, explosion of mobile video and sustainable development. By helping them replace traditional network designs with flexible cloud-like architectures, they are preparing the future and help show the way in terms of technology and economic models.

The strategic partnership for C-RAN will leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s recently-announced lightRadio platform.

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NEC Develops Self Organizing Network Technologies for Heterogeneous LTE Networks

On 02.15.11, In Mobile, By Editor

NEC Corporation announced today the development of Self Organizing Network (SON) technologies for its heterogeneous LTE solution. NEC’s latest SON technologies successfully tackle two of the most challenging scenarios in LTE deployment: highly dynamic traffic hotspot and multiple user mobility this maintains a high quality user experience in various challenging environments while significantly reducing operators’ CAPEX and OPEX.

SON solutions reduce the Operation and Maintain (O&M) cost of mobile networks by using automated and intelligent procedures to replace human intervention without compromising network performance. However, a major challenge to the design and development of SON technologies is how to achieve high quality user experience and optimize the network in a heterogeneous network while taking into account varying regional traffic characteristics and user mobility.

NEC’s small cell LTE solution enables mobile operators to install new base stations in any traffic hotspot area without the need to modify their existing networks. By applying NEC’s SON technologies, NEC’s small cell eNBs can independently recognize the distribution and movement of users automatically and tune dynamically various parameters to optimize its coverage and improve the cell-edge performance. This could help achieve more uniform and stable high quality user experience at densely populated traffic hotspot areas.

NEC has developed handover optimization in its SON technologies to provide high quality transmission for users with various mobility characteristics. In its design, handover settings from macro to small cell coverage are automatically adjusted in response to varying propagation conditions. For example, macro base stations can dynamically restrain handover to small cell base stations for the fast-moving user. On the other hand, macro base stations favour the handover to small cell base stations for slow moving or static terminals.

The performance of these developed SON technologies are thoroughly evaluated and tested by using NEC’s unique 3-dimensional simulator, which is more close to the real world compared its 2-D counterparts. The performance results demonstrate that, by using NEC’s SON technologies, the cell edge users’ user data rate was increased up to 2 times. In addition, the radio link failure rate was significantly reduced.

NEC will exhibit these technologies at Stand 8A125 at Mobile World Congress 2011” in Barcelona, Spain from February 14 17, 2011.

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Malaysian mobile broadband market to be worth US$3 billion by 2015

On 02.14.11, In Mobile, By Editor

­A new research report has revealed that the Malaysian mobile broadband and data market was worth about US$2 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach US$3 billion by 2015.

According to researchers, the mobile subscriber market is heading towards saturation and all market players are looking at mobile broadband as a growth driver. While Malaysia’s mobile market is saturated with a subscriber penetration rate of 117% in 2010, mobile broadband and 3G services still represent significant opportunities with wireless broadband having the potential to achieve up to 5.6 million subscribers by 2015.

Wireless broadband has been fast gaining popularity over fixed broadband with almost 2 million wireless broadband subscribers compared to 1.65 million fixed broadband subscribers in 2010. In 2009, fixed broadband dominated over wireless broadband with 1.4 million subscribers to 0.9 million subscribers.

Still, fixed broadband will gain market share in 2011 and 2012 due to the introduction of high-speed broadband and wholesale deals by Maxis and Celcom. Governmental support for high-speed broadband will also help drive the fixed broadband market. The Malaysian fixed broadband market is expected to reach 2.2 million subscribers in 2015.

The increasing use of smartphones, driven by rapid price decline and application richness, has increased demand for mobile broadband. Smartphones access the internet via a 3G connection, allowing users to be connected on the go without the need for dongles.

According to researchers, with the Internet user base to reach 23-25 million by 2015, it is expected that 70% of them would have access to a personal internet connection. The smartphone strategy will be the big bet of all mobile operators going forward especially when almost 13 million broadband users are expected to access the internet via smartphones by 2015.

Other areas of interest include the enterprise services market which consists of data center services, M2M services, IT/System Integration services, and WAN services. The enterprise services market earned revenues of RM2.7 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach RM5.8 billion in 2015, making it the fastest growing ICT market in Malaysia.

The Malaysian Data Center Services market is set to grow at 16 percent CAGR with Cloud Computing to be an important driver of growth as Malaysian enterprises demonstrates increasing interest in Cloud services.

SaaS, the dominant segment of the Cloud market, is set to witness strong growth powered by CRM, Collaboration and HRM applications in the Malaysian market.

Researchers add that enterprises in Malaysia have recently begun embracing the SaaS delivery model. Their interest is primarily driven by the lower total cost of ownership in the services model, the conversion of CapEx to predictable OpEx and the ability to scale up or down depending on business needs.

Motivated by the growing interest, an increasing number of global participants are showing high level of activity in the country, which is helping improve awareness levels across enterprises.

However, enterprises continue to remain skeptical of Cloud adoption due to Security and Privacy concerns. This, along with the low reliability of broadband internet in the country, may hamper BAaaS adoption in the short-term. The government’s efforts towards building a knowledge economy and improving broadband infrastructure may alleviate these challenges in the long run.

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NSN launches New Flexi Base Station Controller

On 11.22.10, In Mobile, By Editor

­Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced a new Flexi BSC (base station controller) that offers up to 80% reduction in energy consumption along with a 40% increase in capacity over existing base station controllers.

The new Flexi BSC also provides operators the ability to move to all-IP for communicating among the base station, base station controller and mobile switching center with two new transport features – Packet Abis and A over IP. Maximum cost savings can be achieved using IP over Ethernet transport, the common transport technology for GSM, 3G and LTE.

According to Prashant Agnihotri, head of GSM/EDGE product management, Nokia Siemens Networks, higher voice capacity with fewer base station controllers reduces energy consumption, a major cost for operators, along with simplifying operations and maintenance resulting in lower OPEX. The company is committed to driving scalable products that maximize operators’ investment and provide a clear roadmap to all-IP. Whether it is greener networks, capacity, functional evolution or transmission, the new Flexi BSC is a milestone product.

Flexi BSC is future-proof, providing for the first time in the industry a handling capacity of 4,200 transceivers and over 25,000 Erlangs in a single cabinet. This implies that, with the new Flexi BSC configuration, operators can replace up to 32 existing base station controllers in the field.

The new Transcoder TCSM3i configuration also offers 40% more capacity while maintaining the compact size.

Flexi BSC also provides an evolution path to Nokia Siemens Networks’ Multicontroller BSC that can be used to extend the capacity of Flexi BSC. The latest software for Flexi BSC and Transcoder TCSM3i is based on 3GPP Release 8 and the commercial deliveries are in progress.

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Zain seeks to re-initiate merger talks with Palestine’s Paltel

On 01.28.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Resurrection of the aborted merger of the Jordanian assets with Palestine’s Paltel has been seeked by Kuwait’s Zain on the same terms as before.

According to the terms and conditions of the agreement announced by the company in May last year, the ownership of the Jordan subsidiary to Paltel was to be transferred by Zain in exchange for taking an equity shareholding of 56.53% in the enlarged company. However, the company has to call off the talk last November as it did not receive the required government approvals that were condition precedent to concluding the deal.

Significant” synergies and efficiencies in CAPEX and OPEX spend and purchasing power has also been seeked by Zain.

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