Nucleus Connect Nears Launch

SINGAPORE -- Nucleus Connect Pte. Ltd. (Nucleus Connect), Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) Operating Company (OpCo) announced today that it has successfully achieved several important milestones ahead of its commercial launch of the world’s first open-access nationwide broadband network that would provide an initial downlink speed of 100 Mbps and scalable to 1 Gbps and beyond in the second half of 2010.

In an event graced by Mr Ronnie Tay, Chief Executive Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA Singapore), Nucleus Connect launched its two Central Offices which house highly advanced optical network equipment that will empower the Next Gen NBN based on Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and Optical Ethernet (OE) access technologies. Strategically located at the East and North of Singapore at Tai Seng Drive and Yishun respectively, they also house a state of the art Operations and Business support (OSS/BSS) system that will function as the heartbeat of the Next Gen NBN.

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