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Where Fiber Can’t Reach: Expanding Connectivity Across Remote Indonesia
Working with Asia Quattro Net (AQN) and Telkomsel, Mimosa helped extend broadband connectivity across remote island communities in Indonesia using long-distance fixed wireless backhaul. Faced with difficult terrain, water crossings, and the high cost of traditional infrastructure, the deployment delivered a scalable and cost-effective alternative to satellite connectivity.
Indonesia’s geography presents one of the world’s most challenging broadband deployment environments. Spanning more than 16,000 islands across thousands of kilometers, many rural and remote communities remain difficult to connect using traditional wired infrastructure.
To help expand connectivity into underserved regions, Asia Quattro Net (AQN) partnered with Telkomsel to deploy a high-performance wireless backhaul solution capable of overcoming water crossings, remote terrain, and infrastructure limitations. The goal was to improve broadband access while reducing the cost and complexity associated with satellite and fiber deployments.
Mimosa’s fixed wireless technology enabled rapid deployment of long-distance point-to-point links, helping deliver reliable broadband services to communities where traditional infrastructure approaches were either too costly or too slow to implement.
Telkomsel and Asia Quattro Net (AQN) needed a scalable and cost-effective way to expand broadband connectivity into remote island and coastal regions across Indonesia. Traditional fiber deployment was often impractical due to geography, cost, and deployment complexity, while satellite backhaul introduced limitations around latency, scalability, and ongoing operational expense.
Key project requirements included:
- Extend broadband access into remote and underserved communities
- Reduce dependence on costly satellite-based backhaul infrastructure
- Improve network performance and customer experience
- Support long-distance connectivity across water and difficult terrain
- Minimize deployment complexity and infrastructure requirements
- Enable flexible and scalable future network expansion
To address these challenges, AQN and Telkomsel deployed Mimosa’s high-performance fixed wireless backhaul platform to create reliable long-distance point-to-point connectivity between aggregation sites and remote base stations.
The deployment leveraged:
- Mimosa point-to-point wireless backhaul technology
- Long-distance over-water links spanning up to 17 km
- High-capacity wireless transport using unlicensed spectrum
- Rapid deployment with minimal supporting infrastructure
- Reliable operation in remote and environmentally challenging locations
- Flexible architecture supporting future scalability and expansion
While the deployment utilized Mimosa C5x radios, the focus of the project centered on delivering practical, high-performance broadband connectivity in areas where traditional infrastructure approaches were difficult or uneconomical to deploy.
The deployment helped Telkomsel significantly improve connectivity in remote regions while reducing the operational burden associated with traditional satellite infrastructure.
Project outcomes included:
- Reduced operational costs compared to satellite backhaul
- Lower latency and improved user experience
- Faster deployment timelines compared to fiber construction
- Improved network reliability across remote regions
- Expanded broadband access into hard-to-reach island communities
- Throughput reaching up to 139 Mbps aggregate across long-distance links
- Improved end-user broadband performance in underserved areas
The project demonstrates how fixed wireless backhaul can help operators accelerate broadband expansion across geographically challenging environments while maintaining flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Connecting Across Indonesia’s Geographic Challenges
Indonesia’s unique geography creates major obstacles for broadband expansion. Many communities are separated by water, rugged terrain, or remote landscapes that significantly increase the cost and complexity of traditional fiber deployments.
In many of these locations, satellite connectivity has historically been the only practical option for network backhaul. However, satellite-based infrastructure often introduces higher latency, lower throughput, and ongoing operational expenses that can limit service quality and scalability.
Working together, AQN, Telkomsel, and Mimosa implemented a terrestrial wireless alternative designed to deliver improved performance while reducing deployment costs and accelerating time to service.
Delivering Broadband Where Traditional Infrastructure Stops
The deployment utilized Mimosa’s wireless backhaul platform to establish reliable point-to-point connectivity between aggregation sites and remote base stations. By leveraging unlicensed spectrum and streamlined deployment requirements, the solution enabled faster implementation without the delays associated with trenching fiber across remote terrain and waterways.
The deployment demonstrated strong performance across challenging over-water links while improving the end-user broadband experience in underserved communities.
Supporting Indonesia’s Digital Expansion
As Indonesia continues expanding broadband access across rural and remote regions, flexible wireless infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in complementing traditional wired networks. Solutions that can be rapidly deployed and economically scaled help operators extend connectivity into areas where fiber may not yet be feasible.
This project highlights how fixed wireless backhaul can help bridge connectivity gaps, improve service delivery, and support long-term digital inclusion initiatives across geographically challenging environments.
