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Viet Nam telecoms growing at rapid pace
Nortel, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, one of the leaders in delivering communications capabilities introduced a new 40G/100G solution to the domestic market yesterday. Viet Nam News reporter Van Nga talked to Nortel director Anup Changaroth about the use of the new product as well as the local telecommunication environment.
When did Nortel penetrate the local market?
Nortel has been in business in Viet Nam since 1993 and we are proud to be part of the country’s growing progress. We see how the market has grown from year to year to catch up with the rest of the world and we are happy that Nortel has played a part in this significant time in Vietnamese history.
Nortel makes the promise of ‘Business Made Simple’ a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications.
Nortel’s technologies are designed to help eliminate today’s barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world.
How do you evaluate the Vietnamese market in the telecommunications field?
Nortel views the Viet Nam market as growing faster than many other markets in ASEAN. This is why we have launched the Nortel 40G solution here today.
Furthermore, Viet Nam is the third country, after China and the Philippines in Pacific Asia, where Nortel has chosen to develop the new product.
In terms of strong points, Viet Nam’s market doesn’t have a legacy of deploying technology, so it is easier for Viet Nam service providers to start deploying Next-Generation solutions like Nortel’s 40G solution.
The Vietnamese market has few weak points. The service providers are well educated and quickly understand the benefits, both commercial and technical, of all solutions that Nortel has introduced into this market.
Can you predict how telecommunications will develop in Viet Nam in the coming future?
We cannot provide any forward-looking statements about the Viet Nam market, except to say that Nortel is working with all the local service providers to ensure they understand all the benefits of next-generation technology available today from Nortel.
As for 40G, what are the long-term benefits and advantage compared to previous technologies and will the price be much higher?
In fact, Nortel’s 40G solution can provide immediate benefits to customers, not only long-term benefits. Firstly, Nortel’s 40G is the only solution that can quadruple a network’s traffic carrying capacity without complex network re-engineering – this is done through technological innovations that deliver both economic and operational benefits as well as the simplest migration from 10G to 40G and to 100G.
Secondly, Nortel’s 40G solution delivers a plug and play technology that can be deployed over any fibre-optic network.
Thirdly, Nortel’s 40G solution offers a unique non-regenerated reach of more than 2,000 kilometres, and delivers significant economic benefits through reduction/elimination of equipment and with the ability to use existing fibre.
Last but not least, Nortel’s 40G delivers the simplest migration from 10G to 40G to 100G, reusing technology to retain the same network architecture, reach and agility characteristics including optical layer restoration, for all line rates, thereby protecting future investments.
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