March 3, 2005 Seoul, Korea -- Cisco announced today that KT, Korea's largest fixed-line communications carrier and Internet service provider, has begun to use the company's ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) to offer data, voice, and video services in the Seoul area. The optical network project is the company's first for the carrier.
KT selected Cisco as its strategic vendor for its optical backbone plan in December 2004. According to a press release, the carrier's selection criteria included the company's technical leadership in Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology and Layer 2 networking features, as well as the overall quality of its ONS 15454 platform, which received high marks in the carrier's benchmark testing.
"This project is to build an intelligent next-generation network through which KT can provide triple play services to its customers, enabling customers to enjoy the benefits of advanced network technology, while creating additional revenue streams for KT," says Nosung Park, operations director of Cisco's north Asia service provider operations.
As part of the initial network deployment, Cisco announced that it has completed the first service trial of the carrier's 2.5 and 10-Gbit/sec MSPP project, part of a 5-year plan to deploy an optical transport infrastructure to service the carrier's customer base with multiple advanced services. The service trial involved deploying the company's ONS 15454 SDH to cover regional nodes in the Seoul metropolitan area, as well as international nodes for the planned multiservice integrated transport network. Millinet, one of Cisco's system integration partners, has been a key contributor to the project.