Huawei Marine Wins Turnkey Contract

Huawei Marine Networks has announced that it signed a turnkey contract with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk. (“PT Telkom”) for the Mataram-Kupang submarine cable system (“MKCS”). This project, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010, will connect five islands in eastern Indonesia and will stretch roughly 1,200 km, with an initial capacity of 4 × 10 Gb/s. As part of the Palapa Rings program launched by the Indonesian government, the MKCS project will connect Indonesia's central and western backbone cable networks, bringing residents of the nation's major islands onto the information highway. Beyond conventional communications services, the new system will also support a wide range of broadband applications, such as high-speed video and 3G services. Ermady Dahlan, CTO, PT Telkom, said, “Through its cutting edge technology and huge capacity unrepeatered solutions, Huawei Marine has significantly reduced the cost per bit of the system. This is largely why we selected Huawei Marine for the project. We believe that the cooperation with Huawei Marine will help us provide customers with better communications services and experiences.”