SLT launches 100G Ultra Speed National Backbone Network
View(s):Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has launched the country’s first ultra-speed National wide DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) fibre optics backbone transmission Network (NBN).
Huawei, the strategic partner of SLT worked together with SLT to implement the NBN with new generation OTN-based 100G DWDM solution. The solution supports 8 Terabits (1 Terabits = 1000 Gigabits) per seconds transmission capability through fibre optics to cater to future explosive growth of Sri Lanka ICT, the local telecom firm said in a media announcement on Monday.
Covering all 329 divisional secretariats in Sri Lanka within a 5-year time window, the NBN aspires to deliver high speed uninterrupted access at all times, to every business and household in the country.
Commenting on the launch of 100G Ultra Speed NBN, Lalith De Silva, Group CEO of Sri Lanka Telecom said, “With the NBN rollout, the industry will be empowered to provide high speed broadband access at affordable and competitive prices”.
Fibre optics transmission infrastructure is fundamental to telecommunications. Within less than half a century, the optical transport industry has migrated from PDH, through SDH, WDM, to OTN-based 100G DWDM, boosting network speeds from megabit-level to terabit-level performance and progressing from pure manual network configuration and management to modest levels of automation, the statement said.
Huawei’s Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Sun noted that “NBN is a timely requirement for SLT, for which Huawei has been chosen to supply and implement this project. Such forward looking initiative in the event of initiative magnifies the uniqueness of the SLT. Every day we have more and more people connected through the Internet. It makes our corporation with telco operators much more significant and prominent”.
Chinese ambassador Wu Jianghao praised this project’s high-quality and efficient fulfilment as the example of cooperation between China and Sri Lanka. And he also conveyed that “with the fast economic development in Sri Lanka, more and more high-technical telecom requirements will be necessary in future. We all truly believe that Sri Lanka, the Pearl on the Maritime Silk Road, will be the hub not only for overseas shipment, but also for international telecommunication”.