Hong Kong's New T&T Uses RAD's Multi-Tenant Unit Solutions to Provide Broadband Services to Office Buildings

Despite the economic slowdown, demand for broadband services continues to grow among many business users. To stay competitive, carriers must find ways to satisfy demand while maintaining profitability, by delivering solutions that reduce cost-per-bit access across the network. Cutting capital expenditures offers only a partial solution. Real savings will come from reducing expenses of their service offering.

As the second largest carrier in Hong Kong, New T&T aims to offer competitive solutions with attention to customer needs. It has therefore introduced its innovative Broadband Network & Data Services, which offers business users bundled broadband services, including high speed Internet access, voice and video. The strategy is based on RAD's suite of products for multi-tenant unit (MTU) voice and data connectivity.

RAD's MTU concept, deployed by New T&T in 100 office buildings, enables the carrier to capture a significant share of the rapidly expanding market for high speed broadband services in Hong Kong. "With RAD's cost-effective solution, we acquire more broadband business customers at very low operating and maintenance costs, and with easy expansion capabilities. Customers enjoy fast provisioning of new, value-added services, and the building owners gain tenant satisfaction. It is a win-win-win situation for all parties," says Wilson Foog, Manager of Broadband Network & Data Services at New T&T.

 

The MTU solution, supplied to New T&T by Newave Technology International Ltd., a RAD distributor in Hong Kong, includes the compact DXC-8R 32-port multiservice access node installed in each building's basement. Voice and data transmissions are groomed by the DXC, which connects to the central office over a single broadband link, reducing New T&T's line costs for serving the separate customers. The DXC sends incoming voice and data traffic to a WEB RANger-II access unit located at the customer premises, which routes the data traffic to the customer LAN and the voice traffic to the PBX. For customers who want to take advantage of the broadband link for data traffic only, RAD's FCD-1L low cost CSU/DSU installed in the customer premises directs the traffic to the customer LAN.

"The DXC-8R is especially suited to the MTU environment. It is very compact, yet very robust for its size, supporting up to 32 ports in a 1U high chassis," says Yoni Inbar, MTU Business Development Manager at RAD. "Due to our diverse product portfolio, RAD is in a position to design packages for delivering broadband services to any MTU, whether the building is wired for Ethernet, DSL, ATM or TDM, over any copper or fiber infrastructure."