Huawei Wins Indonesian MPLS Backbone

SHENZHEN, China -- Huawei Technologies, the global supplier of telecom infrastructure, today announced that the company won Indonesia Excelcom’s national MPLS backbone router contract.

The purpose of this project is to build up Excelcom’s Next generation IP core for future service, like IP Access, NGN, 3G, MPLS VPN etc. According to the contract, Huawei’s 5th Generation Router NE80 and NE40-8, NE08E will be deployed in metropolitan cities of Indonesia, like Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung as regional core node and in Singapore as international data traffic gateway. This network can be smoothly upgraded to 10G bandwidth in each of the metropolitan cities and will meet the coming demand of service increase in the next a few years. It will wholly improve Excelcom’s capability to provide abundant data service for their customers.

As one of the most important global data communications equipment supplier and a company that has a most comprehensive data communications solution, Huawei and its data communications products have gained wide attention in the industry and have been highly recognized by more and more customers worldwide.

By the end of 2003, more than 200,000 Huawei routers and 8.1 million ports of Huawei LAN switches are running on the global network. At present, Huawei data communications products have already been successfully deployed in 46 countries including UK, Russia, Brazil and Thailand.

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.