Singapore: SingTel teams with Alcatel for advanced broadband network
GPON trial is first in Asia-Pacific, prepares for Next Gen National Infrastructure, Residential Metro Ethernet trial is first in Singapore
Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Southeast Asia’s largest telecommunications company, has selected Alcatel for the first ever Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) trial in the Asia Pacific region and the first residential Metro Ethernet trial in Singapore.
The SingTel GPON and Metro Ethernet trials, which begin this summer, will utilize a future-proof fiber access technology in the Singapore market.
In March 2006, Singapore announced plans to create a Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII), which aims to evolve to a nation-wide platform for information sharing and communication. The Next Gen NII will be capable of delivering ultra-high speeds of 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps as early as 2008, enabling advanced triple play services (voice, video, and data).
“SingTel considers our role as being complementary to the upcoming plan. We have the most extensive and advanced fibre optic network in Singapore and we are committed to evolving and enhancing our network infrastructure to enable the delivery of innovative services to meet market demand,” said Hui Weng Cheong, SingTel’s Vice President (Consumer Product) and CEO of SingNet. “By trialling GPON and Metro Ethernet solutions with Alcatel, we are creating the framework for ultra-high speed broadband access services, thereby delivering even greater value to our customers” Mr Hui added.
As the global leader in broadband access, Alcatel is the first vendor to deliver a Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group-compliant GPON system. The Alcatel 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager fiber-to-the-user (ISAM FTTU) solution is designed to provide the high data rates, interoperability and quality of service (QoS) that service providers need to advance the adoption of triple play services by the subscribers. Alcatel’s solution ideally satisfies customer demand for high bandwidth, user-centric broadband services at the cost of copper access.
For the Metro Ethernet aspect of the trial, Alcatel is providing its 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 5620 Service Aware Manager. The solution has unique hierarchical quality of service (H-QoS) capabilities that can differentiate the traffic it carries and optimize bandwidth. As well, the Alcatel 7450 supports multiple service types with tremendous scale and quality of service, which guarantees that stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on business-critical data applications can be met.
“As the industry leader in GPON solutions, and a major player in the IP Service Edge Router sector, we see these trials by SingTel as concrete evidence of their strategy to continuously innovate, and offer their customers higher bandwidth for an ever increasing mix of advance triple play services of voice, data and video”, said Michel Rahier, President of Alcatel’s fixed communications activities.
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