RIYADH, 16 July - Ericsson has started experimental operation of Engine, its new broadband multiservice network, in the Kingdom as Saudi Telecom Company is weighing prospects of applying the new system.
According to the Swedish company, the network which offers speedy communication services, would reduce the cost of planning, execution and maintenance by 60 percent and infrastructure by 30 percent.
"The cost of communication will be brought down by 25 percent," Bo Nilsson, managing director of Ericsson Saudi Arabia, told Arab News while explaining the new network’s features and benefits.
He underlined the significance of such broadband systems in the wake of growing telecommunication needs. The demand for broadband network will increase by 300 times within the next eight to 10 years, he said citing a study conducted by a US research center.
Nilsson said telecommunication companies in 60 countries were depending on Engine as the basis for multiservice communication network.
"Ericsson plans for the future of mobile telephones and broadband Internet communication," he said. "We provide full-fledged solutions to facilitate communication in 140 countries worldwide," he added.
Designed for real-time services, Engine is capable of carrying large volumes of IP-based traffic and will build new or migrate operators’ current circuit-switched networks into a single next generation network, based on ATM and IP packet switching technologies.
The Engine multiservice network solution gives both incumbent and new operators a single infrastructure for legacy, new and future services — ultimately leading up to a single, all-IP, packet-based multi-service network, supporting both fixed and mobile communications.
