Hanaro Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON FTTH solution to deliver IPTV and HDTV services

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has been selected by Hanaro Telecom, a major broadband service provider in Korea, to supply its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution. Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution will enable Hanaro Telecom to deliver advanced broadband services, such as IPTV, high-definition television (HDTV), video-on-demand (VOD) over “hanaTV”, high-speed Internet access and interactive multimedia services to its 110,000 residential subscribers in Korea.

“As we embark into the era of IPTV and HDTV, the household demand for high bandwidth broadband services with the right quality of service is gaining importance. This is something we can deliver by deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution,” said Chan-Woong Park, Senior Vice President of Network Technology Unit at Hanaro Telecom. “By partnering with Alcatel-Lucent, we will continue to focus on deploying new and advanced service offerings, providing reliable and premium connectivity services to meet our customers’ requirements.”

“Alcatel-Lucent has always provided Hanaro Telecom with key solutions, enabling them to build a high speed broadband converged network that meets the ever growing market demands,” said Frederic Rose, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s business in Europe, Africa and Asia. “This contract is a key milestone for Alcatel-Lucent, following last year’s GPON trial award with Hanaro Telecom. It further strengthens our leading position in the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market worldwide as well as in the Asia Pacific region, and more specifically in Korea.”

Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy the 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-Home (ISAM FTTU) solution, which is designed specially for packet-based voice convergence and IPTV services. It enables IP converged triple play services by offering maximum bandwidth and QoS over a fiber access network. It enables service providers to offer seamless multimedia services such as high-speed data, IPTV, VoIP, or video services to its subscribers. Leveraging GPON technology, the solution can deliver any mix of voice, video or data over a single fiber that terminates at the subscriber’s premise with each PON line supporting 2.5 Gb/s downstream. Partnering with Sandeul Networks, Alcatel-Lucent will focus on the equipment while our business partner will dedicate its support on service delivery including items such as installation and integration

Alcatel-Lucent is engaged in more than 70 FTTx projects around the world, more than 55 of which are with GPON. More than 180 customers have adopted the ISAM product family globally – including 80% of the top 20 DSL operators in the world.Global leading service providers like Verizon, AT&T, and France Telecom have adopted Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution.