Ericsson will deploy a metro aggregation network for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, ensuring high-quality, high-capacity broadband services, such as IPTV and e-health, for both fixed and mobile access.

According to Chunghwa's market forecast, there will be an eighty percent coverage of 30Mbps broadband network in Taiwan by 2011. Ericsson's Marconi Optical Multi-Service solution will be a key component assist Chunghwa to take a leading position in this market.

The OMS solution improves capacity and network efficiency, eliminating bottlenecks and significantly improving the quality and reliability of bandwidth-intensive services such as IPTV. Ericsson's technology gives users greater flexibility in terms of access technology choice, supporting any type of service from a common metro network.

The solution also plays an important role in lowering the transport costs (per bit) by aggregating and grooming traffic in the metro network, with support for both telephony and IP traffic. It also provides a key link between different parts of the network, such as the fixed and wireless backbone network and CHT's all-IP fiber network.

Under the agreement Ericsson will also be responsible for professional services, including network deployment, learning services and support.