Product category: Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Livingston UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 March 2004
Afghans sign for RF
and microwave test equipment
Livingston has signed a deal with the Afghan Wireless Communications Company (AWCC) for the sale of RF and microwave test equipment worth more than $500,000
The sale includes power meters, digital radio test sets, communications test sets and protocol analysers from suppliers such as Tektronix, Anritsu and Rhode and Schwarz. Through the deal, Livingston will provide the AWCC with long-established expertise and cost-savings in employing the appropriate test equipment needed in modernising the communications infrastructure in Afghanistan, particularly that of wireless mobile services.
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After years of conflict within Afghanistan a great deal of resource is being focused towards restoring communication links across the country in an effort aimed at rebuilding the infrastructure of a nation on the rebound.
The AWCC is actively engaged in a project aimed at improving the quality of the internal communications network that was destroyed by years of war.
Shawn McDowell, the AWCC Programme Manager explains: "We required a wide range of test equipment from a variety of suppliers to support the network conversion and expansion project to transition from one vendor technology to another.
The existing network has to be replaced to accommodate the rapid growth in new subscribers, and we wanted to work with a supplier who could offer independent product advice, source equipment from multiple suppliers and take care of the complicated paperwork to get the equipment into the country".
The network modernisation project comprises a new mobile switching centre (MSC), high traffic capacity base transceiver station (BTS), microwave backbone and billing platform.
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As wireless mobile services are the primary means of communication, the network traffic per subscriber in Afghanistan is substantially higher than most western based wireless service providers.
This makes it imperative that AWCC uses the best equipment to maintain the network and provide the best service possible.
"We provided a range of test equipment to the AWCC from a number of suppliers including Racal, Tektronix, Agilent, Rohde and Schwarz, Sunrise and Anritsu", said Livingston's Paul Pavli.
"However, the biggest problem faced by Livingston was the complex logistics and export control procedures required to ensure safe, secure delivery of the test equipment, on time and within budget".
Bernard Ellett, Director of Livingston's Global Division explains: "As Afghanistan is covered by export control restrictions, we spent a great deal of time liasing with the DTI to ensure export regulations were adhered to.
As Livingston provide and manage test equipment in more than 100 countries worldwide, we have a great deal of experience in this area.
This experience enabled the units to be shipped as quickly as possible, and the fact that AWCC was able to source a solution from one supplier, was a major advantage to them".
In addition to some general purpose equipment, the equipment provided by Livingston includes protocol analysers from Tektronix for monitoring the correct management of traffic on the network, power meters from Rhode and Schwarz, which along with Anritsu network analysers, and Racal digital radio test sets are used for the installation and commissioning of the GSM BTSs.
Moreover, in order to check the quality of the wireline communications used in the supporting infrastructure, Livingston supplied Acterna ANT-5 handheld SDH analysers.
Thus the equipment supplied by Livingston helps AWCC to test the mobile network from the air interface right through to connectivity to the core network.
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