Russian manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and subsidiary of Rostelecom, BULAT, has successfully completed the initial stage of prototype field testing for the first domestic base station (BS) of GSM/LTE-1800 standards. As part of this trial, 20 base stations were installed on a test segment of a commercial telecom operator’s network. Practical results from the trial using the target hardware platform and software will be used in further development and optimization of the hardware and software complex.
The tests confirmed the compliance of signal transmission levels with the calculated ones, demonstrated the required quality of mobile voice connection and the availability of telecommunications network data services.
The base station software was developed by New Telecom Solutions LLC (NTR). The forward contract between BULAT and Rostelecom for the supply of up to 17 thousand base stations until 2026 was concluded in December 2022.
Alexander Komarov, General Director, BULAT LLC
In December 2023, we launched a pilot test cluster of 20 base stations on a real mobile network. The results of the tests allow us to say with confidence that the target GSM/LTE-1800 BS solution will be ready in the first half of 2024, and mass production will begin in the same year.
