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Telecom
Outlook 2003
December
10, 2002
Ericsson wins
DSL expansion contract with China Telecom
HONG
KONG -- Ericsson has been recently awarded a contract
by China Telecom to expand the latter's DSL network
in Anhui province, Southern China. This is among the
first commercial contracts for Ericsson's Ethernet DSL
access solution that features the smallest DSLAM.
China
is experiencing a strong demand for ADSL. China Telecom
already has 1.5 million ADSL subscribers and hopes to
have over 2 million subscribers by end of 2002 and 4
million subscribers by the end of 2004. Ericsson will
provide China Telecom with ADSL lines, mostly for residential
subscribers, across five cities in Anhui province. The
ADSL lines will be delivered using Ericsson's ultra-compact,
scalable, Ethernet DSL access solution. It enables standard
ADSL lines to be offered economically at smaller sites
(starting from eight subscribers) and uses Ethernet
to provide cost-effective, high-bandwidth links in the
second mile networks.
The
DSL access solution enables fixed network operators
to deploy the required second-mile bandwidth at less
than half the cost of equivalent ATM-based bandwidth.
It supports high-bandwidth demanding services without
DSLAM bottlenecks and reduces transport costs ten-fold.
An advantage of providing DSL services this way is that
the existing standardized DSL interfaces are unchanged.
A subscriber uses a standard DSL modem and plugs into
an Ethernet connection from the PC or LAN in the normal
way.
Contact:
Ericsson
Tel: 46-8-719-1880/46-70-267-3445
Email: peter.olofsson@lme.ericsson.se
Web: www.ericsson.com
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