Hong Kong Broadband Network expands VoIP services

MUMBAI: Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN), the city's largest

alternative residential voice and broadband service provider, is expanding

its VoIP telephony and multimedia services to increase capacity by one

million subscribers through a major upgrade of its VoIP network supplied by

Nortel Networks.

A press relase states that to launch its 2b broadband phone service, HKBN

deployed a combination of solutions including Nortel's Multimedia

Communication Server (MCS) 5200, a converged multimedia platform that

enables enhanced communications regardless of location, access type or media.

HKBN also deployed Nortel Communication Server (CS) 2000-Compact, making it possible for voice, video and multimedia services to be delivered on a single

packetized network, providing more efficient and cost-effective use of its

network.

HKBN's 2b Broadband subscribers can now avail VoIP with advanced multimedia

services such as secure instant messaging, video calling and broadband

access rolled out to subscribers in Hong Kong, North America, Europe,

Southeast Asia and Australia.

"In just five years we have successfully established HKBN as a major force

in Hong Kong's highly competitive telephony and broadband market," said

Ricky Wong, chairman, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited. "We offer value

and bandwidth options that cannot be matched by older, traditional telephone

networks, and this major network expansion by Nortel is expected to play a

key role in our ability to attract new subscribers in local and global

markets and further reinforce our market leadership."