NEC Company has made historical past as the primary firm to earn the Telecom Infra Challenge (TIP) Phoenix Gold Badge for its progressive Community Working System (NOS) software program, designed to run on whitebox optical transponders. The Gold Badge is a mark of excellence for options that meet TIP’s rigorous requirements for industrial deployment.
MTN, considered one of Africa’s largest cellular community operators, helped to fulfill the Gold Badge necessities by the execution of testing and report submission, which demonstrated NOS’s industrial viability within the optical transport market. By leveraging open-source know-how, NOS simplifies the deployment of versatile, carrier-grade optical networks whereas enabling price financial savings and selling innovation.
Actual-world affect: sooner, extra inexpensive connectivity
NOS was efficiently examined in MTN’s optical community throughout key routes in South Africa, delivering 400G transmission and seamless compatibility with current techniques. These checks, performed in partnership with NEC subsidiary NEC XON highlighted the real-world advantages of NEC’s know-how for community operators like MTN.
NEC XON was answerable for the set up of kit and system integration for these discipline checks. NOS has additionally been deployed in NTT Communications’ inside networks, demonstrating its world attraction.
“At MTN, we’re proud to have hosted the testing of this breakthrough know-how. Phoenix 400G connectivity marks a major milestone in our journey in direction of delivering dependable and scalable community options. This achievement will permit us to deploy our optical community connectivity options faster and extra flexibly due to its open and disaggregated nature,” stated Lloyd Mphahlele, GM of transport and OSS instruments in group know-how at MTN.
Anthony Laing, GM of networking at NEC XON, added: “Open networking is reworking the trade by lowering prices and fostering innovation. We’re proud to assist NEC and MTN on this achievement, which empowers operators like MTN to ship inexpensive connectivity throughout Africa. This milestone recognises NEC’s management in creating open, scalable and cost-effective options for optical transport networks, paving the best way for community operators to undertake future-ready know-how.”
A collaborative journey in direction of open networks
The Phoenix initiative, pushed by TIP’s Open Optical and Packet Transport (OOPT) Group, focuses on creating open, disaggregated optical and IP networks. Members embody main operators akin to NTT, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and MTN. NEC’s success displays shut collaboration with TIP and companions to develop sensible options that meet the wants of recent networks.
“We’re thrilled to be the world’s first vendor to obtain the Gold Badge within the discipline of NOS for optical transponders. We now have developed an understanding of TIP’s stringent necessities by our expertise with discipline checks and ongoing collaboration with TIP, enabling us to earn this badge,” stated So Sato, senior director of the community options enterprise division at NEC Company. “We place nice significance on our ties with TIP and the community operators taking part in these actions, and stay dedicated to strengthening these relationships and contributing to the event of open options for the optical transport market.”
About NEC XON
NEC XON is a number one African integrator of ICT options and a part of NEC, a Japanese world firm. NEC XON has operated in Africa since 1963 and delivers communications, vitality, security, safety and digital options. It co-creates social worth by innovation to assist overcome critical societal challenges. The organisation operates in 54 African nations and has a footprint in 16 of them. Regional headquarters are situated in South, East and West Africa. NEC XON is a degree 1-certified broad-based black financial empowerment enterprise. Uncover extra at www.nec.xon.co.za.
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