Harris Stratex inks five-year deal with Uninor

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Harris Stratex Networks Inc., a provider of wireless solutions, announced that it has signed a five-year contract with Uninor, the joint venture of the Telenor Group and India's Unitech Ltd. 

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The contract is all-inclusive, incorporating supply, install, commission and maintenance services, as well as the backhaul and access microwave links. Harris Stratex will supply its Eclipse platform microwave solution to meet both TDM and IP backhaul requirements.

Harald Braun, president and chief executive officer of Harris Stratex Networks, said: "Over the next year, Telenor Group will experience an explosive rate of growth in India, which began with the largest single day launch in telecom history, and a service footprint covering almost 600 million people."

Eclipse enables transport of all types of traffic, from low-capacity PDH to high-capacity SDH/SONET or Gigabit Ethernet. It offers innovative features such as Super-PDH nodal networking, delivering high-end performance at lower overall cost of ownership.