Orange Cameroon
CommScope’s successful implementation for Orange Cameroon enabled smooth and stable network coverage throughout the AFCON tournament
Orange Cameroon needed to collaborate with industry leaders and providers in mobile and large venue coverage space, and, with the short timeframe available, picking the right partner was critical to the success of this project. CommScope was able to provide Orange Cameroon with various reiterations of the ERA® DAS solution, specific to Olembe Stadium’s capacity, architecture and technology needs. This enabled Orange to select the optimal solution within project guidelines and budget.
Requirements
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Orange wanted everyone to have the best possible experience at AFCON including increased coverage and bandwidth throughout for every subscriber.
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The coverage and bandwidth speeds needed to be on par with global standards.
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Within the short timeframe available and Global Pandemic situation, they needed an industry leading partner to provide an innovative, reputable and sustainable solution that would work just in time for the tournament.
Challenges
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The inability of traditional macro systems to provide adequate mobile coverage and connectivity in large public venues such as stadiums due to poor signal penetration, as well as the concentration of thousands of mobile subscribers.
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Regional Challenges: Managing Orange’s expectations of providing a cross-functional platform that gave all other operators the opportunity to take advantage of its scalability and independent configurations.
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Resolving the Match Day Challenge of enabling the bandwidth changes and frequency reframing to support the growing LTE market and bandwidth needs of its data users during match events.
Solutions
The portfolio of products installed at the stadiums were:
