BARCELONA -- Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the deployment of the Cisco 7600 IP Transfer Point (ITP), the industry´s leading next-generation core signaling transfer point (STP). KTF, one of Korea´s major mobile communications providers, has adopted Cisco 7600 ITP to strengthen its third-generation (3G) mobile communications services.

As competition in the third-generation mobile communications services market intensifies, KTF decided to establish an Internet Protocol-based high-speed signaling network for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) services, separated from its existing CDMA network. Leveraging the carrier-class reliability features of the Cisco 7600, KTF has deployed the Cisco ITP as the core solution of the project and now provides commercial WCDMA services via this solution.

"The importance of the signaling system in telecommunications services is comparable to that of the human neural network. System stability, scalability and error-processing capability became the top priorities in selecting the appropriate solution. Furthermore, since KTF was the first local mobile communications provider to build a network exclusively for WCDMA, experience in establishing a WCDMA signaling network was also considered as an important factor," said Heui-Seon Yu, Director of KTF Core Network Planning Team. "Thanks to Cisco´s excellent solutions and rich experience in this field, KTF is now capable of fully preparing for the service," he added.

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