June 15, 2005 Corning, NY and Jakarta, Indonesia -- Kabelvision, an Indonesian cable TV and data services provider and part of Indonesia's PT Broadband Multimedia Tbk, announced today that it will deploy Corning's NexCor singlemode fiber in the latest expansion of the provider's hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network. PT Communication Cable Systems Indonesia will provide the cable for the project.
The HFC network currently passes 220,000 homes in the Jakarta metropolitan area, as well as in Bali, Surabaya, and several small resort areas. The provider says the network's latest expansion, including the Corning fiber, will serve Jakarta City and outlying suburbs, passing another 120,000 homes by 2006.
Corning says its NexCor fiber is engineered with attributes that address the unique needs of access networks, while maintaining backward compatibility with legacy singlemode fibers. The company says the fully ITU-T G.652.D-compliant fiber delivers additional value for CATV and FTTX networks, as compared with earlier singlemode fibers. The company says the fiber builds on its SMF-28e fiber, offering up to 50% more usable spectrum than traditional singlemode fibers, plus double the optical launch power of other fibers in its class, for increased route design flexibility and subscriber coverage. The company says its NexCor fiber also offers among the best comprehensive bend specification and tightest dispersion tolerance of fibers in its class, easing access network design and installation.
"Kabelvision's mission is to improve the benefits and offer a variety of broadband services to the communities we serve," comments David Burke, COO and director of Kabelvision. "NexCor fiber's optimized capabilities give us the flexibility and confidence we need to achieve that mission."
"Access networks have unique challenges for power, transmission and deployment, and designing around them is always more complicated and nearly always more expensive," concludes Eric Musser, vice president and general manager of Corning Optical Fiber. "Corning believes that there is no reason to design around limitations, when you can remove them through innovative fiber design."