China Telecom Selects Cisco Routers for Northern Network

China Telecom selected Cisco Systems' routers for its northern network, which covers 15 cities in 10 provinces, including Beijing. The ChinaNet network will use Cisco 12016 and Cisco 12416 routers for its second-phase expansion. Cisco equipment is also being used for an upgrade of ChinaNet's southern backbone. Upgrades are being applied to the switching matrix of Cisco 12000 Series routers previously deployed. When combined with 10-Gbps router line cards, this will enable the network to migrate from 80-Gbps switching capacity on the Cisco 12000 Series routers to 320-Gbps capacity of the Cisco 12400 routers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cisco has worked closely with China Telecom on previous phases of its ChinaNet construction.
http://www.cisco.com