Chunghwa Telecom, currently Taiwan's No.1 telecom carrier, has designated value-added services, cloud computing and overseas markets as major contributors to its sales growth for 2011.

The supply chain is mainly made up of OS developer Trend Micro Inc.; server makers Quanta Computer Inc., Inventec Corp. and Wistron Corp.; and network switch suppliers Accton Technology Corp. and Alpha Networks Inc.

Chunghwa Telecom Vice President Y.H. Lee stressed that the company will shoot for cloud-computing business at home and abroad. Mainland China, he added, is the company's first target overseas.

Lee pointed out that his company will serve as a total-solution supplier and distributor in the supply chain to provide cloud-computing hardware, platform, service and software.

Chunghwa Telecom's mainland China branch, headquartered in Shanghai, will become operational in the first quarter of 2011, becoming the company's major outlet to tap the mainland's cloud-computing market.

In exploring the mainland market, Chunghwa Telecom will focus on value-added, intelligent energy and information-communication technology services in the first half of 2011 and on integrated cloud-computing service in the second half.

To support its cloud-computing operation overseas, Chunghwa Telecom has opened four cloud-computing centers in Taiwan. The company will launch broad procurements next year of cloud-computing hardware equipment, including servers, storage equipment and switches.