“We are very happy to replace the legacy core network, and adopt the future-oriented Huawei core

network. Huawei has shown its ability to serve the leading European operators and its high quality ontime

handover capability, KPN and Telfort will get benefits from it.”

Sietse Sijperda, KPN Mobile CTO

Customer Requirement

·Integrated network trans

formation

Key Points

Huawei Solutions

·All IP network

·3G/2G convergence

Customer Benefit

·Network optimization

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KPN Telecom N.V. is the largest mobile and fixed network operator in Holland

and one of the world's top 500 enterprises, ranking the 16th among

global operators. KPN possesses mobile networks in Germany and Belgium,

and the largest Pan-European optical fiber network covering the entire

Western Europe. With its turnover ranking as the 7th in Europe, KPN is

granted one of the top 10 investment-worthy telecom operators in the

world.

KPN demands network transformation urgently in the face of the 3G

trend.

KPN has always been active in the European market. It acquired Telfort, the

3rd largest mobile operator in the Netherlands in 2005, after which KPN has

four mobile networks. Along with market share growth, came a string of

tough problems: KPN had to pay for the huge operation cost brought by

the four networks. In order to reduce risks and increase investment returns,

KPN was in urgent need of network integration and optimization. Meanwhile,

in the face of the 3G trend, KPN urgently needed network transformation

to meet the market demands and technology evolvement requirements and

got ready for the arrival of 3G.

Huawei mobile softswitch assists KPN in All-IP network transformation.

In February 2006, Huawei signed a commercial WCDMA contract with KPN

and became the sole core network supplier of KPN in the Netherland. The

contract includes a full set of CS domain and PS domain equipment. The CS

domain adopts the advanced IP MPLS-based R4 mobile softswitch solution

and supports 2G/3G convergence, thus simplifying the architecture of mobile

networks and lowering the overall operation cost.

In view of Huawei's excellent performance in the mobile core network field,

KPN abandoned all the legacy equipments and turned to Huawei for

cooperation. With Huawei's help, KPN successfully integrated the acquired

Telfort network and its own G/W network into one. This new network

applies All-IP and distributed networking whose architecture is more

simplified. Thus transportation and overall operation costs are under effective control.