Globe Business participates in the Optical Transmission Vision APAC in Singapore

Media Release - Globe Business, the corporate arm of Globe Telecom, participated in the Optical Transmission Vision APAC held last Oct. 19-21 at Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre. OTV APAC is an optical backhaul and broadband infrastructure event for service providers in APAC. OTV APAC offers service providers in the region an opportunity to develop in an efficient manner, the specialist knowledge and contacts needed to tackle the significant challenges involved in evolving legacy TDM networks towards a converged, high capacity and flexible packet based infrastructure.

Gilbert Virtucio, Technical Solutions Architect at Globe Business, delivered a speech at the forum that delved on Ethernet support in the Globe network, how Globe Business delivers Ethernet service that enterprises require today. (read more below)

“The market drivers for adoption of Ethernet will continue to remain and Globe has been delivering Ethernet services to its customers since 2000 so the commitment to the technology has long been there. Globe’s timely investment in its network infrastructure puts it in a very good position to increase its Ethernet customer base,” Virtucio said.

Globe Business’ vision is to provide the best telecommunications network in the country. It has done this by making significant investments in its network infrastructure. Globe has invested in 4 submarine cable systems that land in the country, the latest of which is the Tata Global Network – Intra-Asia (TGN-IA) cable system. Globe has built a redundant high-speed domestic data backbone transmission network.. Globe Business delivers Ethernet services through its high-speed Broadband Access Service (BAX) network, and its multi-service IP MPLS (Internet Protocol Multi Protocol Label Switching) network called IP Converged Optical Network (ICON). ICON is the first and only pure IP MPLS network in the country.

Virtucio said that market drivers of new WAN services in the Philippines are the need of enterprise applications for more bandwidth, the need to keep WAN costs down, and the need for simpler network architectures. Ethernet, which has long been used in local area networks of businesses, has emerged to become a carrier-class service. Ethernet delivers to enterprises a simple and cost-effective wide area network (WAN) solution to meet their needs.

Globe Business has been delivering Ethernet services since 2000 to meet these needs, making technology work for customers to transform and enrich their lives through communications.