Shanghai Telecom picks Cisco CRS-1 platform for network expansion

January 26, 2006 Beijing, China -- Cisco Systems announced that Shanghai Telecom will deploy the Cisco CRS-1 multichassis carrier routing system to collapse the "Super Point-of-Presence (POP)" for the carrier's current high-speed core IP network, and to expand its gateway capacity to meet the future growth demands of its business.

According to Cisco, through deployment of the CRS-1 system, the current network nodes for the carrier's IP network gateway will be collapsed into "super nodes" with increased uplink and downlink bandwidth. Cisco says the CRS-1 system adopted by Shanghai Telecom can be scaled up to 72 line-card shelves, totaling 1,152 slots, providing room for system expansion to satisfy the carrier's expected needs for the next 10 to 15 years.

According to a press release, since 2001, Cisco has been providing equipment, technology, and service support for the construction and expansion of Shanghai Telecom's high speed IP network. Cisco says the IP network has been able to offer an increasingly advanced array of IP-based services and network connections to ChinaNet, China Telecom's national Internet network.

"We have been working closely with Shanghai Telecom for many years to provide world-class telecommunications service for Chinese enterprise and residential customers," says Thomas Lam, president of Cisco Systems China. "Shanghai Telecom is the first in the region to use the multichassis configuration of Cisco CRS-1 to boost its general network performance, providing an example for telecommunications carriers in the Asia Pacific region and worldwide."