Asia Netcom and NEC are launching 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. According to NEC, IPv6 multicast video applications include:
- Video broadcast to multiple locations for corporate seminars, presentations, etc;
New service and product training to multiple office locations and franchisees;
Security monitoring of factories and branch offices in multiple sites across Japan; and
Local information distribution and public announcements from government sources to locally set up kiosks across Japan.
The companies said that the use of IPv6 solves issues related to duplication of IPv4 private addresses which may occur in the expansion of a VPN network to many sites. NEC and Asia Netcom expect total sales of IPv6 solutions to reach JPY5 billion in three years in Asia, including Japan.
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- 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 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.
