Telecom vendor Alcatel-Lucent on Thursday announced it will supply IP Evolved Packet Core deal to China Mobile, which is building the world’s largest 4G LTE network.
Alcatel-Lucent Evolved Packet Core will enable China Mobile to offer LTE customers with better speeds and quality, while driving down the cost of sending information across the network.
China Mobile, the world’s leading telecom operator based on mobile subscriber base, has awarded Alcatel-Lucent 24 percent of its overall EPC network, making Alcatel-Lucent the primary EPC supplier for the entire 4G LTE network.
In September 2013, China Mobile selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy 11 percent of their new LTE network, consisting of more than 200,000 TD-LTE base stations, by the end of 2013.
China is now the world’s largest market for mobile data services and smartphones, increasing at a rate of more than 50 percent each year.
Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will provide a solution consisting of Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router – Mobile Gateway; Alcatel-Lucent 9471 Wireless Mobility Manager and Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Services Aware Manager (SAM).
China Mobile has more than 750 million subscribers, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the total mobile subscriptions in the country.
“As China Mobile builds the world’s largest 4G LTE network, Alcatel-Lucent is providing its expertise in IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access, the focus of our Shift Plan. China Mobile’s adoption of LTE network requires needs an architecture that is simpler and flatter than the traditional packet/TDM network,” said Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent.
