Maxis with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy 100G Core Transmission Network

Maxis Berhad with Alcatel-Lucent as a strategic supplier has undertaken a major transformation of Maxis' core transmission network. By deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution, Maxis is able to cope with increased data traffic, simplify its network, and reduce costs while providing higher efficiency and robustness. This allows Maxis customers to continue to enjoy superior fixed and mobile internet service. Maxis' optical backbone network is the first 100G single carrier with optical coherent technology system commercially deployed in Asia-Pacific.

Maxis operate its optical fibre network, covering over 10,000 km of fibre infrastructure, within Peninsular Malaysia with part of the fibre infrastructure delivered through collaborative sharing and swapping.

Leveraging on Alcatel-Lucent's 100G optical coherent network solutions, Maxis will be able to address the growing bandwidth requirements and data usage driven by smartphones, tablets, modems and fiber-to-the-premises services, whilst also providing high-speed connectivity and automatic restoration capabilities to enterprises for their data centres and services such as cloud computing and machine-to-machine communications (M2M). Furthermore, the new optical network will enable Maxis to provision services faster and shorten the time to market for new services requiring higher capacities and reliability.