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PTCL adopts Dense Wave Division Multiplexing system to improve IT, phone services
PTCL adopts Dense Wave Division Multiplexing system to improve IT,
phone services
Dawn, By Our Reporter
5/31/2003
http://www.dawn.com/2003/05/31/nat20.htm
ISLAMABAD, May 30: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL) has
adopted a new system to facilitate subscribers in terms of
reliability and speed in telecommunication related services like tele-
medicine, internet, telephones etc.
Pakistan has become the first country in South Asia to have switched
over to Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
technology.Information technology minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari
formally inaugurated the new system at the PTCL headquarters on
Friday.
He said DWDM would help PTCL use its existing infrastructure to meet
the overwhelming demand by partitioning and maintaining different
dedicated wavelengths for different customers.
Being appreciative of the PTCL efforts in this regard, Mr Leghari
also warned the company of the competition which the
telecommunication sector would be facing after its deregulation.
He also hoped that Pakistan, being the first country to incorporate
DWDM in its telecommunication sector, would be in a position to offer
immense investment in the sector.
He urged other Chinese companies to invest in Pakistan, assuring them
that the government would extend maximum facilities to foreign
investors. He hopped that an expanded IT sector would create a number
of job opportunities for the Pakistani youth.
Lauding the role of China in the overall development of the country,
the minister said: "Every time we have some problem, we look up to
our trusted friendship with China which had never betrayed us."
Chinese ambassador Zhang Chun Xiang, speaking on the occasion, said
the inauguration of DWDM would go a long way in strengthening the
existing Sino-Pakistan relations.
PTCL chairman Akhtar Ahmad Bajwa said the inauguration of the project
would not only cement relations between Pakistan and China, but also
put the country on Information Technology Superhighway.
He said with the modernization of the information technology and
telecommunication infrastructure of the country, services such as
tele-medicine, Internet, and broadband IT services would improve.
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