■ Successfully delivered the first demonstration of G-PON telecommunication equipment, developed for the first time in Korea last year.
■ Executive Vice President of Telecommunication and NI Division,
Cha-Eun Koo, ”Developing it as the future growth engine of
telecommunication business.”
LS Cable (CEO : Chayol Koo) successfully opened the FTTH (Fiber to the Home) network based on G-PON the first in Kuwait on February 12 and started full-scale commercial service to the market.
Successful launching of FTTH network was an opportunity for LS Cable to be recognized from the Information and Communication Ministry of Kuwait in implementing turnkey G-PON telecommunication equipment, a next-generation telecommunication network and also applying its commercial service to the market.
G-PON telecommunication equipment, which had a successful demonstration, was developed by LS Cable last year, the first in Korea. It was supplied to a project of about 5,000 households placed by the Information and Communication Ministry of Kuwait.
G-PON(Gigabit Passive Optical Network) is telecommunications equipment connecting the optical cable network of telephone stations and subscribers. Its transmission speed is three times faster than E-PON(Ethernet Passive Optical Network) generally used in Korea. It also has excellent compatibility among telecommunication companies. With this system, various multimedia services such as leased line service, ordinary telephone and video as well as high-speed internet service and IPTV are possible.
In particular, the G-PON technology is only held by a few major corporations like LS Cable and Alcatel-Lucent, and it has a big growth potential whose technology is only to be commercialized recently. From the US, the Middle East and Europe, its demand is rapidly increasing.
Executive Vice President of telecommunication business sector, Ja-Eun Koo of LS Cable, participated in the opening ceremony celebrating the commercial use of this technology, said that “With this successful opening, LS Cable will aggressively develop overseas business focusing on G-PON, telecommunication equipment for FTTH”. He also added that “LS Cable will reinforce its marketing competence toward the Middle East and European market and expand R&D investment to develop this technology as the future growth engine for telecommunications business.
◈ What is FTTH?
Based on optical telecommunications, FTTH establishes high-speed multimedia infrastructure to individual houses. With this technology, various broadcasting and telecommunications services such as video on demand (VoD), two-way data broadcasting and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as well as Broadband Convergence Network (BcN) will replace high-speed internet such as existing ADSL and HFC (Hybrid fiber Coax), and high-speed internet service with more than 100Mbps.
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