China Telecom Achieves Nationwide Coverage with Alcatel.Business Editors & High Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2002 Switching and Transmission Solutions Will Provide Voice and Data Communication Services Nationwide and Enhance Operational Efficiency Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA), the world's largest telecom infrastructure provider, announced today that it has helped China Telecom, one of China's two major fixed-line telecommunications operators, achieve nationwide coverage for the first time since the operator's restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). earlier this year. This was done through three contracts for switching and transmission solutions that China Telecom awarded to Alcatel recently. The contracts were won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's Chinese flagship company. These contracts will enable China Telecom to deliver voice and data communication services nationwide and enhance its network operational efficiency. They include the deployment of a transit-switching network and the related signaling network in northern China, as well as a digital cross-connect A network device used by telecom carriers and large enterprises to switch and multiplex low-speed voice and data signals onto high-speed lines and vice versa. It is typically used to aggregate several T1 lines into a higher-speed electrical or optical line as well as to distribute signals expansion project in major central and southern Chinese cities. Alcatel will provide its Alcatel 1000 switching solutions and signaling transfer point equipment to build China Telecom's first transit-switching network in northern China since its restructuring. This network will span the two municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, and eight provinces: Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia Chinese Nei Mongol or Nei-meng-ku Autonomous region (pop., 2002 est.: 23,790,000), China. Stretching some 1,800 mi (2,900 km) across north-northeastern China, it has an area of 454,600 sq mi (1,177,500 sq km); its capital is Hohhot. , Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong and Shanxi. Enabling inter-network transactions between China Telecom and other service providers, it will be operational by end of this year. Alcatel will install its Alcatel 1641 SX Multiservice Metro Gateway, a synchronous digital hierarchy (communications, standard) Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - (SDH) An international digital telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. multi-service cross-connect system, in the cities of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongming and Shantou to interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. the switching and transmission infrastructures. The expansion will enable China Telecom to offer high-quality and reliable international telecommunication services throughout China. Alcatel also will deploy its integrated end-to-end network management solution to efficiently perform traffic control and routing throughout the network. "We are proud to be China Telecom's vendor of choice to help them extend their service coverage nationwide," said Andrew Young Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. , president of Alcatel Shanghai Bell. "These contracts reinforce our long-term relationship with China Telecom. They are concrete proof that our telecom solutions for advanced operators such as China Telecom meet high demand from businesses, as China continues its rapid economic growth." As a pioneer in China's switching market, Alcatel now leads the market with one-third share. In 2001, Alcatel manufactured a total of 16 million switching lines in China. China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII 1. (body) MII - A consortium of Microsoft, IBM, and Intel. 2. (storage) MII - A broadcast component video tape format licensed by Panasonic. ) restructured China Telecom in early 2002 to create China Telecom and China Netcom China Netcom, full name China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited, abbreviated CNC, was originally formed in August 1999 by the People's Republic of China government to enable inward investments to build high speed Internet communications in the country. to compete with each other. China Netcom absorbed the telecom assets in northern China, while China Telecom retained those in the south. This contract enables China Telecom to interconnect with other service providers in northern China to provide competitive services, as well as continue servicing its current customers there. About Alcatel Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. , enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. , Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of Euro 25 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, http://www.alcatel.com. About Alcatel Shanghai Bell Alcatel Shanghai Bell is the first foreign-invested company limited by shares in the telecommunications sector in China, with Alcatel holding 50 percent+1 shares and Chinese shareholders holding the remainder. The multibillion-dollar telecom technology leader delivers end-to-end telecommunications solutions and high-quality services, covering the fixed, mobile networking, broadband access, intelligent optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. , multimedia solutions and network applications. It also has a key international R&D center with full access to Alcatel's global technology pool, developing original technology for use in China and export to Alcatel's customers worldwide. With an advanced manufacturing center, and the most extensive sales and support network in China, it is the only company capable of meeting the global needs of Chinese customers. For more information, http://www.alcatel-sbell.com.cn. |
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