Chunghwa Telecom selects Nortel Networks to build Taiwan optical backbone. (Taiwan).(Brief Article)

In a move to make high-speed broadband access and bandwidth available to subscribers in Taiwan, Chunghwa Telecom has selected an optical long haul solution - featuring OPTera Long Haul 1600 dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and OPTera Connect DX optical switching technology - from Nortel Networks.

Under an agreement estimated at approximately US$20 million, Nortel Networks will build what is expected to be Taiwan's first, island-wide, 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical DWDM backbone. Chunghwa Telecom plans to provide initial service in the second half of 2003.

This is the second time in recent months that Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest …