SLT enhances ICT infrastructure

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has been enhancing its ICT infrastructure to provide an integrated service or solution type service instead of a simple network service to meet the increasingly complicated customer requirements, said the CEO of SLT Shoji Takahashi.

He was addressing the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) conference in Colombo last week.

Takahashi said that this modern ICT network infrastructure fully supports Sri Lanka's continuous economic growth and the SLT has been changing from being a traditional telecom company to a total solution provider. SLT is also making aggressive efforts to enhance network infrastructure globally to become a global solution provider.

In this network enhancement effort domestically and globally, SLT is fully equipped with IP technology. Today our core network consists of IP-MPLS with optical fibre rings which is capable of handling a gigantic volume of data transport service.

He said that SLT international connectivity is well positioned to transfer data at the speed of a terabyte per second. The core network of SLT is now evolving to the next generation network, which will facilitate multiple services on a single network, against conventional multiple services on multiple network architecture.

The SLT access network is also expanding at an unprecedented growth rate enabling broadband and wireless access. SLT has taken the initiative to implement business convergence among fixed, mobile and internet services such as fixed-mobile convergence and mobile-internet convergence, Takahashi said.

(GW)