Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has inked a commercial contract with Austin-based company Aviat Networks under which the latter will supply its wireless multiband radios.
As part of the contract, Airtel will deploy Aviat’s all-outdoor WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-Band solutions with the aim of expanding the capacity of its microwave backhaul network.
Aviat said that its multi-band, vendor agnostic feature enables traffic aggregation from multiple links, which improves network congestion and gives better speeds to customers. Aviat Networks will also undertake maintenance and deployment as part of the deal with the Indian telco. Airtel will deploy dual channel E-Band radio to augment its existing installed microwave network as well as new greenfield links in support of its ongoing 5G network deployments.
