Globe, Huawei join forces for network solution

MANILA, Philippines - Globe Telecom Inc. has partnered with Shenzhen-based Huawei for the deployment of a solution to effectively manage a more complex network.

The partnership was sealed by Globe president and chief executive officer Ernest Cu and Huawei wireless product line president David Wang during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain last March 1.

With the tie up, Globe became the first operator in the world to deploy Huawei’s SingleSON (self-organizing network) solution to optimize its wireless network performance as well as the operation and maintenance.

“The capabilities of the SingleSON solution in improving our network’s O&M efficiency and performance are impressive. It will allow us to continuously deliver a great user experience without additional manpower resources to manage an increasingly more complex network,” Globe chief technical advisor Robert Tan said.

Jiang Wangcheng, president of Huawei SingleOSS Product Line, said the company is honored to provide Globe with the SingleSON solution to enhance the state of Globe’s network O&M.

 “The SingleSON technology will be further developed and enhanced with the development of future-oriented 4.5G, 5G, and other advanced wireless communications technologies. In this regard, we will continue providing innovative solutions to our customers in order to help them operate more efficiently and deliver a wonderful customer experience,” Wangcheng said.

The solution enables the telecommunications provider to manage the explosive growth and development in mobile data services traffic.

With unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic and the rapid development of mobile broadband, new network technologies such as long term evolution (LTE)-Advanced coupled with small cells are becoming a new trend to address explosive data growth. 5G technologies are likewise being defined and developed to serve the huge data requirements as the “Internet of Things” is expected to become widespread.

Enabling Globe to operate an increasingly more complex and intelligent network, Huawei would leverage on its technological leadership in radio access network research and development to launch the innovative SingleSON solution to improve overall network performance, O&M efficiency and quality.

The solution was recently tested live on the Globe mobile network’s 20,000 2G, 3G and 4G cells – the largest deployment thus far for Huawei SingleSON.

According to Globe, the performance of the solution achieved remarkable results and exceeded expectations with immediate improvement on both drop call rates as well as users’ throughput. It also exhibited better sharing of radio resources between layers and technologies.