BEIJING, China - October 13, 2003 - Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced that China Netcom Group (CNG), one of the leading communications service providers in China, has chosen Cisco 12000 and 7000 Series Routers for its IP/MPLS backbone and service network. CNG is building and offering value-added IP services nationwide in China, including Metro Ethernet and virtual private network (VPN) services.
CNG currently provides Internet service to over 17.8 million users and data transmission service to 228,000 business customers. CNG began a nationwide IP infrastructure and services buildout in January 2003. First to be constructed is the IP backbone and service aggregation network to support advanced IP service delivery.
To differentiate its services in an increasingly competitive market, CNG laid out stringent requirements for its network solution: Multicast, end to end Quality of Service (QoS), and MPLS with multiple Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These services had to be swiftly deployable and scalable for future growth.
Cisco's routing platforms are uniquely qualified to meet these requirements. Cisco 12000 and 7000 Series Routers provide CNG with the functionality and ability to roll out services on demand, which will enhance CNG's competitiveness, increase customer satisfaction and generate additional revenue without incremental capital spending. CNG is deploying the Cisco 12016 Router in the backbone layer, Cisco 12016 and Cisco 12008 Routers in the aggregation layer, and Cisco7200 and Cisco 7304 Routers at the network edge.Cisco's service-optimizing solution coupled with scalability, field upgradeability and investment protection reduces CNG's total cost of ownership.
"Cisco's end-to-end solution enables our valued customer CNG to deliver unified and differentiated services much faster than those who had multi-vendor platforms. Furthermore, Cisco accelerates success of our service provider customers by bringing together comprehensive technical and business solutions that fully support a carrier's marketing objectives," said Hanh Tu, vice president of Cisco Systems China.
The Cisco 12000 is the only high end routing solution that meets service provider requirements for service delivery, manageability, adaptability, reliability, and lowest total cost of ownership while building a carrier-class IP/MPLS network. The Cisco 7000 Series routers are optimized for flexible, scalable, high-performance IP and MPLS services at the service provider and enterprise network edge, affording the broadest set of interfaces and exceptional service intelligence.
