Alcatel introduces broadband technology for life

On the morning of August 29, Alcatel Vietnam held a seminar to introduce the prospects of broadband technology and converging concepts, as well as the potential for developing suitable infrastructure. Vietnam.

At the seminar, Alcatel introduced the new broadband concept that is popular in the world, in which ADSL connection via telephone copper cable as in Vietnam is only a very small start. In addition, there are other broadband technologies such as Cable Modem, IP broadband via satellite network, Wimax .

With broadband technology deployed on more than 50% of worldwide broadband devices, as well as its satellite manufacturing technology, Alcatel is now the world's leading broadband technology provider. The French telecommunications technology group is also researching and developing 802.16E Wimax standards and working with Intel to create Wimax-enabled processors on a variety of applications.

Mr. Geof Heydon introduced the useful features of broadband television service at the seminar.( Photo: Thai Khang )

In the most notable part of the conference, Mr. Geof Heydon, Director of Construction and Development, when Alcatel Asia Pacific School "drew" a vision of broadband applications for television according to Required (VOD - Video On Demand) with high resolution (HDTV), IPTV technology application.

" With the new broadband technology and the convergence trend of different types of telecommunications services, you can both watch your favorite movie on your home TV via a broadband network, and can receive and respond to phone calls. When the mobile phone you are throwing in the house rings, a message will appear on the TV screen, indicating the name of the caller, and options such as turning off listening, taking calls, switching to mode for message . ", Mr. Geof Heydon introduced.

" If you receive the call, the image of the caller will appear on the TV screen, and the movie immediately pauses. Ending the call, the movie will automatically be projected again ."

"And yet, you can just watch the movie you enjoy, share it with your friends who are using the same VOD service through a similar application like IM chat, view statistics of movies or channels. Which pictures are being watched by most readers, or voted for your favorite movie stars . All can be done with your remote control only ".

" If there are many football or baseball matches going on and are broadcast live, you can watch 3 matches simultaneously on 3 small screen boxes on the left, and choose the main match to follow. Watch the rest of the screen with High Definition TV, but don't miss any beautiful ball of other matches . "

Answering the press at the seminar, Mr. Geof Heydon said: Basically, all kinds of ordinary TVs in Vietnam can be used in broadband television services like this, just need to equip one line High-speed broadband transmission connects to a set-top-box transceiver (set-top-box). However, in order to exploit the high-definition image quality of HDTV services, you need to have a TV that displays high-definition images.

This is really a "not near" prospect for telecommunications services in Vietnam, when ADSL services via copper cables are largely inadequate to see the stream of small frame video clips being played. via the Internet. In other words, the concept of broadband in Vietnam today has been "degenerated" into a form of connection "only faster than traditional dial-up".

Alcatel also said that it had previously cooperated with VNPT to deploy ADSL service in Vietnam, and hoped to continue to bring new broadband technologies into Vietnam through telecom service providers. information. According to Alcatel, broadband services such as IPTV will have the potential to thrive, because the percentage of PCs on Vietnam's total population is still only very modest, but the ratio of TV to the total population. very high, and almost every household has a television. With a reasonable deployment strategy, Alcatel will help Vietnamese telecom service providers exploit this potential market.

Minh Huy