Apr, 2002 : Cisco Announces Agreement With China Railcom


📅 - Cisco Systems, an Internet networking provider, today announced that China Railcom has chosen Cisco for the second phase expansion of their Internet backbone network, CRNet. Following the expansion work, CRNet will offer a 10G link connecting Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and 125 other Chinese cities.

Offering a range of integrated services including dial-up and DDN access, as well as VPN, VPDN, IP voice, and video conferencing, CRNet is a high-speed public network.
Increasing by more than 100 percent, Chinese data subscribers totaled over 33.22 million users in 2001. The number of Chinese data subscribers is estimated to reach 50 million by 2005 and over 280 million in 2010. In 2001, revenue for these services increased by 31.6 percent, generating over RMB 8.65 billion (US$1.17 billion).
CRNet's (crc.net.cn) second phase network expansion will deploy Cisco's 12400 Internet Routers. The project should be completed by the third quarter of this year.

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