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Cambridge Broadband Networks selected by MTN |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
Cambridge Broadband Networks has won a significant contract from transnational African telecoms giant MTN Group to deploy its VectaStar microwave backhaul product in
Nigeria. Under the terms of the deal, MTN will use VectaStar to wirelessly backhaul the traffic from its 3G-network initially in six main cities across the West African nation before spreading to cover the entire country. The VectaStar deployment is a crucial step in MTN Nigeria plans to migrate to an all IP network. The MTN group has operations in 21 countries throughout Africa and the
Middle East, and more than 54 million subscribers. For the deployment in
Nigeria, 40 VectaStar hubs will be installed to backhaul traffic from 454 3G base stations. This is just the first stage of a MTN Nigeria plan to deploy point to multipoint microwave backhaul nationwide which makes more efficient use of radio spectrum and infrastructure than other microwave transmission methods such as point to point.
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