CAT Telecom Public Co. now offers an Optical Transport Network (OTN) Premium Private Line service in its native Thailand. The service provider is using equipment from Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co. Ltd. to enable delivery of the service, which Huawei says offers high bandwidth, up to 99.99% availability, high security, and flexibility.
CAT and Huawei expect the OTN Premium Private Line Service, which will be available across Thailand, to be popular among enterprises who want to connect databases through the cloud. The service has been designed to offer the necessary security, efficiency, and low latency for such requirements, as well as a downtime rate as low as 0.01%. Customers can add connection points via plug-and-play CPE. To enable the service, Huawei has supplied elements of its end-to-end OTN+iMaster NCE portfolio.
“As the largest communication and data network service provider, with the biggest coverage in Thailand, CAT is committed to push the boundary of Private Line service in Thailand by being the first carrier in the country to provide the OTN Premium Private Line Service with Huawei, including isolation pipes to ensure exclusive security of private lines any-service access, guaranteed E2E [end to end] millisecond-level stable latency protection against multiple fiber cuts, and this also strengthens our business-to-business sector within CAT. It is also another driving force in pushing forward the development of CAT business in 2020,” commented Dr. Dhanant Subhadrabandhu, senior executive vice president (marketing and Service) of CAT.
“The usage of cloud computing technology in enterprises is now boosting. By 2025, more than 80% of enterprises across the world will use cloud service,” added Claudio Lugari, sales director at DWDM global solutions at Huawei. “First of all, more than 87 percent of enterprises considered security and reliability of the Private Line Service as a priority. Besides, financial transaction seek private lines with as low latency as possible. The continuing increase in data usage among consumers and organizational customers has resulted in an increased demand for enterprises worldwide to use the OTN Premium Private Line Service, and such demand is likely to increase in the future.”