Aviat Networks has signed a contract with MTS Allstream, Inc., one of Canada’s leading communications solutions providers. Under the agreement, MTS Allstream will use Aviat Networks’ Eclipse Packet Node HP300 solution to aid its migration to an all-IP architecture and launch its High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network in Manitoba. MTS Allstream will leverage Aviat Networks’ complete, end-to-end service offering by deploying the ProVision Element Management System (NMS), which delivers advanced features for monitoring and controlling TDM and Ethernet transport, such as end-to-end circuit provisioning, Ethernet utilisation reporting and RMON performance monitoring. Capacity limitations on the existing wireless infrastructures, which relied heavily on TDM connections, now require mobile operators to migrate to all IP-based microwave backhaul. Eclipse Packet Node simplifies this migration by supporting a hybrid mixed mode transport of native IP alongside existing TDM transport, thus creating a more evolutionary approach. Packet Node has a scalable gigabit IP wireless transport using a combination of co-channel operation, adaptive coding and modulation, link aggregation and advanced packet processing. In addition, it contains key convergence features enabling mobile operators to eventually migrate to a 4G network.
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