Alcatel-Lucent is opening up Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, to the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity by launching a superfast, 100Gbps fibre optic network with MTN Nigeria.
MTN Nigeria, which covers more than almost 90% of Nigeria’s land mass and 86,2% of the population, will deploy a 100G network that re-uses existing 10G optical assets thereby preserving MTN past investments.
Nigeria’s growing economy is fueling a proliferation of mobile subscribers, which number about 275 to every one landline in the country. As a result, Nigeria has a significant need for reliable, mobile broadband access to support growing demand for bandwidth hungry services such as streaming video plus the ever-increasing need from enterprises for storage and data centre connections.
The new network also gives MTN the capacity and flexibility to offer wholesale services to other service providers in the region.
MTN Nigeria is the biggest mobile operator in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and West Africa region with more than 58-million subscribers and also is the largest subsidiary in the MTN Group – a multinational telecommunications group offering world-class cellular network access and business solutions to more than 210-million subscribers in 22 countries across Africa and the Middle East.
Alcatel-Lucent is supporting MTN Nigeria’s rapid growth in mobile subscribers by building a 100G DWDM/OTN network using Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) platform, a family of equipment that has been designed according to the latest international SD-FEC zero touch photonics and coherent technology.
Alcatel-Lucent Agile Optical Networking combines WDM, OTN, and GMPLS/ASON control plane intelligence to assure scalable, versatile, reliable and efficient transport at 100G and beyond.
