Annual report 2008 - Polkomtel

T h e l a r g e s t
n e t w o r k i n P o l a n d
by 22% compared to the previous
the capacity of many platforms for
ity of the OCP nodes at the end of
the Sigtran protocol. This is tied to
the rush hours. In absolute values,
work based on the Sigtran protocol
year. In the last week of 2008, the
value added services. At present,
2008 amounted to 5.39 millions of
the development of network tech-
this means a growth of the monthly
and IP transport.
network was capable of transferring
the Polkomtel S.A. network is capa-
call set-up attempts per hour.
nology towards IP-based common
volume by as much as 206 TB. The
almost 200,000 erlangs during rush
ble of servicing 100 MMS messages
packet transport.
growth rate was over twice as high
R ollout 2008 was once again im-
hours. During 2008, the number of
per second, and 8500 SMS messag-
I n view of the planned mass mi-
as during the previous year. In or-
plemented under the process of
GSM base stations rose by 5%, and
the number of UMTS base stations
es per second. The MMSC platform
was also upgraded – its architecture
gration of pre-paid users from the
SICAP system, in 2008 the Company
Network development
der to service the future traffic with
such growth rate, and due to voice
turnkey construction of base stations,
with the participation of
by 74%. In 2008, the development
was modified and adapted to ensure
undertook actions meant to increase
In terms of Inter-network traffic
traffic serviced on the basis of Re-
external partners. In 2008, the
of the voice core network was based
the failure-free service of traffic with
the capacity of the Alcatel-Lucent’s
exchange, at the end of 2008 the
lease 4 of the 3GPP architecture,
Company implemented solutions
primarily on the 3GPP Release
changed profile, especially at inter-
Intelligent Network platform, which
Company had 19 points of inter-
which requires an effective pack-
meant to improve process capac-
4 architecture, using IP technology
faces to other mobile networks. The
constitutes an integral element of
connection with international op-
age transport network, aside from
ity – of both Polkomtel S.A. and its
for transport. The share of traffic
investments into development and
the target pre-paid solution in the
erators (POI), and three subsequent
development of infrastructure to
principal partners, namely Erics-
served by this infrastructure ex-
modernization of the voice mail sys-
form of Convergent Billing. Thus,
ones were being tested. The range
service packet transmission of the
son and Nokia Siemens Networks.
ceeded 23% in 2008 and shall con-
tem allowed to increase its capacity.
the Alcatel-Lucent’s Intelligent Net-
of available points of interconnec-
users’ data, the Company made fur-
In terms of network development
tinue to increase significantly in the
This was possible in part thanks to the
work at the end of 2008 was ready
tion with domestic operators was
ther investments. After selection of
in 2008, the goals regarding the
coming years. It is also worth noting
initiation of a new node. The capac-
to service 9 millions of active pre-
also extended to include another
the winning tender already in 2007,
number of integrated new 2G and
that traffic migration from 2G to 3G
ity of the voice mail system amounts
paid users. A number of other serv-
34, and their total number amount-
a completely new packet transport
3G base stations, and moderniza-
network increased significantly in
currently to 10,320,000 boxes, and
ice platforms were also modernized
ed to 198 at the end of 2008. The
2008. At the end of the year, voice
services under 3G network amounted
to 8.5% of all voice calls in the
whole network, and almost 14% in
most of the voice mail nodes in the
network are already adapted to service
multimedia messages.
in 2008.
Reliable infrastructure
network developed visibly towards
packet transport technology and
packet data transmission, which
was determined by the demand of
In 2008, Polkomtel S.A. launched the IMS technical
infrastructure, which is the technological root from which
new generations of network architecture will grow.
the nine largest cities and metro-
I n order to assure capacity need-
Due to the 35-percent growth of
mobile users to access fast data
politan areas.
ed to service the current number
signaling traffic in the network, the
transmission technologies, and by
network was built, based on the IP/
tion of 2G networks in terms of the
of pre-paid customers using the
existing STP nodes were expanded
the significant scale of voice traf-
MPLS technology. This network took
EDGE technology (by replacement
Service platforms
CAMEL technology, in 2008 the
Company undertook actions meant
to the maximum possible capacity.
The network was enlarged by
fic migration to the 3GPP Release
4 architecture. Users of data trans-
over the whole traffic and replaced
the previous IP backbone network.
of equipment in over 800 stations)
were achieved in practically 100%.
In order to serve the constantly
to enlarge the capacity of the OCP
adding two new nodes, already
mission services have sent 330
This network serves also as the ba-
The 2008 rollout was the largest
growing number of subscribers
nodes which are part of the SICAP
equipped with processors dedicat-
terabytes (TB) of data in December
sis for continuing migration of the
ever in the Company’s history.
and the increasing network traffic,
pre-paid platform. After completion
ed to service the signaling traffic
2008, and the upstream of Internet
SS7 signaling network based on the
Polkomtel S.A. has also increased
of this enlargement, the total capac-
on the basis of IP technology under
traffic reached 2.2 Gbit/s during
TDM technology to signaling net-
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