The determination of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to fine-tunes strategies for effective roll out of 5G technology in the country has been described as the best thing to happen to the telecoms sector in Nigeria.
The Country Manager of APM Terminals Nigeria, Mr. Klaus Laursen, disclosed this in Lagos.
He also attributed the company’s high productivity and efficiency to the introduction and adoption of scalable 4G wireless network across its terminals.
Following the momentum and sensitisation of Nigerians on 5G technology across the country by NCC, stakeholders are increasingly buying into the technology.
To them, the latest move will drive Nigeria’s digital economy fulfilment.
APM Terminals Nigeria, in a statement, admitted that the deployment of 4G LTE networks at its facilities in Lagos, has enhanced the massive digitalisation of operations as part of its global transformation drive.
Laursen said: “In recent years, APM Terminals Apapa has embarked on massive digitisation of its operations and services.”
This, according to him, is in keeping with APM Terminals’ global transformation drive, adding, “our customers can expect greater efficiency and higher productivity with the deployment of the 4G wireless network, as it will allow for better collaboration in our terminal operations.
Other benefits of the network, according to Laursen, include improved wireless coverage in the yard for roaming container handling equipment, eliminate loss of critical terminal operating systems updates, real time tracking of container handling equipment and improved safety for terminal employees.
“An optimised, standardised, cost effective and security compliant industrial wireless connectivity solution, the 4G LTE network is scalable to meet future terminal requirements.”
To him, Nigeria and its teeming customers will benefit from improved operations, especially truck turn around time, terminal efficiency and stability.
4G LTE is a standards-based network that uses radio equipment to service the terminals’ applications and the services and can be tailored to process a very high volume of data messages with minimal delay.
The base station allows it to be independent of traffic peaks in the wider network.
A secure VPN tunnel is used as an encryption mechanism to segregate APM Terminals data from general carrier data to ensure compliance with the company’s global security requirements.
The 4G LTE connectivity solution, which has already been tested and rolled out at other APM lerminals locations, meets ground level coverage and performance requirements in the entire yard with three dedicated sectors for APM terminals and limited infrastructure deployment at terminal.
