What goes on inside Orange UK's network management centre?
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Copyright Ian Grant 2009
A microwave tower
A microwave tower with local mobile and high speed backhaul antennas.
Orange UK, which is soon to merge with T-Mobile UK, invited Computer Weekly to its network management centre and R&D lab in Bristol.
The centre manages three main networks: the actual mobile telephony network, the firm's internal IT network, and the extranet that links Orange to its national network of retail outlets.