Maxis to deploy Alcatel-Lucent's 100G n/w soln

MUMBAI, INDIA: Communication service provider Maxis Berhad has partnered with telecom networking equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent to transform its core transmission network.

Maxis will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution, in order to cope up with increased data traffic.

Maxis operates its optical fibre network, covering over 10,000 km of fibre infrastructure, within Peninsular Malaysia with part of the fibre infrastructure delivered through collaborative sharing and swapping.

Maxis claims that leaveraging on Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G optical coherent network solution, Maxis will be able to address the growing bandwidth requirements and provision services faster and shorten the time to market for new services requiring higher capacities and reliability.

Mark Dioguardi, Maxis’ CTO, said: “The deployment of this optical network solution transforms our core transmission network; much like upgrading from a normal trunk road to a super highway, allowing users to enjoy faster and seamless high capacity connectivity within Peninsular Malaysia. Moreover, Maxis was the first to conduct trials for Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology successfully.”

Rajeev Singh-Molares, president, Alcatel-Lucent Asia-Pacific, said, “Our 100G optical solution gives Maxis a new architecture that will drastically reduce its cost of reliably transporting high volumes of traffic while providing a powerful platform to launch and support innovative new services.”