CORPORATE NEWS:
Next-generation SONET throughout AT&T; network
Lucent Technologies, USA, has announced a multi-year agreement with AT&T; to provide advanced optical technology as part of AT&T;'s next-generation intelligent optical network. Lucent will be providing the Metropolis® DMX access multiplexer and the Metropolis® DMXtend access multiplexer, SONET systems designed to increase network capacity and enable new revenue-generating, high-speed services in metropolitan networks. “The DMX and DMXtend technology will play a key role in our overall program to converge and simplify products, networks, processes, systems, and organisations across our entire business”, commented Mr Reed Harrison, who leads AT&T;'s worldwide network.
Lucent Metropolis® provides a broad portfolio of products that can eliminate the bottleneck in the metropolitan network, allowing service providers to deliver new high-speed, revenue-generating services, such as Gigabit-Ethernet, virtual private networks (VPN), storage area networks and digital subscriber lines (DSL). The Metropolis® DMX family includes the DMX access multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, DMXtend, for enterprise and loop access applications, and DMXplore to deliver next-generation SONET services economically right to the customer's premises. All provide compatible next-generation SONET functionality and serve as integrated Ethernet over SONET metro platforms. When used together, the products in the portfolio create an end-to-end solution that allows carriers to offer faster, more sophisticated services while lowering operating costs.
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Lucent Technologies |
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USA |
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