Marconi wins Telecom New Zealand SDH contractChris DruceMarconi has signed a three-year optical networking contract with Telecom New Zealand. The agreement makes Marconi the sole supplier to the company.
No financial details of the deal were released.
The contract will bring Telecom New Zealand and its Australian subsidiary AAPT onto a common infrastructure.
Marconi’s Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technology forms a major part of the contract. As part of the SDH based offering, Marconi will also provide its “ServiceOn Transport” management system. The software package will allow Telecom New Zealand to view its whole network from the highest level right through to the customer’s data socket, said the two firms.
“With ServiceOn Transport, we will be able to locate and diagnose faults, which ultimately improves customer satisfaction,” said Gavin Knight, Telecom New Zealand’s transport manager.