Shandong Netcom, a provincial subsidiary of China Netcom, selected Nortel Networks as its exclusive equipment supplier for a next generation network. The deployment will support a variety of service delivery methods, including twisted pair phone lines, ADSL, hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable and Ethernet using products from Nortel Networks' Multimedia Communications and Succession VoIP portfolios. This includes Nortel's Multimedia Communication Server 5200 (formerly known as Interactive Multimedia Server or IMS), which is a SIP media and applications server. Shandong Netcom will also use Nortel's Succession Communication Server 2000 - Compact superclass softswitch, Passport Packet Voice Gateways, Integrated Access Devices (IAD), SIP phones, SIP video phones, and SIP soft clients. Financial terms were not disclosed.
China Railcom recently selected Nortel Networks as the exclusive equipment supplier for its next generation network in the city of Chongqing. In addition, Hong Kong Broadband recently deployed a Nortel Networks solution for what is described as the largest VoIP network in the world.
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- Earlier this month, Shandong Netcom, a subsidiary of China Netcom, awarded contracts valued at over US$50 million to Lucent Technologies to expand the carrier's 5ESS Switch-based personal handyphone system (PHS) network. The contracts cover four cities, Qingdao, Jinan, Weifang, and Yantai. These expansions bring the total capacity for these four cities to 2.7 million subscribers.
- Also this month, UTStarcom announced a new contract to supply over 200,000 lines of its AN-2000 IB IP-based DSLAM solution to China Netcom for deployment in several major cities in the Heilongjiang, Tiangjin, Hebei, Shangdong, and Shanxi provinces. The contract brings UTStarcom's total IP-DSLAM deployments with CNC to more than 400,000 ADSL lines since March 2003.
