ZTE completes Indonesian GPON network

ZTE has successfully completed the world’s first large-scale commercial GPON-based mobile backhaul network for TELKOM Indonesia, a full-service telecom operator in Indonesia. The project is the first large-scale, commercial deployment of GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Networking) backhaul technology, and is based on ZTE’s mobile network platform. With Indonesia’s strong growth in broadband demand in recent years, TELKOM Indonesia needed to meet traditional voice service demands and enhance its current extensive range of broadband services such as high-speed Internet, IPTV and online games, whilst considering the integration of fixed and mobile networks to accommodate for future bandwidth growth. As one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world, the number of users served by the TELKOM Group Indonesia reached almost 118.2 million by Q3 of 2010. According to Point-Topic’s World Broadband report (Q3 2009), the broadband penetration rate in the Southeast Asian market was less than 10% however; the broadband market growth was a fast growing, area reaching in excess of 6.32% per quarter. Recognising the need to deploy a GPON based mobile backhaul solution to meet the complex networking and bearing requirements involved in business scenarios today, TELKOM Indonesia embarked on the use of GPON technology in 2009. Since the network has been deployed, subscribers have been able to enjoy improved high-speed internet and a high quality of service.
The report by Point Topic also noted that the majority of the current top 10 fast broadband growth areas are in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia; specifically China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan. In addition to the venture with TELKOM Indonesia, ZTE is also implementing projects with China Telecom, Telecom Malaysia and other Asia- Pacific operators, to help drive broadband development and deployment into an “accelerated fast lane,” to achieve an “Asia-Pacific FTTx construction mode”, according to the report.
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