08 February 2019

Telecom Egypt is claimed to have doubled the capacity on its Delta Region DWDM backbone network.

Commercial deployment of its new high-speed service started earlier last year and is said to represent the first 200G long distance, single carrier transmission service in Africa.

Telecom Egypt has upgraded its existing Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch backbone network to offer higher-speed services to both broadband and mobile customers.

 

The operator’s MD and CEO Ahmed El-Beheiry says: “Doubling capacity on our existing backbone allows us to offer high-speed broadband and LTE services in addition to 100GE services for mobile operators, while reducing costs.”

With growth in demand for mobile video and ultra broadband services, Telecom Egypt worked closely with Nokia to enhance its current backbone network.

It’s claimed that by upgrading its existing Nokia Photonic Service Switch (PSS) 1830 switches with the vendor’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE) technology, the operator has not only doubled its capacity but has also reduced its operating costs.

The deployment includes Nokia’s 500G DWDM muxponder, a programmable card that is said to provide wavelength capacities from 50G to 250G per line port.

Based on Nokia’s PSE coherent digital signal processor, this programmability is designed to allow Telecom Egypt to provision and tune wavelength capacity per optical route to ensure that its network is operated at peak performance, capacity and lowest cost-per-gigabit.

“This is exactly what we had in mind when we designed the 1830 PSS platform,” says Nokia’s MEA head Amr El-Leithy. “Its flexibility and easy upgradability will allow [Telecom Egypt] to proactively manage the data explosion and develop new revenue streams – all the while improving the experience for their customers.”