MUNICH and MILAN -- The Indonesian telecommunications company Indosat has commissioned Pirelli and Siemens as a consortium to deliver a turnkey high-speed optical fiber network. The three subnetworks in East Java, Jakarta-Bandung and Sumatra cover a total of more than 1376 km. They form the backbone for nationwide transport of both fixed network and mobile telephony data. The order is worth around 20 million euro and will consolidate the already strong position of Siemens and Pirelli in Indonesia, generating more opportunities for future telecommunications projects in the region.

The Indonesian telecommunications market offers, in fact, interesting business opportunities due to its population of around 220 million and a fixed-line penetration coefficient of only 3%. Thanks to this new high-speed optical fiber network, based on SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) technology, Indosat will have enough transport capacity to offer telecommunications services nationwide via its own backbone network, and will thus realize another step towards its strategic goal of becoming a “full-service operator”. Siemens IC Networks, the consortium leader, will provide the transmission equipment, as well as the relevant cable and equipment installation, aiming at setting up the complete solution in just half a year.

Pirelli will deliver the terrestrial cable, equipped with 24 new Pirelli SM Light fibers, offering the world’s most advanced features both for PMD (Polarization Mode Dispersion) quoted specification and splicing performance.

The project strengthens the partnership between Pirelli and Siemens, which came into being in May 2001 with the goal of jointly providing complete and integrated optical networks – employing terrestrial and submarine systems – and of customizing best-in-class city-to-city solutions based on each customer’s needs.

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