By Tom S. Noda
Computerworld Philippines
February 1, 2010

Following its vision of five billion Internet users or Netizens by 2015, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has launched an array of global services to better serve telecom operators and is expected to result in the seamless rollout of broadband networks.

NSN’s goal of Netizens is even higher than what is predicted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which forecasts five billion users by 2020. According to the Internet World Stats, of the 6.7 billion people on Earth, only 1.7 billion are Internet users today.

In a recent media briefing in Manila, Frankie Naranjilla, NSN country services head for the Philippines, revealed 40% of NSN’s business is about services in which customer operators can outsource. Offered for outsourcing are NSN’s global service delivery, site innovations, and energy solutions designed to help customers generate new revenues.

Prakash Punjabi, head of NSN’s global services in APAC South, reported that “remote energy shall be NSN’s first choice for all remote base station sites by 2011.”

He said there are six types of NSN energy solutions today which the company does the delivery, operation and maintenance. The technologies are energy modernization; off-grid site and bad-grid site solutions; energy efficiency consulting; and the green energy control and energy OPEX management.

Punjabi said each energy solution consists of an intelligent energy control system and is able to monitor all power sources. Such system also manages battery charging and discharging for fuel savings and also features remote data collection and control capabilities.

He shared NSN has deployed almost 400 sites running on renewable energy globally.

“In terms of care services, management, content and systems maintenance, we’re proactive,” Naranjilla added, noting that in the Philippines, more than 3,000 network sites use NSN’s Flexi Base platform. A size of a server, Flexi decreases carbon footprint for operators that translates to significant savings on power consumption.

Punjabi said the company has supplemented its traditional service portfolio and strong local organizations with a range of new resources available remotely from its global delivery organization composed of three Global Networks Solutions Centers (GNSC) and multiple service specific global delivery centers. The GNSCs provide cost efficient access to a range of integrated network services.

Site Innovations, Punjabi said, is for creating a desired network which combine the advantages of a smart tower, sturdy weather-proof design, aluminic feeder, and autonomous sites.

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