edotco Malaysia has selected Nokia mobile front-haul optical technology for customer migration to a centralized RAN architecture.

The Nokia Mobile Fronthaul Solution will enable edotco to connect new or existing mobile radio equipment to its fiber network for meeting growing mobile broadband demand.

Optimizing existing fiber installation instead of dark fiber, edotco aims to reduce CAPEX.

Demand for mobile broadband, driven by new applications including video, growing subscribers, and powerful devices, are driving the need for more capacity networks.

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Mobile operators are switching to Centralized RAN architecture which deconstructs the cell site, slashing costs and simplifying deployment.

Nokia Mobile Fronthaul Solutionallows is based on the 1830 Versatile WDM Module portfolio.

This will enable edotco to deploy a centralized RAN architecture with its shared, common radio tower or Base Transceiver Station Hotel (BTS) for multiple mobile network operator customers.

Hence network pressure can be slashed with less onsite equipment and more efficiency.

The key features include:

# Active transparent solution interworking with RAN gear without varying RAN optics.

# Economic, scalable, and power efficient solution improving fiber utilization via WDM saving CAPEX/OPEX.

# Base Transceiver Station Hotel joins fixed and wireless traffic resources to a single location for shared network connectivity to operators, mainly in space-constrained areas.

# Includes the Nokia 1830 VWM Translation Line Unit (TLU) in its recently expanded mobile fronthaul portfolio.

It will offer the colorization of the optics to WDM without disturbing the RAN optics.

The Nokia 1830 VWM Photonic Managed Unit (PMU) offers improved fiber utilization via WDM.

Also the Nokia 1830 VWM Optical Supervisory Unit (OSU) provides robust OA&M as well as network demarcation in support of SLAs.

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Global investments in C-RAN architecture networks will reach over $7 billion by the end of 2016, with expectations of a CAGR of nearly 20 percent between 2016 and 2020, suggest Research and Market reports.

edotco had earlier this year announced that it intends to build 1,000 to 2,000 towers across Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan and Myanmar this year.

edotco will also invest US $200 mn over the next five years in Myanmar, with the aim to build and own up to 5,000 towers over the next three years.

Vina Krishnan
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