Bulat: GSM-LTE Base Stations

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2024

What the first Russian base station for mobile networks looks like. PHOTO

On May 21, 2024, Rostelecom introduced the first Russian carrier-level base station for mobile networks. The device was developed by Bulat (a subsidiary of Rostelecom) and is produced at the site of the Russian Telecommunications Technologies NPO (RTT NPO).

Rostelecom did not disclose the technical characteristics of the device and only said that it would work on commercial networks of operators in the 450/800/900/ 1800/2100/2300/2600 MHz ranges.

source = Rostelecom

The production of a pilot batch of base stations started in April 2024, and by the end of the same year it is expected to begin mass production of equipment. Rostelecom will become one of the anchor customers thanks to the forward contract, said Mikhail Oseevsky, president of the company.

source = Rostelecom

We adhere to the planned schedule and all work on the roadmap is being carried out in full. To implement the project, we have built processes of interaction with our partners - NTR and RTT companies, - said Alexander Komarov, General Director of Bulat.

According to him, by May 21, 2024, the process of testing samples of base stations in the Tele2 laboratory is being completed and the process of organizing the production of equipment has already begun. The equipment meets the criteria of domestic, the application for the assignment of this status has already been submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Komarov said.

The press service of Rostelecom clarified that the software for base stations is being developed by Novye Telecom Solutions LLC (NTR). In April 2024, confirmation of the introduction of software into the register of domestic software was received.

Bulat has entered into forward contracts for the supply of base stations with Rostelecom and MegaFon. As stated in Rostelecom, the equipment tests confirmed the compliance of the signal transmission levels with the calculated ones, demonstrated the required quality of the mobile voice connection and the availability of data transmission services of the telecommunications network, comparable to the decisions of world industry leaders.^[1]

Completion of GSM/LTE-1800 station tests.

The Russian telecommunications equipment manufacturer Damask steel"" (a subsidiary Rostelecom of "") completed the initial stage of field testing of a prototype of the first domestic base station (BS) GSMLTE of standards/-1800. 20 base stations were installed on the test segment of the commercial operator network, communications practical results using the target hardware platform ON and will be used in the further development and optimization of the firmware complex. Rostelecom announced this on February 13, 2024.

The tests confirmed the compliance of the signal transmission levels with the calculated ones, demonstrated the required quality of the mobile voice connection and the availability of data telecommunication network transmission services, comparable to the decisions of world leaders. industries

The developer of the hardware of the base station was the BULAT company, the software was developed by Novye Telecom Solutions LLC (NTR). The forward contract between BULAT and Rostelecom for the supply of up to 17 thousand base stations until 2026 was concluded in December 2022.

In December 2023, we launched a pilot communications test cluster of 20 base stations on a real mobile network. The results of the tests make it possible to say with confidence that the target solution of BS GSM/LTE-1800 will be ready in the first half of 2024, mass production will begin in the same year, "said Alexander Komarov, General Director of BULAT LLC.