Joining Forces To Surge Forward in Taiwan's Fixed Lines Telecom:
NCIC Signs up Alcatel, Lucent, Nortel for Infastructure Procurement
With Douglas T. Hsu in the lead, Taiwan's licensed fixed lines
operator-to-be New Century InfoComm (NCIC) yesterday signed
formal contracts to purchase for its infrastructure construction
from respectively Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel
Networks. It marks the first well-scaled purchasing lot after
Taiwan's Directorate General of Telecommunications issued
3 operating licenses on March 19th. Happy that his team is
in the lead, Douglas Hsu went on to stress that the current
contracts aim at laying a strong foundation for NCIC's broadband
infrastructure. The 3-tier core of NCIC's hardware construction,
at the present stage and for the initial period, will hence
be capacitated by Lucent, Alcatel, and Nortel.
By signing up these three giants in the telecommunications
industry, NCIC has shown strong ambitions to become the leading
brand, provide the best technologies and innovations, and
fully satisfy all future subscribers. Therefore, NCIC is using
the hardware of not only the best quality and largest capacity,
but also the highest stability. By using the Internet IP technology,
NCIC plans to carry voice and data transmission and provide
extra services all on one single network. The future NCIC
broadband fiber network using leading technology will satisfy
all consumers in their needs for telecommunications.
Key features of equipments/systems to be provided by the freshly
committed vendors include:
Alcatel
To furbish NCIC with market-leader ADSL to ensure impeccable
transmission quality. In order to avoid the network traffic
jam, increasing speed and improving service quality are needs
to be met immediately. The Alcatel-ADSL promises to upgrade
the copper-wire capacity by 200-fold, while strengthening
thereby NCIC's services capacities.
- ADSL, the backbone and local transmission platform
of fixed network, provides corporations and individuals
flexible and alternative services in a high quality
broadband community.
- ADSL, including facilities as SDH, Wide-band Optical
Amplifier and DWDM, will provide NCIC sufficient
capability to operate in the initial stage.
- The Alcatel-ADSL provides euormous flexibility
for any future expansions, i.e. the dual goal of
efficiency and cost effectiveness can match NCIC's
business plan by virtue of employing Alcatel services.
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Lucent Technologies
To provide backbone portions of ATM, IN, and systems and services
for storage/retrieval solutions package. With offers by Lucent
in these core areas, NCIC subscribers can count on the reliability
of services ranging from voice, data, to image transmission.
- Lucent-provided ATM promises to enhance network
efficiency, expand network capacities, while lowering
operating cost by virtue of the cutting-edge packet
technologies on IP/ATM.
- IN, besides being capable of offering advanced,
mission-critical, intelligent solutions, goes further
to enforce the mechanism of systems management.
- Lucent's systems further guarantee convergence
of narrow- and broadband systems, while offering
multiple-interfaces and storage/retrieval solutions.
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Nortel Networks:
To offer NCIC the Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS)
that seamlessly links digital/wireless transmission on its
broadband networks.
- Apparent advantages of the LMDS are many, while
its wireless features enable NCIC to expand / extend
services to areas/building complexes where the fiber
has yet to be built out.
- LMDS is to strengthen the abilities to provide
subscribers broadband and other valuable services,
and also reliable and stable network connections.
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