ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has signed strategic contracts with Huawei Technologies Pakistan for the transformation of its IP Edge and Optical Transport Network (OTN).
Acting CEO and Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), PTCL and Ufone Nadeem Khan and CEO Huawei Technologies Pakistan Mark Meng, signed the contract during a ceremony held at PTCL HQ here , said a news release on Monday.
GCTIO (Development), PTCL and Ufone Jafar Khalid, Deputy CEO, Huawei Technologies Pakistan Ahmed Bilal Masud also attended the ceremony, along with senior management from both organizations.
Aimed to meet the exponential growth in traffic, this transformation involved modernization of existing inter-city and long-haul network, with a state-of-the-art OTN network.
Combined with the existing Optical Transport Network backbone, PTCL long-haul capacity will become Multiple Terabits per seconds, capable of delivering better services across the country.
Furthermore, PTCL, in-line with its vision to revolutionize widespread availability of IP connectivity in Pakistan, will deploy a Unified IP Edge network, spreading across more than 130 sites, for providing next generation IP services.
This up-gradation, along with PTCL’s recently modernized Multi-Service Core and Internet Gateway network, will enable provisioning of high-speed & reliable ICT services across Corporate, Carrier & Consumers segments, supporting future customer-end demands of 100-400 Gigabit per second scalability.
Speaking on the occasion, Nadeem Khan said, “PTCL continues to transform its network with scalable architecture and futuristic technologies, to meet growing bandwidth demand from our subscribers, corporate and carrier customers. We are glad to partner with Huawei on this strategic initiative, that will go a long way in enabling the widespread availability of quality ICT Services across Pakistan.”
On the occasion, CEO, Huawei Technologies Pakistan Mark Meng said, “We greatly value our long-term relationship with PTCL Group, and continue to support its vision for technological evolution. PTCL is playing a leading role in enhancing customer experience through innovation, and definitely this network transformation will empower and exceed customer expectations in times to come.”
Being the national flagship carrier, PTCL is fully committed to the vision of a Digital Pakistan, by further strengthening its commitment for continual network infrastructure evolution and resolve for consistent improvement of our valued customer experience.