Nokia Shanghai Bell (NSB) has won the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) optical transport network (OTN) project.

Nokia did not reveal financial details of the OTN contract.

The deployment of Nokia 1830 PSS-32 platform will cover SGCC Beijing and Tianjin and will help SGCC to evolve the transport network from 10Gb/s to beyond 100Gb/s, based on Nokia’s in-house innovative PSE chipset.

The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) constructs and operates power grids providing power to over 1.1 billion people in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, covering 88 percent of China.

SGCC is aiming to upgrade optical transport network for supporting integrated data network and operations network services, meeting growing bandwidth capacity demands and paving the way for future smart grid developments.

Earlier, Nokia Shanghai Bell completed the deployment of a similar optical network in Hebei, which currently serves 100 million customers of SGCC Jibei.

Nokia said the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) portfolio consists of platforms optimized for varying optical network deployment environments ranging from interconnecting data centers to scaling large metro, regional and long-haul optical networks.

Each platform leverages common software, hardware, management and control to offer seamless operations across the portfolio, Jin Jian, executive vice president at Nokia Shanghai Bell, said.

The Nokia 1830 PSS-32 also provides intelligent and reliable network control and restoration through distributed GMPLS and/or centralized SDN control options for improved network capacity and efficiency. This will enable SGCC to deliver high availability services rapidly, reduce network operating costs and extend network lifecycles.

“The OTN network can provide better technology support for communications, deliver higher level of security and reliability for the power grid, and raise operational efficiency,” Zhang Huijian, vice-general manager of SGCC Tianjin Electric Information & Communication, said.