Nokia Siemens Networks Launches Flexi BSC with reduced energy consumption up to 80 percent

Nokia Siemens’ says its new Flexi base station controller (BSC) reduces energy consumption up to 80 percent, with a 40 percent increase in capacity when compared to existing base station controllers. The Flexi BSC comes with Packet Abis and A over IP, two new transport features that enable operators to adopt all-IP for communicating among the base station, base station controller, and mobile switching center. Cost savings can be maximized by using IP over Ethernet transport, the common transport technology for GSM, 3G and LTE.

Prashant Agnihotri, head of Nokia Siemens Networks’ GSM/EDGE product management, explains that “Higher voice capacity with fewer base station controllers reduces energy consumption, a major cost for operators, along with simplifying operations and maintenance resulting in lower OPEX. We are committed to driving scalable products that maximize operators’ investment and provide a clear roadmap to all-IP. Whether it is greener networks, capacity, functional evolution or transmission, the new Flexi BSC is a milestone product.”

Nokia Siemens says Flexi BSC is future-proof and provides an industry leading handling capacity of 4,200 transceivers and over 25,000 Erlangs. This means operators can “replace up to 32 existing base station controllers in the field and enjoy high efficiency in building and operating GSM networks. With the benefits of an optical interface, fewer connections are required, which translates to reduced installation effort, faster rollout, and lower maintenance costs. The new Transcoder TCSM3i configuration also offers 40% more capacity while maintaining the compact size.”

The upgraded software for Flexi BSC and Transcoder TCSM3i is based on 3GPP Release 8. Nokia Siemens reports that commercial deliveries are in progress.

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