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Wireless subsystem manufacturer Kavveri Telecom Products Ltd. said its subsidiary Kavveri Telecom Infrastructure Ltd. had signed a long-term agreement for ten years with the tenth operator, who is one of the major Pan India cellular operators, for in-building wireless solutions.

This agreement will pave way for substantial long-term revenue source for the Kavveri Telecom Infrastructure, it said.

With long-term agreements of this nature, Kavveri Telecom Products will supply the products to Kavveri Infrastructure as per the agreements with customers. Its customers include all the leading operators and OEMS including Ericcson, Alcatel Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, RCom, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL to name a few.

Commenting on the agreement, Kavveri Telecom Products Managing Director Shivakumar Reddy said, “Given the high costs of setting up towers and the loss of signals within enclosed areas and to provide capacity and coverage enhancements within large buildings, in-building wireless solutions is the way forward for the operators. As pioneers and leader in this field we aim to maximize our reach.”

Telecom company Bharti Airtel is learnt to have identified vendors for rolling out its broadband wireless services in four circles it bagged in a government auction last year.

Bharti is likely to adopt a strategy to split its broadband wireless access (BWA) circles among different vendors to optimise costs and leverage relationships with existing equipment suppliers.

It used a similar strategy while awarding third generation (3G) contracts that were divided between three vendors. ET has learnt that that telco may offer the Kolkata circle to Chinese gear maker ZTE while its competitor Huawei may get the Karnataka circle. The European vendors Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks, that have had a long-term relationship with the telco, are likely to get the Punjab and Maharashtra circles respectively.

LTE is a technology platform that allows very high-speed access to data and transfer of huge amounts of data via dongles and compatible mobile phones. Bharti Airtel paid Rs 3,314.36 crore for getting airwaves that supported LTE services in four circles – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata – in a government auction held last year.

NSN unveils Liquid technology

Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its new Liquid technology which promises to ease telecom network congestion and possibly change the market for such equipment for good.

The technology of the 50-50 venture of Nokia  and Siemens removes the computing power unit, one of the two key units of traditional station, from the base station. The network shares computing power between all stations.

It is the first major step towards using standard servers by telecom equipment makers which have been historically able to fetch strong margins from dedicated equipment.

NSN engineers have found out a way out of this and that is through reliable and solid computing power units that are to be based on Cloud computing models. These power units are to be connected and data is to be shared so that the load can be reduced.

Phil Twist, head of marketing at NSN’s Network Systems unit, said in an interview, “For operators it offers a better use of capital. You invest in total network load, not in peak levels.”

Phil Twist says on this, “It is the first major step toward using standard servers by telecom equipment makers which have been historically able to fetch strong margins from dedicated equipment.”

4G in India

After poor response for 3G services, Indian telecom operators are desperately working with Chinese and western telecom gear makers to upgrade the current infrastructure from 3Gto 4G.

Technically known as Long Term Evolution (LTE) in mobile broadband terminology and branded as 4G, the new infrastructure would require minimal funds for Indian telecom operators who have almost set up the 3G infrastructure. “We have a single RAN  box where you can upgrade 3G to 4G or LTE to Wimax. Everything is in one box. They will need minimal funds to upgrade to 4G,” said a top official with Chinese telecom equipment provider Huawei. The Huawei official said 3G and 4G are basically download speeds.

The Huawei official said the company is in talks with some Indian telecom operators. “The 3G network is on track right now. In the last six months six to seven operators have placed faith in us,” he added. The department of telecommunications (DoT) has also decided to go by the LTE or 4G global roadmap, which is expected to be launched globally between 2011 to mid-2012.

Indian operators hope that the LTE would be a smooth transition using core infrastructure of the 2G or 3G networks. According to the vice president (networks) of Bharti Airtel, Puneet Garg, 2012 will be the year that will witness a broadband wireless revolution using LTE, which will change the way people connect to communicate.

“With mass adoption, lowest cost per bit, highest capacity, best user experience and a true global standard, the world is stepping into 4G. We expect 380 million LTE subscribers and 80 plus LTE networks by 2015,” said Sujit Bakre, Nokia Siemens Networks head of 4G business development.

The main advantages with LTE are high throughput, low latency, plug and play, an improved end-user experience and a simple architecture resulting in low operating costs. LTE will also support seamless passing to cell towers with older network technology, such as GSM, CDMAOne, UMTS and CDMA2000.

Nokia demonstrates high-speed 4G network

Telecommunications equipment major Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) demonstrated for the first time its Time Division Duplex version of LTE (TD-LTE) technology in India on Tuesday in Bangalore. The technology, running on broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum, for which licences were issued recently, will herald the fourth generation (4G) of technology in the wireless communications space, said top officials of the company.

Gurdeep Singh, COO of Aircel made a video call using the test  environment at the R&D facility of  Nokia Siemens Networks in Bengaluru. The call was conducted with 4G mobile technology running on NSN commercial hardware.

The company showed a demo of HD video streaming and 3-way video conferencing.TD-LTE dongles from Samsung were used and a peak speed of 110 Mbps achieved .The demo used LTE equipment and software from Nokia Siemens Networks

“This is an important milestone in building the TD-LTE ecosystem in India,” said Urs Pennanen, NSN”s head of India region.

“TD-LTE over the BWA spectrum is important for the country, as it will allow operators to offer voice and data to the masses. We are ready to collaborate with partners to accelerate our progress toward a comprehensive deployment of TD-LTE in India.”

Juha Lappalainen, Head, Mobile Broadband Sales, NSN, said while 2G was mainly geared to handle voice traffic, 3G technology smartphone users could handle data and voice using several applications. “The 4G technology”, he said, “is meant to ensure high-speed transmission of large amounts of data.” He said the 2.3 GHz band is “likely to be deployed globally,” he added. “Both CDMA and GSM-based systems are likely to converge towards TD-LTE,” Mr. Lappalainen said.