Nortel Provides Golden Telecom With Solution For Launching Mobile Wimax Trial

(Business News & Technology News, 17 Oct 2006)

Nortel is providing Golden Telecom, a Russian operator of integrated telecommunications services, with a solution for launching a mobile WiMAX field trial in Moscow based on Nortel 4G technology.

Mobile WiMAX is an efficient solution for metropolitan areas such as Moscow where the population density of more than 9,000 per sq km makes it cost-efficient to install WiMAX base stations and equipment where each base station can potentially handle hundreds, even thousands of users.

Mobile WiMAX based on 802.16-2005 standard is currently defined by WiMAX Forum in the 1.5, 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5GHz frequency band profiles with more expected to come, and can deliver speeds of 1-10 mbps and higher. The Nortel Golden Telecom trial is expected to provide a connection speed range of between 1mbps and 25mbps for each user.

Golden Telecom decided to trial the Nortel solution because of Nortel's advanced MIMO antenna technology that, the company claims, is capable of making the use of available spectrum, boosting throughput and reducing operating costs.

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