Globe Telecom Inc. teamed up with Nokia to deploy a new platform in key areas across the Philippines meant to provide a superior broadband experience to customers.
Nokia said Globe would deploy its BNG solution in key areas in the Philippines including North Luzon, South Luzon, National Capital Region, Visayas and Mindanao to modernize its infrastructure.
Once deployed, Nokia’s solution will support Globe’s residential wireline postpaid and prepaid broadband services.
The new structure will help Globe optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) while introducing a capability to support fixed wireless access (FWA) services, enabling Globe to offer the solution towards fixed mobile convergence.
“We are committed to continuously improving our network infrastructure to provide the best possible broadband experience to our subscribers,” said Joel Agustin, Globe senior vice president for network planning and engineering at its network technical group.
“Nokia’s new BNG solution introduces capability to evolve into a flexible multi-access gateway that can combine wireline and wireless access technologies, enabling us to further increase efficiencies. We are looking forward to working with Nokia on this crucial initiative,” Agustin said.
Nokia’s solution includes 7750 Service Router (SR), which will be used as a BNG platform to support broadband services with subscriber management, bandwidth management and per-subscriber policy control.
Globe will also use Nokia’s 7750 SR Extended Services Appliance (ESA) to support Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation and Application Assurance functions.
“We have a longstanding partnership with Globe Telecom and are now delighted to work on this initiative to modernize the BNG network for an overall improved broadband experience,” said Kent Wong, vice president and head of IP Business at Nokia Asia Pacific.
“Our industry-leading BNG solution equipped with multi-access gateway capabilities is based on 7750 SR and powered by our breakthrough FP network processor technology and proven Service Router Operating System [SR OS[ will help build a scalable, flexible and energy-efficient broadband network and pave the way for future evolution towards Fixed Mobile Convergence,” Wong said.
