Spanish mobile operator Yoigo has an ambitious goal: tripling its number of customers and taking 10 percent market share in that European country by 2015. To do that, it’s increasing the capacity of its 3G network with help from Tellabs.
Tellabs’ 8600 Managed Edge System will support Yoigo’s growth and manage the anticipated growth in data traffic.
Expansion means Yoigo’s mobile backhaul network – managed by Ericsson Spain – will consist of over 100 Radio Access Network (RAN) nodes. Ericsson will implement the Tellabs 8630 Access Switch and Tellabs 8660 Edge Switch network elements to aggregate 3G traffic. It’s designed to evolve Yoigo to an all-IP network, and, at the same time maintain support for legacy traffic.
Yoigo will also deploy the Tellabs 8000 Intelligent Network Manager, which should help the carrier provision mobile services faster and more easily. Yoigo expects to complete the deployment by 2012.
“Our aggressive growth strategy is built on offering our customers a high quality of service at competitive prices," said Bricio Valera, network rollout director at Yoigo. “With the Tellabs 8600 system, we can invest in the expansion of our network and still offer our customers competitive pricing."
Sweden-based TeliaSonera owns three-quarters of Yoigo, which currently has 2.5 million subscribers.
Yoigo is one of 160 customers using the Tellabs 8600 system for mobile backhaul around the world.
