PT Indosat, the second largest telecommunication company in Indonesia, has contracted Alcatel-lucent to ramp up an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul infrastructure in the country.

As a part of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will render its 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), all managed end-to-end by the 5620 Service Aware Manager

The preliminary phase of the project has already been deployed and is live. With this deployment, Indosat will be able to fully exploit the scalability and cost efficiencies of IP in the mobile backhaul network - from backbone to first mile, says ALU.

“Deploying Alcatel-Lucent's solution will help us prepare for emerging next-generation wireless network services and scale to meet bandwidth demand for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and eventually 4G,”said Jin Tiong Lim, Group Head of Cellular Network Planning & Eng.Indosat.

Earlier, Alcatel-Lucent has supplied Indosat with 2G and 2.5G network solutions, submarine networks, metro-Ethernet, access and optical transmission solutions.