Alcatel-Lucent has cut a deal with Chunghwa Telecom, to build it an Ethernet MPLS network as part of the Taiwanese operator’s $180 million plan to build an island wide fiber optic network.
The five year aim of the project is to bring fiber optic connections to 2.4 million subscribers by the end of 2010.
Chunghwa will use the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch which offers MPLS aggregation which speeds up high priority internet traffic, typically for things like IPTV video.
Chunghwa will use the system to provide Quality of Service for triple play services and Alcatel also has the implementation project. Chunghwa is already one of the world’s leading IPTV suppliers. Alcatel-Lucent claims to have installed more than 126 million DSL lines ports shipped to date.