Chunghwa Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent to launch Taiwan’s first GPON
Alcatel-Lucent has established a contract with Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom to launch the country’s first gigabit passive optical network (GPON).
The new infrastructure will allow Chunghwa to provide triple-play services to its residential and business customers.
As a part of the launch, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 7342 Intelligent Services Access Managers (ISAM) while the GPON platform will be complemented by the Alcatel-Lucent 5520 Access Management System (AMS). Alcatel-Lucent will also be in charge of software integration, network management and system installation. Alcatel-Lucent has indicated that the launch is scheduled to commence in 3Q11.
According to Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in the Asia Pacific region, this GPON project is a key milestone helping lead Taiwan into a new era of ultra high-speed service creation, delivery and innovation. It also reflects company’s strong commitment to the development of broadband infrastructure in Taiwan, having already supplied the Taiwanese market with xDSL, IP routing, optical transport and mobile solutions.
Airtel to offer MS Office on mobile
Telecom services provider Bharti Airtel on Monday announced a strategic tie-up with Microsoft to introduce a new technology platform that will give Airtel users access to a host of Microsoft Office applications and other multimedia products on their mobile phones.Targeting an estimated four million small and medium enterprises potential user, the new business solution portfolio with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 will help Airtel users access MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer), multi media functionalities like camera, MP3 and video recording and line up business application like self-force automation on their mobile phone. The Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 will be available to Airtel customers on the latest HP I-Paq and I-Mate handset, Bharti Airtel president Manoj Kohli said, adding that this tie-up puts Bharti Airtel among 115 existing mobile operators, who currently offer the Windows mobile solutions worldwide.
Source- http://in.rediff.com
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