Telekom Austria contracts Alca- Lu for triple-play deployment

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telekom Austria has contracted French equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent (Alca-Lu) for the deployment of its triple-play service delivery architecture. This will bring smaller communities the same triple-play services today provided to customers in larger metropolitan areas.

Telekom Austria will also be provided with the bandwidth, scale and service awareness required to support the growing market for more personalized broadband services such as ‘aon TV’. ‘aon TV’ is the service provider’s IPTV offering.

According to Walter Goldenits, CTO at Telekom Austria, the rollout of the second mile ethernet aggregation network with Alca-Lu service routers enables us to confidently and economically offer converged data, voice and video applications throughout the whole country, to the furthest reaches of the network, over a single and homogeneous platform.