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Telecommunications Alcatel-Lucent to build 1000 city Russian WiMAX network
Telecommunications Alcatel-Lucent to build 1000 city Russian WiMAX network | Alcatel-Lucent to build 1000 city Russian WiMAX network |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 09 July 2007 | |
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Alcatel-Lucent claims 70 WiMAX trials and deployments worldwide and 11 commercial contracts. However it has not specified how many of these are for mobile WiMAX. According to Alcatel Lucent, the Synterra WiMAX rollout will be conducted in cooperation with regional telecom operators. "Synterra – which holds a national licence – intends to partner with operators in order to cover more than 1,000 Russian cities and towns by end of 2008." Deployments will cover many towns and cities with an average population of 100,000 inhabitants, and the first regional WiMAX networks should be operational in Q4 2007. Vitaly Slizen, general director of Synterra, said: "We selected Alcatel-Lucent as our strategic partner because its solution is available now and it is flexible, easy-to-deploy and scalable, which will help our partners to bring these services to market more quickly. We see Universal WiMAX as a key technology to support our plan to expand broadband coverage throughout Russia." Alcatel-Lucent's claims that its 'Universal WiMAX' solution is designed to enable rapid implementation of VoIP and broadband services such as mobile data, video streaming and virtual private network (VPN) access in fixed, nomadic and mobile environments.{moscomment}
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