Baku, Finance Time. Bakcell, the First Mobile Operator and The Leading Mobile internet Provider of Azerbaijan, continues to make investments in its network to provide the best data and voice services experience for its customers. In cooperation with Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Bakcell has successfully finalized its core network unification project.
Unification of the voice network domain started by the end of 2012, and as of August of 2013 all voice traffic is served by brand new, high capacity and fully redundant switching equipment.
New Unified Core network based on the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture platform, which is designed to be a mature and robust platform for next-generation telecom equipment, brings large capacity and high flexibility to Bakcell to meet customers’ expectations and provide the best service for its customers.
New Unified Network is fully compatible with LTE technologies and ready for the future evolution towards Voice over LTE.
“Our strategy is to deploy the best network technologies to deliver the best network experience to Bakcell customers. In order to improve our top-ranking experience to customers and provide best in class service availability and quality, we are implementing a series of projects this year. Core network unification is one of these projects and makes Bakcell’s Network the most advanced in the Azerbaijani market and demonstrates that our network systems are ready for any future technology deployment”, says Yigit Berktash, Chief Technology Officer of Bakcell.
Bakcell has also implemented future proof pooling technology and built a complete reliable geographically redundant network. Pooling technology allows automatic traffic among all switching network elements and ensures service availability in disaster scenarios.
Earlier this year, Bakcell has implemented modernization of the whole transmission network, to extend capacity and migrate to the MPLS-TP technology using Huawei OSN series equipment.
