MTN Nigeria employs Ericsson's SSR 8020 to build IP network of future
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* MTN Nigeria first African operator to deploy groundbreaking SSR 8020
platform for wireless IP core network
* SSR 8020 supports significantly more subscribers from a single Evolved
Packet Gateway (EPG) than competing nodes on the market
* Deployment will enable MTN to efficiently meet rapidly increasing demand for
data services
Africa's biggest operator MTN Nigeria will boost its ability to serve
subscribers and their growing data needs, with the deployment of Ericsson's
(NASDAQ: ERIC) latest wireless packet core network technology. The Smart
Services Router (SSR) 8020 platform allows operators to introduce newer, smarter
functions and capabilities to enhance the mobile broadband experience for end
users.
With over 120 million mobile subscriptions overall, Nigeria is the largest and
one of the fastest growing telecoms market in Africa. Data traffic growth in
Nigeria was 100 percent last year and the demand for mobile broadband is not
slowing down as internet services are becoming increasingly essential for more
and more facets of people's lives.
MTN hosts over 42 million of those subscribers, and the company has always
worked to meet, and exceed the expectations of its subscribers by improving the
quality of its service through a very aggressive network roll out and
optimization strategy.
The SSR has a backplane capacity of up to 16 Tbps, state-of-the-art signalling
capacities, an easy-to-use administrative interface, and sophisticated
availability and resilience capabilities. The router will support the current
2G, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks of MTN Nigeria, plus will also be able to support
future upgrades to LTE. This ability to support all the different types of
access networks brings significant cost savings to operators because fewer nodes
with high scalability can efficiently handle the network bandwidth growth.
The EPG (Evolved Packet Gateway) application has the capabilities to support
2G, 3G and 4G and the rapid increase in demand for IP data services. This deal
also includes deployment of the End-to-End Quality of Service solution in order
to offer more innovative mobile broadband products.
Lynda Saint-Nwafor, CTO of MTN Nigeria, says: "Deploying this platform will make
our network more efficient and scalable to cater for the growing data demands of
our subscribers."
Lars Lindén, head of Ericsson Sub-Saharan Africa, says: "The flexibility and
capacity of the SSR platform will allow MTN Nigeria to introduce newer, smarter
functions and capabilities which will enhance the mobile broadband experience
for end users." This includes traffic management capabilities for quality of
service differentiation and improved operator billing and rating options.
Ericsson service professionals will provide turnkey services including
installation, integration and commissioning of the new SSR 8020 platform as well
as support services. MTN will deploy the Evolved Packet Gateway on SSR 8020 by
the end of 2012.
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