Asia Netcom and China Netcom have agreed to interconnect their IP VPN infrastructure to enable seamless services across their networks. China Netcom is the largest shareholder in Asia Netcom, whose other major stakeholders include Newbridge Capital and Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund.
The IP VPN interconnection agreement is complemented with a new Internet peering agreement between Asia Netcom and China Netcom. The peering agreement enables one-hop access to Chinese online content by delivering Internet traffic from Asia Netcom's global IP backbone directly into China Netcom's national Internet infrastructure.
Asia Netcom and China Netcom recently completed the interconnection of Asia Netcom's regional fiber network with the national fiber backbone of China Netcom. This provides direct Layer 1 interconnection of Asia Netcom's SDH network to China Netcom's national fiber backbone as well as local loops in 80 major cities across China.
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- Earlier this month, Asia Netcom and NEC announced an IPv6 multicast video streaming solution aimed at businesses and government agencies in Japan. The NEC solution is delivered over Asia Netcom's pan-Asian fiber infrastructure and features end-to-end IPv6 support, including network deployment, content delivery and service provisioning.
- In July 2003, 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.
- In June 2003, Asia Netcom launched a new MPLS-based, corporate IP VPN service 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, 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.
