Asia Netcom launched a wholesale, VoIP-based voice transport and termination service. Asia Netcom's Carrier Voice service utilizes the company's extensive sub-sea and IP networks leveraging its capability to offer five classes of service over IP VPN. The company uses traffic policing and shaping to provide toll quality voice solutions with PSTN connectivity. Asia Netcom said it operates one of the largest Cisco Powered (Carrier Voice) networks in Asia Pacific. Asia Netcom's Carrier Voice service is currently available in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore and will be offered in Korea and Taiwan in the near future.
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- In June 2003, Asia Netcom launched a new MPLS-based, corporate IP VPNs featuring five classes of service (CoS) combined with the option for usage-based pricing. The service provides city-to-city connectivity across the Asia Pacific region with additional connectivity available into mainland China and to major markets in the Americas and Europe. Asia Netcom's CoS offerings are defined by Service Level Agreement (SLA) parameters, including jitter, latency, packet loss and service availability. The company offers connection speeds from Nx64 Kbps to Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps). Asia Netcom's core network backbone is being migrated to 2.5 Gbps trunks. A fully meshed MPLS-TE (multi-protocol label switching traffic engineered) native IP network enables both any-to-any and hub-and-spoke configurations.
- Asia Netcom was officially launched on 11-March-2003.
- Asia Netcom, a company organized by China Netcom (Hong Kong) on behalf of a consortium of investors that includes Newbridge Capital and Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, acquired substantially all of Asia Global Crossing's operating subsidiaries, excluding Pacific Crossing.
