Huawei has supplied its EPON OLTs in Shanghai's Jiading Industrial Park. The equipment is being used for delivering broadband dedicated lines and high-speed Internet services to subscribers in the park. The OLT is located in the operator's existing equipment room and optical splitters are place throughout the industrial park. Huawei's OLT provides up to 1:64 branching ratio to access 3,584 subscribers simultaneously. An MPLS kernel supports multiple services, including voice, IPTV, CATV and data. Huawei said it plans to increase the EPON capacity and add more GPON features.
NTT DoCoMo announced the European and Asian expansion of its FOMA 3G international roaming and videophone services. DoCoMo has added the following operators to its roaming partners in the countries where DoCoMo is already providing roaming services.
3G Voice Communications and SMS
KTF (Korea)
Smartone (Hong Kong)
Sonera (Finland)
TIM (Italy)
3G Packet Communication Service
KTF (Korea)
Smartone (Hong Kong
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Sonera (Finland)
TIM (Italy)
3G Videophone Service
Smartone (Hong Kong)
T-Mobile Deutschland (Germany)
TIM (Italy)
The roaming services are available for users of the company's W-CDMA International roaming handsets, which are based on 3GPP. From July 13, FOMA videophone users who subscribe to DoCoMo's WORLD CALL service will be able to enjoy videophone calls with 3G videophone customers of mobile operators FET (Taiwan), Smartone (Hong Kong) and T-Mobile Deutschland (Germany).
After the expansion, DoCoMo will offer i-mode packet communications roaming in 44 countries/regions and videophone roaming in 10 countries/regions. Users in Japan will be able to make international videophone calls to 13countries/regions. http://www.ntt.co.jp
Ericsson has acquired Teleca OSS, a Swedish company specializing in systems integration in the area of telecom management. Teleca OSS, which is a subsidiary to the Swedish company Teleca, provides service assurance, network management and operator charging solutions to large network operators in the Nordic and Baltic region. The company has around 40 employees. Ericsson said the acquisition would strengthen its services business. Financial terms were not disclosed.
BT selected the city of Cardiff as the first deployment site for its 21st Century Network (21CN). The migration of customer lines to the new infrastructure is expected to begin during the second half of 2006. BT plans to migrate around 350,000 customer lines in the area, including many served by other telephone and internet service providers and mobile operators. The deployment will require the replacement of equipment in more than 50 local exchanges and the implementation of new IT systems to underpin the delivery of services to customers. Three new metro nodes, or super telephone exchanges, are to be developed in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, with a further 10 new transmission sites also developed across the region.
The company said the experience and customer feedback from this first mass customer migration project would help it finalize plans to roll out 21CN to customers across the UK by the end of the decade.
http://www.btplc.comIn April 2005, BT announced eight preferred vendors for its 21st Century Network, an ambitious undertaking in which it plans to invest up to £10 billion over the next five years to migrate to a fully-converged, packet network.
Access -- Fujitsu and Huawei have been chosen in the access domain which will link BT's existing access network with the new 21CN.
Metro -- Alcatel, Cisco and Siemens have been selected as preferred suppliers for metro nodes which provide routing and signalling for 21CN's voice, data and video services. Alcatel will supply its 7510 Media Gateway.
Core -- Cisco and Lucent will be 21CN's preferred suppliers for core nodes providing high capacity and cost efficient connections between metro nodes.
Softswitching -- Ericsson has been selected in the i-node domain – in essence the intelligence that controls the services.
Optical Transmission -- Ciena and Huawei have been chosen in the transmission domain. BT plans to deploy Ciena's optical switching and transmission and Ethernet transport platforms.
BT said the selection of these eight suppliers will allow dozens of smaller and innovative subcontractors to become involved in the delivery of the 21st Century Network, attracting significant new investment and employment to the UK.
Abertis Telecom, Nokia and Telefónica Móviles España are starting a mobile TV pilot using Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) technology. The pilot, which will take place in Madrid and Barcelona between September 2005 and February 2006, will deliver content from major regional and local channels to Nokia 7710 smartphones equipped with a special accessory to receive mobile TV broadcasts. The mobile phones feature a wide color touch-screen (640 x 320 pixels) and stereo music player, enabling users to take part in program related interactive services while watching TV. The pilot will assist in possible market research that would enable Abertis Telecom, Nokia and Telefonica Moviles to measure public interest in mobile TV services.
Telefónica Móviles is responsible for customer support, invoicing and interactive services. Abertis Telecom will broadcast the programs in Madrid and Barcelona and are also handling any technical issues with DVB-H signal. Nokia will provide the Mobile TV solution and smartphones that will be used for the pilot. http://www.nokia.com
Alcatel was awarded a contract to supply its 7301 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM)TELEKOMUNIKACJA POLSKA (TP), Poland's incumbent telecommunications provider. The value of the contract is EUR 6 million and the equipment should be operational by the end of 2005. http://www.alcatel.com http://www.telekomunikacja.pl
