Samsung bags RIL's LTE deal worth US $20 million

Samsung has bagged US $20 million LTE deal from Infotel Broadband Services (Infotel), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL).

As part of the deal, Samsung will deploy LTE base stations, including all associated systems and network support services. The deal includes Radio Access Network (RAN) and 3G/LTE core infrastructure solutions to be deployed in RIL. The deployment will mark Samsung's first commercial LTE network roll-out in India.

The company plans to deploy Smart LTE solution offering better performance than conventional LTE with about two times more capacity at cell edge as well as enhanced coverage. Samsung plans to supply 3,000 eNodeB to RIL and it is planned to be deployed in Jamnagar and Mumbai. In the first phase, plans are for shipping 100 eNodeBs by December, 2012.

Plans are to deploy Samsung's Smart Cloud solution, a future-proof solution which applies cloud computing principles to LTE technology for RIL. Smart Cloud solution is part of Samsung’s Smart LTE solution portfolio and is designed to maximize the utilization of networks through specialized resource allocation technology.

With Samsung’s Smart Cloud solution, Radio Units (RUs), which reside in their own local site perform and manage radio transmissions. The Digital Units (DUs), connected to RUs via fiber optic backhaul, manage all communication signals centrally. As the solution enables the management of overall network conditions out of one hub, operators can not only effectively allocate radio resources by time and location according to the volume of data traffic, but also benefit from improving network scalability and capacity.

Samsung applies its own advanced radio resource allocation technology to Smart Cloud, enabling operators to reduce interferences between network cells and sectors and it also helps in substantially reduce CAPEX and OPEX by decreasing the required number of base stations compared to conventional system.

RIL plans to offer innovative 4G services like high speed Internet, entertainment services, and home security services to consumers using TD-LTE technology.

Pravin Prashant

pravinp@cybermedia.co.in