OJSC Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), mobile operator in Russia and CIS has selected Alcatel-Lucent to implement the latter’s wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) offering for its optical transport network in metropolitan areas.
Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its WDM networking offering in four federal districts of Russia, which includes Moscow, the north-west, the south and the Volga region.
Initially, four cities – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Rostov and Ufa – will be covered under the new project.
With the project in place, MTS is expected to increase its network capacity, flexibility, speed and enhance quality of service.
The project will result in the increase in the backhaul capacity and transport efficiency, which will further enable MTS to optimise the delivery of bandwidth-hungry 3G services and prepare its network for LTE technology introduction.
The Alcatel-Lucent offering was considered by MTS to prepare an urban transport network for the challenges of data traffic increase due to development of fixed communication networks, 3G and future LTE introduction
Alcatel-Lucent head of business in CIS Alexander Tikhonov said Alcatel-Lucent’s state-of-the-art optical transport solution meets the MTS need for meeting bandwidth growth, while optimising its total cost of ownership and expanding the revenue-generating potential with more dynamic service options.
The Alcatel-Lucent solution is based on its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) which offers a platform for automated WDM networking to dynamically meet traffic demand evolution.
Initially operating at low rates, the MTS network can cost-effectively scale up to 100 Gigabit per second (100G).
Based on its Zero Touch Photonics approach, the Alcatel-Lucent 1830 PSS, managed by the 1350 Optical Management System is expected to help MTS lower transport-network costs by eliminating unnecessary optical-to-electrical-to-optical conversions.
