PARIS, Sept. 14, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
and Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's
leading service provider, are to commence the world's first
commercial deployment of G.fast ultra-broadband access technology,
allowing the acceleration of 'last mile' connectivity to deliver
ultra-fast fiber-like speeds to households everywhere.
Currently 68% of homes in Taiwan enjoy broadband cable for Internet
access. However, with growing demand for 4K TV and streaming HD
video services, the need for ultra-broadband access is steadily
increasing. To address this need, Chunghwa Telecom is conducting a
nationwide roll-out of FTTx (fiber-to-the-premises) infrastructure
to residential and business customers using a combination of fiber
and copper technology. To accelerate these deployments and enable
the delivery of near-gigabit speeds, Chungwa Telecom will deploy
Alcatel-Lucent's GPON and G.fast technologies.
Alcatel-Lucent and its Bell Labs
research arm have played a pioneering role in the development and
implementation of G.fast, which has already been in trials with
more than 30 operators worldwide. G.fast, in particular, allows
service providers to provide ultra-broadband access to locations
where fiber deployment is difficult, using the final length of
copper infrastructure extending into premises to deliver ultra-high
speeds. Additionally, G.fast eliminates the need to rewire entire
buildings and homes, the most costly and time consuming part of any
FTTx deployment.
The combination of fiber and G.fast will enable Chunghwa Telecom
to quickly provide fast broadband to tens of thousands of homes in
Taiwan within two years, and also
meet the country's National Communications Commission plan to
improve fixed broadband access in hard-to-reach residential
locations. Chunghwa Telecom will launch ultra-broadband services
using G.fast to the 8.4 million Taiwanese homes, low- and high-rise
buildings in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Key Facts:
- Chunghwa Telecom will use Alcatel-Lucent's G.fast technology
including:
- 7368 Intelligent Service Access Manager (ISAM) Optical Network
Terminals (ONTs)
- 7368 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) CPE with
integrated reverse power
- 5520 Access Management System to accelerate last mile
fiber-to-the-home ultra-broadband connectivity while taking
advantage of reduced costs and complexity.
- Chunghwa Telecom is currently deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 7342
Intelligent ISAM and 7360 ISAM GPON products.
- Alcatel-Lucent's G.fast technology brings the speed of fiber to
copper telephone lines allowing service providers to deliver
ultra-broadband services to every user quickly and
cost-effectively. With G.fast, service providers can overcome
deployment obstacles with a mix of copper and fiber
technologies.
Quotes:
Mu-Piao Shih,
President of Chunghwa Telecom said: "We have made
great strides in proactively improving our broadband network
service in recent years, and we are pleased to become the first
G.fast commercial broadband service provider in the world. With
Alcatel-Lucent's G.fast technology we will be well equipped to
launch a ultra high-speed network service toward the end of this
year and offer our customers the highest broadband service
experience, thereby solidifying our leadership in the fiber optics
broadband service market ranging from 100Mbps to 1Gbps."
Ken Wu, President and Managing
Director of Alcatel-Lucent Taiwan said: "As innovators in
ultra-broadband fixed access, Alcatel-Lucent was the first company
to bring G.fast to the market. For the past year we have been
working with leading operators around the world to trial the
technology.
"At the end of last year, Bell
Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent launched the
technology to upgrade the transmission speed of traditional copper
telephone lines to 10Gbps. This year, the Taiwanese market has
already rapidly introduced the latest technology and launched
commercial services ahead of other markets to enable the consumers
in Taiwan to experience CHT's
G.Fast ultra-high-speed broadband service. Today we are happy to
see Chunghwa Telecom take a pioneering role and become the world's
first operator to deploy it commercially. By adding our G.fast
technology to its portfolio, Chunghwa Telecom can better meet the
demands of any deployment scenario to quickly and cost-effectively
connect customers with the highest speeds in a highly competitive
market."
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
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