Datang Telecom displays latest series

Datang Telecom displays latest series of optical tranmission equipment

Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. (DTT), a large-scale high- tech enterprise from China, has sent an exhibition team to the Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity Indonesia 2002 with a mission of grabbing a share of Indonesia's telecommunications market.

"By taking part in Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity Indonesia 2002, Datang Telecom will do its best to enter the Indonesian market," said Wang Pei, the leader of the exhibition team.

Techno Pre-Eminence -- Connectivity Indonesia 2002 is a four- day event for an international exhibition and conference on information and communication technology (ICT), which is to open at the Jakarta Convention Center on Monday.

Wang, who is also the project manager of DTT's international department, said that her company, in cooperation with its local partner, PT Netwave Maju Abadi, aimed to provide advanced equipment, technology and services for the construction of Indonesia's telecommunications projects.

At this week's exhibition, she said, her company would focus on the promotion of its optical transmission equipment.

The products to be exhibited were TranSmartTM Series Optical Transmission Equipment, Network Access Equipment, Private Line Access Equipment and Ethernet Switch (desktop), she said.

The TranSmartTM Series Optical Transmission Equipment consisted of SDH Optical Transmission System (STM-16 rack type) and SDH Optical Transmission System (STM-1 desktop), while the Network Access Equipment included LinkMasterA-100TM ADSL Equipment (desktop). The Private Line Access Equipment would include SCAPCM PCM Desktop Equipment (desktop).

"Besides that, Datang Telecom will also introduce its microwave equipment, switching systems and other products to the potential Indonesian buyers," Wang added.

Apart from microwave equipment, switching systems, DTT's main products also include transmission equipment, access network equipment, mobile communication systems, data communication equipment, software and microelectronics.

DTT, which has been established by scholars graduated from U.S. universities and is affiliated to an academy, offers products with a competitive edge not only in term of price-wise but also in quality-wise because its products are developed through research and development.

DTT was founded through investment capital and mainly initiated by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) of Ministry of Information Industry. CATT, the controlling shareholder of the company, was founded in 1957 and is the largest professional research institution of telecommunications technology with the strongest R&D capability and widest R&D fields. It has been shouldering the task of innovations and developments in the field of information and communications technology.

The company began as the Xi'an Datang Telephone Corporation, a joint venture between CATT, the l0th Research Institute of the MPT and International Telephone and Teledata, Inc.(ITTl), a company begun by a group of Chinese scholars in the United States. Thus, DTT is a high-tech telecommunications company formed through the strength of a national research institute, coupled with the expertise of Chinese scholars studying abroad.

On Aug. 7, l998, DTT issued a total of l00 million A-share stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 5.98 yuan per share, out of which 75 million shares went to the public, l5 million to funds, and l0 million to employees. The company held an opening ceremony on Aug. 28, l998, and registered itself in Beijing's Haidian New Technology Development and Trial Zone on Sept. 2l, l998. One month later, the company issued public shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

DTT thus far has presented a series of state-of the art and world-level products in such fields as mobile communication system and equipment, large-capacity SPC switches, optical communication equipment, digital microwave equipment, full- service access network equipment, telecommunication software and system integration, and integrated circuits.

It has also opened new service fields like system integration and telecommunication VAS. During the following two years since the company was listed on the stock exchange, the company has obtained 41 network entry certificates from the Ministry of Information Industry, nine from the Broadcasting and Telecommunication Ministry and 13 from the military.

Facing the tide of whole world economic integration and the challenge of China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), DTT seeks to expand its business, select and unite the outstanding cooperation with other manufacturers, establish strategic cooperation alliances, reduce operating costs, strengthen its competition ability and resist market risks.

DTT, therefore, is inviting communication electronics (software and hardware) suppliers, as well as producing and processing manufacturer, for cooperation with mutual benefits.

DTT boasts its strength on its high concern on R&D. It uses the majority of its investment capital as funding for key projects and 10 percent of its revenues for R&D activities Employees engaged in R&D account for 4l percent of the company's total staff. In addition to the R&D departments in all of its subsidiary companies, DTT has established two R&D centers in Beijing and Shanghai.

DTT will even become the largest modern R&D and manufacturing base for telecommunications equipment in northwest China after the completion of the construction of is manufacturing park on almost 200,000 squaremeters in Xi'an. After completion, the manufacturing capability of the park will be as much as six million lines of switches and 250,000 channels of mobile communications systems per year, and the productive capacity of microwave transmission and wireless communications products will reach a large scale. The first phase of the construction on 43,000 squaremeters of land, including an R&D building, manufacturing workshops and necessary facilities, has been completed in l999.

Concerning the quality of products, the company takes ISO9001 quality system certification as the guideline for its quality control. All the subsidiaries of the company have passed ISO9001 certification.

The company is now constructing an optical cable-manufacturing base in Chengdu to produce all types of optical cables and coaxial cables. Its manufacturing capability is already as much as l8,000 kilometers of cable per annum at present and will eventually reach 900,000 kilometers. It has also built an assembly line capable of producing 110 million IC modules per annum.

According to an IDC Asia-Pacific research, the information technology (IT) market in China, supported by its entry into the WTO, is expected to grow by 25 percent to US$25.6 million in 2002. In the year 2005, the total IT market in that country will be worth more than US$50 billion, indicating a growth rate of 27 percent per annum since 2001. -- Rikza Abdullah