LMT selects NEC to provide national packet transport network in Latvia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 -- NEC Europe says that Latvijas Mobilais Telefons SIA (LMT), Latvia's first mobile network operator, has selected NEC to supply a national packet transport network (PTN). The backbone network will support next-generation mobile backhaul services with transmission speeds of 10 Gbps.

NEC will equip more than 50 nodes with its MN5000 Series PTN platforms. These range from compact access devices to high-capacity aggregation nodes transporting E1, SDH, and Ethernet-based mobile broadband traffic. NEC will use MPLS-TP to ensure network resiliency by and lower operational expenditures.

"We chose a packet transport network based on MPLS-TP because it gives us deterministic traffic paths which can be easily and quickly configured. It is a relatively easy step for us to migrate our backbone from SDH to MPLS-TP, giving us the scalability we need without a major upheaval in our operations," said Jevgenijs Busarovs, vice president and CTO of LMT. "NEC was able to provide us with the ideal combination of the NEC MN5000 series combined with WDM equipment."

NEC will supply the optical transmission infrastructure for the project using WDM equipment provided by its partner, Transmode.

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