Comsol Networks, a leading provider of enterprise-grade licensed wireless infrastructure in South Africa, said that it has completed its trial of the Telecom Infra Project-incubated (TIP) Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) solution in its lab in South Africa.
The trial evaluated how open and disaggregation technology can function in Comsol’s existing network infrastructure and is the first step in a broader strategy to explore new and innovative solutions for their network architectures. The trial was conducted using Network Operating System (NOS) provided by IP Infusion, Edgecore hardware and integration services by Infin8Africa.
According to TIP, the DCSG is a shift from the traditional way networks are deployed and being widely adopted to change the future of networks for service providers to meet their innovation and service’s needs. Following these successful lab trials, Comsol will now proceed with a field trial using TIP DCSG. ‘Comsol views the Disaggregation Infrastructure as a vital part of our 5G-FWA strategy and deployment moving forward. This will contribute towards Comsol providing a truly value-for-money service to the market that is underpinned by a much-needed quality which in turn enhances the end-user experience of the 5G arena in South Africa. The DCSG was developed within TIP’s Open Optical & Packet Transport (OOPT) Project Group, by a sub-group led by Vodafone and Facebook. The TIP DCSG uses open, standard-based, disaggregated network technologies to target several opportunities in operators’ IP aggregation networks. This includes overall deployment cost reductions and the creation of a more diverse supply chain as well as operational efficiencies from being able to use Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies for network management automation. The results of this trial will be contributed to TIP’s OOPT Project Group.
Atsushi Ogata, President and CEO, IP Infusion
This successful trial of our DCSG solution is another proof point that our OcNOS network operating system accelerates disaggregated networking for service providers and delivers TIP-compliant and advanced services at a lower total cost of ownership.
Mauritz Lewies, CTO, Comsol Networks
This successful trial of our DCSG solution is another proof point that our OcNOS network operating system accelerates disaggregated networking for service providers and delivers TIP-compliant and advanced services at a lower total cost of ownership.
