SLT expands fibre-to-the-building project

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has extended its fibre-to-the-building (SLT Metro Ethernet) project regionally to support advanced data, voice, video and broadband Internet services.

SLT Metro Ethernet services are mainly meant for high end business customers and SME customers to provide end-to-end intelligent solutions through a very high speed broadband connectivity.

In 2006, SLT embarked on this project to improve broadband connectivity to large commercial institutions. Under this project, known as 'Fibre-to-the-Building Connectivity', SLT has already laid 70 km of optical fibre comprising 13 rings in the Colombo Metropolitan Area and connected more than 110 important buildings.

This laid the foundation for promising wide area network technologies such as Metro Ethernet, with the ring topology architecture ensuring a far greater level of redundancy and greater network availability.

SLT Metro Ethernet has a Fiber Core Ring Network which connects Colombo Central, Slave Island, Liberty Plaza, Havelock Town and Maradana at a speed of 10Gbps, since these areas have a large demand for high speed data services.

13 Nos. of Fibre Access Rings with a speed of 10Gbps were implemented at these locations that have connected more than 110 high rise buildings, which include almost all the head offices of corporate customers in Colombo.