Matav deploys Cisco DWDM optical solutions for the Hungary Ministry.

Hungary's incumbent telecomm carrier Matav has selected Cisco Systems' optical networking equipment as the foundation of an expansion project and new infrastructure, which will provide transport services to the Hungary Ministry of Education and other customers throughout the country.

The addition of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technologies to Matav's fiber optic infrastructure brings scalability as well as increased capacity and lower cost. Initial links, which began to receive live traffic in October, will support 2.5 Gbps with scalability to support 10 Gbps traffic for future growth.

The increased capacity of Matav's new network will also enable the company to provide connectivity to Hungary for large European service providers to increase Matav's revenue opportunities and extend its reach.

By providing increased transport capacity to Hungarnet, the national academic IP network operated by National Information Infrastructure Development Office (NIIF), Matav is enabling universities to have greater access to the academic research network. Matav provides Hungarian segments of 2.5 Gbps links for GÉANT interconnecting Vienna and Budapest and Bratislava- Budapest. GÉANT, the next generation pan-European Gigabit research network, is a project created to maximize the emerging developments in telecommunications technology to provide an infrastructure to support researchers, as well as providing an infrastructure for research itself. A primary goal of GIANT is to complement and interconnect national research networks in various European countries at Gigabit speeds. -(World IT Report)