Netcom offers historic Olympic hi-tech

China Netcom has developed eight innovations in digital communications used for the first time at the "hi-tech Olympics".

An ASON-based intelligent optical transmission network is in use for the first time to improve the quality and security of the video transmission and special services for the Games.

It is also the first time light-compression high-definition (HD) video transmission technology has been used. Netcom is employing long-distance non-compressed methods to deliver original HD TV signal without any loss globally. The result is TV viewers can watch events almost as instantaneously as visitors on the spot, solving the problem of delay in TV transmission.