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SINGAPORE: Two big telco names have been roped in for Singapore's upcoming next generation broadband network.
The contracts were signed on Tuesday taking the new network one key step further.
Imagine being able to try on clothes and jewellery that you see on the Internet and see how you look in them. That could be possible with Singapore's Next Generation National Broadband Network.
The operating company Nucleus Connect is roping in China's largest network technology supplier Huawei, and global telco giant Alcatel-Lucent.
Under a deal announced today, Huawei will provide the active equipment for Nucleus, while Alcatel-Lucent will supply customer and business solutions systems.
David Storrie, CEO, Nucleus Connect, said: "Well at the moment its a multi million dollar contract. At the moment it’s about 70/30, 70% toward the active element which is going to be provided by Huawei, and 30 toward Alcatel-Lucent, although over the next years the gap could considerably narrow.
“The main reason for that is because we have put in extra capacity into the active elements.”
When it comes to investment, Nucleus Connect said it still expects to spend around S$1 billion into the project over the next 25 years.
Nucleus Connect plans to deploy advanced technologies to support a wide range of ultra high speed wholesale broadband services.
The new network is part of Singapore's Intelligent Nation 2015 or "iN2015 blueprint which aims to provide seamless Internet connectivity across Singapore.
Another consortium, OpenNet, will lay the infrastructure of the network, and it's also roped in Alcatel-Lucent.
Going forward, Alcatel also plans to work with retail service provides.
Alcatel said services to the network could account for about 50 per cent of its revenues in Singapore in the coming years.
Oliver Foo, managing director, Singapore and Brunei, Alcatel-Lucent, said: "We are focused on a way to help make this technology as easily accessible to any 'mom and pop' shop that wants to offer a service. That's the whole spirit of this open access within this national broadband network which is any 'mom and pop' shop without necessarily having to dig out the road, can go to Nucleus Connect and buy up bandwidth."
So far, Nucleus Connect said that 15 to 20 retail service providers have registered interest in the network. - CNA/vm
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