Alcatel-Lucent on Monday said it will supply GPON solution to Telkom Akses, a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia, for fiber to the premises (FTTx) ultra-broadband access.
Telkom Akses is responsible for building national broadband infrastructure for millions of subscribers in Indonesia, a predominantly rural and agricultural nation comprised of over 17,000 islands.
The government-owned Telkom Indonesia is replacing legacy copper cabling with optical fiber for expanding the broadband infrastructure to 15 million subscribers by 2015 as part of the TITO (Trade In Trade Off) Access Modernization Project.
Alcatel-Lucent’s technology will allow the delivery of consumer and business services including IPTV, video on demand, voice over IP (VoIP) and more at speeds of up to 100 Megabits per second.
Telkom Akses has responsibility for taking broadband penetration in Indonesia from about 2 percent to 30 percent by the end of 2015.
Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) product family, which supports GPON enabling fiber-to-the-premises.
Today, one out of three fixed broadband subscribers around the world is served through an access network provided by Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent is involved in over 100 FTTH projects worldwide, over 85 of which are with GPON.
Badriyanto, chief executive officer of Telkom Akses, said: “Deployment of Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON technology in Indonesia’s eastern region will contribute greatly to achieving our country’s goal of closing the digital divide and giving all of our people access to broadband whether they are living closely together in our cities or widely dispersed in our rural areas.”
