Azotel Technologies Partners With Gateway Business Nigeria To Manage Their Award Winning Wireless Broadband Network
Gateway Business Nigeria to Use its SIMPLerTM OSS Solution for Their Award Winning AirLink and MetroLink Broadband Services
Cork, Ireland--(Marketwire) - Azotel Technologies today announced a contract with Gateway Business Nigeria to use its SIMPLer™ OSS solution for their award winning AirLink™ and MetroLink™ broadband services.
Gateway Business will use Azotel Technologies' industry leading SIMPLer™ platform to operate and manage a network that will deliver wireless broadband connections across Nigeria. This deal follows Gateway Business Nigeria's successful roll-out of its award winning Airlink™ and MetroLink™ wireless broadband services.
Gateway Business Nigeria, headquartered in Lagos, is building a 10.5GHz countrywide, point to multi-point wireless network, which will provide broadband access to the global Internet at speeds comparable to fiber, but with much faster installation in every major city. Up to 8Mb wireless broadband access services will be rolled out across 10 Nigerian states in 2010 and 26 additional states will go live in 2011.
This is all part of a larger plan for Gateway Business, to build an all IP network throughout Africa, connecting every major city on the continent.
Azotel's SIMPLer™ OSS is a full-featured service provider management platform, used to manage single or multiple ISP businesses from sign-up to disconnect. Important SIMPLer™ OSS features include auto provisioning of radio equipment, customer portal with automated sign-up, monthly billing and credit card processing, technical support trouble tickets, installation scheduling, inventory management, sales promotions, management reports and more.
"We have a long-standing relationship with Gateway Communications," said John O'Hare, CEO of Azotel." The fact that they've chosen our SIMPLer™ platform as the OSS solution for a project of this size demonstrates Gateway's confidence in the product itself, and in Azotel's ability to deliver."
"We already use Azotel's SIMPLer solution in several smaller networks," said Paul Jaikaran, Director of Engineering at Gateway Business, "and we've been impressed with the power and flexibility of the system, and the level of support that Azotel provides. When it came to selecting an OSS solution for this project, SIMPLer was the obvious choice for us."
About Azotel Technologies
Azotel Technologies develops integrated customer and network management solutions that help Internet Service Providers improve their business operations, services and profitability. Azotel has its headquarters in Cork, Ireland with regional offices in Canada, Chicago and Poland. For more information on Azotel products and services please visit www.azotel.com.
About Gateway Business
Gateway Business is the leading provider of pan-African corporate connectivity and telecommunications. Gateway Business has customers in 42 sub Saharan countries and works in partnership with Africa's largest businesses and many of the world's principal corporations, helping them stay connected across Africa and into the rest of the world.
With large scale investment in Africa, including new network build and data-centres in southern east and west Africa, Gateway Business provide managed network services and hosted solutions across all sub-Saharan Africa. Gateway Business has 350 local experts on the ground in Africa who are specialists in Oil & Gas, Banking, Mining and Logistics & Distribution, supporting a customer base of over 2,000 corporations.
Gateway Business is wholly owned by Vodacom Group Limited, which is listed on the JSE Limited under the symbol VOD. To find out more, please visit www.gatewaycomms.com
About Gateway Communications
Gateway Communications is the largest provider of carrier solutions in Africa, providing voice and data services to Africa's leading mobile operators. With more than 50 transponders of satellite capacity over Africa it manages more connectivity over the continent than any other operator. Moreover, with 24 dedicated teleports, access to multiple SAT-3 and SEACOM landing ports, 17 African offices and teams of local experts, it has more on the ground support than any other operator.
Gateway Communications is recognized for setting the standards for tomorrow's communications:
- First Class Customer Service SatCom Stars Awards April 2010
- GSM Backhaul Operator of the Year, SatCom Stars Awards April 2010
- Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation, Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards June 2009
To find out more, please visit www.gatewaycomms.com.
SOURCE: Azotel Technologies