Bangkok--Mar 10--siemens
The Thai network operator, Advanced Datanetwork Communications (ADC), awarded Siemens the contract to provide, install, and maintain its nationwide Ethernet-based broadband network. Under this contract, Siemens will additionally supply and deliver Surpass Home Entertainment solution, which turns the television into a home entertainment and communications center. The solution enables ADC to offer to its customers high-speed Internet access together with a multitude of online services through traditional television. The contract initially covers 200,000 broadband lines.
Winning this order substantiates Siemens’ leading position for Carrier Ethernet. The combination of the cost-effective Ethernet-based access technology and the Surpass Home Entertainment solution was the key winning factor for this contract. With this proven solution, ADC can also offer its customers high-speed Internet access via TV and other services, for example, TV reception over Internet and Video on Demand. These business opportunities are attractive in Thailand where TV penetration rate of almost 100% is significantly higher than the country’s PC penetration rate. In the next step, ADC plans to expand its service offerings to include Online Gaming and Voice and Video Telephony. In addition to these applications, the Surpass Home Entertainment solution also allows operators and service providers to offer additional entertainment services such as digital TV recorder and communication services such as e-mail and SMS over TV.
“We are pleased to work with the strong team of Siemens on this project. The end-to-end solutions provided strengthen ADC’s presence in the Thai broadband access market and make available to the Thai people very affordable high-speed Internet access with a wide range of innovative services” said Mrs. Aphivan Saipradist, Managing Director of ADC.
“This success in Thailand reinforces our strategy to offer competitive end-to-end solutions that enables operators to provide new services with immediate end-user benefits. In the case of ADC, the full range of broadband services can now be extended to TV viewers in addition to PC users, thereby intensely broadening ADC’s addressable market.” said Lothar Pauly, Head of the Siemens Com Group Board.
About ADC
Advanced Datanetwork Communications Co.,Ltd (ADC), a member of Shin Group, is a leading data communication services provider in Thailand. With its nationwide network coverage, ADC offers broad ranges of fast, efficient, and reliable on-line data services to corporate and residential customers under the brand name ADC “Datanet”. The services include, for example, ADSL, Data-Over-Voice, Frame Relay, IP VPN over Frame Relay, and High Speed ATM Backbone. For corporate customers, ADC also offers customized network consulting services to optimize the efficiency of its customer’s network. In 2004, ADC provided data communication services to more than 800 organizations countrywide.
Siemens Communications is one of the largest players in the global telecommunications industry. Siemens is the only provider in the market that offers its customers a full-range portfolio, from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures for enterprises and carriers as well as related services. Siemens Communications is the world’s innovation leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. It is the largest Group within Siemens and operates in more than 160 countries around the world. In fiscal 2004 (year-end September 30), its 60,000-strong workforce posted sales of approximately 18 billion euros.
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