Bansat to roll out Cellular Backhaul Network in Colombia using ND SatCom’s SKYWAN 5G Technology
March 6, 2017
ND SatCom announced that its partner Bansat will install cellular backhaul solutions for a leading mobile service provider in South and Latin America. Bansat will use ND SatCom’s SKYWAN platform to extend Ku-band connectivity and deliver 3G voice and data services with upgrade capability to support 4G/LTE.
Bogota-based Bansat operates the teleport from its own premises in the capital and offers service coverage of Colombia and Central America countries. Bansat is a certified partner of ND SatCom with experience in SKYWAN technology.
Initial deployment of the SKYWAN 5G-based technology will connect a major city in the Amazonas region to the core network of the mobile service provider in Bogota. During field tests with live cellular traffic, Bansat successfully demonstrated high-quality voice performance and excellent link stability throughout.
“We are proud that we not only backhauled data traffic for short periods but also successfully activated exclusive transmission of real voice and data traffic from the 50,000-plus mobile users of Leticia, a city located in the Amazon region of Colombia,” said Wladimir Bahury, Director of Business Development, ND SatCom South America. “Moreover, it is the first time Ku-band satellite capacity from Hispasat was used to backhaul cellular traffic in the region. Similar solutions in the past turned out very costly using limited C-band space segment resources.”
Mr. Bahury further stated, “One of ND SatCom’s strategic focal points over the last 12 months was the Cellular Backhaul vertical market where SKYWAN 5G is an ideal fit for mobile network operators. ND SatCom enhanced these opportunities by developing dedicated solutions to refine backhaul performance. It’s great to see our customers fully benefiting from our cutting-edge technology”.
“In the operational phase of several weeks, we saw a fair mix of data and voice traffic. We were able to connect cells to the core network quite efficiently and reliably with just a single SKYWAN 5G node without need for optimization features. Using WAN compression and optimization techniques to minimize the protocol overhead and signaling traffic, more user traffic can be forwarded on a given Ku-band link,” Alvaro Sandoval Romero, CEO of Bansat, stated. “We were pleased to have strong support from the mobile service provider’s team who helped us quickly switch to the Ku-band network and achieve high service quality levels, while simultaneously maintaining maximum availability levels throughout as stipulated by this client.”
SKYWAN 5G, the ONE solution from ND SatCom, is a MF-TDMA VSAT satellite router with unique bidirectional transmission capabilities to quadruple the throughput per node by cascading.
With SKYWAN 5G’s load balancing feature, overbooking of traffic in all TDMA channels is avoidable. The TDMA access scheme in SKYWAN 5G is programmed to share the entire capacity on all channels and minimize OpEx by utilizing all available satellite transponder slots. The dynamic flow-based routing feature allows real-time traffic such as voice to benefit from minimal jitter of under 5 msec, the best achievable in the VSAT domain. This technology ensures superior real-time performance for cellular networks via satellite transmission. This means Bansat and Claro benefit from additional data traffic and higher customer satisfaction due to the high packet-processing rate, where the fill rate for all channels is dynamically and efficiently maximized.
Future plans are to build more links using SKYWAN 5G’s capabilities to maximize the number of remote backhaul stations and efficiently expand reliable network coverage.