Asia Pacific Watch

PT.TELKOM opts for Siemens' EWSD

INDONESIA -- Indonesian carrier PT.Telekomunikasi (PT.Telkom) has awarded Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group (ICN) an order worth around EUR 12 million for the turnkey supply and installation of its EWSD technology.

PT.Telkom will use Siemens technology to modernize and expand its network in Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya, East Java. This will reduce the number of exchanges required, thus lowering PT.Telkom's operating costs markedly. The network structure will be simplified in one of the most densely populated areas of Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city with four million inhabitants. The first consolidation of a network using EWSD remote switching units (RSU) was implemented successfully in Jakarta a year ago. Cost reductions achieved here and increased value creation were the main prerequisite for awarding the order for Surabaya.

The second part of the project involves increasing capacity in the East-Java telephone network. There are cost benefits in increasing the capacity of many existing exchanges in Greater Surabaya, as EWSD can be expanded quickly and cheaply due to its modular architecture without substantial changes having to be made to the existing basic installation.