Intel and Chunghua Telecom Team Up on Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and SDN

On August 21, 2014, the U.S. chipmaker, Intel, and Chunghua Telecom, the leading telecom services provider in Taiwan signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation of technology development in areas including IoT (Internet of Things), cloud computing, and SDN (software-defined network).  The partnership announced on August 21, 2014 aims to drive technology innovation, facilitate new usage models, and enable the Taiwanese industry to create new opportunities in emerging technology areas.  Chunghua Telecom is the first partner of Intel in Asia for IoT, and the current MOU between the two companies represents Intel’s fifth Internet of Things innovation project worldwide.

This is not the first time cooperation between Intel and Chunghua Telecom, as the current MOU expands upon an agreement originally signed by Intel and Chunghua Telecom in October 2010, and Chunghua Telecom became a part of the ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance).  Intel and Chunghua Telecom have made remarkable progress in developing cloud computing and relevant applications.  Now with the current MOU, Intel and Chunghua Telecom’s collaboration on IoT technology will focus on smart homes, energy management and fleet management. 

Mr. Gordon G. Graylish, the vice president of sales and marketing group and general manager of enterprise solution sales at Intel, said that the burgeoning IoT and cloud computing will be creating new opportunities for Taiwan’s IT sector, and the two companies’ collaboration spanning IoT, cloud computing, and SDN will give a big push to the realization of the vision of Connected Society in Taiwan.

With the cooperation with Intel in the current MOU, Chunghua Telecom expects to work with hardware manufacturers and use the software Chunghua Telecom develops so as to increase product value and further to provide innovative and diversified telecom and communication services.  Chunghua Telecom Laboratories will first have experience sharing with Intel with respect to the development of prototype system and verification cooperation, and further evaluate the opportunities of subsequent application so as to work with Intel and relevant hardware manufacturers to facilitate industrial development by combining the energy from local and foreign industries. (August 2014)
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