Aviat Networks will supply microwave transport system to Telikom PNG to support its national broadband network (NBN) roll out.
Telikom PNG, which offers retail business voice and data broadband services along with wholesale voice and data services, will deploy the new network in three phases in 2014. The new network is expected to support in offering fixed and mobile broadband across Papua New Guinea (PNG). The network is scalable and can manage future broadband needs.
As part of the microwave deal, Aviat will supply its WTM 6000 microwave trunking platform that provides long microwave communication links over distance under the toughest propagation conditions, such as those in the tropical zones of Papua New Guinea.
WTM 6000 microwave trunking has the ability to support up to 4 Gbps of aggregate data throughput, Aviat said.
Aviat Networks said WTM 6000 is ideal for the backbone of this new, national network that will extend over jungles and the large expanses of water that separate remote islands from the mainland.
The WTM 6000 is the latest-generation trunking microwave platform for multi-Gigabit Ethernet and SDH transport links and incorporates the newest packet transport features as well as support for legacy STM-1 trunks.
Telikom PNG Chairman Mahesh Patel said: “With the WTM 6000, our NBN will have the highest capacity radio, which will grow with the needs of the business over the next several years.”
Telikom’s network infrastructure is digital and has a combination of microwave radio, satellite and intra-city optical fiber transmission systems that connect to a nationwide network via telephone exchanges and data switches while linking PNG worldwide with its Optical Ground Wire system and submarine cables through PPC-1 PIPE in Madang and APNG 2 at Ela Beach.
