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High-speed broadband reaching out to underserved areas in China

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network...

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network, which is to be provided by China Telecom in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent.  The effort, entitled “Broadband China, Fibre Cities”, will provide high-speed broadband to over 26 million people.

The project will involve the deployment of a mix of passive optical networking (PON) technologies connecting homes, office buildings and remote “nodes” (which can then distribute the broadband signals to multiple locations over existing copper wires).

Wei Leping, Chairman of China Telecom Science & Technology Committee, said: “China Telecom launched ‘Broadband China, Fibre Cities’ strategy at the beginning of 2011, which aims to realize optical network coverage in all the cities in three years. By 2015, China Telecom will achieve a FTTH coverage of 100 million households and 30 million FTTH subscribers.”

Rajeev Singh-Molares, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in the Asia-Pacific Region, said: “This project represents another major milestone in the rapid modernisation of China’s telecom landscape.”

Following the deployment, China Telecom will be able to offer subscribers a range of consumer and business services including IPTV, video on demand, voice over IP (VoIP) and more at speeds of up to 50 Megabits per second, all with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) levels. This project is a central element of China Telecom’s plan to extend its FTTH coverage to 100 million users by the end of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).

Alcatel-Lucent will supply its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) product family, which supports GPON, EPON and DSL technologies and enables fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) deployment models.



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