Accton Technology Corporation of Taiwan (TAIEX: 2345, www.accton.com), a global OEM/ODM solution partner for networking and communications solutions, today announced its cooperation with one of the Japanese 1st tier Telecom system providers to introduce the Next-Generation Carrier-class Ethernet Switch for the Telecom and mobile operators. Through the partnership and the reliable and outstanding product design, Accton and its partner were successfully selected out of the competitions and won a contract from one Japanese 3G digital mobile operator.

“Accton Technology has been developing the software and hardware related to datacom field for more than 18 years and has been approved and highly accepted by many 1st tier datacom and Telecom players,” stated by Samuel Chang, Accton Sales & Marketing Vice President, “We started to develop Carrier-class Ethernet Switch from Autumn 2005. We are very happy to announce that, with the 3G digital mobile operator design-win, it approves that Accton successful enters into new arena for our Telecom access products. According to the contract, Accton and our partners would provide the high reliability and high performance carrier-class Ethernet Switch for it’s Next Generation Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) planning”

Accton Carrier-Class Switches come with different options, including :
ASE3528, 28 port 10/100M Fast Ethernet Switch with 2 Gigabit combo ports for uplink / stacking and 2 expansion slots for universal applications
ASF3528, 28 port point-to-point Fiber Switch with 2 Gigabit combo ports for uplink/Stacking and 2 expansion slots for universal applications
ASV3528, 28-port VDSL2 Switches with 2 Gigabit combo ports for uplink/stacking and 2 expansion slots for universal applications

The expansion slots are available for different requirement – Dual PON module, Single PON module, Dual GE Combo module and Single GE Combo module to provide the flexible implementation.
In addition to Japan, Accton Carrrier-Class Switches have been trial in Brazil, Russia, Europe and North America.