TANet

At present, the backbone of TANet is the backbone network of ATM. In the beginning of 2002, TANet and fixed network companies cooperated and tried to run the Gigabit Ethernet backbone network. Therefore, this circuit was used for the first time in Taiwan. The fixed network companies and TANet took such opportunity to get familiar with a network of this sort. After the middle of 2002, the use of Gigabit Ethernet circuit became steady, and at the end of 2002, it was planned to change all backbone networks into Gigabit Ethernet to broaden the network bandwidth. In the meantime, it could also lower the cost. While taking the trail of Gigabit Ethernet backbone network, different levels of colleges and universities started leasing the access circuit of Gigabit Ethernet by the middle of 2002. The Gigabit Ethernet circuit was used to greatly expand the bandwidth and promote the information education and network teaching. The international bandwidth was expanded from the original two OC-3 circuits to four OC-3 circuits in October of 2002 to cope with the requirements of the information collection for academic research and the development of education. In the future, the international bandwidth will continue its expansion according to practical needs. As to the local backbone bandwidth, it is expected to expand the local backbone bandwidth up to 6Gbps before the middle of 2003, and will continue to expand its construction as needed in the future.

In the meantime, TANet also promotes the use of interface with the TANet Gigabit Ethernet Backbone in local universities and colleges, aggressively driving the fixed network companies to use the Fast Ethernet circuit to extend its coverage to elementary and secondary schools in each city and county, and negotiating with the fixed network company to reduce the circuit leasing cost for elementary and secondary schools. It is believed that the low cost and sufficient bandwidth of such metropolitan super wideband service will make Taiwan a super wideband country.

By the super wideband project of such metropolitan network, Taiwan will be built as a metropolitan network and is expected to establish the operation mode of GbE and Fe, management mode, and related mechanisms under the cooperation of the fixed network company and academic community. In the meantime, the related equipment of the telecommunications engine rooms in all places over this island are constructed. It is believed that the business model of the metropolitan network will expand the fixed network operation, and drive the development of network and computers in hardware and software industries and network value-added service and contents such as the blooming applications of videoconference, network education, remote medical treatment, e-Commerce, house security, video on demand (VOD), interactive television, and network games.