Taiwan telco to deploy first intelligent optical network

18.02.2009
Taiwan's largest telco, Chunghwa Telecom, has selected French communications giant Alcatel-Lucent to roll out the country's first intelligent control-plane based optical network.

Representatives of both organisations said this is the first project--an advanced optical multi-service network using an intelligent control plane--of its kind in Taiwan, and is part of is part of Chunghwa Telecom's next-generation network (NGN) five-year initiative.

Alcatel-Lucent Taiwan president Larry Chai said that once completed, in the first half of 2009, it would enable Chunghwa Telecom to achieve significant savings in operational expenditures and maximise network protection, operation and maintenance.

"The solution features innovative automatic traffic provisioning capabilities that help to enhance the performance, reliability, flexibility and scalability of Chunghwa's core transport network, further optimising resource utilisation and improving network efficiency," said Chai.

Leveraging advanced technologies

Chai said that Alcatel-Lucent's solution leveraged advanced technologies, such as Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)/Generalised Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS), and Layer 2 to allow Chunghwa Telecom to support new versatile multimedia services and technologies such as IPTV, fibre-based access (FTTx), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), and Ethernet-based services.