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Helsinki Telephone Company and Nokia Leading the World in Telecommunications Technology:
February 03, 1997
Helsinki Telephone Company builds the latest technological multimedia network
February will see Helsinki Telephone Company Ltd (HPY) introduce a multimedia network supplied by Nokia Telecommunications. The key feature of this network is that it is integrated into the telephone network. HPY is the world's first telecommunications company to provide basic telecommunications network services connecting Internet technology to the public telephone network.
"We are at the international forefront of a development which will bring to existing basic telecommunications networks switched IP/ATM technology to enable a greater range of services," says Jukka Alho from HPY. According to Alho, introduction of this new technology will consolidate HPY's position as a provider of the most advanced services. "We consider the time is right for the digital public telephone network to begin to adopt the best features of the Internet world."
The first part of the multimedia network is to be built in the heart of Helsinki. The first services are quality real-time video links, telephone and data network combinations and high speed links to Helsinki Arena 2000 and Kolumbus/Internet servers. New network technology will also enable Internet calls to be dialled to a conventional telephone subscriber line. At the moment only other Internet users can be called on the Internet.
"We are supplying HPY with the latest Internet technology for an infrastructure to offer new, improved services. HPY can use this technology to provide multimedia links that give residential and business customers access to a new generation of broadband Internet services," points out Tero Laaksonen from Nokia Telecommunications.
The network connections supplied by Nokia are based on broadband subscriber line technologies such as ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) and HDSL (Hi-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line). The nodes in the main network represent the latest IP/ATM technology, the capacity of which enables the transmission of video images, for example. The entire delivery also includes product development relating to HPY's Kolumbus/Internet service.
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