Above shows the Nokia
Flexi EDGE Base Station.
Europe
: Nokia introduced the Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station, a new revolutionary
product for building out GSM/EDGE networks more cost effectively and
quickly than ever before.
In developing the Flexi EDGE Base Station, the smallest on the market,
Nokia has taken full advantage of its latest innovations in electronics
and system design to provide operators with a compact and powerful
platform to deploy high quality networks with minimized operating
and capital expenditures.
Based on a modular compact design, the Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station
makes a significant impact on GSM/EDGE network coverage and capacity,
as well as making base station siting easier and faster. Operators
gain cost savings in site deployment, operations and in reduced number
of sites - all resulting in lower network total cost of ownership.
Nokia's Flexi EDGE Base Station delivers market leading radio performance
ensuring excellent coverage for wide and hot spot areas. As a result
it reduces remarkably the number of sites needed. Also, the compact
design of the new Flexi Base Station requires much less space and
therefore can make more efficient use of existing or new base station
sites. The high capacity Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station enables easy
capacity upgrades as traffic increases. Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station
also delivers significant improvements in power consumption.
Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station deliveries are expected to start from
mid 2007 onwards.
"The new Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station is designed to further
enhance operator revenue and to
deliver superb operational efficiencies and capabilities. In mature
markets the new Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station enables operators to
strengthen their radio capacity and to ensure the service continuity
for WCDMA networks. In new growth markets, Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station
supports fast and cost-effective GSM network rollout and deployment,
both critical success factors for operators building businesses on
mass market low ARPU customer bases," says Ari Lehtoranta, Senior
Vice President, Radio Networks, Nokia.
The Flexi EDGE Base Station's weather-proof modules can be installed
indoors or outdoors stacked on a floor or shelf, mounted on wall or
pole, or fitted in cabinet or any standard 19" rack. As the modules
are so small and lightweight, one person can carry the modules and
install a base station, thus leading to a faster network deployment.
The new Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station is the latest variant in the
family of Nokia Flexi Base Station products. The Nokia Flexi Base
Station platform, unique in the industry, brings the benefits of modularity
to GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and WiMAX operators. The three Nokia Flexi
Base Station variants, all based on modular architecture provided
by the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI), create great
synergies in radio network deployment, operation and maintenance.
In addition to its newly launched Flexi EDGE Base Station, Nokia has
previously launched Nokia Flexi WCDMA and Nokia Flexi WiMAX base stations.
Nokia is highlighting its Flexi Base Station products at the Nokia
World conference, Amsterdam, November 29-30.
