Monday, 21 August 2006

Taiwan's APTG Deploy Alcatel's Optical Solution

Alcatel has signed a contract with Asia Pacific Telecom Group (APTG), a provider of fixed and 3G mobile services, and cable TV services, to upgrade and expand its existing network in Taiwan with Alcatel's optical transport solution.

The project will allow APTG to support new Ethernet-based applications for addressing the increased traffic requirements of research institutions, as well as to enhance mobile traffic backhaul capabilities.

Alcatel will deploy its optical multi-service and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technologies, enabling APTG to significantly increase its network capacity, flexibility and performance. The Alcatel solution will be based on its 1626 Light Manager (LM) multi-reach DWDM system that maximizes the capacity of core optical networks, while lowering the overall transmission cost per bit.

Additionally, Alcatel will supply its data-aware Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) providing APTG with a single platform optimized to aggregate multiple traffic types and backhaul the mobile traffic, carried over the APTG CDMA network, from base stations to the core. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel will also upgrade its Alcatel 1350 management suite - which allows the management of packet, TDM and wavelength connectivity services – further enabling operational cost-savings.