Huawei’s lampsite project in Kenya wins Best Network Improvement award at #Africacom2015

Huawei Technologies has bagged two prominent awards at the 18th Annual Africacom event which is Africa’s largest communications conference and exhibition attracting 10 000 delegates.

The African continent’s most prominent ICT and Technology industry’s annual awards event took place in Cape Town with customary flair and anticipation.

The telecom won the coveted Best Network Improvement award for its lampsite solution in Kenya as well as the Breakthrough LTE Development award.

Demand for a high-speed, high-volume data experience is growing as more and more subscribers are introduced to the possibilities of using LTE TDD mobile networks with their smartphones. Obstacles to ensuring the best experience are typically found in providing mobile broadband coverage indoors. Huawei’s LampSite solution quickly and effectively solves this indoor coverage problem to provide the best big data experience.

The lampsite solution is a technology aimed at providing improved indoor broadband experience to mobile subscribers and has so far been deployed for use by Safaricom customers.

LampSite includes a comprehensive set of BBU, RemoteHUB(rHUB) and PicoRRU(pRRU) products along with accompanying transmission solutions. The compact pRRU supports multiple bands and modes and can simultaneously support LTE TDD, LTE FDD, UMTS and GSM. A LampSite indoor coverage network can also be deployed simultaneously with Huawei’s SingleRAN solution.

The solution also comes with a BBU’s baseband sharing feature, one fiber is used for several cells, saving up to 87% of fiber typically used for indoor deployments. rHUB connects to pRRU by cable, and support power over Ethernet (PoE) to simplify site construction and reduce total deployment costs.

LampSite is a part of Huawei’s SoftMobile solution for strengthening MBB pipe profitability, wireless network performance and user experience with ocean-like broadband, on-demand and orchestrated network capabilities.

Unveiled in 2013, in partnership with Safaricom, the solution provides an emergency communication network initially in Nairobi’s sub-urban areas to urban areas in Mombasa awaiting a country wide roll out.

The AfricaCom Awards for 2015, attracted more entries than ever before, with some serious heavyweight projects giving the judges some added food for thought.

Another big winner was Liquid Telecom which won under the Changing Lives Awards category for its service to the Office of the President (Kenya) and Liquid Telecom – free WiFi in Nakuru CountyProject.

Other big winners were Isizwe and FNB Connect, who both won two awards each.

Here are all the winners:
Best Network Improvement – Huawei Technologies for their Lampsite Solution in Kenya
Excellence in Customer Experience Management – First National Bank for FNB Connect
Breakthrough LTE Development – Huawei Technologies for their eLTE Solution for Kenya
Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa – PCCW Global – Keeping African international voice traffic in Africa
Best Connectivity Solution for Africa – Project Isizwe the city of Tshwane’s Free WiFi project
VSAT Innovation for Africa – Vodacom DRC for their Rural Coverage System
Best Marketing Campaign – Unitel for Kisom
Best Mobile Money Service – Ericsson for their Wallet platform
Best App for Africa – Project Isizwe for their Tshwane WiFi Voice Mobile App
Best Device for Africa – Orange for Orange Klif
Most Innovative Service – First National Bank for FNB Connect
Best Pan African Initiative – Trace TV and Music – Trace Music Star
CEO fof the Year – Millicom Ghana Limited – Mrs Roti Mootman
Changing Lives Awards – Liquid Teleocm – Office of the President (Kenya) and Liquid Telecom – free WiFi in Nakuru County