Airtel selects Ericsson for VoLTE expansion
Airtel has deployed a pan-India 4G network and rolled out VoLTE to offer HD quality calling over 4G smartphones and smart watches.
Ericsson has been selected by Bharti Airtel (Airtel), to expand its VoLTE (voice over LTE) services in India. This agreement will result in deployment of the Ericsson Cloud VoLTE solution, an industrialised solution to deliver VoLTE services onto a customer data centre. The solution enables high-definition voice (HD voice) and provides modern communication services experiences across many types of devices, over LTE, Wi-Fi, and future 5G access.
As per the Ericsson Mobility Report, June 2018 edition, India is expected to have more than 780 million VoLTE subscriptions by 2023. VoLTE technology will also be the foundation for enabling 5G voice calls on different types of 5G devices.
Ericsson Cloud VoLTE is an industrialised solution to deliver VoLTE services onto a customer data-centre cloud. The solution includes a complete virtual IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and supporting nodes to add VoLTE service to an existing LTE data network, and serves as a foundation to evolve and expand voice and other communication services.
It includes pre-integrated and validated the design, a trained central delivery team, and delivery assets to ensure a fast, accurate and optimised solution delivery.