Mar 2 2011
Chunghwa Telecom, a telecommunications provider based in Taiwan, has entered into an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy Taiwan’s first gigabit passive optical network (GPON).
Chunghwa Telecom will offer high-tech triple play services to its business and residential customers using the new optic-fiber network. Commercial operation of the GPON network’s initial phase is scheduled to begin by third quarter of 2011.
Chunghwa Telecom stated that the GPON solution from Alcatel-Lucent is reliable, efficient and the company’s knowledge in professional services is incomparable.
Alcatel-Lucent will install its 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU) for the Taiwan project. The advanced Alcatel-Lucent 5520 Access Management System (AMS) will support the GPON platform. The AMS includes the complete ISAM product family such as fiber-based access and DSL. As per the terms, Alcatel-Lucent will also offer software integration and commissioning and installation of network management system.
Chunghwa will gear up its optic-fiber network initiative and fiber-based triple-play services throughout Taiwan using Alcatel-Lucent's GPON solution.
Alcatel-Lucent has already completed over 100 FTTH projects of which more than 85 projects are GPON-based projects. Hong Kong Broadband Network, Portugal Telecom, France Telecom and Verizon are some of the customers of Alcatel-Lucent.
Source: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com