Oct to Nov 2010 - Teletimes

Syed Salman Ahmed
Vodacom South Africa
maintained uninterrupted services
throughout global soccer tournament
Nokia Siemens Networks’ Special Event Support services provided network
planning, optimization, operations support and care
South Africa’s largest network
operator, Vodacom
South Africa, successfully handled
a surge in network traffic
due to an influx of half a million
visitors throughout the
2010 World Cup. The operator
met the increased demand for
network capacity and avoided
any degradation in performance
supported by Nokia
Siemens Networks’ Special
Event Support (SES) services*.
These included consultancy,
back-end network monitoring,
network optimization and care
services.
Techaccess
maintaining
the tradition of achieving
various partners accolades has
been the recipient of partner
of year 2010 for Oracle Databases
(Technology) and Action
with Exadata (Oracle Databases
machine) which is an evolutionary
database extreme performance
and consolidation
solution as the result of Oracle
Corporation’s acquisition
of Sun Microsystems. These
awards were presented in the
partners event where Oracle
unveiled its future focus and
“There was a huge surge in
network traffic during the soccer
world cup and in some cases
the traffic on a single base
station increased by more than
500%. We were determined
to not only meet the increased
traffic demands, but also reconcile
the varying needs and
call patterns of foreign and local
subscribers,” said Andries
Delport, executive director,
network and information technology,
Vodacom South Africa.
“From the preparation phase
to the conclusion of the games
Nokia Siemens Networks’ support
guaranteed high network
quality. We thank the company
for its excellent professional
and proactive support to
ensure uninterrupted services
for our subscribers.”
“A sudden increase in traffic
during major events puts huge
pressure on mobile networks,
and can cause congestion, revenue
losses and customer dissatisfaction,”
said Paul Divall,
Vodacom South Africa customer
team head at Nokia Siemens
Networks. “With our vast experience
in helping operators
maintain excellent network
and service performance under
extreme traffic conditions, we
established the most efficient
way to maintain the network
for Vodacom South Africa.”
During the preparation phase,
Nokia Siemens Networks provided
capacity forecasting and
optimization services to ensure
network readiness across event
hotspots such as stadiums, fan
parks and airports. During the
event, a parallel Network Operations
Centre (NOC) was set
up to monitor the operator’s
multi-vendor radio access network,
transmission network,
and service delivery across
these hotspots. Nokia Siemens
Networks also established processes
related to event set up,
and risk and crisis management,
in addition to reviewing
operational readiness on a
regular basis. T
Hasan Shabbir
Techaccess receives awards
strategy and commended the
partners for their outstanding
achievements. This event was
attended by Oracle Regional
Channels Director for Singapore,
Philippines & Pakistan
Liu Chee Leng, Oracle Pakistan
MD Muhammad Ahsen Javed
and other senior officials of
Oracle Pakistan and Techaccess
Pakistan was represented
by the President & CEO Syed
Iqtidar Zaidi, VP Sales Amir
Rauf Khan and Sr. Business
Manager Abid Aziz and other
senior officials of Techaccess. T
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