China Unicom Expands Deployment of Nokia Core Routers
China Unicom selected the Nokia 7950 XRS core router family for additional deployments across China. Financial terms were not disclosed.
China Unicom initially deployed the 7950 XRS into metro networks in six provinces – Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai – and this year plans to scale out to an additional four including Heilongjiang, Henan, Zhejiang and Hunan to improve speed and response times for the fixed and mobile broadband subscribers.
In 2013 China launched its Broadband China initiative to invest $182 billion to boost the speed and quality of Internet services across the country. The aim is to reduce the digital divide by providing businesses and urban and rural citizens with national broadband coverage by 2020. In keeping with this initiative, China Unicom has been continually improving the scale and capacity of its networks.
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