Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent carrier in Taiwan, awarded a $14 million contract to Movaz Networks for equipment to build a nationwide optical infrastructure consisting of 21 metropolitan DWDM rings. Movaz was awarded the multi-phase project with deployments of several hundred RAYexpress OADMs and RAYextender line amplifiers in interconnected optical rings to transport Gigabit Ethernet and storage area networking services over DWDM wavelengths. Movaz is working on the project with Comtrend, a systems integrator in Taiwan, and Capahill Technologies, a technical sales consultancy that operates throughout Asia.
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- Earlier this month, HiNet, the ISP division of Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom, selected Juniper Networks M-series platform for the expansion of its backbone. HiNet is currently serving more than 1,600,000 ADSL subscribers, making it one of the world’s top broadband providers.
- In September 2002, Chunghwa Telecom selected Nortel Networks’ optical long haul solution, including its OPTera Long Haul 1600 DWDM and OPTera Connect DX optical switching platforms. Under the contract, which is valued at approximately US$20 million, Nortel Networks will build what is expected to be Taiwan ‘s first, island-wide, 10 Gbps optical DWDM backbone.
- Movaz Networks recently announced a multi-million dollar contract to supply its metro optical networking equipment to VIC TOKAI Inc, a network system integrator in Japan. Movaz has been selected by VIC TOKAI as the exclusive supplier for the expansion of its existing optical fiber network infrastructure between Tokyo and Nagoya.