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Shanghai's Oriental Cable Network Selects Cisco to Deploy First ROADM Networking Technology in Mainland China
Cisco Assists Oriental Cable in Providing Integrated Services Over Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - January 17, 2008) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced that
Shanghai's Oriental Cable Network Co. Ltd. has selected the Cisco ONS 15454
Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) and reconfigurable optical add-drop
multiplexer (ROADM) technology for its digital television optical transport
platform. Oriental Cable, the world's largest cable television city
network, becomes the first network service provider in mainland China to
deploy ROADM technology.
Cisco ROADM is a part of Cisco's Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network
(IP NGN), which enables providers such as Oriental Cable to migrate to
IP-based networks. By adopting Cisco IP NGN, Oriental Cable can deliver
new services to end users more quickly. Oriental Cable can also improve
its operational efficiencies and capital expenditures while advancing the
network and service control necessary for long-term business success.
The Oriental Cable next-generation network, aided by the Cisco ROADM, lays
a solid foundation for completing the move from analog to digital
television. Cisco ROADM technology will help enable a more flexible
transport of optical wavelengths on a single optical fiber through the
dynamic reconfiguration of the traffic distribution in a dense
wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) network. This will increase the
efficiency of Oriental Cable's existing fiber-optic network.
Oriental Cable, formerly known as Shanghai Cable Network, covers the entire
city of Shanghai, broadcasting more than 60 channels to more than 3 million
viewers. As the only company testing the delivery of voice, video and data
services over a single network in China, Oriental Cable has been upgrading
through digitization of the existing cable network, thereby completing its
transition from a traditional cable network provider to an Internet-era,
fully integrated network service provider.
The versatility of Cisco ROADM technology enables Oriental Cable's
customers to enjoy many more applications, such as multimedia digital
broadcasting, high-speed Internet access, business networking, digital
television, video conferencing, distance education and real-time remote
monitoring.
"The convergence of voice, video, data and mobility networks with advanced
communication devices presents a wonderful opportunity for Oriental Cable
to upgrade to a fully application-flexible network," said Wan Qianrong,
vice president of Oriental Cable Network Co. "After careful review, we
determined that the best way to transition to these next-generation
broadband services would be to migrate to a Cisco optical network, which is
best suited to support our increasing IP traffic volume."
ROADM Technology Offers Oriental Cable Many Benefits
ROADM technology, available on the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP, is a networking
advancement that brings a level of management simplicity typically
associated with a synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) or synchronous
optical network (SONET), to dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)
solutions. Each Cisco ROADM-enabled node in Oriental Cable's network is
able to add, drop or pass through any combination of the available
wavelengths by remote control without having to deploy a DWDM expert to
each interim site to manually adjust equipment configurations. As a
result, Cisco ROADM deployment offers Oriental Cable operational
simplicity, flexibility and lower operational costs.
"Cisco is providing Oriental Cable with an advanced technology solution
that allows it to be the leading triple-play service provider in mainland
China," said Hanh Tu, Cisco managing director of Asia Pacific service
providers. "Our ROADM solution will help Orient Cable differentiate itself
by offering its customers the most advanced and robust services. Oriental
Cable joins other Cisco ROADM deployments in the Asia Pacific region,
including Hong Kong Broadband Network, AARNet and Japan Telecom."
About Oriental Cable Network Co., Ltd.
Oriental Cable Network Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Shanghai Cable Network
Co., Ltd.) is the only cable television system in China undergoing testing
for the "three-network convergence." The Company manages the largest
regional cable television network in the world and is the largest
integrated network service provider in Shanghai excluding Shanghai Telecom.
Currently, it owns 61 sets of transport simulation television, 121 sets of
digital television and provides service to approximately 34 million cable
television customers and over 50,000 paying digital television customers.
In the areas of integrated value-added Internet services, Oriental Cable's
network services cover 200,000 individual broadband customers and
approximately 10,000 business broadband customers. In addition, Oriental
Cable successfully implemented the official two-tier government network for
the city and region of Shanghai, as well as for approximately 100 exclusive
data networks for other professional organizations.
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