07 January 2019

Parallel Wireless and Telesol are collaborating to connect citizens and businesses in Ghana with 4G wireless services.

It’s claimed that a virtualised 4G Open RAN enables rapid deployment of wireless broadband.

Parallel will deploy an Open RAN solution which it claims offers low cost, a small footprint and virtualised multi-technology solution to make deployments “easy and affordable” to install.

According to the vendor, its platform offers unique advantages.

It features a carrier-grade Converged Wireless System (CWS) base station which, says the firm, connects to any backhaul technology available today or tomorrow.

It reckons the all-in-one compact CWS maximises data and voice coverage for “superior” quality of experience for Telesol’s 4G customers.

It adds that the CWS can be easily installed and maintained.

Parallel says this enables much more cost-effective networks for places where business models are challenging, and allows faster return on the network investment for operators.

The platform also includes a 2G/3G/4G/5G Wi-Fi hetnet gateway with security gateway.

Parallel says this will enable Telesol  to configure, optimise and automate its network, and to provide “seamless mobility for the best subscriber experience”.

Christoph Fitih, the vendor’s sales director for Africa believes that an Open RAN ecosystem will help eliminate the digital divide.

He says: “African countries need to adopt new technologies to prevent a further marginalisation of Africa from the world economy, and to eliminate the widening of the current digital divide between Africa and the rest of the world.”