Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s leading service provide is partnering Alcatel-Lucent to start the world's first commercial deployment of G.fast ultra-broadband access technology. With the G.fast technology, Operators can leverage on their copper telephone lines to deliver fiber like ultra-broadband services such as high definition video and rich content services.
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The operator targets to launch the service to the 8.4 million Taiwanese homes, low- and high-rise buildings in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Chunghwa Telecom will be using Alcatel-Lucent’s G.fast portfolio including the 7368 Intelligent Service Access Manager (ISAM) Optical Network Terminals (ONTs)7368 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) CPE with integrated reverse power 5520 Access Management System.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, currently 68% of homes in Taiwan enjoy broadband cable for Internet access. However, with growing demand for 4K TV and streaming HD video services, the need for ultra-broadband access is steadily increasing.
Alcatel-Lucent is also working on a pilot rollout of the G.fast technology with BT in the UK. Last year, the French telecoms vendor succesfully completed G.fast lab testing with Austrian operator, A1 Telecoms.
Mu-Piao Shih, President of Chunghwa Telecom With Alcatel-Lucent
With G.fast technology we will be well equipped to launch an ultra high-speed network service toward the end of this year and offer our customers the highest broadband service experience, thereby solidifying our leadership in the fiber optics broadband service market ranging from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
Ken Wu, President and Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent Taiwan
As innovators in ultra-broadband fixed access, Alcatel-Lucent was the first company to bring G.fast to the market. For the past year we have been working with leading operators around the world to trial the technology.
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