Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent carrier in Taiwan, has selected Redback Networks' SmartEdge Service Gateway systems to expand its national broadband network and provide new per-subscriber services, including broadcast television, video-on-demand, VoIP, and Internet access. The SmartEdge Service Gateway systems perform intelligent video replication for broadcast feeds in the new network topology. Redback's solution combines hardware and software to provide subscriber management with dynamic policy enforcement, carrier-class IP routing and services, multicast and advanced video capabilities and QoS. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.redback.com
- Earlier this month, Alcatel announced that it had been selected by Chunghwa Telecom for an IPTV project. The contract was valued at EUR 4.75 million. The IP-based television services will use Alcatel's Open Media Suite and Open Video Server, along with STB (set top box) hardware technologies from Acer and Ambit.
- Chunghwa Telecom currently serves approximately three million ADSL subscribers and has some 30,000 IPTV subscribers. The carrier is forecasting approximately 100,000 IPTV subscribers in the first year and one million subscribers within three years.
