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Datang Telecom DWDM Efforts Get Government Funding
The State Economic and Trade Commission said in late August that it will fund Datang Telecom's 32*2.5G dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) project, the total investment of which will amount to 110 million yuan (US$13.25 million).
Officials with the commission said it will use government debt to pay for the interest of Datang's 77 million yuan (US$9.3 million) bank loans for the project.
DWDM is a fiber-optic transmission technique that uses light wavelengths to transmit data. It's an crucial component of optical networks that allows the transmission of e-mail, video, data, and voice-carried in Internet protocol (IP), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy (SONET/SDH), respectively, over the optical layer.
Datang Telecom Technology Co Ltd, founded mainly by the China Academy of Te1ecommunications Technology (CATT), specializes in creating communications application software. It has designed and released a series of communications applications, including an integrated telecommunications billing system, a CDMA mobile network management system and a network management system for integrated telecommunications service.
| With its roots in China Academy of telecommunications technology (CATT) of the MPT, Datang Telecom was first established in Xi'an, then later as a much larger corporation in Beijing. The company has been able to fulfill its mission of establishing a national product brand and is now poised to expand internationally. In September 1998, the CATT joined with twelve modern ang financially strong enterprises to raise capital investment funding and found Datang Telecom Technology Co.,Ltd. In October of the same year, the company issued public shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. |
Source: China Daily
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