www.WirelessFederation.com/news: French-US vendor Alcatel-Lucent and Bosnia’s Telekom Srpske signed a deal to consolidate the telco’s IP and optical networks into a leveraged IP network infrastructure. According to Predrag Culibrk, Telekom Srpske’s general manager, the deal will enable the company to provide its business and residential customers a wide range of beneficial, easy-to-use broadband services.

Converged Backbone Transformation solution which more tightly integrates IP and optical transport resources will be provided by Alca-Lu enabling service providers to optimise and leverage their transport networks to deal with the growing demand for bandwidth.

The solution will not only allow for a reduction of the number of required network elements, but will also improve efficiencies in power and rack space, simplify network provisioning and fault management, minimise latency, and enhance reliability.