Ascend To Supply Switching Equipment For China Telecom 09/21/98
Newsbytes, Monday, September 21, 1998 at 13:48
HONG KONG, CHINA, 1998, SEP 21 (NB) -- By IT Daily. Ascend
Communications [NASDAQ:ASND] has been chosen to supply core switching
equipment for the construction of China Telecom's multimedia backbone.
The installation forms part of an ambitious network being created by
China Telecom to bring the most advanced voice and data services to
Chinese consumers. Alongside interprovincial networks, the multimedia
backbone complements a broadband backbone based on Ascend's ATM
frame relay technology which covers Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and 28
other cities.
"Ascend is honored to have the opportunity to participate in a project of
such importance to China's future," said Joe Roissier, Asia-Pacific
director of marketing at Ascend. "To enrich people's lives through access
to information services, China Telecom is taking advantage of the most
advanced technologies available. It is creating a next-generation public
network combining frame relay, ATM and IP technologies, and fulfilling a
vision of the 'new public network' that it also shared by Ascend."
Ascend is a vocal proponent of what it calls the new public network.
Incorporating technologies such as CBX and B-STDX wide-area network
switches employed in China's multimedia backbone, Ascend delivers
high-speed multi-service capabilities on a single high-capacity platform.
The B-STDX family of broadband packet switches offers a combination of
frame relay, ATM, SMDS, ISDN and IP technology in one platform. With the
highest port density in the industry, B-STDX products allow service
providers to build cost-effective networks that support speeds ranging
from sub-DSO to OC-3/STM1.
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