Chunghwa Telecom-Intel Agreement to Extend Cooperation to IOT-based Services
2014/09/09 | By Ken LiuChunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., a major telecom in Taiwan, and Intel Corp. recently signed an agreement to extend cooperation to offer services based on Internet of Things (IOT) and software defined networking (SDN) from cloud computing.
Such agreement provides the island's telecoms with less expensive, more flexible network, on which they can quickly add services and achieve effect in around a year.
Chunghwa is Intel's first partner on IOT in Asia and its fifth in this field worldwide.
The two companies entered into agreement on cloud computing in Oct. 2013. Intel executives say that based on sound progress of the two companies' co-development on cloud computing technologies and related applications, the two companies now look to expanding cooperation into IOT and SDN areas.
According to Vice President Gordon G. Graylish of Intel's sales and marketing group, the Intel-Chunghwa agreement will help Taiwan move toward “connected society” and bring its high-tech industry new growth opportunity.
Industry executives look to tapping the cooperation to make most of Intel's unique technology, Chunghwa's software, and manufacturing mighty of Taiwan's high-tech hardware makers to create new value for Taiwan's service providers.
Under the agreement, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories will first work with Intel on the development of prototype system and verification, then evaluate opportunities to promote applications co-developed and cooperation with high-tech hardware makers. (KL)