Vodafone Hutchison Australia selects Cisco for 4G

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has selected Cisco to accelerate deployment of 4G long-term evolution (LTE) network with Cisco ASR 5500 as the mobile multimedia core platform.

VHA is in the midst of transforming how it meets the changing demands of the Australian consumer with the planned roll-out of the Vodafone 4G network, scheduled to launch mid-year.

The Cisco ASR 5500 will be the foundation of VHA's Evolve Packet Core (EPC). With the ASR 5500's ability to simplify capacity and traffic management and provide proactive, predictive monitoring and management, VHA gains the increased network efficiency and intelligence required to provide an optimal experience for Vodafone 4G customers.

Cisco's professional services team will also work closely with VHA to help ensure the solution is planned, designed, tested and implemented quickly and efficiently.

"We are committed to providing our millions of customers with a great 4G network experience. We believe the implementation of Cisco's technology will provide VHA a Packet Core platform that we can scale to meet the data demands of our customers, now and in the future. Moreover this platform gives us the opportunity to go beyond traditional mobile services and allows us to create more personalised services for customers," said Cliff Woo, CTO, VHA.

The Cisco ASR 5500 is the first mobile platform designed to scale to terabit performance and tens of millions of sessions and support the transaction rates required to address the needs of Vodafone's new 4G network. The capabilities of the Cisco ASR 5500 platform have been developed to address the anticipated increase in performance requirements of next generation networks.

"The Cisco ASR 5500 platform sets a new standard for intelligent performance that redefines the economics of the core network. Together with VHA and Cisco's professional services teams, the ASR 5500's massive performance, scale, and flexibility open up new opportunities for VHA to deliver an enhanced mobile experience for Vodafone customers through more highly personalised mobile services," said Richard Kitts, vice president of Services for the Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region.

VHA joins over 210 other service providers around the world in taking advantage of the flexibility provided by the Cisco ASR 5000 Series platform to meet the dynamic and ever-evolving demands of the mobile Internet.