Released on: January 15, 2008, 11:07 pm

Press Release Author: PRHUB Integrated Marketing Communications Pvt Ltd

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: (Bangalore,16th Jan, 2008) Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
(\"Huawei\"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network
solutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has successfully
helped MTNL, India\'s second largest operator to deploy its MPLS (Multi Protocol
Label Switching) backbone network thus providing the Indian users with a variety of
quality carrier-class services including Internet, VoIP and IPTV.

Press Release Body: The successful deployment of the MPLS network will help MTNL
transform its legacy TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) network into highly available
carrier-class IP MPLS bearer network which will support more services such as NGN,
3G, VPN,etc.
High end products deployed through the project will help MTNL provide SLA (service
level agreement) driven, highly available services with latest technologies like
TE-FRR (Fast Reroute), MPLS Traffic Engineering, NSF (Non-Stop Forwarding) and H-QoS
(Hierarchical Quality of Services) , providing highest order 50ms restoration and a
capability to provide Per Subscriber- per service kind of Quality of Service.

The MPLS backbone network construction was awarded to Huawei after stringent
technical and commercial evaluation by MTNL, serves two of the biggest cities - New
Delhi, capital of India and Mumbai, the financial hub of India.

The project is all set to expand extending the MPLS services access to the business
users and carry all value added, triple play services, successfully running for
select customer on IP MPLS Backbone currently to the residential users through Metro
Aggregation project, which is under deployment by Huawei.

Currently, MTNL's MPLS backbone network has a broadband subscriber base of over
500,000 and is expected to increase by over 2 million subscribers in the future.

\"MTNL has been taking the lead in Indian telecom industry and has made outstanding
contributions to the rapid development of the Asian telecom industry\", said Max
Yang, CEO Huawei India, \"MTNL has high appreciation for Huawei\'s E2E MPLS backbone
network solution. We wish to continue the momentum, step up the cooperation with
MTNL and to provide more innovative and customized solutions and services to them.\"
About MTNL
MTNL (MAHANAGAR TELEPHONE NIGAM LTD.) was founded by the Indian government on April
1, 1986. MTNL is dedicated to improving the quality of telecom services, expanding
telecom networks, providing new services, and increasing telecom revenues for Delhi,
India\'s political center and Mumbai, India\'s commercial center. With rapid
development over the past 20 years, MTNL has become one of the largest telecom
operators in Asia. MTNL had a subscriber base of 5.92 million by March 31, 2006. For
more information, please visit its website at www.mtnl.net.in.


About Huawei

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications
networks, and now serves 35 of the world\'s top 50 operators, along with over one
billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and
customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth
potential for its customers. For more information, visit www.huawei.com.
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