Huawei Technologies announced today that the 10G IP/MPLS network has passed the preliminary acceptance test by Mauritius Telecom. This network is the first 10G IP/MPLS network in Africa, which is built to provide triple play services. BTV, VOD, VOIP, VPN and Internet traffic shall be delivered by this unified 10G MPLS network. Huawei`s carrier class core router (Quidway NetEngine 80E) and core switch (Quidway S8508) are being deployed.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is the world leading supplier of carrier class IP/MPLS products and solutions. Huawei`s Quidway NetEngine routers rank number two in the worldwide PE routers market and number one in Asia Pacific.
Huawei is currently focusing on the technological innovations to enable network convergence. The goal of Huawei`s datacom products is to help operators to achieve network convergence and take advantage of service innovations. So far Huawei Quidway series datacom products have been deployed in 91 countries, including 49 IP/MPLS backbones in China, UK, Germany, Spain, Brazil, UAE, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania.
Huawei`s NetEngine routers and switches are playing an important role in Africa`s IP/MPLS backbone development. Now more than 30 leading African operators are using NetEngine routers and S8500 series core switches to build their IP/MPLS backbone networks for NGN, CDMA, 3G, mobile Internet and broadband Metro Ethernets.
Fan Hui, the The product Director of Huawei Technologies` southern Africa region, mentioned that the driving forces behind Africa`s IP/MPLS construction are the fast development of NGN, mobile, CDMA, ADSL and triple play. IP/MPLS technologies can help operators to achieve multiple targets including the lowering of CapEx and OpEx, fast network and service roll-out and improved competitive abilities. Huawei carrier class Quidway series NetEngine routers and core switches are designed for those telecom environments, added Hui.
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