Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent service provider in Taiwan, has selected next generation network VoIP and multimedia solutions from Nortel Networks. Specifically, Nortel Networks was awarded a contract to upgrade the network under Chunghwa Telecom’s Class 5 Packet Telephony Service System tender. Full network deployment is expected to be completed by September 2004.
Chunghwa Telecom’s NGN network will be based on Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server (CS) 2000-Compact superclass softswitch and Nortel Networks Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) 5200. Financial terms were not disclosed.