Details
of Caricel’s plans to deploy a state-of-the-art 4G LTE are slowly beginning to
emerge.
On
Tuesday May 31st 2016, Alepo, a Network infrastructure company
announced a partnership with Comtech Telecommunications to build the 4G LTE
Platform for Symbiote Investments Limited as reported in the article “Alepo,
Comtech to deliver LTE platform for Caricel”, published Tuesday 31 May
2016, Telecompaper.
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The
partnership will provide Caricel with a Telecom Network that will allow the
principal investors in Symbiote Investments Limited to launch their Telecom Network
by August 2016 as reported in my blog article
entitled “How
JA$6.2 billion Symbiote Investments Limited Spectrum may be Chinese-Jamaican
Telecom Provider”.
I
still suspect the principal investors are Jamaicans from the Diaspora being
supported by an as-yet-to-be-named Chinese investor as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
Caricel's US$100 million 4G LTE using White Space and Chinese Investors come
August 2016”.
So
what will the Alepo and Contech Telecommunications bring to Caricel?
Alepo and Contech
Telecommunications – Caricel building advanced money making 4G LTE Network
The
Alepo and Contech Telecommunications partnership will bring some interesting
features to Caricel's 4G LTE Network as described in the article “Caricel
choose monetization platform LTE Aleppo”, published may 31 2016 by Andrew
Krom, Telesemana.
These
features will include:
1. PCRF
(Policy charging and Rules Function)
2. OCS
(Online Charging System)
3. CRM
(Customer Relations for Management)
4. HSS
(Home Subscriber Service)
PCRF,
which was initially introduced in 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project
3GPP) Release 5 for the 4G LTE Network, is mainly responsible for policy-making
and control decisions. It responds to UE (User Equiptment) demand for better
QoS (Quality of Service) by initiating such demands from the IMS (IP Multimedia
Core Network Subsystem), ensuring that streaming service work well.
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OCS
is the billing platform used by the Telecom Provider to charge their customer
in real time for their data usage. The CRM support the billing service by
acting as the front-end interface with the customer for the purposes of
billing!
The
HSS (Home Subscriber Server) is basically the HLR (Home Location Register) that
is present in pre-IMS Networks i.e. 2G/GSM and 3G/UMTS Networks and the AuC
(Authentication Center), a fairly new piece of technology unique to 4G LTE Networks.
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The
HLR part of the HSS does the traditional job of storing and updating a database
that tracks subscribers of a 3GPP standard 4G LTE Network along with the other
information needed to terminate voice and data traffic:
1. IMSI
(International Mobile subscriber Information)
2. IMEI
(International Mobile Equiptment Information)
3. MSISDN
(Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number)
The
AuC part of the HSS generates security information from user identity keys,
which is provided to the HLR and makes communication to other foreign Networks’
secure.
Having
these serviced implemented will ensure that the Jamaican-owned 4G LTE Network
will be on par with international 4G LTE deployments in other parts of the world
as noted in the article “Caricel
preparing to bring 4G LTE service to Jamaica”, published Thursday, June 02,
2016, The Jamaica Observer.
Dear
reader, stay tuned to my blog for more details on Caricel and their up and
coming launch sometime in August 2016.
Here’s
the link:
Symbiote
Investments Limited
4
Eastwood Avenue,
Kingston
10
Tel:
876-614-4444
Website:
http://www.caricel.net
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaricelJamaica:
@Cariceljamaica
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