Italtel and Linkra Networks, wireless backhaul providers,
announced a partnership designed to jointly provide mobile network operators, converged
service providers, wireless internet service providers (WISP), utilities and large
enterprises with full IP microwave systems.
The two partners will focus their joint activities on
EMEA and Latin America markets, in particular Brazil and Argentina. In the
latter markets that are recording frantic growth rates and where competition is
tough, the ability to own and control the network is crucial to the success of
any Mobile and Fixed Operator or for ISP looking to profitably face the booming
traffic demand of differentiated services and manage network costs.
As service providers broaden their coverage and cope with
the demand for data rate growth forcing to deploy higher capacity distribution
and access wireless networks – such as 3G/LTE, WiMAX and Wi-Fi – the wireless
backhauling infrastructure must also be upgraded to IP and broadened to prevent
infrastructure bottlenecks.
The partnership leverages Linkra Networks proven
experience in the full IP Microwave for mobile backhauling and the expertise
that Italtel has acquired in next generation network architecture both in EMEA
and Latin America as well as valuable expertise in system integration, voice
over IP and wired & wireless technology.
Linkra Networks Full Ethernet Microwave Portfolio is part
of proven microwave-optics-routers integration for Backhauling solutions. It
can be integrated in different networks: from Enterprise ones to Next
Generation and Mobile Networks.
“The agreement with Linkra has a twofold relevance
for Italtel: it is an important step of our plan to develop into specific foreign
markets, particularly LatAm, and allows us to reinforce our offer in the mobile
segment,” said Camillo Ascione, head of Cisco-OEM Products and Solutions
Product Unit at Italtel.
“We are actually working to extend our portfolio of
mobile solutions also by developing proprietary products within
Cisco Mobile Packet Core Solutions. We believe this will be crucial
to maintain the growth trend we experienced in LatAm in recent years by deploying
network infrastructure solutions for several of the most important fixed and
mobile operators,” Ascione added.
“The relationship with Italtel is part of our
strategy to become a leader in Full IP Microwave solutions and speed up Linkra
access in LatAm countries completing its own worldwide sales presence”
said Tiziano Beretta, head of IP&Transport Business Unit at Linkra.
“Linkra full IP Microwave portfolio, interworking
with Carrier Ethernet router/switch devices, will benefit of Italtel IT System
Integration knowledge complementing our proven capability on Backhauling
Microwave based solutions,” Beretta added.
Recently, Italtel received the Latin America Service Provider Partner of the Year
award at the Cisco Partner Summit 2011, which took place in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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